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Let’s Know About : Google Buzz

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:03:39 +0000

What’s Google Buzz ?

Google adds a dose of social networking to its Gmail without rivaling Facebook. Its bet: use the power of its algorithm to recommend contacts and improve the relevance of information from social networks.
Is the third attempted of incursion of Google in the world of social networking the right one? The “social” strategy of the search engine is currently experiencing a rather mixed success: Orkut, its social network launched six years ago, brings together about 100 million users (mainly in Brazil and India), four times less than Facebook . Its Open Social communication protocol, notably used by MySpace and Viadeo, failed to attract the interest of developers, unlike Facebook.
With Buzz, Google takes a decidedly more conservative approach: providing a dose of “social” to the 176 million users of its mail, but without making it a main goal in itself, as is for Facebook. Google also differs from its rival in the way Buzz creates social network, adding automatically the most contacted contacts by email or chat.

Once connected via Buzz, it is possible to monitor real-time flow of activity across its network by clicking the Buzz link located below the Gmail inbox, and share with them messages, Flickr photos or Picasa, YouTube videos and Web links. even though feeds supported by Buzz are still very limited: Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Google Reader, Blogger, YouTube and Google Chat. A version of Buzz for smartphones, which now supports the iPhone and Android, is also available via an update of Google Maps on the Google Mobile site.
The end of Twitter?
Buzz looks like a feed combined with a virtual social network, within the existing service GMail. If you have a mail account at Google, you can now enjoy it.

Here are five key features of Google Buzz:

- A list of friends created automatically using your GMail email address, automatically adding frequently used contacts..

- The (Rich fast sharing) combines sources like Picasa, Flickr and Twitter into a single stream. No need to have many tabs open at once in your browser.

- You can choose to make your publication to the public or reserved for certain people, and The mobile version of Buzz also allows you to use your voice to create your publications.

Google Buzz already seems to generate a considerable interest among owners of Android phones and iPhones.

By connecting to the Web via WiFi, Buzz allows you to be located on the card if your access point is listed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi50KlsCBio

Let’s Know About : Google Electricity

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:53:29 +0000

Google is everywhere , on your laptop , on your phone, and soon even on your outlet ( seriously it’s not a joke )
The Internet giant Google has asked the U.S. authorities for a permission to become a electricity merchant. This activity would reduce its costs, its carbon emanations but also perhaps to develop synergies.

According to a document filed with the U.S. Commission of Energy Regulation (FERC), the group, through its subsidiary Energy Google has applied to take a merchant status and “related rates” and an authorization to buy and sell on the energy markets.
Google says that if it had made its application to FERC is to have more flexibility in its supply of energy for its own activities, including its data centers.
A merchant Status will indeed increase, its ability to amortize its energy costs and to incorporate renewable energy in its energy portfolio.
Google’s efforts to locate its facilities near a major sources of energy such as hydroelectric dams, show the importance of their energy needs.
Google also was committed to reducing its CO2 emissions to achieve carbon neutrality and has reached it .
The group also announced that it will invest in green energy. It has launched also an electronic gauge, PowerMeter, a free software intended for individuals and companies to control their energy consumption.

Google has already been the year of the solar energy installations are most important for a company in the United States within the walls of its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Google Affirms 9212 as well as solar panels producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity, the facility is able to supply 1000 homes in California, reduce our CO2 emissions and makes sense financially, because the investment is amortized in seven years and a half.
Google already has the most important solar energy installations for a company in the United States within the walls of its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Google Affirms also that with 9212 solar panels producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity, the facility is able to supply 1000 homes in California, reduce our CO2 emissions and makes sense financially, because the investment will be amortized in seven and half years.

Let’s Know About : Everything you need to know about Chrome OS

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:26:27 +0000

Until yesterday, Google Chrome OS was a concept in the wind. We now know exactly what it is and how it works:

Google Chrome OS is an open source light operating system. Originally designed for netbooks, its peculiarity lies in the fact that “most of the user experience takes place on the web.

-It is just a browser, which means that everything will be based on web services as pre-existing Gmail, Google Docs, etc.. There will be no local application, only web apps. Nothing is installed or updatde.

-It runs as web apps: Chrome OS will integrate the web apps inside the operating system, so it will behave more like native apps than like web apps.

-How, exactly?: With HTML 5. This is the next version of HTML version, which gives the browser a better access to local resources.

-Chrome is Chrome: The user experience with Chrome OS is substantially similar to the experience with the browser chrome. Technically, Chrome OS is an operating system based on Linux, but you do not install binaries with Linux as Ubuntu or other Linux distributions.

