It was probably only a matter of time before Facebook and Google jumped on board the online music store bandwagon.

Facebook will be adding songs to it’s store, where users have a number of different sharing options. You can either pay a dime for a track, which will allow you to send it to friends, but they can only listen to it online, or pay ninety cents to send a copy that can be downloaded.

Google, in the meantime, looks like it’s going after iTunes.

They’ve teamed up with Lala and iLike, and possibly Imeem, for a project dubbed One Box.

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I’m sure that most of the world has “Googled” themselves at some point. While most may see it as a time-killing novelty to go rummaging through Google’s results to find things either about themselves or friends and family, I see it as very very important to not only my career but to my general reputation as well. I was out of the top ten results on Google for a short time and have made a triumphant return at # 6.

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I’d heard of it before but never looked into it, but video blogging site Revver allows users who upload video to monetize their efforts by placing ads at the end of each video. Could this be how Google plans on monetizing the millions of videos uploaded to YouTube? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

I can’t wait to start playing with Google Co-Op, a new service that allows you to customize search engine results and add them to your website. I will try to integrate this new service into evolvor.com asap!

It is of note that Google has posted it’s latest earnings, again making every shareholder happy with increased revenues over last quarter.

I think it’s great that Google created a service to help teachers learn and teach Google. We all know that the ‘net and especially Google is and forever will be an important aspect in learning and researching in schools. I’m sure many teachers who may not be as ‘net savvy as their students will appreciate this, and it will also enable them to teach students in the future on how to use all of Google’s technology to properly get the job done. Thank Google for being socially responsible on that one.

From Andy Beal: Click Z reports on mobile trend gowth. This is a topic I’ve kinda shyed away from over the past few years but am now starting to pay close attention to as it begins to further develop.

Why?

The other day with some friends on the way to the Kennett Brew Fest we needed some directions. I spent some time trying to use my Nextel i850 but connections were slow and I could not figure out how to get to Google.

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From Google Blogoscoped: A very nice article describing good blog writing. I’ve been reading blogs for a couple of years now and have just started blogging myself, so it’s a good review for me, but a very nice way of explaining the blogging process to any newbies.

Again from Jim Boykin, a post regarding Google’s Age -Linking Factors. Jim talks about how Google may actually document the date a link was found to a website, thus proving that older sites with old links have more of a chance of high search engine rankings than a new site with newer links.

From Andy Beal/C-Net: Google has officially opened it’s new offices in NYC.

One must wonder what long-term plans Google may have in possibly setting up a Wi-Fi network (read:free Wi-Fi) similar to the one set-up in it’s home of Mountain View, CA. Not that you can’t already find free Wi-Fi in parts of the city, but it’s probably in Google’s pipeline. I think this official transition to NYC just shows how big Google has become in regards to being more than just a search engine.

Mark Cuban discusses the state of online video and has a few things to say about the “morons” who may end up buying YouTube. He does have a point worth checking out.