Blogger Dynamic View

Google unveiled the new feature "Dynamic View" for its blogging platform. View of dynamic blog is awesome. Readers who like decent look of the blogs, then your blog in dynamic view attract more and more visitors. I wont take much time of yours. Just watch this video to know more about this cool feature.

Gmail Now Supports ZIP and RAR

From now on you can view Zip and RAR attachment files in your Gmail without opening them. Gmail now introduced View option for Zip and RAR files. According to Gmail blog  now you know what is there in Zip and RAR files before you download them. Enjoy this new facility in Gmail.

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Google's New Offering: Google News Badges

Google come up with new offering "Google News Badges" to avid news readers based on number of articles they read. At present Google News Badges is solely for U.S based readers.

Different badges are bronze, silver, gold and platinum. Ultimate badge is highest level badge. As per official Google blog,  Google lets users to share their badges with friends or stay private and at present they have over 500 badges for different type of news. 

Will Google Plus Checkmate Facebook?

Yesterday Google announced its new social network site Goolge+ which could checkmate Facebook. It is now in trial stage and open to limited people. Google+ is more private and smarter for real-life sharing.

    "At the moment, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure that you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people."

Google Plus = Google + Buzz + +1 + Facebook + Gmail + Google Contacts + Wave + Picasa + Orkut + Profiles + RSS + Skype.

You can get more details at Google+ 

Search Images With Google Image

Google Image Search is the new feature introduced by google for searching images by image. You can use google image search by uploading an image to search box or enter URL of the image in the search box or drag and drop images from your desktop to search box where you can see a camera icon in the search box You can avail this feature at images.google.com

Google Acquires AdMeld For $400 Million

AdMeld, an advertising optimization platform for publishers, has been acquired by Google for around $400 million according to multiple sources. The company, which launched in 2007, has raised just $30 million in venture capital from Foundry Group, Spark Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Time Warner Investments.

This is a sweet comeback for CEO Michael Barrett. As I noted in our first post about AdMeld in 2009, Barrett was fired from News Corp. in 2008 when the division that owned MySpace failed to meet a $1 billion revenue target. Most sources we spoke with at the time said he was the fall guy for an unrealistic revenue target to begin with, set by News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch in a previous earnings call.

Source: TechCrunch

PostRank Acquired by Google

Search giant had just acquired web analytic aggregator PostRank. PostRank analyses updates of social networks and about the shared content of the publishers and its competitors performance.

PostRank posted this message officially  at their website as follows

We are excited to announce that PostRank has been acquired by Google!

"We know that making sense of social engagement data is crucial for online businesses, which is why we’ve worked hard to monitor where and when content generates meaningful interactions across the web. Indeed, conversations online are an important signal for advertisers, publishers, developers and consumers — but today’s tools only skim the surface of what we think is possible"

"We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished, and we now look forward to working with Google’s team to build more useful tools for measuring engagement online, and we’ll be sure to share details on our progress in the coming months."

source: PostRank

Maa Oh Maa.. Pyari Maa...

When I listen Maa Oh Maa, Pyari Maa... I just dip into the warmth of the mothers love. It portrays love for mother. This year Google doodle for 2011 mother's day is simple and soothing with flower. I loved it. I salute every mother who made their childrens good citizens of this universe.

Google's +1 button

Use the +1 button to publicly show what you like, agree with, or recommend on the web. The +1 button can appear in a variety of places, both on Google and on sites across the web. For example, you might see a +1 button for a Google search result, Google ad, or next to an article you're reading on your favorite news site. Your +1’s and your social connections also help improve the content you see in Google Search. Learn how to +1. Don't have the +1 button yet? Get it now.


Source: Google

Gmail New Feature: Send email in background

There is a new feature in Google Gmail, Which enables to send email in background. This feature available in Google Labs. Users can work other tasks while email is being sent. Once your turn it on from the Google labs settings you can get on with what you are doing while Gmail quietly sends off your mail in the back ground. You can keep reading your inbox, compose new messages, chat with people. You can even send more than on message in the background at the same time.

Source: Gmail Blog

How to: Google Page Rank Graphical Guide

Source: ZippyCart

Google’s SEO Starter Guide

Google has updated its Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide, now available in ten more languages. This is an official 32-page detailed guide on SEO from Google which covers important topics on SEO that are very helpful for new webmasters. The new version of guide has updated content and describes best practices for mobile websites. It discusses effective ways to optimize the SEO and content of site, thus to improve your sites’ interaction with both user and search engines and make it easier for search engines to crawl, index and understand your content.

