Archive for the 'Google' Category

Google Chrome OS

Guest post by Ayesha Ahmed. Google Chrome OS is the latest Google venture into the rather tight operating system market, a web-based operating system targeting users who spend the majority of their time on their desktops surfing the internet. The operating system is aptly named after Google’s famous sleek web browser Chrome, presently in its [...]

Google getting tough with scammy advertising

Finally, Google has decided that all the complaints about scammers using Google’s name to scam people with get-rich-quick programs has reached its peak of tolerance and now it’s time to get tough; Google is now taking them to court. Of late, scammers using Google’s name to misrepresent Google have been running riot, especially throughout this [...]

Google Talk In Orkut

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 [...]

The 10th birthday of Google – Submit your idea

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 finally launched and it looks like a Wikipedia-Squidoo hybrid

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. [...]

Lively by Google

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 [...]