So finally it happened, after years of rumours and rumors on Google OS, its official now. Google is going to hit the market with its own Operating System called Google Chrome OS . It seems like Google is heading backwards, first they developed a browser and now around it they are going to engineer an operating system. (more…)
Social Media & Social Networking is always taking a new direction and new innovation every day. The famous video sharing site YouTube is working round the clock to come up with innovations and have released YouTube Real time.
What is youTube RealTime ?
YouTube Real time is something closer to Facebook toolbar which was something inspired by Microsoft Windows so we all should give credit to Windows for it. Any how apart from that YouTube Real Time is a toolbar that shows a list of friends currently online, their recent activities and provides notifications when one of your friends posts / comments or rates a video. Quite a familiarity with Facebook but i am trying to avoid the comparison. So according to the blog post by Google the toolbar does lack some of the facebook features like chatting with friends and watching videos at the same time for which i am sure the engineers at Google are working round to add them up.
gMail labs is always cooking up something fun, but this time they pulled out a perfect add-on for gMail. How many times you send and email and immediately reliazed you have send it to the wrong person, or forgot to add some more informaiton or you didn’t want to send that email but accedentaly send it over. If this happens then gMail got a solution for you. (more…)
Ever wondered what kind of web traffic your competitors is having, which are the top keywords & which strategy to adopt to increase your website traffic? if yes then we got some great tools to monitor and study web traffic of any website or specially that of your competitors. You have to keep an eye on them. (more…)
I do wonder what Google’s Gmail is evolving into few day back they released Gmail offline mode which we covered and today they have launched yet another lab’s edition ‘Gmail Multiple Inbox’. Which makes me wonder if gMail is evolving into a full scale business application.
As the name say’s Multiple Inbox does not give you ability to have Gmail inbox for seperate email accounts which we are using with Gmail, this was the first thing that came in to my mind. Though Multiple Inbox gives you ability to divide your inbox into portions and help you sort your email easily. Simply after installing Gmail Multiple Inbox you can go to setting and set up rules for the multiple inbox i.e. any mail that is marked with a star ‘is:stared’ show it separately in you multiple inbox panel also you can configure where you want to place your multiple inbox i.e. on top , or on left or bottom.
So Multiple Inbox is the ability to divide your inbox into portions based on your own settings. A good feature to sort your mails but adding to many labs feature does give issues with performance, specially the initial loading of gMail is becoming problematic in Firefox.
Today the Gmail team has announced another exciting Gmail Labs feature “Access Gmail in an offline mode”.
Now you can access your Gmail even if their is no internet. Gmail primaralary being used via browser, one feature that lacks there is the ability to access email even if you are offline. Maybe you are travelling and you cannot gain access to Wifi but you would like to sort the emails that are already in the inbox.
YouTube announced officially of making videos available in High Definition. Well the demand of high defination has been around for ages, its quite annoying once you spend a ridiculous amount of bandwidth to stream a video and the quality turns out to be total turn off. So keeping that in view YouTube has taken an initiative to offer videos in HD now remember when you ask for more quality you have to pump in more bandwith and for me on a 1MB connection its was quite slow to stream in an HD video. A good example to test is to watch “Where the hell is Matt” or you can simple search on YouTube using HD as the keyword.
Google is now offering “Google Apps Reseller program” enabling technology solution providers to sell Google Apps to business around the world. According to Dave Girouard President of Enterprise Google “This program gives IT solution providers an easy way to introduce cloud computing to their service offerings, while helping more businesses make the transition to this new era of technology.”
So far more then 1 million business & 10 million users benefit from Google Apps, using Gmail™, Google Calendar™, Google Docs™, Google Sites™, Google Talk™, and Google Video™ for their business.
Google today announced via their blog a new favicon inspired by user generated icons & the credit goes to André Resende, a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Campinas in Brazil, submitted the design that inspired their new favicon.
Google Favicon
So now we have to see how the public reacts, I remember the last time they change people rejected it quite quickly and there were tools, tips and tricks posted on how to revert back to the old favicon, but lets see what cooks up this time. So how do you like the new Google Favicon ?
Google have recently launched Google Friend Connect an open for all web widget that adds social network features on your blog or website.
What is Google Friend Connect
In simple terms Google Friend Connect is a Website widget which you can get it for free from Friend Connect Page and add it to your website or blog. Google Friend Connect makes it easy for anyone to sign into any website and join up by share a little about themselves through personal profile,discover other people with similar interests and invite their contact to interact with friends. So far Google Friend connect supports Google, Yahoo, AOL, or OpenID to sign in so its not necessary you have a Google ID. Being at its basic level the only two things Google Friend connect so far is the ability to join any site and also review the profile of others who have joined up. Its a start to a bigger ambition of Google indeed probably to convert the WWW to a one big social network. (more…)
