Pros and cons of new Google Chrome browser
There is an excellent article in Infoworld explaining the features that are favourable to the user and also the drags in the Google’s Chrome browser.
Overall it looks cool and the negative points do not matter at all since I do not use the features that are listed as unavailable.
Worth giving it a whirl
Read the article : Google’s Chrome: 7 reasons for and 7 reasons against
The next web
If you are keen on getting a “Wow” from your date and flaunt your geeky erudition to the gullible, you should nonchalantly drop such pieces of jargon as Web 2.0, Mashup, Semantic web and all that jazz.
But it seems the exotic Semantic Web is really round the corner and is sure to revolutionize the way we use the web to get information. Simply “Googling” for it is going to be passé. Here is what ZDNet has to say about the phenomenon that is ushering in a paradigm shift on the internet:
Google is essentially a media company - as Tom Foremski succinctly points out here - logging your actions for Ad Word generation like a supermarket rewards card program while leveraging brute force search of the indexed web as you search for your keywords and phrases.
Wikipedia is essentially a single destination site, which means lots of laborious single issue searching.
The semantic web is a vision of information that is understandable by computers, so that they can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, sharing and combining information on the web.
This semantic, machine-read next generation enables much richer search. So if you are looking for information about pinball machines for example, this Freebase example gives you a rich contextual grouping of related and highly relevant information.
Read more about on ZDNet.
10 most annoying programs on your computer
Techrepublic has listed 10 most annoying programs to a computer user, both on the system and on the internet.
I have slightly changed the list and put them in the ascending order of the degree of annoyance. Though the intensity of pain in the ass that these bugs produce is purely subjective, there is no gainsaying that there exist some specimens of terror in digital form which inflict universally on the hapless users.
10. Flash
Flash is a good program. There is nothing to replace Flash movies - SWF or FLV. In fact the Youtube revolution has been made possible only by Flash. And Flash embedded players have ushered in the phenomenon of podcasting. In fact your cyber life would be thrown light years backwards with out Flash.
But having said that, there is no forgiving truckloads of Flash movies in intro pages of web sites. They trickle like molasses in December!
9. Yahoo and Google Toolbars
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Google adds Sites to its web-apps
You can’t contain an innovative bunch of kick-ass geeks at Google! Let the Micro$ of the world indulge in shenanigans to retain a semblance of control over the cyberworld. But Google will outsmart them by making things easy for the user - both lay and geeky - by offering light-weight web-based toolkit with multiple functionalities.
The latest addition to the arsenal is “Google Sites”, a powerful new tool for easily and collaboratively creating and editing Web sites. It is built around JotSpot, the wiki platform that Google acquired in October of 2006.
Google has aimed to make the Google Sites easy enough for a beginner yet feature-rich enough for a power user. For example, building a Google Site requires no HTML, according to the company: It’s “as easy as editing a document,” the company says. There’s also a “growing list” of page templates to get users started, including “Web page, announcements, file cabinet, dashboard, and list,” according to Google.
At the same time, Google Sites lets page creators easily insert content such as videos (from Youtube), docs, spreadsheets, presentations, photo slide shows (from Picasaweb), and calendars. By integrating Google Sites with the other gems adorning its jewel box the user has a lot to play around with, thus making Google Sites a reliable online collaboration tool.
Here is a video by the developer:
YouTube - Watch - Google Sites Howto
And more info from the Google Sites page
Church of Google!
Google has turned God! Yes, almost!
The folk who swear by 
stoutly believe that Google has a strong claim for the title of God!
We at the Church of Google believe the search engine Google is the closest humankind has ever come to directly experiencing an actual God (as typically defined). We believe there is much more evidence in favour of Google’s divinity than there is for the divinity of other more traditional gods.
We reject supernatural gods on the notion they are not scientifically provable. Thus, Googlists believe Google should rightfully be given the title of “God”, as She exhibits a great many of the characteristics traditionally associated with such Deities in a scientifically provable manner.
We have compiled a list of nine proofs which we believe definitively prove Google’s title as God.
Visit 
and read the Commandments, prayers and proof!!
Google launches OpenSocial
The newest offspring from the Google stable is born!
It is christened “OpenSocial” which is the ultimate Nirvana of social networking platform you can dream of, with many existing players making apps collaborating on a common platform.
The following are the opening remarks of Google.
The web is better when it’s social
The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social applications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn.
OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.
Ok, we are already straddled with a plethora of social networking sites. Then what is the big deal!
Yes. There is a difference. As Mathew Ingram names it, it is “One Ring to bind them all” type development platform, which is revolutionary.
This post on the OpenSocial blog by Amar Gandhi and Peter Chane throws more light on this aspect thus:-
OpenSocial is a set of common APIs that will work on many different social websites, including MySpace, Hi5, Ning, orkut, and LinkedIn, among others. In addition, this allows developers to learn one API, then write a social application for any of those sites. Learn once, write anywhere, if you will. And because it’s built on web standards like HTML and JavaScript, developers don’t have to learn a custom programming language.
Wanna dig more into the newfangled toy? Be Google’s guest. There is an FAQ for you!
And you want to really play with it? You can! Google has already opened the sandbox in Orkut for you!
ZDNet has the following info to share:-
Google CEO Eric Schmidt painted the big picture. “The broader story is the Web has moved to the next state. We knew the Web would have social framework and we knew it would be would be standard, open and extensible.†Schmidt said the Google had been working for more than a year with MySpace in the social area.
Meanwhile watch this video by Google developers here:
YouTube - Watch - Google Campfire
Further reading:
TechCrunch Story
What is Google up to!
No prize for guessing what makes Google tick. Technology. Period. Delivered innovatively, professionally. A typical text book case study at Harvard and Stanford (incidentally the founders’ alma mater!).
Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038, though people shun persistent cookies. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don’t already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number. But folks do not mind, even the paranoid specimens. That is the kind of trust that Google enjoys.
Rumours are doing rounds that Google is coming up with GoogleOS which is expected to give M$ a run for its money! And a Google Browser. These surmises are strengthened by the fact that the “Big G” has picked up top techies from Sun and Microsoft.
We join the world in watching what the supergeeks equipped with over 400,000 GHz of processing power in one fast mother of a cluster, riding on 100,000 gigabytes or RAM and a conservative guesstimate of 3000 terabytes of hard drive space operated by Linux (yes, Linux!), are up to!
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