Google yesterday has made public it’s intention about ‘knol’ - a word that apparently stands for a ‘unit of knowledge’ (though not sure in which language). It let’s people author articles on any subject and let’s them add the content to internet. Once you author an article (hopefully on a subject that you are expert [...]

Google yesterday released a chart API that let’s you create great looking charts on the fly using the data/settings provided in the url. It supports a bunch of charts like line chart, bar chart, pie chart, Venn diagrams and gives you pretty much complete control over how the charts look. You can choose size, color [...]

I came across a few posts recently which claim that OpenSocial is not going to help Google much since it’s just a platform and it won’t help them increase the Orkut popularity. I don’t disagree with this argument, but what they go on to conclude is that OpenSocial is no big deal and probably is [...]

There have been some reports about a new experiment that Google is conducting to let users move an item in search result up or down, or even hide it. It also apparently allows users to add an url to the search result if you think that url should have been part of search result but [...]

Using MD5 or other hash functions is common to store sensitive information like password. Many websites authenticate the user by hashing the entered password and matching the hash with the hashed password stored in their database. This addresses the security concern associated with passwords kept in clear text. This technique works since given a hash [...]

Those who till a couple of weeks ago thought that Android is just a vaporware would be biting their tongue now. First it was the release of actual platform on Nov 5, and as if that wasn’t enough, now comes the news from Wall Street Journal that it’s planning to buy wireless spectrum that it [...]

Google today released the SDK for Android, which is their mobile application development platform. The SDK is based on Java running on Linux based phones and comes with a plugin for Eclipse IDE. In a bid to draw the attention of developer community towards recently launched Android platform for mobiles, Google is going to offer [...]

As per a recent report by internet marketing research firm eMarketer, the revenue share of online advertising is going to approximately double from it’s current level in 2007. The US advertisers are expected to spend around $42 billion up from the current levels of $21.7 billion.
Those who question the long term business model of firms [...]

It may sound weired, but Facebook and iPhone could actually help polarization of most of the companies in the field of social networking and mobile towards OpenSocial and Android. There is something similar between Facebook and iPhone as of now, which is both are closed and use proprietary technologies - the new initiatives from Google [...]

The Google phone is rumored to be announced today. The details regarding whether it’s going to be a physical phone or a platform for application development on smart phone or a combination thereof are all a matter of speculation now. However, the question that comes to mind is, is this project related to OpenSocial that [...]

Google today launched the OpenSocial platform for building application across social networking sites. The website is now live, check this out: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
OpenSocial is now live for orkut, their social networking platform. Apart from having “Many sites, one API” approach as mentioned on OpenSocial website, what also makes it unique is the ability to write multi-page [...]

It does, both literally and figuratively - the word means “friend” in Hawaiian. If you haven’t come across this already, it’s code name for Google project that aims to embed social fabric into all their current offerings including Orkut, Gmail and Google talk. It’s a big plan to go one-up on Facebook, and no one [...]