-As you probably guessed, it is super light. It starts in a few seconds, and instructs the browser directly.

-For the moment, it is designed for netbooks. It is not intended for office machines.

Why is this important?
With Chrome OS, Google installs the operating system fully online. The idea is to make the browser powerful enough to make the rest of the operating system and its native apps, useless.

The system is more pure than what people imagined: When Google announced that Chrome OS will be centered around web, most people assumed that this will be a lightweight Linux distribution with a strong integration of Google web services. It’s not that. It is a browser.

But it is a browser that runs separate processes for each tab and which has access to local resources of the operating system. The idea is to replicate the functionality of a native OS while keeping the framework light and and an ultra-secure workstation.

In other words, Google does not ask users to change their habits but is trying to change how the operating system is making it , so transparent to users.

Let’s Know About : Google Laguage GO

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:13:19 +0000

The GO language (under a BSD license) comes from a discussion between Ken Thompson (one of the authors of Unix and UTF8) and Rob Pike (one of the authors of Plan9 and UTF8).Which means that We are dealing with real legends of the community of coders . a thing that explains the curiosity surrounding this new language. As Rob Pike works for Google is therefore with strong support from his employer that

language Go has been developed with the following constraints:

* GO will be used for system programming so it is a compiled language, not interpreted;
* The compilation must be fast to facilitate the development of the projects (the dependency analysis allows a compilation in a few seconds);
* The syntax should be fairly close to C while correcting its most bothering disadvantages ;
* The memory management must be automatic (garbage collector);
* The typing must be static, but there is no hierarchy of types to simplify the language;
* The concurrent programming (to exploit multi-core processors) must be integrated at the heart of language, this is done through “goroutines” which are lighter than the threads;

Go is the result of the very long experience of Thompson and Pike and the authors seem quite proud of their result:
« Go has fast builds, clean syntax, garbage collection, methods for any type, and run-time reflection. It feels like a dynamic language but has the speed and safety of a static language. It’s a joy to use. »

The project’s FAQ evokes the general issues and a specific FAQ is dedicated to language itself. A tutorial is also available with, to highlight the support of UTF8.

So far the comments on the web are focusing on some details : the syntax that does not please everyone, the absence of a particular function (such as exceptions), etc..

the goroutines, segmentation of the execution stack, rapid compilation, etc.. , a lot of new things are coming with this new language but It is also interesting to compare with other languages who want to tackle the C providing technical innovations (such as language D).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwoWei-GAPo

Let’s Know About : Google Chrome 3.0

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:09:57 +0000

Many of us have discovered Google chrome, a browser that features a lot of interesting things , but that hasn’t introduced something really unique , especially compared to browsers like Mozilla of Internet Explorer , that makes the task of innovating even tougher .

No more betas: Google Chrome 3.0 is now available in a stable version. A little over a year after the official release of the first browser of the Mountain View firm and four months after the launch of Chrome 2.0, The V3.0.195.21 version of the browser fixes over 3500 bugs.

The stable version of Google Chrome offers as expected a new set of themes to customize your browser. The management of the home page with thumbnails of the sites most visited by the users has also been optimized. The user can now drag and drop their images to rearrange them according to its wishes. It is also possible to select a number of his favorite sites to continue to post up, even if the browsing habits are changing.

For the version 3.0 of Chrome, Google has also reworked the Omnibox integrated tool, which offers to make, from the URL bar, searches by keyword. The suggestions made from those keywords are now preceded by a set of icons to help the user to differentiate the addresses from the search, the list of favorites or their browsing history.

The performance of the V8 JavaScript engine have also been boosted. According to tests conducted by Google, the speed of loading Web pages from Chrome is 25% higher than the previous version.

Furthermore, the browser of the Mountain View firm can now support multiple elements of the HTML5 language, such as video and audio tags. The videos can then be more easily carried on a web page and be played without the addition of a plug-in.

Even if Google still has the idea of competing with Microsoft products, both with his navigator, modest competitor of Internet Explorer and soon with its operating system OS Chrome, the browser of the Mountain view company of is not ready to challenge IE and Firefox. Up to now Chrome has granted 2.84% of the market share, against 66.97% for Internet Explorer, Firefox 22.98% and 4.07% for Apple’s Safari

Let’s Know About : Facebook Is Making Money

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:55:29 +0000

Who doesn’t have a facebook account ? everyone has one
The world that best fits is, addiction , yes !! we are all addicted to Facebook , and we check our profiles at least one time per day .
But Facebook as a company ? is it making real profit as we may all think ? the answer used to be no, but things are changing .

