Last week PSFK was able to get hands on with Motorola’s DROID and walked away impressed by the phone’s remarkably smooth interface and powerful video camera.

Read Write Web points us to an interview that Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google gave at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009 on what the web will be like in five years.

Head over to Mystery Google and search like you normally would — except get not what you searched for, but what the person before you searched for.

Using social networking tools, Filipino citizens were able to band together to help victims of a recent flood.

A small team at Google Chicago is developing ways to make it easy and free for users of Google’s services to migrate their data out of Google products for use elsewhere.

In a move that aims to better recreate the experience of browsing through a print publication, Google Labs has introduced a new tool named Fast Flip.

A video created by Google Japan that helps explain the process that the tech company undertakes to ensure the privacy of the people and property they photograph for their Street View function of their Maps service.

A partnership between Google and Monopoly will turn the whole globe into an interactive game.

“Simply because it will be impossible for online advertising and social media to deliver everything that is expected of it. The stark reality is that advertising on the Internet is not going to grow; it’s actually going to decrease.”

Goollery is an unofficial online gallery of interesting projects that are based on Google tools, API’s and the Google brand…

To make planning your next trip across the city a little smoother, Google Maps has implemented live traffic information for arterial roads. The service uses GPS enabled smart phones with the Google Maps application to crowdsource its data. With many devices telling HQ how fast they are traveling, a fairly accurate picture of where congestion is or isn’t can be presented. The ability to view traffic history also makes it easier to predict future conditions.
Tools like this make life easier, but there are concerns that if large numbers of drivers all try to optimize their route at once, even [...]

The Onion News Network, America’s leading parody news team, recently posted an interesting commentary on privacy in our hyper-networked world. It’s a video about a new “Google ‘Opt-Out’ program” for those concerned about their daily need for technology and the fears of data collection.  Leaving it all behind has never been so easy, The Onion has more:

This past June, Google invited fans to take the Google Chrome icon and rebuild it in an original way.  The end design created and ultimately launched by Google needed to stand out on the desktop, look stable yet dynamic, and use color to show some Google branding.  Through the design process, another quality that became important to the team was to make the icon feel like a real, tangible object so that clicking on it would be like pressing a real button.
As one might expect, user submissions were pretty inventive – some fans submitted videos of how they approached the [...]

Google
Experiment rapidly, embrace failure.
Apple
Every aspect of your brand should be as good as the product.
Zipcar
Stop selling products, start selling services.
GOOD Magazine
Set the agenda and let your customers spread the conversation.
Amazon
Identify parts of our business that could be offered as additional services.
Facebook
Create the playground and let your customers define your offering.
Virgin
Think big , think small. Amaze customers with your audacity, please them with your attention to detail and customer service.
Twitter
Stay flexible, allow your audience to dictate how your services or products are used.
IKEA
Take a wider view of the shopping experience, making each step along the path to purchase simpler and, more [...]

Google has become a way of life. For many people it’s the beginning, middle and end of the web experience. They are the provider of a vast array of services that enable work, play, learning and more. Google’s ability to promote  innovation amongst its staff means that it has a constant flow of new ideas.
Accessibility and usefulness define this brand. This, coupled with the negligible cost of distribution through the web, allows them to expand into areas including health, telecom, software, news, and advertising. The list goes on and on…
Lesson for Business:
Experiment rapidly, embrace failure.

“I think the fact that we [...]