Tonight, Google is hosting one of their Campfire One events at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA. They’re using the event to launch their new Google Apps Marketplace. This is the app store that business applications can use to reach the more than 25 million people and 2 million business that use Google Apps for their domains. Here are the links to our extended coverage on the Google Apps Marketplace:

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Below, find our live notes from the event. Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering

Two million businesses have “gone Google” 25 million users. Everything you need is now in the cloud for businesses Tonight we’re launching the new Google Apps Marketplace It’s great for developers – who get access to these 25 million users instantly It’s also great for users. It’s simple to integrate. Build your app. And you don’t have to use App Engine. You can use whatever you want. And you can sell your app in the Marketplace. What does Google ask in return? A one-time fee of $100. And a low 20% rev share. Over 50 launch partners.

David Glazer, Engineering Director

I want to walk you through the “how” now – build, integrate, and sell. Google Apps now has a large and growing number of extension points (we’ll be adding more over time) there is a central management system Universal integration to Google Apps navigation system. We use OpenID to manage authentication. Single sign-on. And we use OAuth for secure access to data. The OAuth grant of trust is built into the Marketplace.

We have a complete manifest. Time for a demo. Here’s a developer showing off a “hello world” application. Easy step-by-step process to get your application in the Marketplace.

It might take a couple of days for the app to show up in the Marketplace when you submit it. A domain admin simply then clicks the “Add it now” button. Then just three clicks left – 1) agree to terms of service 2) grant data access (such as to your calendar) 3) enable the app You can even see it in the apps drop down if you’re in, say, Gmail.

Here’s Intuit now showing how to take a real app – for payroll – to show how easy it is to itegrate. Intuit is the largest payroll provider in the nation. We usually serve small companies, many are less than 20 employees. Another demo, this time from Atlassian – a software development company You can easily embed your information inside of Gmail.

The thing I’m most excited about is the studio activity bar. With this, Google Talk can be used for instant collaboration. All of this is available today. In fact it’s being used by 40 developers in a bus traveling from SF to SXSW in Austin, TX.

Another demo, Manymoon – a social productivity app. We used open standards to convert free users to paid users. Everything you’ve seen so far will be live later tonight – for this next demo, it will be coming soon. Gmail contextual gadgets – like when a YouTube video is embedded in Gmails – soon third-parties will be able to use this.

Here’s a demo from Appirio – a cloud solution provider. Glazer is now reiterating the main points about the Marketplace.

David Garrard from Google

When I joined not only was there no Google Apps, there were no apps. Gmail launched soon after I joined. I joined to lead our enterprise initiative. It was the idea to take the innovation that happens quickly on the consumer side and putting it into the enterprise apps. Cloud computing is the right formula for that Three years ago we started with a modest effort. In Feb 2007 we immediately signed up 9,000 business — now we have 25 million active users and 2 million business. And the growth rate is accelerating. Higher education has really started moving towards the cloud with us.

And it’s happening in the Fortune 500 companies. And no companies that size have gone back. Though it’s still not perfect, even today. People always ask, ‘when are going to build x or y’ the answer is we probably won’t – we want to be a platform in the cloud. Because of that we can put emphasis on our existing apps. We’ll be talking more at Google I/O (which is already sold out).

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Today, Cisco announced the CSR-3 product, a game-changing system to managing the network core. But for CEO John Chambers, the news is about market transition forces and being ready for the next generation of the Internet.

The company invested $1.6 billion research and development in CRS-3 to be ready for the next phase of market growth that merges video, cloud, and mobile trajectories. When asked, he said when his team looks out 3-5 years that network growth may be 300 to 500%. Cisco is investing that another revolution is on the way for consumer access and enterprise productivity.

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According it's' own estimates the CRS-3 could offer bandwidth for:

Every man woman and child in China the ability to make a simultaneous video call. All movies ever made to be downloaded in 4 minutes (if you had enough disk to store them). 1 GB link to every household in San Francisco.