The global social networking website has reached 300 million subscribed members and is now able to make benefices.

The very famous American social network took a major step by announcing that it has finally become profitable. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and cofounder of Facebook Affirmed that few months ago, facebook expected to achieve a positive cash position in the beginning of 2010. But unlike it was predicted, This has been achieved in the last quarter of 2009. Facebook can’t deny that The economic dimension is very important and crucial, because it allows Facebook i to be an independent entity in the long term.

Five years after its creation , Facebook has solved the economic equation that concerns all of the community websites. Many of them do meet a success, but only few of them can make money out of it . The financial stability will allow Facebook to face the future calmly, showing a preference for the IPO to be redeemed by an Internet giant like Google.

To the eye of observers, Facebook has been able to achieve this result by controlling its costs carefully. Up to 70% compared to 2008, its turnover is very small compared to its size. Facebook, which has just reached the milestone of 300 million active members, would generate only $ 500 million in 2009, according to Mark Andreessen, a member of the Executive’s social network.

For comparison, let’s take its rival MySpace (News Corp).which Had generated nearly one billion dollars in sales with only 115 million unique visitors per month last year. Similarly, Yahoo! generates $ 7 billion per year with 570 million unique visitors per month worldwide.

A very rapid growth.

The audience of Facebook is growing rapidly. With over than 50 million new accounts created in the two previous months. The threshold of 200 million members was passed in April, the 150 million four months earlier.
But things weren’t always that easy for Facebook, indeed , it has taken three years to reach the first 50 million members (October 2007), then doubled that number in August 2008. This dynamic could affect its profitability if revenues are not progressing faster than expenses.
I also personally believe that , the economic model which Facebook tries to set, even if it required few years to start generating funds , once it started making money, it won’t stop , who knows maybe in few years , Facebook will make as much money as Google makes or maybe more.

Let’s Know About : A GOOGLE For The Muslim Community .

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:50:25 +0000

It’s the end of Ramadan for the muslims, and I specially dedicate this topic to all my muslim readers , this may really interest them .
Have you ever thought about a google where you’ll be sure to surf automatically in a safe surf mode ? a google where you can surf any page you want with your children you family and be sure to have no surprise such as girls naked here and there ?
I’mHalal is a special search engine specially created for Muslims. It can block impure pages according to the precepts of the Quran.

I’mHalal is the first search engine which has as a goal to let Muslims be active users on the Web without running into pages that are considered “unclean” content . To help Internet users, in addition to the results of its research, it adds to each site a score of 3.

The word “pig” has the note 1 / 3: A little prohibited ,but not too much , as the word can refer to the animal in general , and muslims are only prohibited from eating pigs. I’mHalal least appreciates the word “Gay”: and gives it 2 / 3.

the user is free to click on the pages I’mHalal has proposed in response to his request.

In contrast, the word “sex” is completely prohibited, with a score of 3 / 3 in the scale of Islamic prohibitions .
The site also gives to users the possibility to report a site “haram” (forbidden by the quran) which managed to slip through the halal filters of the search engine.

Sardeha Reza, The creator of the search engine and founder of AZS Media Group, explained that the objective is to provide a “filter”. His ambition: to become the search engine number 1 in the Muslim world.

With the goal to provide to Muslims a secure environment for their Internet browsing. I’mHalal is hoping that it will become the home page in the browsers of all muslim families.

For now, Im’Halal is available in 12 languages (French, English, Spanish, Russian,…) including 6 in testing phase.

Islam is not the only religion to have a search engine. The Jewish community can already surf on kosher sites with Koogle and Catholics can submit their requests to Cathoogle. Everyone has its own search engine …

Try some research … What do you think?
Is it less efficient than Google? What do you thing are its advantages and disadvantages?

Let’s Know About : Play Monopoly On Google !!!

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:37:25 +0000

To all of you who are like me addicted to old games , the games that we used to play before the invasion of videogames , such as scrabble or monopoly , games where there is no impact of technology, and where your mind is the only chipset thinking, I’m sorry but this article may disappoint you , things are going to change

After more than two hundred different editions of Monopoly, Hasbro released a new version Worldwide . If you find the traditional game too small to cast your dice, the latest version of Monopoly is for you because you’ll play it on … Google Map. Gone is the time when the green houses and red hotels crammed on the small Cardboard tray, in partnership with the giant of internet, Hasbro launched an online version, free and disproportionate to the 250 million sold boxes game.
During four months, users of the world will challenge on Monopoly City Street. They will evolve on a map signed by Google and can therefore buy and grow their buildings into the streets of planet earth. Well not all the places , but almost , indeed the editor of the license affirms that the places available to sell are those referenced by google agreement with the government. So of course Forget about the idea of buying the central artery of Pyongyang. But to reassure you ,you can still have Hollywood Boulevard, 5th Avenue or the Champs-Elysees, but to do so you have to be the first to get there.

