Google announces Android and the Open Handset Alliance. There is no single gPhone, the trick is getting carriers to create many gPhones! I wonder what the response from the carriers and other mobile platforms will be?

Google is building purchasable extended storage into their web apps, starting with Picasa and Gmail.

Google has started an official Mac blog to keep users apprised of development in that space.

Rumors of a a forthcoming Google online storage system are now looking quite likely. Corsin Carmichel snooped around writely and discovered a GDrive download page.

Google is rumored to be working on an API that will allow sites to incentivize their users to create content by kicking back to them using adsense...

Nerd alert! These are actually quite fun and interesting. 10 things you didn't know about Google.

I've met Udi when I worked at Amazon. He was just hired away to Google. Interesting indeed... I'll have to ping my friends at A9 and see how they feel about this...

Blodget is laying out a scenario he says could potentially "kneecap" Google's stock. This is the analyst who became infamous for calling a $400 stock price on Amazon. If I remember correctly, he called it as his 12-month target and the stock hit it within the next several weeks. Anyways, here Blodget is more reticent. He's not saying that this "will" happen, only that it's something to be wary of. There are actually some pretty smart comments as counterpoint on this though. Look in the comments at what gojomo, Jeff D, and Dean have written.

Interesting... this is how they made the Opera browser free...