Google has started work on a project that will provide the entire globe with internet access using balloons. These balloons will hover higher than commercial planes in the stratosphere. It will provide 3G speeds to remote areas that currently don't have any access to the internet. It's being tested in New Zealand currently.
Find out more at http://www.google.com/loon/
David works for a zoo and wants to set up music that would play through the PA with announcements that would be timed throughout the day. He wants it to be automted. Leo says it's an easy thing to do. An iPod Touch or a Google Nexus 7 with an Alarm app could do it. Most alarm apps will allow him to create music playlists.
Waze is a really cool maps app with social media. Now, there's word that Google is buying Waze for $1.3B. That's quite a windfall for not only the developers, but the venture capitalists that have invested heavily into it. Leo says Google will incorporate Waze into Google Maps to make it even better. Leo says that it's also equally likely that, like YouTube, Google will just let Waze be Waze.
Monday is starting a new wedding website and wants to have advertising, but has no clue what to charge. Leo says not to do it herself. She should start with Google AdSense. They'll take 45% of the ad revenue, but they do all the work, too. Once the site gets serious traffic, then she can go out and start selling ads herself. She shouldn't quit her day job yet though, it won't be a lot of money. Cost per click is far more lucrative than impressions. It's easiest to sell a monthly flat rate, especially with a new site.
Janet has a blog on Blogger and the URL is really long. She'd like to change the URL (strollerqueenreviews.blogspot.com), but she's worried she'll lose views by changing the name. Leo says that Janet should go into the domain management settings in blogger and have a custom domain name forward to the Blogspot site. It's called domain redirection and it shouldn't affect her Google ranking.
How can she make money on her site? Leo suggests using Google AdSense right away. Check out the book "Google AdSense Secrets" too.
Richard has a Motorola Droid Razr which has a movie on it, and he'd like to get that file from it. Leo says to go to Google Play and get an app called AirDroid. He can then access the file via Wi-Fi and move it over.
Dom is looking for a good low cost Android tablet running Android Key Lime Pie. Leo says that the next Android update will just be an updated version of 4.3 Jelly Bean. Nobody knows when Key Lime Pie will be out, and there's really no need to wait for it. If he wants to get an Android tablet like the Google Nexus 7, go for it. Although the Nexus 7 hasn't been updated. Leo says he's surprised it wasn't during Google I/O, but he suspects there will be a new version out soon.
Pam is trying to use the iPod to text. She can't use anything other than Skype and Leo says that Skype has texting built in. Leo also says that there are plenty of other apps out there including WhatsApp, Google Voice, and TalkaTone.
Lynette watched all of the speeches at Google I/O this week, and thought all the talk of the Google environment was interesting. She was thinking about getting a Chromebook but doesn't know if it'll run Java because she loves playing games online. Leo says she'd have to hack the Chromebook to get Java on it, and Leo doesn't advise that. She should just look at a regular laptop.
Andrew X and Jared Story of ILockOut are joining us to talk about a call Leo got a few weeks ago from a caller who said someone contacted him to say they can clean up his infected website. Andrew got started as a web designer who noticed a trend a few years ago of more and more websites getting infected. Now there's over a million sites on Google's blacklist. So he did something about it.
