[How To] Share Starred Items in Google Reader
Google Reader by default allows you to share items that you mark as shared while reading your feeds. But I don’t use the share feed feature but instead I star the items that I like. I was always looking for a way to share the Starred items in Google Reader, but thanks to Tech Recipes I found a simple way of sharing my Starred feed items. If you want to do the same, then read on.. Sharing the starred items isn’t that difficult, the only problem is that the... Read The Rest →
Google to Connect to Different IM Networks Very Soon
Google seems to be giving GMail quite a push these days isn’t it? First we had the additional storage, then the rollout of IMAP, then a new interface, and now possibly the ability to chat with friends on multiple IM networks using the Jabber Transports feature. Ionut Alex Chitu over at Google System, while looking through the GMail code found stuff that was related to features not released as yet, which includes, Colors for Labels Detaching Messages from a Conversation And the ability to connect to multiple IM Networks like... Read The Rest →
Google Updates Pagerank, Shocks Many Leading Publishers
Google is definitely upto something here. A Major Pagerank update has been dished out and a lot of popular blogs have been hit the hardest with the update losing quite a bit of Pagerank in the process.. General theory is that the drop in Pagerank is due to sale of Text Links on these sites, but I don’t think that is the reason for all this. Take for example Problogger which was PR6 and now its PR4 or take Copyblogger which was also PR6 and now is PR4. Both of... Read The Rest →
Yay! GMail finally gets IMAP
Thanks to DownloadSquad I discovered that my Gmail account finally has IMAP Access in it. IMAP allows you to read and send mail just like POP does but albeit in a much better way. IMAP will allow you to read mails from a variety programs and the most important thing is that all the mails that you read say in your iPhone, the same mails will be marked as read when you check your inbox in Thunderbird.
Orkut Facing Legal Problems in Brazil
The popular social network from Google, Orkut is facing troubles again in Brazil. Orkut is extremely popular here in India and also Brazil. Orkut has been through a lot of legal troubles in the past, but this one in Brazil seems to be the biggest so far. Well the story is quite interesting, here’s what has been happening in Brazil so far. A Law professor in Sao Paulo, Brazil noticed Pornographic images on Orkut, and some of the pictures went as far as child pornography. The lawyer decided to take... Read The Rest →
Google Homepage goes Black in San Francisco
If you are in San Francisco today (Oct 20th), and go to Google.com you might see Google present itself in a Black Homepage with a message telling you that "We’ve turned the lights out. Now it’s your turn." Well Google says that they are doing this “a gesture to raise awareness of a citywide energy conservation event called Lights Out San Francisco.” More details on Lights Out San Francisco can be found at LightsOutSF.org.
Google Analytics Announces Exciting New Features
The Google Analytics blog today made some important announcements today for which we have been waiting for a quite a while now. In addition to the new features that will be rolled out soon, Urchin Stats which provides the backend for Google Analytics which Google had acquired back in 2006 will be released with a new version 6 that will bring Urchin on par with Google Analytics. Urchin Stats is a standalone package that you can install on your website without depending on Google Analytics. Being a corporate stats package,... Read The Rest →
GMail gets a Storage Boost!
Google has just announced that GMail will be getting additional storage from now on. Dubbed as "infinity+1" GMail will continuously increase from now on. By the end of this month we should see about 4GB of storage in GMail and 6GB by January. Well here are the rough estimates of how much storage you will have : Well that roughly translates into : 2912MB by October 11, 2007 midnight Google time 4.2GB by the 23rd this month
Google Loves Jaiku and not Twitter
Well this may come as a bit of a shock to you, Jaiku the microblogging service similar to Twitter has been acquired by the mighty Google. Well there were rumors about Nokia planning to acquire Jaiku but all that looks like it was just another rumor. The price of the acquisition has not been revealed as yet. I wonder why Google didn’t acquire Twitter, who are the leaders when it comes to Microblogging. When Google has no problems whatsoever when it comes to paying money for an acquisition, I fail... Read The Rest →
Google Street View to loose its Sight on December 27th
Now that’s a misleading title for sure. But it does make sense. Google Street view will no longer be able to show street images to you from December 27th because Google’s contract with Immersive Media (The Company that provides Street View Images) will expire on the 27th of December. October 1, 2007 – Immersive Media Corp. announces the termination of its content license agreement with Google Inc. effective December 27, 2007. “We’ve had our technology validated and it has been exposed to millions of people which was a key objective... Read The Rest →
