Official Google Australia Blog: July 2008

Knol is open to all Australians

Thursday, July 24, 2008

announcedKnolOfficial Google Blogknol.google.comPosted by Justin Baird, Senior Product Specialist, Google Australia and New Zealand

Goodbye to the "World's Oldest Blogger"

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Olive Riley, who, at 108, was the "world's oldest blogger," passed away last Saturday at her nursing home near Sydney, Australia. Olive posted many YouTube vlogs retelling tales of her youth and sharing songs that helped to convey her most fundamental belief: "I want to be happy, but I can't be happy 'til I make you happy too."

YouTubePosted by Damien Estreich, The YouTube Team

Going to school with Google

Friday, July 11, 2008

Posted by Andrew Mitchell, Google Apps TeamStanford University dorm roomrange of toolssigned up 68,000 studentsStudentNet and the Rudolf Steiner school1.3 million students across NSWyou may have heardQUESTnet 2008Google Apps Education Editionget in touch with us here

Check out the Tour de France using Street View in Google Maps

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Posted by Peter McKenzie, Software Engineer/Cycling enthusiastCadel Evansthe yellow jerseyTour de Francewe released todayto view street-level imagery

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Nearing the finish line in L'Alpe-d'Huez, found in Stage 17 from Embrun to L'Alpe-d'Huez, arguably the most physically demanding stage of the whole race

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The Eiffel Tower and Seine river in Paris, passed in Stage 21 from Etampes to Paris' Champs-Elysees, the final stage of the race

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The Arc de Triomphe, at the western end of the Champs Elysee. If you zoom in, you can look at the detailed sculptures on the friezementioned previously

Supporting a faster, more accessible, more open Internet in Australia

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Posted by Carolyn Dalton, Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy - Australia & NZ"Google is helping Australians overcome the ‘tyranny of distance’. We measure distances not in hundreds of kilometres, but in milliseconds.

It spurs creativity, promoting the creation of user generated content that is facilitated by “Web 2.0” applications such as YouTube;

It drives new forms of economic activity, allowing (i) Australian businesses to reach new customers around the world through online advertising, (ii) Australian publishers to earn money by creating locally and globally compelling content, and (iii) Australian web developers to create innovative internet-based businesses;

It creates new forms of social engagement and interaction such as social networking, Internet voice links, video sharing and citizen participation in democracy (as seen in the 2007 Google Australian election initiative);

It cuts costs for Australian enterprises, government agencies and educational bodies, as they are enabled to utilise Web-based applications in ‘the cloud’, making their documents securely available from any computer with an Internet connection at greatly reduced cost;

It empowers community groups, educational institutions and government agencies to reach constituencies (and each other) in new and innovative ways -- for example, the Catholic Church’s use of social networking for the upcoming World Youth Dayin Sydney, UNSW’s YouTube channel that assists in remote education, and Transperth’s use of Google Maps to provide public transport details to users.

just as necessary as water and electricitylink

The new broadband network and its owner should preserve the Internet's fundamentally open, neutral, non-discriminatory nature.

The rollout schedule of the new network should have the goal of prioritising those parts of Australia that are currently unserved, or underserved by broadband services.

To ensure competition, the winning bidder for the network should offer services on a wholesale basis to retail competitors on non-discriminatory and equivalent terms as it offers them to its own retail operations (from the perspective of both price and non-price terms and conditions). Functional or structural separation of the network owner should be considered as options to ensure this.

To ensure that those Australians who already have relatively fast Internet do not see a decrease in speed in the short term, existing ADSL 2+ and similar broadband services should co-exist with the new network, at least during a defined transition period.

As Australians are increasingly important producers, not simply consumers, of content and applications, the Government should ensure the availability of high symmetrical broadband speeds (both download and upload).

To ensure maximum Internet speeds and efficiencies for Australians accessing the Internet, close attention should be paid to developments in the international capacity market and the peering market.

Australia Blog

Knol is open to all Australians

Goodbye to the "World's Oldest Blogger"

Going to school with Google

Check out the Tour de France using Street View in Google Maps

Supporting a faster, more accessible, more open Internet in Australia

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