Google Voice Blog announces the launch of a web-based app for iPhone and Palm. The native iPhone version of this app was "rejected" from entering the App Store by Apple earlier this year.

"Is there a tablet in Google’s future with a three-dimensional, multitouch user interface? It’s increasingly likely, given that the search giant has just acquired BumpTop, a startup whose unique software creates a 3-D environment where users can toss files and folders around as though they were playing cards, stack them in related piles and “hang” them on the virtual walls."

Jeffrey Zeldman writes about Google's recent decision to take a web-page's loading speed into consideration when ranking sites. Designers were building to this spec for years, however broadband has allowed for designers to use complex languages, large images, @font-face, etc. all while writing standards compliant easily indexable code. Will the speed/ranking factor mean that a lot of these additional niceties will end up getting removed? Bare bones FTW?

"You may have heard that here at Google we're obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web. As part of that effort, today we're including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests."

Oh good. Something that explains what Google Wave actually is. I'm still not too sure :/

By the brilliant Danny Sullivan… "As the rhetoric over how Google “rips-off” newspapers, magazines and other print publishers continues, a thought occurred to me this weekend. Perhaps Google should charge publications whose reporters tap into the service to research their stories?"

Google’s Newspaper & Magazine Reader that allows users to quickly skim through a lot of visually rich news articles from partner publications.

Danny Sullivan spells out to Newspaper publishers that, contrary to their warped beliefs, Google are actually doing them a favour!