Google Street View allows you to see photographs of the city and its environs taken by cameras connected to the Google vehicles going along the main streets of the city in the United States and other countries like Japan, Australia and Spain. And now you can also find photos taken by amateur photographers, too. In this case, it'sa good thing, because the amateur photos are often of better quality and more interesting composition. This is what happens when a man takes a picture, rather than letting a computer to it.
Google is using Geotagged photos provided by Panoramio. The Company also some of these photos available in other applications like Google Earth. If you are displaying a location in the street you have an image, an icon in the upper right of the screen that lets you know that the images are available for users. Clicking on a series of images you can scroll through the popup. Just click the button to the right, which should now be classified as Street View, to return to normal display.
This has probably been my #1 Gmail pet peeve since I started using the service 4 or 5 years ago, and now it has finally been addressed: the ability to upload multiple attachments at once, rather than one-by-one. Additionally, when you attach files, you’ll now get a progress bar indicating how long until the file is uploaded and ready to be sent. Now, Gmail essentially works like any other service on the Web that lets you upload files. When you click “attach a file” when composing an email, you can browse your computer and select multiple files by holding down the CTRL key on Windows machines, or Cmd on Mac. Once you’re finished, Gmail starts uploading and keeps you posted on the upload status.
It’s somewhat baffling that this feature took so long, while Gmail pushed things like beer goggles for email instead. But Google’s new found focus on adding utility to Gmail makes us happy, as in recent weeks we’ve also seen the addition of offline support and easier options for moving and archiving messages.
In recent months, Google has made several moves to increase its advertising revenues in some sectors (furniture, pictures), and cut that are not working as press and radio. Today, one of the most popular Google property outside of the research is also taking the monetization train - Google News.
The ads are displayed when searching for news about a specific topic. For example, the search for "Apple" and you get ads Apple Online Store, search for "JetBlue" and you get a series of ads for online ticket vendors. Like all Google products, ads can be purchased through an AdWords account.
Currently, the ads appear to be text only, even if Google refers to some other formats in a blog post. The company writes: "In recent months we have experimented with a variety of different formats, such as overlay ads embedded video from partners such as the AP."
Google has long John Battelle Watch believes that this measure "a little" dust football ", which Google does not mention anything about sharing revenue with content providers that seed aggregator. I'm not so sure it is. Like Digg it, Google News only the title of aggregates and fragments, with links that drive traffic to publishers. On the other hand, if he is putting ads in Google Reader, in which the full text of stories is available, then it could have a great tumult of the publishing community.
The battle on the pays of the community of its previous Web site. Not to remain Facebook Connect and its great activities, the friend of the connections of Google back, that previously were added in the integration of Twitter, now he is every time a little more social.
The new Web of blog of Google appears to the social-bar, a new device that concentrates a great amount of basic social functions in a small strip in the low discharge or in its page Web.
The Social bar, that is a small strip that will appear in the part superior of the pages Web with the introduced code, to emphasize the recent activity of the place of global way and shows an extended view of the loss of its place of work, commentaries and the wall the list of State. The proprietors of the site can choose to allow that main of the bar or along with the other friendly colleagues devices (like which we have in our lateral bar) and site-wide schierili or concrete pages mantengali.
In order to add the bar social to his site, just over the head of Google Friend Connect, worker, to introduce, to verify his place, he clicks in " social-bar, " the suitable options the client and to generate the code. Code HTML can be located in any place within the body of code HTML of its site.
With the bar social, it will have an immediate effect of kitchen of the community and the social activity of his place of storage without needing adding more to your lateral bar.
The search of Google can be integrated in tons of the places through the Web, including this one. Now, Google is extending the functionality to the movable Web, where the publishers can integrate the search of Google now and make money in the income generated by click in the announcements for moving bodies.
Very similar to the customized search of Google of the Web site, the version for moving bodies can be marked in the heat of the moment with their own mark and the design to make feel it like of their property. Thence, the users can realise searches in the Web, as well as the premises of Google, the image and the content of the news.