Download SEO Starter Guide Here

Google Apps Certification Program

Google has created a mechanism for endorsing its resellers of Google Apps products.  Adoption of Google Apps is accelerating around the world with over 3 million businesses that have gone Google. Google Apps Authorized Resellers play a critical role in helping businesses get started. As our partner community has more than doubled in the last year to over 2,500 partners in over 70 countries, partners have been seeking opportunities to demonstrate their expertise and competence to a growing customer base.

We are therefore happy to announce the Google Apps Certification Program, which recognizes IT professionals for demonstrated abilities to sell, deploy, develop, and support Google Apps. Available today globally, is the first of these certifications, the Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist, which certifies IT professionals who have demonstrated the fundamental knowledge and skills required to migrate to, configure, and deploy Google Apps.

“As we continue to build out our global Google Apps practice, it is essential for us to differentiate ourselves and to gain recognition for the great depth of Apps expertise we have developed with so many customers. The Google Apps Certification Program will help generate new client interest by highlighting our commitment to offering the highest-value consulting services to the market," explains Jon Hallett, CEO of Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps Authorized Reseller.

Like Google Apps, this certification is 100% web – any IT professional with a browser and an Internet connection can register to take the online proctored exam. It is available in English now, and will soon be available in additional languages. To learn more, go to certification.googleapps.com.

Source: Google Enterprise Blog

Intensifying Search Competition : Microsoft Bing, Google Battle

Any doubts about Microsoft’s seriousness in its online efforts should have been dispelled this week, after the company lashed back at Google’s accusations that Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, copies its Web-search results.  

“I didn’t expect that Microsoft would deny the claims so strongly,” Google Principal Engineer Matt Cutts wrote in a Feb. 3 posting on his personal blog. “One comment that I’ve heard is that ‘it’s whiny for Google to complain about this.’ I agree that’s a risk, but at the same time I think it’s important to go on the record about this.”

The tussle began Feb. 1, when the blog Search Engine Land published details of what it called Google’s “sting operation” against Bing. Google executives claim they grew suspicious of how closely Bing’s search results mirrored their own, and, after finding terms with no matches on either search engine, created “honey pot” pages that appeared on the top of search results for those terms. When a small portion of Bing search results seemed to mirror Google’s forced pages, the latter began leveling accusations.

“To me, what the experiment proved was that clicks on Google are being incorporated in Bing’s rankings,” Cutts wrote in his blog. “Microsoft is best company to answer the degree to which clicks on Google figure into their Bing’s rankings, and I hope they clarify how much of an impact clicks on Google affect Microsoft’s rankings.”

Microsoft claims that Bing is merely leveraging data fed by users of Bing Bar and similar applications. “In simple terms, Google’s ‘experiment’ was rigged to manipulate Bing search results through a type of attack known as ‘click fraud,’” Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft’s online services division, wrote in a Feb. 2 posting on the Bing Community blog. “As we have said before and again in this post, we use clickstream optionally provided by consumers in an anonymous fashion as one of 1,000 signals to try and determine whether a site might make sense to be in our index.”

Mehdi also seemed intent on stirring the already-roiled waters a bit more. “In October 2010, we released a series of big, noticeable improvements to Bing’s relevance. So big and noticeable that we are told Google took notice and began to worry,” he wrote. “Then, a short time later, here come the honey-pot attacks. Is the timing purely coincidence? Are industry discussions about search quality to be ignored? Is this simply a response to the fact that some people in the industry are beginning to ask whether Bing is as good or in some cases better than Google on core Web relevance?”

Bing has made slow but steady gains since its summer 2009 launch, but its 12 percent U.S. market share (as of December, according to research firm comScore) does not present an existential threat to Google’s 66.6 percent. Bing also powers back-end search for Yahoo, whose share stood at 16 percent. Even if you combine its share into Bing’s, however, the audience for Microsoft’s search engine remains half that of Google.

“I don’t know how old I will be when that’ll happen,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told an audience in March 2010, during the Search Marketing Expo in Santa Clara, Calif., when asked if and when Bing would overtake Google in search.