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The network has many touch points. Chambers said that this has been moving Cisco from being a technology partner to a trusted business partner for nearly all its enterprise and service provider accounts. He views this as a tipping point in how Cisco engages customers and innovates.

To that end, the major market transformation underway in the cloud, and Cisco has positioned its network, including the CRS-3 to offer tight linkage between data center and virtualized services.

Chambers mentioned "It's all about the cloud, the CRS-3 family talks directly to the UCS in the data center." To that end, it's nice to consider the end-to-end network being prepared for the connections in the data center, especially for physically distributed environments that benefit from fast links between them.

Chambers continued: "We kept our partners VMware and EMC in mind in this solution, to be ready to fulfill our vision in the data center".

Here it is a summary diagram on CRS-3 connects data centers.

Service provider: Critical Network Backbone

Keith Cambron, President and CEO, AT&T labs added. "AT&T was the first user of CRS-1 with it's 40 GB interfaces and have been using them to manage their network growth. We are testing the 100GB interface in the labs and real production environments."

Chambers mentioned that Cisco's goal is to have long-term partners and to never compete with pervice provider. With a company like AT&T, Cisco's product goals are to help be ready for where things are headed, to be there when it's needed. Cisco does not want to be the bottleneck for the Internet.

He continued "Service providers are our partners, if our goal is to bring this technology to everyone in the world, we must work in a tight fashion and follow the market transitions with them"

Q&A

Some of the best parts of this dialog was the question and answer session, a few excerpts below show the depth of thinking Cisco is moving forward with the intelligent network.

Q: How does this impact the mobile data flow? A: The team was asked about how this innovation impacts consumers and the mobile data flow.

Chambers added, "As a consumer, I want any video any time. To share it on any device in the living room and to bring it with me when I'm on the go. The network has an important role in enabling that future"

Cambron spoke from AT&T's goals with this technology "It provides a single network design for around the globe. Particularly important for important customers who are using private networks and deploying mobile applications. A common network design that is highly video centric is central to our business"

Q: Is Cisco an on open vs. closed company, will core innovations from CSR-3 be open source? A: Chambers responded "Interoperability is one thing we don't debate in Cisco. We believe we need to bring together all of these protocols into one network. We will of course be an open architecture."

Q: What do you think about Google's service provide announcement? A: Chambers responded "Google is a great company. We love anyone who adds loads to networks. We think the question here is how do we find the "and" here and find ways to build load and also built great networks with the right partners."

Q: Why is Cisco building in silicon?
A: Chambers was excited to talk about how important silicon was to the company in the products. "Cisco's investments in ASICS has been a key part of many of the core products. The reason that Cisco does our own, is that silicon ties all of the key components together. Cisco had to change the way its working style to have a collaborative team to build this next generation of silicon."

Cisco is in a unique position to see the future of bandwidth better than anyone.

We wonder if Cisco will be rewarded for avoiding future network bottlenecks and propel the network forward with CRS-3?

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Cambridge UK startup Rapportive has released a Firefox and Chrome extension that will replace the ads in your Gmail with photos, biographic data and social media links, including a live display of recent Tweets, for whoever you're corresponding with by email. It's fantastic and takes about 2 minutes to set up.

The three person team behind Rapportive queries data provider Rapleaf for the social media profile data and does some local caching for performance optimization. Let's stop talking about it though - just go download it! Check out the screenshot and details below.
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You don't need to give Rapportive your Gmail credentials, the service asks you to login via secure Google Federated Login, or OpenID. The startup doesn't have access to your password, but it does access the contents of your email - that's how it builds a service for you to use. Any browser extension has access to everything you do on the web, but I expect some people will feel a little nervous about installing a webmail related extension from a small company. I don't think that concern is warranted enough to justify missing out on this awesome service.

The company says that if your details are inaccurate you can visit Rapleaf and correct them.

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Rapportive is developing a platform for the development of custom applets that other companies can integrate within their local data stores so you can look up an email sender on your own system as part of the Rapportive display. Co-founder Rahul Vohra says such integration takes minutes to set up and in the long term the company hopes to create a marketplace for those applets. Team collaboration so notes left on contacts can be shared is also in the works, as is integration with popular paid CRM and customer service systems.

