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Google apologises for Blogger outages
Legacy hardware difficulties caused multiple outages this week, affecting many bloggers Internet search giant Google has apologised for a series of "unplanned outages" on its Blogger site over the past week. Google's blogging service experienced five outages, both planned and unplanned, due to "power failures, fileserver trouble, and wonky network hardware", according to Pete Hopkins, a Google programmer and blogger. Major Blogger troubles began on Saturday with an outage that lasted more than three hours, caused by the failure of both a "critical component and its backup", according to the Blogger Status blog. Hopkins wrote: "Blogger had a significant number of unplanned outages this last week (forgive me my euphemisms?) and a handful of planned ones to clean up from the unplanned ones." Read more: ZDNet UK |
They say talk is cheap. With Google Talk, it’s free--and fast: • Flexibility: Get in touch with an IM, email, or a call • Quality: Enjoy fast file transfer and high quality voice calls • Convenience: Convenience: Reach all your Gmail contacts, with just a click • Pictures and themes: See pictures in your Friends list and chat sessions. • File Transfer: With this top requested new feature, you can send unlimited files and folders to your friends through Google Talk. There is no restriction on the file type or size and the peer-to-peer transfer is fast and reliable. • Voicemail: If your friends aren't around to answer your call, you can leave them a voicemail message instead. Just record your voice after the "Meep" and your friends will get an email to their Talk contact address with the voicemail attached as an audio file. They can play your message when they check their email and save it for as long as they want. • Music Status and Music Trends: Listening to music while chatting on Google Talk? Now you can let your friends see what you're listening to by selecting "Show current music track" in your status menu. Your status message will change when your song does! Google Talk is in beta and requires a Gmail username and password, and Windows XP/2000, minimum 56k (broadband recommended). Mac and Linux users can connect to Google Talk using other other IM clients. Download: Google Talk 1.0.0.100 Beta | Google Talk for BlackBerry devices (most commonly accessed via your BlackBerry) |
SysSense is your personal desktop Google AdSense monitor. It keeps your current Google AdSense information in the Windows system tray. You can monitor an unlimited number of Google AdSense accounts. A sound and/or system tray icon balloon can be configured to alert you when your statistics have changed. Main Features: • View your current Google AdSense statistics at anytime by holding your mouse over the SysSense system tray icon. These statistics are sometimes even more up-to-date than what is showing up on the Google AdSense website. • Receive a system tray icon balloon alert when any of the following is updated: page impressions, clicks, clickthrough rate, CPM, earnings. • Monitor an unlimited number of Google AdSense accounts. • Easily log into your Google AdSense account from the SysSense system tray icon menu. There is no need to log into the Google AdSense webpage -- Just a few clicks of the SysSense system tray icon menu and you're there. Requirements: Windows 2000+, Google AdSense account Download: SysSense 1.2.25 |
Google releases customisable search
A new Google tool will let people use Google's search platform to create search engines focused on the content of their choice. With the Google Custom Search Engine, announced by the company on Monday in the US, Web site and blog publishers can provide custom results most relevant to their readers, incorporating a site's online community and its ability to provide contextual ads. The customised search engines can also be tailored to aesthetically match any Web site. The search engine can be customised quickly by choosing keywords and a list of sites the publisher wants included in the search index. These can be the only sites searched, or simply the ones with the highest priority. Alternately, users can exclude sites from the search index. After entering the information, a line of code will appear. The custom search engine can be hosted on a user's site. Currently, anyone can put a Google search box on their site, but the results are hosted by Google.com. Read more: ZDNet Australia |
Google Toolbar is a popular browser add-on for Internet Explorer that makes it possible to quickly perform Google Web searches, prevent annoying pop-up ads from appearing, and fill in Web forms with one simple click. • Bookmark frequently visited pages and access them from anywhere • Search smarter with instant suggestions as you type in the search box • Add buttons to the Toolbar to search your favorite sites. • Share web pages with friends via blog, email, or SMS • Google Account Sign-in Your Google Account is your access point for Google services like Personalized Homepage, Google Groups and Gmail – and now you can sign in and out right from your Toolbar. More Features • Block annoying pop-ups • Fill out web forms with one click • Translate pages into English instantly • Check your spelling in webmail messages Download: Google Toolbar 4.0.1020.3054 Windows 98/ME/2000/XP & IE 6.0+ |