Whatever the future holds, Microsoft seems determined to spend whatever it takes to keep Bing viable. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, the company’s Online Services Division suffered operating losses of $543 million, a significant downtick from the $463 million burnt during the same quarter in 2009. That contributes to total losses of $1.1 billion for the second half of 2010.

Microsoft also has yet to see substantial profits from cloud-based initiatives such as Azure. Over the next few quarters, the company will release cloud-based products, including Office 365, designed to fit a variety of business needs—and counter Google’s aggressive push into that area with offerings such as Google Apps.

Given Microsoft’s intensifying focus on online services and the cloud, and Google’s continued presence in those areas, a little verbal back-and-forth between the two companies’ executives is only to be expected. The vitriol of this latest salvo, though, hints at just how much both Microsoft and Google have riding on their respective properties.

Source: eWeek

Simplify wedding planning

Explore how Google’s free tools can help you save time, stay organized and have fun while planning your big day.

Google has launched Google.com/weddings, an online platform that aims to help people in planning their weddings. According to Google, the company has created wedding-specific templates in Google Sites, Google Docs and Picnik, and gathered tips and tricks for using these and other Google products at Google.com/weddings. The platform also helps users to create their wedding websites.

Share your story and event details with an easy to create website. Choose the style that fits your theme or venue, then edit your website with ease.

Use Picnik’s photo editing tools to create photos that are simply perfect. Then use them to create announcements, save the date cards and more.

Save time by collaborating with your bridal party on guest lists, schedules, addresses, and more. Access and edit your planning documents from the bridal shop, bakery or pretty much anywhere.

Create an online photo album to share your engagement and wedding pictures, or gather photos of floral arrangements, dresses and other inspirations.

Enter for a chance to win $25,000 towards your dream wedding designed by Michelle Rago.
See Official Rules.

Schmidt Out as Google CEO, Co-founder Larry Page will take charge

Google just dropped a bombshell: Eric Schmidt is out as CEO (as announced in the company's earings report. We'll be covering the company's earnings call, which is sure to have more on this.
He will step down from the role starting April 4, and co-founder Larry Page will take charge of Google's day-to-day operations as CEO. Co-founder Sergey Brin will devote his energy to strategic projects like working on new products.

Schmidt will assume the role of Executive Chairman, focusing externally on deals, partnerships, customers and broader business relationships, government outreach and technology thought leadership--all of which are increasingly important given Google's global reach. Internally, he will continue to act as an advisor to Larry and Sergey.


Source: WebProNews

Google Voice Tests Number Porting

Google Voice users may soon be able to turn their cellphone numbers into their central Google Voice number for $20. The search giant recently started testing a number porting service for Google Voice with a small group of users. The feature requires you to cancel your mobile contract and move your phone number from your carrier to Google.

Google Voice is a freemium service that ties all your different phone lines, including your mobile device, office and home numbers, into one central phone number. If someone calls your Google Voice number, all your phones ring until you pick up the call on one of your phones. Google Voice includes other helpful services such as text messaging, voice mail transcripts and overseas calling rates.

One downside of Google Voice is that if the service is going to be of any use, you have to distribute your new Google Voice number to all your contacts. Otherwise, you will only get calls on your individual lines instead of routing calls through one central number. Google's new number porting service appears to solve this minor dilemma for a price.

On top of the $20 charge for moving your number to Google Voice, you have to cancel your mobile contract. That means you may also end up paying an early termination fee to your mobile carrier if your cellphone is still under contract.

The termination fees can end up costing you hundreds of dollars. Verizon came under criticism in 2009 when its fee went as high as $350, and there were reports last January that termination fees for the Google Nexus One handset on T-Mobile could reach $550.

To see if your account is sporting the new feature, log in to your Google Voice account and click on the "Settings" drop down menu in the upper right corner. Select "Voice settings" and you should see a port option under the "Phones" tab. Not all Google Voice users are seeing the new feature, so don't be surprised if it's not available.A Google spokeswoman, said, "We're continually testing new features to enhance the user experience. For a limited amount of time, we're making the Google Voice number porting process available to users. We don't have any additional details to share at this time, but plan to offer this feature to all users in the near future."

Engadget is also reporting that Google has pulled the number porting service, at least for now. Google said as early as 2009 that it wanted to provide a number porting service, so, as the Google representative said, you can count on seeing this service again.