As well as it does in the Web, Google dominates the movable search in terms of percentage of the market. Its movable experience search is little and fast of load, like the search Web. When extending this functionality to the publishers, who also can generate income from the movable search of Google, is simply a success blow.
As far as which this could be beneficial for the publishers, the announcements are fed on AdSense for moving bodies, that already has been in use for the sale of contextual announcements of the movable sites of third parties. Although the market announcement could now be weak, the search normally works better context, reason why it is, without a doubt, the money that to do here, and so that the publishers of Google. AdSense movable search still and to run is not to try to do it everything, nevertheless. The company is looking for beta-testers - the application can be found here.
New York Times informs that Google will announce a service tomorrow gratuitous Web called Powermeter that ' ll has let to the users follow the power consumption in their homes or businesses, if there are SA means to load the data. That it leaves from the equation ' s is going to depend on others to create compatible devices, and although any manufacturing member is called, that “the unknown suspect GE probably bedfellow to jump quite on board fast.
The service is thought that it is unrolled in the next months. Ready to still more give to the children in Menlo Park the access to its life?
When I saw the words "multiple inboxes" on Gmail's official blog this morning, I was happy as a child, because I thought that we were finally getting the ability to have more than one Gmail account open in the same browser (currently I'm using the add - Firefox Gmail manager for this purpose, but does not work perfectly). However, the options of multiple inboxes that is gradually unroll users now (I still do not see, because they always get the last, I wonder?), Refers only to the labels. That is, you can create a view of the split-pane of your Inbox with various inboxes filtered by various labels. Do not get me wrong, it is a great feature, I do not personally use the labels too, but those who want to preserve in the heart probably this possibility. However, I would really see an opportunity to get a view of the split-pane with various inboxes from Gmail customers within a window of Gmail. Who's with me? Via Thanks, Official Gmail Blog
YouTube is incorporating more of the information that you can enter the Web site included in the videos that are Spanta far and wide through the web. Embedding now include both the title and the evaluation for each video - information that dissolve once the game shooting.
The utility here is somewhat questionable. The chances are if someone has decided to include a video elsewhere, have done so because they think that adds some value and in many cases, write something with him setting the context. The designation is also pretty sweet, though going with anything except the white text dell'alesaggio could make the conflict with the video. However, if you're watching a video outside of YouTube, see this data can give you some idea whether or not you should worry about watching.
While this addition did not jump away, shows the increasing functionality that YouTube is adding embedding. YouTube hours characterizes both on video and a search box at the end of the video, as well as the options in long-standing foot to copy include the code or go directly to the original on YouTube.
The only major things missing from embedding at this point are options to add a comment or video to your favorites - options that yet but I would like to see YouTube could launch from in order not to miss the sights of the page on their own site. To see the new feature evaluation and title in action, here is un'incastonatura bale against O'Reilly (about 5 stars estimated) just in case you missed it yesterday:
It is safe to assume that if Google is running a session at Google I / O called "the development of extensions for Google Chrome, the browser will probably be the support prior to the conference will be held on 27th May. Otherwise, we will certainly see them shortly afterwards. Notes from the conference, the session will teach developers to create extensions "using the web technologies [they] already know." Working with the various APIs that are presented in detail in the design documents Chrome will also be covered. While Chrome currently supports userscripts, the lack of extensions is a major deterrent for many users of Firefox, whereas the switch. No doubt developers will be eager to start spinning the extensions once we were finally able.
By keeping close tabs frightening on the positions of your current friends, enemies, the ex-lovers, the Bookies and traders is one of the hottest trends on the mobile space today with products like Loopt, Whrrl and Helio 'bonfire of the companion s position that provides contact-based following a breeze. Now that Google 's entering the game, though, that the business model might start to dry up for everyone else - especially considering that the so-called latitude and technology developed in Android that goes forward and available for any other platform which supports Google Maps.
T-Mobile has announced that latitude will be developed in the G1 starting with the release of maintenance RC33 that 's that gets unwound to customers this week - and yes, granted, it' s the bignè not, but at least we have some new features to play around with. And yes, we promise you won 'virtual keyboards t mention in this post ... er, dangit. Latitude in the video after the break.