YouTube deletes 29,549 copyright-busting files
Japanese media companies rattle katana Industry predictions that Google may have bought itself a whole heap of copyright trouble when it recently acquired YouTube for a modest $1.65bn, appear to be coming true as media companies worldwide move to protect their assets from illicit online dissemination. According to Reuters, the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers - which represents 23 media companies including TV networks and movie distributors - has successfully lobbied for the removal of 29,549 files from the website. Read more: The Register |
Google Desktop 4.2006.1008.2039 Beta
Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. Google Desktop doesn't just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web with Sidebar, a new desktop feature that shows you your new email, weather and stock information, personalized news and RSS/Atom feeds, and more. Sidebar is personalized automatically, without any manual configuration required (though you can certainly make your own customizations if you want to). We've also improved your desktop search experience. With Quick Find, you can now launch applications and see search results as you type without even opening a browser. We've also extended our Outlook integration, so you can search Google Desktop with the Outlook Toolbar and see results within Outlook itself. Finally, you can search even more stuff, including your Gmail, files on network drives, many Outlook data types (including Contacts, Tasks, Calendar, Notes and Journal) and MSN Messenger chats. And if you yearn for even stronger security, you can encrypt your entire index. Add Google Gadgets to customize your desktop and Sidebar, Developers: Create and share your own gadgets. Requires Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+ Download: Google Desktop 4.2006.1008.2039 Beta | Gadgets | Screenshots |
Cyber-criminals clone Google Italy site
'Evil twin' site attempts to infect visitors with Trojans Cyber-criminals have created an "evil twin" website which aims to dupe unsuspecting visitors into believing that they are visiting the Google Italy site. IT security firm SurfControl said today that it is currently tracking the malicious website, which attempts to install ActiveX controls on a visitor's PC. The site uses 'typo-squatting' to ensnare victims, a technique that mimics a legitimate domain using a slightly different spelling. It has been configured to deliver a fraudulent Google Italy page that looks identical to the original. Read more: vnunet.com |
Google launches classroom project
Weeks into a new school year, Google has started courting K-12 teachers with a resource guide on how to use its applications in the classroom. Late Wednesday, the search giant launched the site Google for Educators. The site includes how-to video tutorials for products like Blogger; lesson plans for applications like Google Earth; and links to a training academy to become a "Google certified teacher," a pilot program for teachers to learn about technology. "We think of this site as a platform of teaching resources--for everything from blogging and collaborative writing to geographical search tools and 3D modeling software--and we want you to fill it in with your great ideas," according to Google's site. With the educators' site, Google continues a run on diversifying its business. Earlier this week, the company announced a $1.65 billion acquisition of video-sharing Web site YouTube. Full story: News.com |
Google and BEA in enterprise portal mash-up talks
Google and BEA are in talks about partnering on a new initiative that will allow organisations to create mash-ups between enterprise portals and applications such as Google Maps. As part of the partnership BEA will get access to some of Google's hidden application programming interfaces (APIs), which will allow developers to create mash-ups using a new technology feature in BEA's WebLogic Portal, called Adrenaline. The Adrenaline technology allows portal applications to run on other websites outside of the portal framework, using Ajax and iFrames web development techniques, while still keeping it managed as part of the portal. Skip Sauls, senior product manager for WebLogic Portal at BEA, told silicon.com: "It allows you to take those applications and expose them to a web 2.0 front end but still manage them within the portal environment. It runs on the WebLogic Portal server so you still have access to all the freedoms, personalisation and security but you can render in a different fashion." Sauls said BEA has been in talks with Google for "two to three weeks" and has been given access to hidden APIs. BEA is also looking at Yahoo! for a similar initiative but Sauls said no talks have yet started on that front. Full article: ZDNet Australia |
Developed for the conceptual stages of design, Google SketchUp is powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software. We think of it as the pencil of digital design. This award-winning software combines a simple, yet robust tool-set that streamlines and simplifies 3D design inside your computer. SketchUp is being used by anyone with the desire to...Dream, Design and Communicate in 3D With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - even space ships. Google SketchUp is free for personal use. No registration is required. Download: Google SketchUp 5.0.305 Windows, Mac OS X |
