Google Gmail is soon launching a new feature for sharing content and status updates with friends, just like Twitter and Facebook. With the growing popularity of social networking sites and Orkut, Google’s social networking site, losing its shine to Facebook and twitter in India and Brazil, Google was in desperate need to come up with some idea to keep its hold on social networking market. Despite the Google brand attached to it, Orkut never picked the market outside  Brazil, India and some other Asian countries. Later this week may be Tuesday, Google will unveil its new feature added to Gmail that let people post and view messages about their day-to-day activities. ...

What more can an IPL fan ask for, free live matches on Youtube…Great! The IPL is set to be broadcast live on the internet. Google will partner with the IPL and show all matches of the 2010 season on a dedicated YouTube channel. First of its kind! Under the terms of the agreement, Google will have exclusive online rights for IPL content for two years and both parties will share revenues from sponsorships and advertising "We are thrilled to have the IPL as our global partner," said Shailesh Rao, a senior manager of Google India. "YouTube offers an open platform for sports and entertainment companies to take their content to a global audience and a great opportunity for advertisers." ...

TouchGraph provides a hands-on way to visualize networks of interrelated information. The technology is based on the believe that "Existing data sets can reveal new insights when visualized effectively". It facilitates information discovery by integrating graphic visualization with traditional table and tree components. The technology can be connected to any on-line or off-line data source to generate reports in formats ranging from Excel spreadsheets to images to PDF files. TouchGraph was founded in 2001 with the idea to create visual browser for Google. Some of the implementation of TouchGraph technology are : TouchGraph Facebook It lets you see how your friends are connected, and who has the most photos together. TouchGraph Google ...

A Bangalore-based IT professional, Laxman Kailas K has landed in the police net after he allegedly uploaded a blasphemous matter about Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji on the social networking site Orkut. Kailas has been working in a giant information technology (IT) firm in Bangalore since 2001 and hails from Tamil Nadu. The cyber cell of city police (Pune) was investigating the crime for the last ten months on a complaint registered by Dhiraj Ghate (32) of Ambilodha colony with the Vishrambaug police, Pune on November 11, 2006. On that day, infuriated members of various political parties (mainly BJP)and organisations forcibly closed down city’s cyber cafes. How Cyber crime squad of the police traced Laxman ? Contacted Google Office in Banglore for the IP Address. ...

Forget about going to a planetarium. Google has announced a nifty extension to its Google Earth expanded its view which allows users to scan different areas in the universe, from distant galaxies light years away, to constellations, planets and other extraterrestrial wonders. It will also help you in learning the lifecycle of a star and different kinds of galaxies. You must download the new version of Google Earth to get the features, then you're on your way to checking out planets in motions and supernova explosions.The add-on is available on the latest version of Google Earth, and hitting the "Switch between Sky and Earth" button on the top toolbar immediately offers an upward view with seven optional layers: Constellations Backyard astronomy (info ...

Google's magic may be working in US,Canada and Europe but doesn't work quite well in Rest of the World. Earlier this month, internet research firm comScore released a new study that put Google a few steps behind the competition in Asia-Pacific, and now it says that Google are also trailing in Latin America. Internet Research Firm comScore has today released the first report on Latin American Internet usage, based on data collected through the comScore World Metrix audience ratings service. Google tops Yahoo! but trails to Microsoft. The study says, Microsoft sites received over 47 million unique visitors, while Google traffic was close to 46.5 million. Yahoo, who was leading in Asia Pacific region is well behind with just  35 million unique visitors.  ...

Google Analytics seems to be down. I am trying to access it from last 2 hours, but getting the same message. "The requested URL /analytics/home/report was not found on this server" Few days back I faced the rare error of Google Search. I have been using Google Search from last 7 years but never seen any errors in Google, that was the first incident, so I took screen shot of the error. Screenshot of Google Analytics Error   Screenshot of Google Error Update 1 : 25th July,2007 12:25 pm Google Analytics is up and running. Update 2 : 30th July,2007 12:25 pm My Google Analytics hasn't been updated since yesterday morning Update 3 : 30th July,2007 20:00 pm Google Analytics Blog says, Temporary Reporting ...

The unverified takeover rumor of Rediff.com by Internet giants Google and Yahoo are milling around the internet. The rumor came from the HIndustan Times, who reports  “US-based Internet giants such as Google and Yahoo are eyeing Rediff.com India Ltd, which runs one of India’s most popular consumer Internet portals, for  a possible acquisition”. The Hindustan Times quotes “investment banking sources” saying that the management of Rediff “was in talks with the global companies for a negotiated takeover deal”. Rediff.com is a NASDAQ listed company and leader in the Indian market, providing news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services for Indians both in India and worldwide. Recently, JuxtConsult, a Delhi-based online research firm, has reported in its annual study on the Indian Internet ...

This is hilarious and jaw-dropping. UK is in top six if you search for word “Porn” in Google trends whereas USA is a “Religious” country in the whole universe. Sydney, Australia comes on the seventh position as a religious country and all the other numbers are taken by USA, Washington, DC on the first place. I was stunned to see this huge difference between two almost similar countries. Not to mention, Briton always maintains that they are the superior ones and have a “class”. Well! Now we know what “class” they have.

According to the list of most-loved brands in Britian, published today, Microsoft tops among the public choice and Google tops among the experts choice. More than 3200 people were surveyed by the Superbrands organization. But the public list differs too much from the opinions of the marketing experts. Microsoft doesn't appear anywhere in the experts list whereas it tops the list of public favorite brands. Apple, the second favorite brand of experts, doesn't appear in list of public favorite brands. The Public The Marketing Experts Microsoft Google Coco Cola Apple Google iPod BBC Mini BP ...