September 14, 2007
Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon
Wired
Spencer Reiss reports on the latest initiative from the Google boys:
”A morning brainstorm featuring Google’s Larry Page and Virgin’s Richard Branson had already turned up scores of possible new X Prize targets, from early cancer detection to ultracheap solar energy. During a break for lunch, Page dropped one more on X Prize chief Peter Diamandis: He and Google cofounder Sergey Brin had been “kicking around” the idea of sending low-cost robotic landers to the moon.”
MySpace, Facebook and Classmates
Seattle Post Intelligencer
John Cook has the latest social networking site growth stats:
“Everyone knows MySpace and Facebook. But the third most visited social networking site on the Web is an old school Internet company that got its start in Renton and survived the dot-com bust.”
Firefox-Google marriage on shaky ground?
The Register
Cade Metz reports on a possible problem developing between Mozilla and Google:
“Yes, Firefox reached a major milestone this week, surpassing 400 million downloads worldwide. But that’s just the good news. There’s another story swirling around the famously open source web browser – and it’s a little less sunny.”