Gmail Themes a welcome feature
Google has added themes to Gmail. The above screenshot shows the Terminal theme. Below is another called Tea House. I’ve taken to using Gmail with Apple Mail since they turned on IMAP support but this is still a welcome sight for a very old and boring interface.
more info here
Google implements Marratech video conferencing in Gmail
I’ve been waiting to see what Google was going to do with their acquisition last year of Sweden based video conferencing company, Marratech.
Lookout Skype!
Video chatting from Gmail is as easy as sending an instant message. With our team spread out across Google offices in Sweden and the U.S., it’s been really handy in helping us [...]
Google launches Geoeye1 Earth imaging satellite
photo by DanDawson
Says they’ll be able to map an area the size of New Mexico daily.
“The GeoEye-1 satellite has the highest ground resolution color imagery available in the commercial marketplace and will produce high-quality imagery with a very accurate geolocation,” said Google spokeswoman Kate Hurowitz, adding that most commercial satellite imagery has a resolution of [...]
Googapedia
photo by mark knol (ironic eh?)
Google Knol has launched. Looks interesting and at first glance I’d say this is not a threat to Wikipedia. Reminds me more of Google Answers in wiki form.
Here is a sample article, “Firefox Plugins For SEO & SEM”
Speaking of SEO, how do you think links back to your site from [...]
Gugg: google to acquire Digg
photo by blugoogirl
Google in talks to acquire Digg for 200m. Get ready for Digg everywhere.. In your mail, on your maps and in your medical records.
via TechCrunch
Google Gears: Works well with WordPress
photo by by elijah northen
The most recent version of WordPress has a tab called “Turbo” in the upper right hand corner of the admin dashboard. This is where you can configure Google Gears for a speed increase in WordPress administration. The speedup is noticeable however it does not feel quite like an app running off [...]
Google tests speech recognition for video
by intranetlife
Future similar technologies will be built into the devices you record video with enabling the import and deep tagging of video segments by specifying keywords from the timeline. That will make editing your 11 hours of vacation video all that much easier, eh?
Apparently, speech recognition technology developed by Google Research is now used to [...]