Google Docs: Spreadsheets, Writely on The Web
Google is scheduled to officially launch Google Docs & Spreadsheets later today at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Docs is a Web-based word-processing and spreadsheet that Google said is designed to make it easier for people to create, manage, and share documents and spreadsheets online. Google Spreadsheets had been in beta testing since June. Back then, product manager Jonathan Rochelle told internetnews.com the product’s "biggest wow feature" is the ability for multiple users to simultaneously edit spreadsheets and chat. Rochelle said in time Google would add features to the product beyond its spreadsheet capabilities. That time has arrived. Now, with a Google Account, a compatible Web browser, and an Internet connection, users can export and import a wider variety of file formats. There’s now an option to publish the documents to a blog or as an HTML page, too. Full article: internetnews.com |
Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organised by date with folder names you will recognise. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organised. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures – you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, and even post pictures on your own blog. Download: Picasa 2.5.0 Build 32.95 |
Google Desktop 4.2006.1002.1212 Beta
Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. Google Desktop doesn't just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web with Sidebar, a new desktop feature that shows you your new email, weather and stock information, personalized news and RSS/Atom feeds, and more. Sidebar is personalized automatically, without any manual configuration required (though you can certainly make your own customizations if you want to). We've also improved your desktop search experience. With Quick Find, you can now launch applications and see search results as you type without even opening a browser. We've also extended our Outlook integration, so you can search Google Desktop with the Outlook Toolbar and see results within Outlook itself. Finally, you can search even more stuff, including your Gmail, files on network drives, many Outlook data types (including Contacts, Tasks, Calendar, Notes and Journal) and MSN Messenger chats. And if you yearn for even stronger security, you can encrypt your entire index. Add Google Gadgets to customize your desktop and Sidebar, Developers: Create and share your own gadgets. Requires Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+ Download: Google Desktop 4.2006.1002.1212 Beta | Gadgets | Screenshots |
I didn't think it would happen, but it did: Google has agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. The news comes after a cornucopia of press releases announcing Google and YouTube deals to distribute music videos from Universal, Sony, Warner Music, and CBS, paving the way for a relatively risk-free buyout from Google's perspective. In the conference call accompanying the press release, the founders of both companies unanimously professed their excitement about the deal, saying that it's a great fit on many different levels. Eric Schmidt said that it was about vision, not about business, and that the YouTube guys reminded him of the early days of Google. Sergei Brin added that video content is certainly information, so the acquisition fits with Google's stated mission of organizing all the world's info. Full story: Ars Technica |
Google to buy YouTube for $1.6bn - reports
Google is close to buying YouTube for $1.6bn, according to reports. Props for the scoop, if the talks pan out, go to TechCrunch, the Red Herring of the Web 2.0 Generation, which today reported this "completely Unsubstantiated Google/YouTube Rumor". The WSJ today also says that Google and YouTube are negotiating and mention $1.6bn as the price. But this could merely mean that the two publications have the same source. According to the WSJ, the talks are at a sensitive stage and could break off. Which would be madness on YouTube's part, if it was doing the breaking. This enormously popular bazaar of video pratfalls, US government propaganda and stolen TV and film clips, needs a sugar daddy. Full story: The Register |
Cuban Scoffs at Google, YouTube Rumors
WASHINGTON -- "Should Google buy YouTube?" It was the first question asked of keynote speaker Mark Cuban Friday afternoon at an Online News Association conference. "They'd be crazy," Cuban shot back. The question came amid a swirl of blog and media stories that Google is negotiating to buy the popular online video site for as much as $1.6 billion. The rumor originally appeared Thursday night on the Techcrunch blog. "Rumors are rumors and just that," Cuban said. Google told internetnews.com Friday it does not comment on rumor and speculation. YouTube did not respond to telephone or e-mail inquiries for comment. Cuban, who made his fortune in the 1990s by founding and then selling MicroSolutions and Broadcasting.com, is a frequent critic of YouTube, claiming the popular online video site will eventually run afoul of U.S. copyright laws, much like the original Napster. The closely held YouTube of San Mateo, Calif., claims more than 100 million videos are viewed daily on its site, making it the No. 2 video site on the Internet behind MySpace. The videos range from home productions to television clips. Even the home videos, however, use copyrighted material such as individuals lip-synching to popular songs. "Once you go commercial, once you have to monitor for copyright violations, your whole business model changes," Cuban said. "They [YouTube] are going to get crushed." Full story: internetnews.com |