Rapportive was first reported on by The Next Web this morning.

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A massive, combined policing operation targeting motorists driving dangerously during the day near hotspots in the City of Kingston continues today.

A massive, combined policing operation targeting motorists driving dangerously during the day near hotspots in the City of Kingston continues today.The State Highway Patrol unit and the Kingston Traffic Management Unit will be using marked and unmarked police cars and motorbikes to target collision hotspots along the Nepean Highway near Southland in Cheltenham, Main Street in Mordialloc, and Warrigal road and Balcombe Road in Mentone.Shopping strips from Edithvale to Chelsea and Centre Road are also a focus for the operation. Police ran a similar, targeted blitz in those areas last month for three days which saw 860 drivers detected for 928 traffic offences. Twenty-two per cent of those were motorists not wearing seat belts, and 31 per cent were fined for using a hand-held mobile phone while driving. The State Highway Patrol’s Acting Senior Sergeant Tony Rayson said police were disappointed to find so many motorists doing the wrong thing in local areas. “The results from our operation last month showed us that these areas are problematic, and we needed to focus more attention on motorists driving around there during the day,” A/Sen/Sgt Rayson said.“One third of almost all the offences we targeted were related to mobile-phone use, which is really concerning. Drivers are reminded that mobile phones are a distraction, and we have the ability to catch you if you are using it.”During last month’s operation, 2600 drivers were breath-tested, with three detected for exceeding the blood alcohol limit. “It was pleasing the number of drink drivers was low, but we want Kingston residents to know that we do not let up. We will be out again today, and who knows when we’ll be back?“Our operations are highly mobile, and we can be anywhere at anytime.”Inspector Dave Griffin of the Road Safety Task Force warned motorists right around Melbourne that the State Highway Patrol will be running operations similar to today’s in Kingston right across the state.“Our members are highly trained, and the intelligence we have tells us where we need to focus our operations to ensure we target the right areas,” Insp Griffin said.“Today we might be in Kingston, but tomorrow, we could be in any suburb. You never know when we’ll be in your street.” ENDSSarah CampbellMedia Officer

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.2. This is a maintenance release in the 5.3 series, which includes a large number of bug fixes. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.2:Improved LCG entropy. (Rasmus, Samy Kamkar)Fixed safe_mode validation inside tempnam() when the directory path does not end with a /). (Martin Jansen)Fixed a possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in the session extension identified by Grzegorz Stachowiak. (Ilia)Key Bug Fixes in PHP 5.3.2 include:Added support for SHA-256 and SHA-512 to php's crypt.Added protection for $_SESSION from interrupt corruption and improved "session.save_path" check.Fixed bug #51059 (crypt crashes when invalid salt are given).Fixed bug #50940 Custom content-length set incorrectly in Apache sapis.Fixed bug #50847 (strip_tags() removes all tags greater then 1023 bytes long).Fixed bug #50723 (Bug in garbage collector causes crash).Fixed bug #50661 (DOMDocument::loadXML does not allow UTF-16).Fixed bug #50632 (filter_input() does not return default value if the variable does not exist).Fixed bug #50540 (Crash while running ldap_next_reference test cases).Fixed bug #49851 (http wrapper breaks on 1024 char long headers).Over 60 other bug fixes. For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3. Further information and downloads: For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.2, see the ChangeLog. For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

