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 It's pouring in Los Angeles. Washington is being bombarded by snow. There's plenty who could make use of the new Google scarf. The Ohne Ttitel designed scarf runs for $300. Check out TechCrunch for more details. 

I first caught wind of Google's plan to venture into music several weeks ago but never got any details besides a fabricated screenshot. Now we have an introductory video on how it works as well as the soft launch for it at google.com/music. Sweet. This service will probably do nothing for me at the moment except cut the time from me clicking into other sites hosting the song I'm searching for.

Looks like Google will soon be dipping into the online music game. Rumored to be named "Google Audio," Techcrunch reports that multiple sources have confirmed that Google has spent several weeks securing content from the major music labels for the launch. The new service is a supposed partnership between Google, Lala, Myspace, and iLike. The screenshot featured below is a speculated idea on how the service would look.

It's going to be interesting to see how all of this pans out...I would never want to compete with the Google goliath!

 

This might be a bit too much (or just enough?). Check out Google's latest offering, Fast Flip. For the hyper active reader in all of us...

After three years of complaining about lost emails and full inboxes with Lion Mail, Loyola Marymount University finally switched our college emails over to Gmail.  Little did I know there was an email battle in process between Google and Microsoft. Both two companies find interest in colleges and universities that outsource their emails for their students.  LMU along with 2,000 other colleges are managed by Google email services.  Read the entire article at Time.com

Google's CEO has officially left his seat on Apple's Board of Directors... After almost 3 years, it's apparent that the gig has many potential conflicts of interest (i.e. iPhone vs Android) so this really isn't a surprise. Click here for details on Techcrunch.

Jobs and Schmidt in their happier days (pause)

If you aren't too web savvy, google sites has made it really easy for anyone to make a website. So here's a present to you, young entrepreneurs... go make some $$$.

It's about that time (Former Mexico's President Vincent Fox spoke at Ian/LMU's while Barack Obama did it at my nephew's/Notre Dame) and techcrunch has a nice 11 min. clip of Google's Eric Schmidt talking about the 'Google/Facebook' generation... Peep it;

The first-ever TV campaign from the undisputed giant, Google, and it's not even about Google - it's about their web browser, Chrome. Kind of a vague attempt....check it out below.

Previously interested in buying the Los Angeles Times for 2 billion in 2006, David Geffen has now made an offer to buy a 19% stake in the New York Times. According to thewrap.com Google has also shown interest. Too bad the troubled newspaper is not for sale and no agreements have been made..