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Google is Developing Web Enabled TV

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According to the sources, a new partnership between Google – Sony – Logitech, facilitates the use of Web-based applications like Twitter, on your television and attract more software developers to create new applications for Google TV.

Google has begun testing the technology of converting Dish Network, said the Times reports. Representatives from Google, Intel and Sony were not immediately available for comment. A spokesman from Logitech said the company has no comment about it. We hear that Logitech International is also involved in developing and peripheral devices, such as a small keyboard. Stay tuned for more updates on this!

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Google goes green, not just on st.patricks day but all year long!

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Google thinks green all year long and not only on St.Patrick’s day Here are a few of the design strategies that google implements to make the office buildings as green as possible. And Google thinks that they might even give you some ideas for greening your own home.

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Google has frugal roots from our start-up days, so when Google remodels an office, Google seems to reuse as many materials as possible. This strategy saves us money, and it avoids the environmental footprint associated not only with manufacturing and transporting new goods, but also with disposing of the old stuff. Construction and demolition waste makes up about 40% of the solid waste stream in the U.S. In the San Francisco office, we reused everything from partition walls and door assemblies to carpet and furniture left behind by the previous tenant. Plus, more than 64% of what we did throw away was recycled.

Healthy and sustainable

Sometimes, the simplest defense is the best defense, like the “Larry and Sergey Sniff Test”: if it smells bad, it’s probably bad for you (Larry and Sergey are a little busy to do all the sniffing themselves, so we help them out sometimes). The all-too-familiar new paint or new carpet smell is usually the sign of toxic VOCs (volatile organic compounds) off-gassing into the air we breathe. Of course, we have to go on more than just our noses, so we also rely on third-party certification programs (like Cradle to Cradle, Scientific Certification Systems, and those incorporated into LEED) and information from manufacturers to ensure that we use the healthiest products available. All the paints, sealants, adhesives, carpet, and furniture we purchased for the San Francisco office had the lowest possible levels of VOCs and formaldehyde, both of which have adverse effects on indoor air quality and long-term health. Google also looked for sustainable materials that are locally manufactured, high in recycled content, and free of environmentally harmful materials like PVC.

Keeping it cool (or warm)

Google makes every effort to heat, cool and light our offices with the minimal amount of energy needed, and use building controls to ensure these systems are only on when we need them. Some of these strategies work everywhere, like installing motion sensors to control lighting and purchasing Energy Star-rated office equipment in the U.S.

Every drop counts

Water is one of our planet’s most undervalued natural resources, and we’re always looking for innovative and cost effective ways to use it more wisely. In San Francisco, as well as most of our other offices, we installed efficient faucets and flush valves in the bathrooms and kitchens. In locations where Google has more green space like Mountain View, Google uses drought-resistant landscaping when possible.

Location, location, location

If you visit the Google San Francisco office, you might not notice the low-VOC carpet, but you definitely won’t miss the spectacular views of the San Francisco Bay and the Bay Bridge. Access to natural light and views increases Googler productivity and happiness, and decreases our energy costs by reducing the need for artificial lighting. Plus, like many of our offices, the San Francisco office is centrally located and easily accessible by public transit. Google also provide preferred parking for carpools and vanpools, on-site bike storage, showers and changing facilities.

As the official Google blog says, Google has done a lot of work to be greener, but that doesn’t mean we’ve reached the end of the rainbow and that pot of gold yet. People at Google are constantly learning more about green building and ways to save energy.

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Facebook tries to do some sync as well!

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How to Sync Facebook Events with Google Calendar

We all know that many websites that exists make ourselves more social, efficient, effective, etc …. Facebook being one of the many.

Some of us use so many tools that it often requires another utility manager to manage themselves and its becoming increasingly complicated… As a solution Facebook recently discussed syncing Twitter and Facebook status updates for all those who want to sync their status updates on both sites! Although there are many websites like Plaxo, hellotxt which has the status sync feature Facebook seems to try n catchup!

For all those who’re out there who use Facebook and Google calendar to manage events, here’s some good news to you people and we hope it will but will relieve you of the pain of having to keep up between multiple calendars. :)

How to Sync Facebook Events with Google Calendar:

  • 1. Login to Facebook and click on events

  • 2. click on “Export Events” and copy the URL (which you would need to use later in the process)

  • 3. Log into Google Calendar and choose “Add” under “Other calendars.” Then choose “Add by URL”…

  • 4. Paste the URL you copied from Facebook and click “Add” in #step 2



    • And…… you’re done! Your Google calendar will now update automatically every time you accept or decline an event in Facebook.

    This should help you being more organized! ….. and we hope this puts a smile on your face :D too !!

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    Google Doodle: Martin Luther King, Jr

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    Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon: King is recognized as a martyr by two Christian churches. A Baptist minister King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King’s efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.

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    Google Text To Speech – TTS is now available

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    I’ve heard and used so many tools to convert text to speech, now Google has a new Translate-to-text tool using with you can translate any text to speech instantly and get an .mp3 file of the same.

    With the new Google Translate text to Speech tool, it’s now easy to translate any text to speech.

    When you translate anything from the Google TTS service, you automatically will be prompted to download and listen to the text that you tried translating.

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    Here is what you need to do in order to translate a text to speech (.mp3 file)… See what we converted from text to speech.

    p.s. i’m working on making a Text-To-Speech engine, which I’m going to publish soon :) so stay tuned!!

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    Who is failure? Obama? another Google bomb

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    I thought Google only bombs people who have miserably failed. But guess not! When you search for ‘Who is failure’, Obama turns out to be on the top list!

    I don’t think there was any active campaign to linkbomb Obama to the top for these words, so I think this is fallout from the long-standing “miserable failure” googlebomb that was impacting his predecessor, President George W. Bush…

    Obama won the Nobel award for peace keeping and is the worst failure? Ok Google time to change your search algorithm :) …

    If you want to read more about the Google linkbomb or Google bomb, see searchengineland page here.

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    Unfriend – You’re officially removed from my network; Word of 2009

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    I wrote an article about a month ago, on ‘how to find out when someone removes you from their Facebook friend list’. Now I guess I’ll have to change the title of the page from ‘When someone removes you from their friend list‘ to ‘When someone unfriends you‘ :), just coz the dictionary’s publisher, Britain’s Oxford University Press came up with a new word called ‘Unfriend’. Unfriend was defined as a verb that means to remove someone as a “friend” on a social network site such as Facebook.

    “Unfriend” has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent.

    In technology, there was also “#hashtag,” which is the hash sign added to a word or phrase that lets Twitter users search for tweets similarly tagged; “intexticated” for when people are distracted by texting while driving, and “sexting,” which is the sending of sexually explicit SMSes and pictures by cellphone.

    WOW… that’s  lot of words getting added to the dictionary from Twitter and Facebook :). I guess the dictionary is soon going to be changing to the URBAN DICTIONARY.

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    Dramatic Increase of Google Profits in Quarter 3 of 2010

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    The financial results of Google in the third quarter Q3 2010 have been spectacular, far exceeding the most optimistic forecasts of analysts, with an excruciating increased income of $ 7.29 billion , an increase of more than 23% over the same period last year.

    Profits are distributed as follows:

    • Google sites – the profits from their own websites, with 67% of the total, amounted to $ 4.83 billion
    • Google Network – $ 2.2 billion, 30% of total
    • International – $ 3.77 billion
    • Ads on mobile devices – $ 1000 million. The interesting thing is that Google calls this “the future of search”, and not cannibalize their advertising on the web etc…
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