Android users have a new way to search their phones today, and it’s pretty damn cool. Google has just released a new application called Gesture Search that lets you search your phone’s contacts, bookmarks, applications, and music simply by scribbling out letters with your finger. No hunting and pecking — you just draw out each letter as if you’re finger painting. The new application is currently only available for devices running Eclair (Android 2.0, which is currently only found on the Nexus One and Verizon Droid). Using Gesture Search is quite simple. First, you boot up the Gesture Search application, which you need to download from Android Market. After installing it, your phone will prompt you to ask if you want to add the application to your home screen (which you’ll probably want to do if you intend to use it with any frequency). Tap the application, and you’ll see a black screen, where you’re supposed to start drawing the first few letters of your query. As you complete each letter, the application will refine your results. If you mess up, you can delete the last letter by drawing a horizontal line to the left (you can delete the entire word by swiping to the right). I’ve been playing with the new application, and the character recognition seems to work pretty well. It’s still too early to tell how useful this will be on a day-to-day basis, but it has potential. For one, it’s great for people who don’t like having to flick through long lists or use the phone’s integrated keyboard. And because everyone knows how to draw these letters by heart, it makes for a good way to search when you can’t keep your eyes on your phone (don’t take this as a recommendation to use it while driving, though — that’s never safe).

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Australian online coupon website Tjoos has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by online media company Internet Brands. The company is one of the nation's more high-profile start-ups due to it being co-founded by Bart Jellema, who has been active in the Australian start-up scene — especially in forums such as StartupCamp Australia and the Silicon Beach group. The other founder is the start-up's CEO Kim Chen. The site offers merchant management tools allowing online retailers to customise their coupon listing to assist with their own revenue and traffic growth goals, as well as providing a platform for content syndication via Twitter, RSS feeds, blogs and widgets. According to a statement issued by Internet Brands, Tjoos grew by 150 per cent to "well over" 1 million unique visitors in February 2010, compared to the prior year, with the growth being driven by the site's collection of more than 500,000 coupons from more than 180,000 merchants. "This is a hot area," said Internet Brands CEO Bob Brisco. "Discount discovery, fuelled by community participation, is growing very rapidly and will continue to do so. Consumers want deals, and coupons are a massive marketing channel for both small and large merchants." Internet Brands already runs other online shopping sites such as UltimateCoupons.com, BensBargains.net and Bargainist.com. "We are very focused on discount shopping and deal discovery," said Brisco. "We believe the market will continue to expand quickly, and we plan to bring a considerable amount of innovation to these sites." Chen hasn't twittered from her personal account since 19 February , but according to Jellema's account, he plans to take part in the Startup Bus project shortly — on a bus from San Francisco to Austin, 12 strangers will conceive, build and launch three technology start-ups in time to catch a party at the South by Southwest technology conference. "Party will have to wait until after our trip to the US, but don't worry, there will be one!" he said. Comments (0) | Email this Share: Google | Facebook | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Slashdot | StumbleUpon

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As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, Apple has filed a lawsuit against device-maker HTC over 20 patents they control. As you might imagine, Google has something to say about it too. “We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it,” a Google spokesperson emailed us. A little odd that Google would proactively send us a statement for something they’re not technically involved in. But, as we’re all well aware, this suit is much more about Google’s Android operating system than HTC. And it seems that Google is well aware of that too. As we noted earlier, the clear focus of the suit centers around the HTC devices that are Android-based, including the Nexus One, the Magic/myTouch 3G, the Dream/G1, the Hero, and the Droid Eris. And in fact, with the Nexus One, Google worked closely with HTC to make the device, and is completely in control of selling it. Still, for whatever reason, Google is not named in the suit — at least not yet. You’ll recall that exactly one month ago, Google decided to turn on multi-touch support for Android users with Nexus Ones. As we noted at the time, Apple was probably not going to be too happy about that. After all, it had been previously reported that the reason Android phones in the U.S. didn’t support multi-touch up until that point was a gentleman’s agreement between Apple and Google when the two were still all buddy-buddy. And now we’re starting to see the fall-out. What’s odd is that these HTC phones have actually supported multi-touch (only one of the many patents Apple is disputing here), but it’s only now after Google just enabled it (specifically pinch-to-zoom) in the software that we’re seeing the lawsuit — of the hardware company involved. Still, this looks to be Apple multi-punching back. And Google doesn’t sound like it will back down. [image: warner brothers pictures] CrunchBase InformationGoogleAppleHTCAndroidiPhoneInformation provided by CrunchBase

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