Google Toolbar is a popular browser add-on for Internet Explorer that makes it possible to quickly perform Google Web searches, prevent annoying pop-up ads from appearing, and fill in Web forms with one simple click. • Bookmark frequently visited pages and access them from anywhere • Search smarter with instant suggestions as you type in the search box • Add buttons to the Toolbar to search your favorite sites. • Share web pages with friends via blog, email, or SMS • Google Account Sign-in Your Google Account is your access point for Google services like Personalized Homepage, Google Groups and Gmail – and now you can sign in and out right from your Toolbar. More Features • Block annoying pop-ups • Fill out web forms with one click • Translate pages into English instantly • Check your spelling in webmail messages Download: Google Toolbar 4.0.1020.1654 Windows 98/ME/2000/XP & IE 6.0+ |
Google gives developers code-search capabilities
Users will be able to search billions of lines of publicly available code using Google 's new code-search Web site Google is taking its search expertise to one of its favourite audiences: software developers. On Thursday the company is expected to launch a Web site, Google Code Search, which the company says will let programmers search billions of lines of code. The service, conceived by the Google Labs early technology group, will crawl publicly available code, most of which is made available through open source projects. The search and indexing can cover code on Web pages as well as code that resides in compressed files, said Tom Stocky, a product manager at Google. Google expects that the search engine will be used primarily as a learning tool to help students and serious programmers, rather than a way to find and copy another person's code. Read more: ZDNet UK |
Google takes a bigger bite of Big Apple
Google, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is hoping to make it big in New York City. After a year of speculation, the company on Monday officially opened a new, bigger and more Google-y office in the Big Apple in the trendy Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan. The company, which has had an advertising sales presence in Manhattan since 2000, moved its more than 500 New York City employees into the new office at 111 Eighth Ave. and invited the press to take a sneak peek at its new digs. The office, specially designed and built for Google, houses the company's largest advertising sales team. And it's also home to the largest engineering group outside of the main office in Mountain View, Calif. While Google is a global company with 8,000 employees throughout the world, New York City has become a key location--both in terms of generating revenue and developing new products. And the company is hoping to expand its headcount in the New York office during the next couple of years, executives said. Google's New York-based advertising team has been instrumental in securing big partnerships, including recent deals with MySpace and AOL, said Tim Armstrong, vice president of advertising sales. Google added an engineering staff to New York City in 2003. Since then, more than 100 engineering projects have been housed in New York, including: Google Maps, Google Spreadsheets, parts of Google Checkout, Google Blog Search and Google Mobile Search. Craig Nevill-Manning, engineering director in New York for Google, said that New York City is ripe with software engineering talent. Full story: CNET News.com |
Vote to change Google homepage
Google visitors can pick which child's artwork they would like to see featured on the search engine's homepage. Thirty artworks were selected as regional winners in the nationwide Doodle 4 Google schools art competition. People can vote for their three favourites, one from each age category, and then Dennis Hwang, Google's webmaster will pick a winner. Read more: webuser.co.uk |
Google gets nostalgic with garage buy
Goes back to its roots Google has gone back to its roots and, in the style of HP, has bought the house and garage in which founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin first established the company. The company has not said how much it paid for the property. Page and Brin rented the garage from Susan Wojcicki, then a friend of an ex of Brin's, now vice president of product management at Google. She needed some money to help pay her mortgage and for five months Brin and Page made the garage their second home. According to reports they also helped themselves to plenty of frozen pizza from Wojcicki's freezer. The garage has, apparently, already become something of a tourist attraction. Google asked reporters not to publish the house address because bus tours have already become a local nuisance. Rad more: The Register |
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