From Official Google blog:
The fundamental problem with information is that there’s too much of it, and this is probably why we all go to our trusted sources to learn what we really need to know. Your sources filter out the noise and present the most interesting bits to you in a useful way. For many of us, these sources include newspapers, magazines, and of course blogs. We built Google Reader as a way for you to see all of your online sources in one place.
So if you want to keep up with the chatter about the new iPods or Superbad, now you can. We’ve added a familiar search box to the top of Google Reader so you can search across all the blogs and sites to which you’re subscribed.
Read more: Find a needle in a feedstack with Google Reader
We’re hosting an Asia Pacific open house for engineers on Thursday, June 28 from 6-9pm on the Google campus in Mountain View. Ping Li from Accel Partners will moderate a panel discussion by the four directors of our engineering centers in India, Korea, Taiwan, and China. They’ll talk about top tech trends in their respective markets, and we’ll demo products developed in each location. Of course, there will be plenty of food & drink, and a raffle. This should be an informative networking event for Bay Area engineers and entrepreneurs with a technical background.
Read more at Official Google Blog: Asia-Pacific Open House June 28th
If any of you believes that Google and Yahoo are just two simple companies that are challenging one another with their products, I’m sorry to tell you that you’re wrong. Google and Yahoo are currently the Internet
giants that are offering the best technologies in their categories but also manage to attract the majority of
customers, making the other firms’ attempts quite useless. Take the example of Ask.com that is somehow made anonymous as Google and Yahoo captured most of the Internet searches. However, a lot of companies announced their intentions to develop similar products and challenge the two Goliaths.
At this time, the most important chapter of the battle is surely represented by the fight between the two mail solutions owned by the companies. Most of the users are describing Gmail as the most efficient mail product on the Internet because it offers a large file storage capacity, efficient spam filters and POP3 support. The same category of users is often criticizing Yahoo Mail for weak filters, bugs and for instability. However, the recent studies revealed that Yahoo Mail managed to beat Gmail, the Google mail product not being even close to the Sunnyvale company’s solution. Hotmail, one of the oldest mail services on the Internet earned the second position, relegating Gmail right on the third place.
However, the most recent battle involves two unexpected products: Google Maps and Yahoo Maps. While the search giant is famous for its service and the high-resolution photos that it offers, Yahoo intends to make its map solution competitive for Google. Recently, Yahoo added a considerable number of detailed pictures for numerous European countries.
You’re probably asking yourself what’s up with the title. Well, Google and Yahoo managed to revolutionize the Internet life because their solutions – the search engine and the Yahoo portal – are currently helping people find their information easier and get whatever they want.
It can be frustrating to find out that the photos you’re trying to share, or the presentations you’re trying to send at the last minute, are too large for your email’s attachment limit. Some of you have pointed out that we recently increased the allowable attachment size in Gmail from 10MB to 20MB. We think the higher limit will help make the storage in your Gmail account a little more useful. So the next time you’ve got to send a PDF that’s a bit on the larger side, relax. You’ve got some more room to spare.
Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/bigger-attachments-in-gmail.html, Posted by Anna-Christina Douglas
By Loren Baker
Google appears to be about to take on Skype and other VoIP services with the addition of a dialpad to Google Talk.
Members of the Google Blogoscoped forums found this image and some basic information on the new application from an internal Google apps resources overview [which has now been taken down].
The new addition would ideally let users dial landlines and cell phones using Google Talk, which is now limited to dialing out only to other users who have Google Talk or compatible VoIP solutions.
eBay’s Skype of course has the ability to dial from PC to phone using VoIP technology, and Skype brings in a hefty amount of revenue via the SkypeOut program, where users purchase minutes via eBay’s PayPal.
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Peter Fleischer, Google Global Privacy Counsel:
“We recently announced a new policy to anonymize our server logs after 18–24 months. We’re the only leading search company to have taken this step publicly. We believe it’s an important part of our commitment to respect user privacy while balancing a number of important factors.
In developing this policy, we spoke with various privacy advocates, regulators and others about how long they think the period should be. There is a wide spectrum of views on this – some think data should be preserved for longer, others think it should be anonymized almost immediately. We spent a great deal of time sorting this out and thought we’d explain some of the things that prompted us to decide on 18-24 months.”
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“Excellent presentation and great insight on the history and basics. Douglas rocks, yahoo is real lucky to have him!”
An undergraduate-oriented explanation of the beautiful and simple linear algebra that lies behind an important facet of Google’s PageRank algorithm. The page has some demo code.
“I have taught an undergraduate compilers course for over a decade. In the last several years, I have used my own textbook “Basics of Compiler Design”. I have now decided to make this available online.”
Dell does not plan to include software such as Wine, which lets users run Windows programs on Linux, with its PCs that will soon be preloaded Ubuntu Linux. “I do not want to position Ubuntu and Linux as a cheap alternative to Windows,” Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth told eWEEK.com.
Someone put together a list of just about every color related resource (worth mentioning) in the known universe. Designers rejoice!
Some of Microsoft’s most important customers aren’t happy with the battery life offered by notebooks running Windows Vista.
Want to show off your Ubuntu pride? Want to help spread awareness there is such a thing as Ubuntu? Or do you just want to decorate your own room? Perhaps one of these community-produced posters are just what you need. Twice the size of the last run, shipped anywhere around the world. You can throw in a few laptop stickers/case badges as well.
Dave Shea has an excellent tutorial over on Mezzoblue that shows how to spice up your screenshots by giving them some perspective and a touch of focal blur.
Many people schedule their day on the fly, and are often away from their computers when they need to run to their next event. With Google Calendar, you don’t have to be online to be alerted about upcoming events—all you need is a mobile phone. Now you can set up mobile SMS (text message) reminders that will be sent to your mobile phone.
Quoting our favorite source of “people familiar with the situation,” the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) claims that executives at Microsoft and Yahoo are in early-stage discussions about merging the two companies to take on Google. Investors seem to be taking this seriously, as Yahoo shares surged in overseas trading because of this news. The company’s market value is now close to $38 billion up from $32 billion earlier this week. So if you want to quantify this rumor, there you have it: the world thinks its worth $6 billion dollars.
Read More: Yahoo to join Microsoft?
Pligg had released beta version 9.5, our last installment of the beta series for Pligg.
Between this release and the next there will be additional optimizations performed and some final tweaking and bugfixes added.
We love open source Stuff, and internet or blog tools, and we always welcome new release, and like always we’ll do the best to inform you about anything new that appearing.
Pligg, for those who’s not familiar with is unique compared to most other content management systems because of its flexibility. A web designer can do pretty much anything with Pligg because the software was designed to be used in as many ways as possible. Not only can a person with very little knowledge of PHP and MySQL install it, but they can modify and administer it with relatively little difficulty. For those who have a greater understanding of web languages, Pligg can act as the first step in a highly customized personal content management system.