Source: PC World

Google Chrome OS: Everything in the Browser Window

Think about how little you may use your personal computer’s hard drive anymore. Unless you keep a music or video collection, or store your e-mail locally instead of using a Web-based service like Gmail, you might not use it at all.With that in mind, Google has developed Chrome OS, an operating system for laptops that does just about everything inside a browser window. As a result, forthcoming Chrome OS laptops from Asus and Samsung due later this year will be lightweight, low-maintenance and, most of all, inexpensive.  Google’s chief executive officer, Eric Schmidt, has said the target price range will be $300 to $400 for a model that’s not a flimsy netbook.

I’ve got a prototype Chrome OS laptop supplied by Google, which is not available for sale. Called the Cr-48 — the name is the chemical symbol for an unstable isotope of the element Chromium — the matte-black notebook boots up Google’s Chrome browser in seven seconds, and reawakens instantly from sleep. It has no hot, spinning disk drive because it doesn’t need one to hold the small Chrome OS operating system. Sixteen gigabytes of solid-state memory do the trick.

The Cr-48 weighs less than four pounds and runs silent and cool. To stay connected to the internet, it packs both Wi-Fi and a Verizon 3G account that includes 100 megabytes per month of free data. There may be different options when the real products go on sale.

The prototype has two nice nerdy touches. One is the matte screen, rather than a glossy one, much better for reading and writing text instead of watching video. And there’s no Caps Lock key, because YOU DON’T NEED TO SHOUT ON THE INTERNET.

But can you really live inside a browser window all day and night? For many, the answer is yes. There are Web-based versions of just about everything these days. Plus, Google has created a Chrome Web Store full of apps that install inside its browser. Many are free. Some even work without a live Internet connection. By adopting a do-it-online mindset, you can perform just about any task as long as you’re connected.

Use Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo for email. Edit and review Microsoft Office files on the company’s Office Live site, or switch to Google Docs, which should work offline by the time Chrome laptops are available. Manage your personal finances on Mint. Edit and store photos with the free Aviary Photo Editor app. Build your music library on Grooveshark, Pandora or one of many other apps. Make phone calls using Skype or Google Talk.

To upload and download personal files, you can plug a disk or thumb drive into the Cr-48’s USB jack, or pop in an SD card. Many phones will also plug in as USB drives, so you can get your pictures off your phone and upload them to Aviary, Flickr or Google’s Picasa.

What can’t you do? There’s no way to sync your phone’s contacts to Chrome OS. And for now, printing is tricky. You have to use Google’s Cloud Print service to connect to a printer plugged into another computer. HP plans to sell printers this year that will let a Chrome laptop print directly.

Compared with a Windows laptop, a Chrome OS model will offer one big advantage: price. The Windows license for a laptop can run over $100. For a $400 computer, that’s a big part of the cost. Also, the much simpler operating system is likely to be virus-free and require little maintenance. It updates itself periodically over the Internet. And there aren’t many system configuration options to mess with, reducing another source of anxiety.

For people whose sole major computing task is uploading pictures to Facebook, a low-price, browser-only laptop that can upload and download files to plug-in storage seems like a cost-effective option. Without a disk or fan, or long boot times, it’s more relaxing to use, too.

Will these things sell? I think that, like netbooks and iPads, they’ll need to go viral and become a consumer fad if potential buyers are going to overcome their doubts that they’re somehow not getting a real computer.

Source: "The New York Times"

Facebook Tops over Google as Most visited site in 2010

Facebook surpassed Google as the most visited website in the US in 2010, according to a survey by the web tracking firm Experian Hitwise.

The social networking site also claimed the top search term of the year, with variations on its name filling four of the 10 most popular searches, the survey found. In all, Facebook searches accounted for 3.48 percent of all web searches in the US in 2010, a 207-percent increase over 2009.

The study found that Facebook accounted for 8.93 cent of all US website visits in the year, ahead of Google.com's 7.19 percent and third-placed Yahoo Mail with 3.85 percent.

However if all Google's various properties are taken into account, the web search giant did overtake Facebook with 9.85 percent of all website visits. Microsoft's msn.com and bing.com also made it into the list of top ten websites, as did myspace.com.

Other terms in the top 10 searches included "youtube", "craigslist", "myspace", "ebay" and "yahoo".

Source: "NDTV"

5 Great Free Business Apps for Google Chrome

Google's Chrome Web Store might only have been up and running for a few weeks, but it already hosts a stock of high-quality add-in apps.

Listed below are five free of charge productivity and business apps that caught our eye and are well worth investigating.

