By announcing their most popular blogposts of the year, Google also showed the power of their homepage.
Here's the info from Google's (GOOG) 2010 wrapup:
The top posts this year run the gamut from policy changes to product arrivals:
A different kind of company name - 10,604,183 unique pageviews, more than 30 percent of the year's total. Our April Fools' Day post about changing our company name to "Topeka" had a crazy-high number MORE
Seth Weintraub - Dec 31, 2010 4:21 PM ET
Two Android 'developer advocates' weigh in on the year's most closely watched horse race
Image: androidguys.com
A pair of veteran high-tech luminaries, both hired by Google (GOOG) within the past 14 months, chose this week to write on their private blogs about how they see the Apple (AAPL) vs. Android competition shaping up in 2011.
What's interesting is that they disagree.
Former Microsoft (MSFT) start-up evangelist Don Dodge, who posted his predictions Monday, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 31, 2010 7:49 AM ET
Social, the cloud, gamification -- it all sounds like consumer-enterprise convergence. It's not, exactly, but these trends are a sign that enterprise has some catching up to do after a year of massive evolution in consumer gadgets.
Gamification of enterprise apps running on tablets? In 2011, you bet.
With only a day to go until the end of 2010, the lists predicting which technologies will dominate the headlines next year are MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Dec 31, 2010 5:00 AM ET
Vodafone is selling its '845' Android phone for £70 ($108) with £10 top up included on a Pay-as-you-go plan.
It looks like we are entering into the age of the $100 Android smartphone. I talked a little bit about what this would mean for consumer adoption of smartphones last week. In short, many more people will be moving from featurephone to smartphone and carriers get to compete for tight budget handset buyers.
The MORE
Seth Weintraub - Dec 31, 2010 1:10 AM ET
Unit sales estimates for the quarter that ended Saturday range from 5 million to 7.54 million
Click to enlarge. Source: Company reports, Apple 2.0
The chatter on Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board Christmas Day was mostly about who found iPads under the tree.
"My kids bought me one. Completely unexpected," wrote one investor under the heading It is going to be an AMAZING 1st qtr iPad number. "Bought my parents one. They MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 30, 2010 12:51 PM ET
The next version of Android music player has ties to the Cloud.
Slashgear/Android Community posted a video walk-through of the leaked next generation media player for Google's (GOOG) Android. As you can see, there are some interesting new features beyond just the user interface update.
Notice the streaming music options that are tied in with Google's upcoming Cloud music locker. First demoed at Google I/O in May, Google has been quiet on MORE
Seth Weintraub - Dec 30, 2010 9:38 AM ET
Is Cupid's day the date for the long-awaited launch of an iPhone for Verizon?
Source: Vintage Holiday Crafts
Here's how these rumors get started. Someone tipped off Peter Burrows at Bloomberg Businessweek that Apple (AAPL) was waiting until after next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to launch an iPhone for Verizon (VZ).
Apparently his anonymous source or sources didn't give him a date, but by winks and nods they narrowed MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 30, 2010 8:27 AM ET
Apple will have to add 3G calling to its video chat service if it wants to compete
If you have an iPhone, you'll want to get the free updated app Skype released Wednesday along with this YouTube video showing how it can be used to see your friends dancing in their underwear.
Skype now supports two-way video calling on the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and fourth-generation iPod touch, not just over Wi-Fi MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 30, 2010 6:30 AM ET
Sure the content mill has found a way to survive and thrive for years now. But a planned IPO has exposed weaknesses in its business model and accounting methods. Can Demand Media survive, let alone thrive?
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
The websites of Demand Media
Let's take it as a given: festooning the Web with terrible content is a real, viable business. Like it or not, it's probably here to stay in MORE
Dec 30, 2010 3:00 AM ET
By Michael Kanellos, Editor in Chief of Greentech Media. His colleagues Shayle Kann, Shyam Mehta, MJ Shiao, Rob Day, Eric Wesoff and Brett Prior also contributed.
Image via CrunchBase
The green tech industry will fondly remember 2010. After enduring collapsing prices and lackluster demand in 2009, solar companies saw panel shipments grow by an astounding 93 percent to 125 percent this year. Waiting lists for the new electric cars from MORE
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