Do you use Orkut? Orkut is an online community service created by Google back in 2003 that is now largely eclipsed by Facebook, and Myspace. Nonetheless, it still boasts of millions of users worldwide, although most of the demographic makeup has now switched to Brazil and India. Like most Google applications, in order to use [...]
Google has celebrated their 10th birthday with an innovative approach, namely submit an idea to them and they will provide the funding for it - A $10 million dollar fund is on the line. They are calling it Project 10 to the 100th. It is basically a play on the word googol, a one followed [...]
Knol, Google’s answer to Wikipedia, finally got launched just a short while ago, looking somewhat more different compared to screenshots posted last year, when news first broke about it. In fact, Knoll has launched without much hype and fanfare, but my main interest is how it will turn out and evolve 6-12 months from now. [...]
I just checked out the new virtual world game by Google, called Lively. Similar in concept to Second Life, only MUCH simpler and smaller, it has potential to get popular, but I’m surprised that it wasn’t more promoted. Oh yeah, that’s because it is still very much a Beta. Google has an advantage which Second [...]
Google is finally moving away from being just a search engine to a content provider with Knol, their Wikipedia-like encyclopedia. The main difference between Knol and Wikipedia, is (in the case of Knol), highlighting and financially rewarding the invited authors (whomsoever gets chosen), with a portion of the ad revenue share. I would describe Knol [...]
Google is really the king of suspense. With all the buzz about Page Rank drops for major sites, it had to happen - a real Page Rank update. Sometime around a few hours ago, Google did something I never expected, raise my Page Rank to 3 in the space of a few hours. Yep, checked [...]