The Web Store introduces Chrome users to cloud working and, as such, most of the apps show the trend towards built-in intelligence that's common to many cloud applications. A notepad application offered in the Web Store is very unlikely to simply let you write memos, for example. It will probably integrate web searches or allow you to share your notes on Facebook and Twitter. Gathering data and interconnectivity is where the power of the cloud lies.

To visit the Web Store from within Chrome, click the link on the New Tab page and then click the Web Store icon under the Apps heading. If you don't see one, click here to go straight to the store. You'll need the latest version of Chrome, of course, because the Web Store has only just been added-in.

Needless to say, if you're lucky enough to have a CR-48 laptop, these apps will work fine for you too.

1. Rainmaker

Describing itself as an app that supercharges contacts, Rainmaker is able to automagically pull information about people in your Gmail address book from the web, Twitter, Linked In, and Facebook. This information includes mugshots, addresses, phone numbers, and Internet details. Some of it is publically available data and some you have access to because you friended the individual on Facebook, for example.

The process of seeking-out information is referred to as "raining on", and each time it's used a raindrop is spent. You get 10 of these free of charge when you sign-up, so can dig the dirt on 10 contacts, but you can buy more via various monthly subscriptions for as little as $9 per month.

All the data sought-out by Rainmaker is automatically imported into Google Contacts, which can be accessed from within Gmail by clicking the Contacts link above the Chat box. Rainmaker works with Google Apps for Domains too.

2. Springpad

The best way to describe Springpad is as a supercharged notebook and To Do list maker. Because it's a cloud application, your data can be accessed from anywhere in the world, and the app is built around HTML5 so will work on the majority of modern browsers, phones and smartpads too (although iOS and Android apps are available too).

Notes can contain text, or you can also build a note around a web search. For example, enter the name of a favorite recipe and you can look through the list of results and create a note from one that looks interesting. You can then add your own details below. Springpad is clever enough to realize what you're doing, so will add an "I want to cook this" field at the top, which you can change to "I've cooked this" once you've made the recipe! It'll also recognize things like movies, books, products, and more.

To Do lists are simple but effective, and you can set alerts to appear on due dates. All notes can be tagged for easy searching, and shared online with others.

Springpad is free of charge, although a small advertisement appears at the bottom left of the browser window.

3. Simplebooklet

Despite its title, Simplebooklet is actually an online presentations tool. It fills a blindingly obvious gap in the market: creating presentations that can be viewed within a browser, and accessed via a simple URL that you share with others. Forget about paper or projectors. Why not use the browser as the medium?

Simplebooklet is extremely easy to use, with bright colorful icons, drag and drop, and not a hint of technical language anywhere. Like any presentations tool it's based around individual pages/slides, to which you can add images, text, files, video, music, webpages (as screenshots), and even your own HTML code. Once the presentation is finished, it can be published via the major social networking tools (Twitter, Facebook etc.) and you can even embed it within your own website via an iFrame, for which the code is automatically generated.

Simplebooklet is free for up to 20MB of content, and allowing the creation of unlimited booklets, with various yearly plans starting at $10 for more storage space.

4. World Time Planner

Working across different timezones can be a pain, and if you frequently travel to other countries scheduling meetings can become a mind-melting exercise. World Time Planner is a simple app that lets you click and drag a slider to see what the time will be in various cities over the next 24 hours. Daytime and nighttime symbols appear alongside each city to indicate at a glance when the working day starts and finishes. Never before has it been so easy to schedule a breakfast meeting in Singapore while you're sitting in your Boston office.

World Time Planner is entirely free of charge and, unlike some of the apps listed here, works if the computer is offline too.

5. Read Later Fast

Falling under the "devastatingly useful but simple" category, Read Later Fast does exactly what its name suggests: one the app is installed, if you visit a page in Chrome that you want to save to read later, just right click in a blank spot and select the Read Later link in the menu.

The page will then be added to the Read Later Fast inbox, where it can be read even if the computer is offlne--ideal if your laptop has spotty connectivity, or you're about to jump on a plane for a long journey.

Read Later Fast can also be used to archive pages, which has a whole range of uses, especially bearing in mind pages tend to disappear remarkably quickly on the modern Internet.

One particularly nice feature is the Text View button, which intelligently presents only the core body text and images from the stored web page, stripping out everything else, such as advertising sidebars.

Source: PCWorld