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  • Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 2:56 am Today’s Buzz: Google Buzz

    If you open your Gmail today, you’ll find some offer from Google to experience Google Buzz. This is Google’s answer to social web trends.

    Google Buzz is a tool to build or get involved in a happening conversation. It’s similar to Twitter’s timeline, and Facebook’s live feed. But the difference is Buzz is built inside Gmail. We don’t need to start from scratch.

    Followers will be automatically added with the people we email and chatted the most. Google Buzz can also integrate with huge social web such as Picasa, YouTube, Blogspot, Flickr, even Twitter. That means any activity you do on those connected site will be posted in Buzz.

    One more thing, because Google Buzz is inside Gmail, we can still track incoming email while Buzzing around.

  • Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 2:38 am Goggle: Reverse Google Image Search

    We click Google image, we enter keyword, and Google gives us pages of search result, full of image selection. But what if we already have the image, but we have lack information about it? Google just have the answer.

    It’s Google Goggle. A new application specially built for Android OS that use image or photo input to perform search. Submit one picture file and Google Goggle will search and show any information it could find about the picture.

    For example, you visit an art gallery, you spot a familiar artwork but you can’t find out where you’ve seen it before. Just take a picture of the artwork and submit it to Google Goggle, and you will soon have enough information to answer your curiosity.

    Some other image that can be searched: album artwork, book cover, building, wine, and many more.

  • Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 11:56 pm Happy Belated Birthday, Facebook Connect!

    Six days ago, 4 December 2009, Facebook celebrated the first year anniversary of Facebook Connect, the first major extension of Facebook platform. Facebook Connect allows Facebook user to log into every Facebook Connect integrated site using their Facebook account, bringing their social graph outside Facebook.

    Facebook Connect

    Today, one year after the extension’s opened for business, it already has 60,000,000 users. More than 80,000 web sites have integrated to this service, and that does not include more number that use apps. Many web agency use this Facebook Connect in their web development because it’s far more practical for both developer and user than using own membership system.

    Facebook Connect is now still growing with approximately 160,000 new user every day.

  • Friday, November 20, 2009 at 5:29 am Chrome OS: An OS Inspired by Web Browser

    Seriously, Google’s still trying to conquer the world of computer technology. After they recently release a new programming language (Google Go), now they’re releasing an Operating System (OS). This OS is inspired by their newcomer-but-quickly-getting-popular browser, Google Chrome.

    How on earth does a browser can be the beginning of an OS, here’s the story.

  • Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 1:37 am Buckle Up! This is A High Speed Computer

    Try to starting a program on your computer. Then walk to your kitchen, make a cup of coffee, and go back to your computer before the program even running. If you can do this, it’s either you’re going to have an excellent career in coffee shop, or your computer were just really slow.

    The most common thing that could cause this problem is, your computer system is loaded with heavy programs. Don’t panic, we can always fix this. Let’s see what programs you currently use.

    Internet Browser
    For those who use Internet Explorer as their chosen browser, that’s really smart. It’s fast on start-up, it’s fast on loading pages. But the most important thing is: without IE you’ll never be able to download installer for good browser like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome (which is even much faster, by the way).

    PDF Reader
    How many online articles can you read while waiting your Adobe Reader open your PDF document. Adobe Reader is one heavy program. You would agree more if you ever open a hundreds-pages containing file with this program. If you’re willing to get less fancy, you may get a faster tool to open PDF document. Try Foxit Reader. This program run much faster than Adobe Reader and beside that, Foxit has more features.

    Instant Messaging Client
    We need to communicate but we also need our work to done fast. Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, Gtalk, we need those to communicate, but they’re really a heavy program that slow down our computer. Use one single IM client that compile all your IM account. AIM is a good idea, but there’s some better idea, or should we say faster idea. It’s called Pidgin. This is a light multi-protocol IM client that wouldn’t slow your computer down. It may not looks good visually but the important thing is you can go fast.