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Googleholic for August 29th, 2006

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In this issue of Googleholic we cover:
  • Google has too much money
  • Webmaster Central blog
  • The Google Tower
  • How Google Profits from Spam
  • Google's look into hydropowered electricity
  • Google's next online applications
  • Google Maps Red Light Camera detection
  • NYC parking locator
Tuesday's Googleholic...Starting off the week right...

Google has too much money.
According to SEC rules, Google has too much money, now its facing a mutual fund classification.

Google Webmaster Central blog
Google changed Sitemaps to Webmaster tools and now they have a fresh shiney new blog to talk about crawling and indexing.

The Google Tower
Google looks like it might take over a 20 story, 430,000 square foot office building in Bellevue, a.k.a. Microsoft's backyard.

How Google Profits from Spam

Google's look into hydropowered electricity
Google uses a lot of electricity powering its data centers, and they could be on the way to developing some hydropowered electricity.

Google's next online applications
Could they target Quickbooks and MS Money?

google red light camera machupGoogle Maps Red Light Camera detection
Track red light cameras in your area, care of a Google Maps mashup. The pinpointed locations also show the penalty for running through the lights!
[via GoogleMapsMania]

NYC parking locator
This little mashup helps New York City parkers find a spot. You can even calculate rates!
[via GoogleMapsMania]


The past week in Google News
Check in for Friday's end of week Googleholic Google News report.

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I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

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