Somebody of Google is having a very badly beginning of its weekend. Google Marissa Mayer, investigation vice-president finishes of all' edizione responded today that has marked to all the results of Google with the warning " This site can damage your equipo" and it recommended the users who do not visit.
The problem, says, was simple human error: the copy of the list of malware of StopBadware.org, the URL of `/' involuntary addition is had, which means that each Web site will be included. The complete explanation: If you made a search in Google from the 6:30 a.m. 7:25 a.m. PST and in PST of this morning, probably " saw the message; This site can damage your equipo" that it has with each result search.
This was clearly an error and we are very Excuses the caused annoyances to our users. What happened? Simply, the human error. The results of the investigation of the flags of Google with the message " This site can damage your equipo" if the place is known to at heart install malicious software or of another surreptitious way. We make it to protect our users visit sites that could harm their equipment.
We work for charity with StopBadware.org called of our list of URL. StopBadware of investigation carefully any complaint of the consumers to decide reasonably if the URL in the list. Because each case must separately be investigated, this list is realised by the human beings, not them procedures. We are receiving updates of this list periodically and received an update to this version in the site this morning.
Lamentably (and it is the human error here), the URL of `/' it has been controlled by error like a value for the title and `/' one expands to all the URL. Luckyly, our equipment of attention of the reliability of the site quickly has found the problem and has given back the file. Since these changes go to a weak moving body and, the errors began to appear between the 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and have begun to disappear between the 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., reason why the duration of the problem for the user in particular was of approximately 40 minutes.
Thanks to our equipment for its fast identification of this. And again, our excuses to anyone of you who are insane this morning and the proprietors of the place from which the pages have been identified incorrectly. To carefully study this case and of making the file most robust controls to prevent that they take place again.
Thanks for its understanding. Published by Marissa Mayer, Product vice-president and Investigación, the experience of an error easy to do, by all means, but even a small error is the good news when million people use their services every minute of the day. Props to Google by a so fast answer, mainly during the weekend.
A number of Google services just announced that they are about to shut down. The Google Video team announced that it will shut down uploads in a few months, while the Google Notebook team announced that it is stopping development (the service will continue to function, however).
According to Danny Sullivan, Google is also closing Jaiku, a Twitter-like micro-blogging service that was bought by Google before it even launched, but which has lingered in invite-only mode ever since. Google Catalog search, which made shopping catalogs searchable, will also be closed soon. Update: Google will release the Jaiku code under the open source Apache license, so that other organizations can pick up where the Google team left off. It is not clear if current users will be able to transfer their accounts. Another, relatively unknown project that is being closed now, is the Mashup Editor, which was based on the Google App Engine, and never left a very limited, private beta. Will You Miss These Services? That Google would shut down Google Video is not exactly a surprise, given that Google's own YouTube is far more popular. Google's Catalog Search will probably only be missed by very few users. We are, however, sad to see Google Notebook (one of our favorite Firefox addons), Jaiku, and Dodgeball go. These services had a lot of potential - and a lot of it remained untapped as Jaiku and Dodgeball remained almost unchanged after they were acquired by Google. However, the current economic climate is probably making even a highly profitable company like Google focus on its core assets. None of the services that are being closed now had a lot of users and probably brought in very little to no revenue. Also: Changes to Engineering and Recruiting Shutting down these services was only part of Google's announcements today. In addition, Google announced that it is winding down almost all of its contracts with external contractors and vendors providing recruiting services to Google. Google will also cut 100 internal positions. On the engineering side, Google is shutting down its offices in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden. The company is asking the employees who work there to move to Mountain View. What About GrandCentral? One service in Google's line-up we have always wondered about is GrandCentral - another service that was acquired before it even went public. Just like some of the services that Google is closing now, GrandCentral never came out of its invite-only mode after being acquired by Google. The fact that it is not being closed now, though, leads us to believe that Google is still having plans for this service.
