Aha.. Finally, firefox mobile gets a new logo!

Firefox had a challenge to create a new Mozilla for mobile logo design. They announced the winner of the competition and chose a new logo for Firefox mobile too :)

From the Mozilla blog:

“The results from the Mozilla Creative Collective’s “Firefox Goes Mobile” design challenge are in, and I’m happy to announce that the winner is “Pocketfox”, by Yaroslaff Chekunov. As the official emblem of the upcoming mobile version of Firefox, we’ll be using this image as an avatar on social networking sites, on mozilla.com, on t-shirts and more. It makes a great addition to our portfolio of Firefox imagery!”

Somehow looks like Firefox is hiding in a pocket – but I don’t understand if this image captures what Firefox could potentially bring to mobile browsing. Do you like it? Shout it loud in your comments below!!

Today on November 9, 2009 Firefox is celebrating its fifth birthday. Firefox 1.0 was released on November 4th 2004. A browser that stands for 2nd most trusted and most used browser in the world.

5 Years ago:
The Rise of the Modern Browser, Mobile, Users as Creators, Video, RSS, Data, Customizing Your Experience, Standards Won.

What’s next?
Mozilla on your mobile and more…

Mozilla plans to celebrate this milestone by throwing parties around the world. The campaign is called “Light the World with Firefox”, and it will include shining the Firefox logo in cities. Find out more at www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/en-US/.

Happy Birthday!

Google posted number of Doodle’s for sesame street(a puppet-cartoon show) turning 40!

Sesame Street is an American educational children’s television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. Sesame Street is well known for its Muppets characters created by Jim Henson. It premiered on November 10, 1969, and is the longest running children’s program on US television.[1] The show is produced in the United States by the non-profit organization Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW), founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Ralph Rogers. The show has been running for 40 years. Sesame Street premiered on November 10, 1969 and is the longest running children’s program on US television, with an amazing 39 seasons and 4,186 episodes aired. Fun fact: Sesame Street is roughly the same age as the Internet.

Update: Google India has another doodle from sesame street (google.co.in)

If you see more logos in your regional version of Google, do write to us and we will be glad to post it in the house of Google Doodle section… :)

Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a series consisting of four British animated short films and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. All the characters are made from molded plasticine modeling clay on metal armatures, and filmed with stop motion clay animation.

About a month ago, Google released new images for Google Earth and updated the imagery of many locations. Google now wants to change the rhythm, and frequently publish new recordings of Google earth.

Now you don’t have to answer quizzes to know the new locations. Google Earth now has made available a file with all the updated pictures in red. You can grab the file at http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/imagery_updates.kml.

If you have installed Google Earth plug-in you can see the updated areas automatically.

Google calendar starts rolling out new features in Calendar labs – here is a sneak preview! This sneak preview allows you to simultaneously preview your friend’s calendars while creating an event. Currently in Labs, the “Free or busy” gadget already allows you to check the present availability of your friends but when scheduling an event, you would still need to go to a future date, cross check your friend’s calendar to make sure that all of your guests are free during a particular time before creating the event.

With Sneak Preview, you would be able to preview your friend’s calendar on a new mini-calendar in the Create Event screen. This makes scheduling events much easier by allowing you to see when people are free and if the proposed time would conflict with existing events. Here’s a screenshot of Sneak Preview in action:

Find more information on the Techcrunch.

With the holiday season around the corner, Google has made its move towards search for products with Google Search Commerce.

Google Search Commerce is hosted on Google and should bring some benefits to shop owners.

Google says that users decide, on average, in less than 10 seconds if they shop at this store and look at the range a little more or buy it at another online store.

During the search, these products can sort by price or brand and certain items can be highlighted. In addition, Google also searches for synonyms and look like other syntaxes, so that the search is working more effectively.

If you are a visual kind of person, here is a video demonstration:

Google made a set of its JavaScript tools open sourced and is available for all in Google code labs. The tool has been used internally in the development of Google Maps, Gmail and Google Docs. The various tools called compilers Closure, Closure Library Closure templates and Closure Inspector are some of the javascript tools which were open sourced.

The compiler is used to refine and optimize JavaScript code. It makes your code run even with slow connections, quickly executed. The closure Inspector helps diagnose covert code and improve the code performance. This is an extension for Firebug.

Library Closure is the Google’s JavaScript library. It is based on the standards and provides application services to JS components and works in different browser. With the closure templates you can automate the build of HTML pages.