A building creating Contest
The detailed rules are still unset, but the principle of the game should not be different from the original: the goal is to get everything . Cards “luck” will always be there to give a boost or ruin the players, who themselves, may directly attack their opponents by building, for example, a dump on their land. With three million (of Monopoly currency) at their disposal when you start the game, participants will have all the money needed to build buildings (hotels and traditional houses, but also castles, stadiums, buildings …) all over World.
A contest to create buildings has even been launched to allow to the more creative to show their creativity on … SketchUp, the 3D design software from Google. A very wise way to promote its software but as you know … this is not surprising coming from google .

Let’s Know About : Starting a Start up.

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:35:19 +0000

As you may have all noticed The economic crisis is now no more than a old bad memory ,a bad memory that has destroyed a lot of prosperous companies , but that has also given a lot of new opportunities for other new start-ups , that have found in this crisis a new breath of fresh air to conquer new markets , and make benefits.

But of course starting a new company is not as easy as it seems, especially in terms of legal documents, that to complete needs a lot of precious time , and complicated procedures that sometimes pushes new investors to let everything down , even before they have made the first dime of benefit out of their project .

One great way to avoid all this is a new solution that will for sure make your life a lot easier , and a friend of mine who was looking forward to start a new company has used it , and it really caught my attention as it’s easy , cheap , and it makes you save a lot of time .

It’s simple , what he did is a thing that anyone of us can do , he simply searched for legal forms on google , and found a great website that let him , simply by filling out a form online , he received all the papers he was looking for within few days .

All this to tell you what? All this to tell that , starting up a new company is no more as difficult as it used to be, even your forms can now be prepared online within few days, so what are you waiting for ??

Let’s Know About: GOOGLE WAVE

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:25:22 +0000

Ladies and gentlemen maybe at the time I’m writing this article , you don’t know what the word WAVE means, but believe me , there will come a day when you will (for sure )know this word and use this very powerful tool developed by Google .
Dear readers let me please introduce to you Google inc’s newborns baby , Google wave was developed by Lars and Yen Rasmussen two gigs that have also been known for developing Google maps , supported by a team of unique engineers very Carefully selected .
Google wave is an HTML 5-based application for communication and cooperation that will make you discover internet and in a completely new form and a surprisingly new way .
So before talking about some of Google wave’s features , you have to know that Google wave is an open source project , which means that everyone can contribute to its advancement. which is a very interesting aspect of this very ambitious project, indeed Google is fully aware that it can develop a very powerful tool if instead of (limiting the number of its developers) let all the world contribute to this project and develop it according to everyone’s needs .

So what’s new in Google wave , I’m so sorry but I just couldn’t count the number of new and innovative things that are about to be launched in Google wave , but first I would like to give you a brief idea of what is Google wave .
Google wave is new concept that has started based on a simple question: the normal mail has been invented about 40 years from now , but hasn’t really changed and its functions even if they were unceasingly developed remain basic , so how would a mail be if it had to be invented today ?
the question is a new type of mail “ or I prefer to say a conversation” , where many participant could interact simultaneously if they are online , and be able to read it and participate in it after in case they aren’t , and believe me, even if it’s a bit complicated to give you a realistic image of what it’s like , trust me this concept is going to change everything .

Also one of the things that Google team is introducing through Google wave is its new spell checker technology ( which is now able to correct your mistakes based on the context where the word is used ).
Also instant typing through live transition is a very powerful new concept introduced by Google wave , based on the idea that instead of getting a message like ( x is typing ….) like the ones we get on msn, now we will be able to see the message directly being written .
but maybe the most interesting aspect of this project, is the ability to add new applications that you can develop yourself , giving the opportunity to all the world to take benefit from it .

It means that , each one will have a different Google wave’s account, your Google wave will have options and applications that I maybe won’t have , which adds a touch of customization to this project, a concept directly inspired from the widgets that we add on our browsers with a simple and original difference that this time we will add it on a website (astonishing isn’t it ) : .
finally I would like to say that once again Google team has been able to show to the world that it’s able to invent new things, that it’s able innovate and change whatever we have taken for granted, and this through giving young developers free rein to their talent and the only limit they have is the limit of their imagination .

if you want to know more about Google ’s new project ?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ

or also visit Google wave’s official website