Youtube homepage logo is animated in honor of the analog signal turn-off in the U.S. According to Wikipedia was started in June 1951 the first Farbfernsehprogramm the world in New York from the CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) broadcast.

Today in the U.S. is the last analog TV broadcast signal.

Google Reader has finally come to Google Desktop, as announced on the Google Reader blog. This gadget is a convenient way to check your subscriptions and fits right in with the Gmail, Calendar, and Docs gadgets.

Google thanks Arindam Sharma, who created this gadget during his internship at Google Bangalore. Bangalore rockss!!! We post such high ranking gadgets posted and reviewed by Google regularly. Subscribe to the IGoogle Watch RSS feed to get instant updates…

Help is here!!… Many of the bloggers asked about\for Blogger templates. Google engineers finally heard your needs. Google announces a list of Third party sites offering quality Blogger templates, Here is a list of some recommendation websites from fellow bloggers and improved templates that work with Blogger.

How to change the template and import a new template to your blogger blog, you need to:
– Got to your blogger account
– Click on Layout
– Click on Pick New Template
– Now select\browse the .XML file from your desktop and click import!!

And let me remind you that before you make any changes to your template, you should download the current template and put it in a safe place. (Click “Layout”, then “Edit HTML” and then “Download full template”.) And just in case it’s not clear from this post: every link above points to a third party site. Blogger cannot provide support for independently created templates. If you choose to use a template built by someone else, make sure to figure out how easy it is to reach them if problems arise.

If you author a blog on Blogger, Google has built a search gadget for you that does this – the AJAX Custom Search gadget creates a Linked Custom Search engine that automatically updates to allow your readers to search your blog’s entire neighborhood. It is a uniquely flavored search experience that gets richer over time. Search results appear inline, so your users don’t have to leave your blog to search for the results.

Custom Search enables anyone to create a tuned search experience that’s contextually relevant.

For example:

* Individuals can create a personalized search experience around their bookmarks, blogs, and public web sites
* Web site owners can provide Site Search
* Publishers can provide search across multiple publications
* Communities can collaborate to create topical search engines across thousands of web pages

On Blogger, you can add the gadget with a couple of clicks:

1. Edit your blog’s layout (Page Elements tab)
2. Click on “Add a Gadget” and configure the new “Search Box” gadget.

Also checkout how you can earn money from your blogger account… Happy cashing :)….

Recently in May Google announced images update to Google earth…. and now there is one more update!! Here are few updated places updated Imagery:

Americas:

– Canada: Kamloops (BC), Fort St John (BC), Surrey (BC),

– USA: Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Champaign County (IL), Bentonville (AR), Harrison (AR), Roswell (GA), Hidalgo County (TX), Willacy County (TX), Greenville (SC), Pierre (SD), several counties in Florida, several counties in Ohio

EMEA:

– France: Finistere, Cotes-d’Armor, Loire-Atlantique, Orne, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Doubs, Cote-d’Or, Nievre, Cher, Creuse, Puy-de-Dome, Cantal, Haute-Loire, Correze, Dorbogne, Lot, Landes, Gers, Haute-Garonne, Gard, Corsica – Italy: Pisa, Venice

– Spain: Costa Brava, Navarra
– UK: Cambridgeshire, Workington, Swanage
– Sweden: Goteborg
– Senegal: Dakar
– Nigeria: Kaduna
– Saudi Arabia: Mecca
– UAE: Dubai
– Central African Republic: Bangui
– Mauritania: Nouakchott
– Sudan: Port Sudan, Juba
– Eritrea: Asmara

Asia:
– China: Hong Kong, Wulumuqi, Fuzhou, Hegang
– India: Calcutta, Chennai, Patna, Varanasi, Bhiwandi, Veraval, Ambala,
– North Korea: Nampo, Haeju, Kimchaek, Kanggye
– Japan: Mt Fuji
– Indonesia: Makassar
– Vietnam: Phan Thiet
– Tajikistan: Dushanbe
– Pakistan: Jacobabad, Vihari

New 2.5m Spot Imagery for: Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the western half of Egypt

Updated Terrain: State of Indiana

Fusion Tables is a service for managing large collections of tabular data in the cloud. You can upload tables of up to 100MB and share them with collaborators, or make them public. You can apply filters and aggregation to your data, visualize it on maps and other charts, merge data from multiple tables, and export it to the Web or csv files. You can also conduct discussions about the data at several levels of granularity, such as rows, columns and individual cells.

With Google Fusion tables, you can:

– Upload small or large data sets from spreadsheets or CSV files.

– Visualize your data on maps, timelines and charts.

– Pick who can access your data; hide parts of your data if needed.

– Merge data from multiple tables.

– Discuss your data with others. Track changes and discussions.

Go to, http://tables.googlelabs.com/ to take a sneak peek :)

The Philippine Declaration of Independence occurred on June 12, 1898 in Cavite el Viejo (now Kawit), Cavite, Philippines. With the public reading of the Act of the Declaration of Independence, Filipino revolutionary forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the sovereignty and independence of the Philippine Islands from the colonial rule of Spain, which had been recently defeated at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.