Entries Tagged 'Google Products' ↓
June 28th, 2007 — Google Miscellany, Google Products
To further contribute to the developers’ community, Google’s inviting all Google Gadget developers to create more useful Gadgets or to enrich their creations with their latest initiative - Gadget Ventures.
Google Gadget Ventures will offer third-party gadget development and gadget-related businesses two types of funding:
Grants of $5,000 to developers who’ve built gadgets in our directory that already receive at least 250,000 weekly page views. To apply, qualified Gadget developers will be asked to submit a one-page proposal.
Seed investments of $100,000 to previous Google Gadget Ventures grant recipients who’d like to build a business around the Google Gadgets platform. Qualified developers will be asked to submit a business plan.
June 25th, 2007 — Google Miscellany, Google Products
Burnt by Google products’ volatility, an Internet marketing membership site from Cuzcom Internet Publishing bans any Google-related products. The site aptly named Internet Power Without Google, with Paul G. Curran as its webmaster, offers email marketing and Internet marketing courses (isn’t it email marketing a part of Internet marketing?)
According to Paul G. Curran…
“There comes a point in one’s life when you have to take a stand. I’ve read that a few good sites always seem to get caught up in the crossfire when Google changes its rules. One of my niche sites (gardening) was doing OK when, wham — no pages indexed, no adsense income, no sales. Several other sites followed. Although some folks believe that Google could be suffering from megalomania, I’ve just removed them from my business model; hence my site, Internet Power Without Google.”
Anyone excited to join Paul?
Full press release here.
Tags: banned, Google banned, internet marketing, email marketing
June 17th, 2007 — Google Products
iGoogle, the personalized home page for those who are quite satisfied with Google can have the advantage of choosing from a wide variety of iGoogle widgets or gadgets to add to their personal Google pages.
And for those who frugal ones trying to make the most out their hard-earned dollars, an iGoogle gadget - Local Gas Price, is set to help iGooglers find best gas price deals.
via Lifehacker
Tags: iGoogle, iGoogle gadget
June 11th, 2007 — Google Products
Here’s a fun time-killer way to use Google Street View. Check out the celebrity homes as found from Google Street View.
That’s reportedly Nastassja Kinski’s place.
Check out more of celebrity homes and neighborhoods - Mashable.
Tags: Kinski, Google Street View, celebrity
June 9th, 2007 — Google Products
Aside from the Library Search Project, one of Google’s “do no evil” educational endeavor is widely gaining popularity - its FREE assistance in modernizing the email systems of schools in the form of Google’s Apps for Education.
Google’s Apps for Education allows colleges to dump their often-antiquated e-mail systems and replace them with Gmail, Google’s popular e-mail service. But unlike standard Gmail accounts, schools can maintain their “.edu” addresses, have students log in from school Web sites, brand the system with their own logos and block advertisements that typically appear in standard Gmail accounts.
Among the first few schools to benefit from Google Apps include Hope College in Holland, Aquinas College in Grand Rapids. This education program also includes access to Google docs and spreadsheet, Google calendar, and iGoogle.
Full report here.
Tags: iGoogle, Google Docs and Spreadsheet, Gmail, Google Apps
June 1st, 2007 — Google Products
Offline web apps from Google, anyone? I’m sure lots of web app faves will raise their hands.
The Google engineers have now made things more fun for the geekos who are simply obsessed with Google apps because they’re now offering them as a browser plugin that can be used OFFLINE - Google Gears.
For you to install this plugin, your computer should meet the following system requirements:
• Windows XP/Vista
• Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+
Google Gears (BETA) is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux
As a concrete example of what you can do with Google Gears, Google Reader, the RSS reader service from Google, can be used offline if you have Google Gears. Now what could be cooler than that?
Full press release
Tags: Google Gears, Google Reader, Web Apps
May 29th, 2007 — Google Products
Catching up with Windows Street View, Google Maps has also launched its own Street View. The speculations started when Google was spotted getting domain names with “Google Street View” registered.
Street View is a new feature of Google Maps that enables users to view and navigate within 360 degree street level imagery of various cities in the US. Street View provides users with a rich, immersive browsing experience directly in Google Maps, enabling greater understanding of a specific location or area. Street View imagery will initially be available for maps of the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami, and will soon expand to other metropolitan areas. By clicking on the “Street View” button in Google Maps, users can navigate street level, panoramic imagery. With Street View users can virtually walk the streets of a city, check out a restaurant before arriving, and even zoom in on bus stops and street signs to make travel plans. Press release
According to Mashable, it’s not yet live for many of the locations. But big cities like New York, Denver, Miami, Las Vegas and San Francisco has it already. Please click the image to see a larger view.
See it in action as demonstrated by Barry Schwartz.
More about this from the Lat Long Blog.
Tags: Google Maps, Street View
May 24th, 2007 — Google Products
BlackBerry 8800, one of the feature-packed BlackBerry mobile phones, with it QWERTY keypad and GPS, has another feature to boast of - Google Maps for Mobile.
Downloading Google Maps for Mobile will inform you automatically where your location is when you check your BlackBerry 8800 smartphone.
When you download Google Maps for mobile and fire it up, you’ll notice something quite unusual: a blinking blue dot showing you exactly where you are! You can use your auto-detected location to get directions and perform local searches without even entering your location — instead of “pizza 94043″, just enter “pizza” — and we’ll automatically know you want pizza in the zip code “94043.”
When will Nokia smartphones such as the e61i have the same feature?
via Google Blog
Tags: Google Maps for Mobile, BlackBerry 8800, GPS
May 24th, 2007 — Google Products
If you’re a fan of Google Trends, a service that shows what’s hot in a country which allows comparison to other countries, then you’d be glad Google added the Hot Trends feature.
Hot Trends enables users to see a list of the current top 100 fastest-rising Google search queries in the U.S. Users can also select specific dates to see what the top-rising searches were at a given point in time.
I find this very useful to those who have or are just planning to setup niche blogs. The more searched the information you deliver, the more chances of getting traffic, right? NOT! If you’re just starting on your blog that is. But with the right content, competition assessment, and blog promotion tactics, sure.
As of this writing, the Hot Trends results include the following:
1. american idol winner
2. who won american idol
3. american idol finale
Guess you now know what do the Google users in the US have in common, huh?
Tags: american idol finale, hot trends google, niche blogging
May 22nd, 2007 — Google Products
Just when I thought, it’s only Yahoo! Messenger that has the most fun emoticons, Rico Mossesgeld, a contract working guru with a very informative blog, shared some tips on how to create more Gmail emoticons aside from the generic ones.
Although they’re not as colorful or as emotional such as the crying and laughing emoticons from YM, still something that will make GTalking less of a bore, right?
Gmail’s smilies do more than express emotions. Such as hug (awwww), raise its arms up for joy, be a caterpillar, and even give the double-finger salute. All you need is a little imagination , an affinity for one-line ASCII art, and the willingness of your recipient to receive nonsensical messages. Gmail chat only works with online contacts after all.
Just one problem, I have no affinity for ASCII art. :`(
Check out more of Rico’s post about this.
Tags: Gmail, GTalk, emoticons, Rico Mossesgeld
