Google Maps now* offers a more immersive additional mode: you can open Street Views in full-screen via the top-right expand icon.

Eric Schmidt and Doug Morris, CEO of the world’s leading music company Universal Music Group, have announced a new portal. The Portal called Vevo will be launched in the coming months; they go online on a joint development of Universal Music and YouTube, on Vevo to find and to produce quality videos from Universal Music.

YouTube provides a portal to the technical requirements, and makes it possible that Universal Music may offer premium videos. These contents are exclusively available in Vevo and in a new channel on YouTube. This is a special player to use.

“The world’s largest online audience for videos on Vevo receives access to outstanding music video content and services,” said Doug Morris, CEO of Universal Music Group.

“We are convinced that Vevo already from the start will have more hits than any other site for music videos in the United States and around the world. Our audience is composed of advertisers, most popular demographic group, and promotional allowances are increased for new media output. Vevo is particularly well positioned to exploit these opportunities and more options on our way to the first stop for Premium to create music videos.

For music fans who only want the best music videos, Vevo is an incomparable experience. Vevo the same time, Premium expand the market for videos, new sources of revenue for content creators and brand advertising is the unique possibility of a very motivated audience offer. We are very much on the enormous potential excited by the Vevo we will open up. “

Before, inserting images in Gmail was not so simple. The Gmail experiment Inserting images is now easier, with the new feature.

After activation of the settings to insert images button, opens a dialog where you can either upload an image an from the computer or with a URL.

To get this working for you, enable the feature called “Inserting images”. Now you can add pics either by uploading, or by referencing an image URL, though neither approach will guarantee that your image will be shown in email clients on the receiving end… for instance, Gmail protects recipients from URL-referencing images, and Hotmail protects even from embedded images.

The recent launch of the built-in chat feature () within orkut has made hanging out with friends online much easier and a whole lot more fun. Yet, while it’s always great to come across a little green ‘available’ bubble next to the name of a good friend, finding friends who are available to chat on orkut hasn’t been as straightforward as it could have been.

To make it easier to connect with all of your friends who are online, Google-Orkut has decided to launch an orkut chat roster. This new roster shows you all of your contacts who are signed into Google Talk, whether through orkut, Gmail, iGoogle or the Google Talk application. If you want to chat with any of them, all you have to do is click on their names directly within the roster.

No matter where you go on orkut, the chat roster sits neatly on the left side of your orkut page. Want to customize the size and organization of your chat roster? Play with its look and feel by clicking on the ‘options’ tab. Of course, if you ever get tired of seeing who’s signed into chat, you can also minimize the roster (or sign out of chat entirely), with a single click.