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Google +1 button
Apr 6th
Like the ubiquitous Facebook ‘like’ button, Google has launched an experimental feature ‘+1 Button’ 
. It is basically a recommendation service that for the first phase of release will only be limited to the Google search page. Later it will be another button all over the web (expected) that will enable you to share the stuff you see online. Google would definitely work hard to avoid privacy issues that it faced just after a few days of release of Buzz.
To enable it for your Google account you can visit the Google experimental page in Google Labs and click on join. Remember you cannot use two experimental services at a time.
Note: The +1 button will take some time/days to appear with your search results. Be patient.
Meanwhile have a look at the video.
via [Official Google Blog]
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A perfect start page for the browser
Mar 2nd
Start pages are always a mess in web browsers. Firefox put up a design contest for users to design a perfect start page recently. Be it Chrome’s most used pages or Firefox’s default Google search page. Well, Chome does the work to a pretty good extent not to mention opera’s and safari’s speed dial pages. But it is totally a different experience when you have the start page on the cloud that is perfectly customized according to your needs. All those web services on your home page for you to access at a click. Doesn’t that seem perfect.
Symbaloo - Start simple, is a simple interface that basically focuses to refine your first contact with the internet everyday. The symbaloo pages houses draggable boxes that link to your favorite web services like feeds, mail, radio, search, translate and what not. If even that doesn’t make you scream enough. You have free places where you can add your own boxes that link to a service specified by you. Now that’s too much YOU.
To set it as a start page. Just click the button at the bottom of the page that says “Set as startpage“. The following light box a the center of the screen gives you the instructions. OR simply drag the link http://www.symbaloo.com to the home in firefox.
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Doodle 4 Google
Feb 7th
ONLY FOR U.S. Schools
Google invites U.S school students to submit their artistic and creative imaginations for the Google logo on its home page. Last year winner Christin Engelberth’s entry. Some important dates are as follows:
School Registration Deadline – March 17, 2010
Early Bird Submissions -Win Netbook Computers – March 10, 2010
Doodle Entry Deadline – March 31, 2010
State Finalists and Regional Winners Notified – May 17, 2010
Online Public Vote – May 17-24, 2010
Awards Ceremony and National Winners Announced – May 26, 2010
Winning Doodle on the Google Homepage – May 27, 2010
How to use goo.gl without the toolbar
Jan 15th
Image via Wikipedia
To shorten links using Google new URL shortener goo.gl you need to install the Google toolbar. If you resist installing a new toolbar just for the sake of shortening URLs using Goo.gl then this is for you. Marklets.com has a smart bookmark link to shorten your links with Goo.gl.
These types of smar bookmarks are called bookmarklets. These are usually based on javascript and work with any browser. To use these just drag the bookmarklet to your bookmark toolbar. For the goo.gl bookmarklet, when you have to shorten a link click on the bookmarklet when the page is opened. A popup displays instantly giving you the shortened URL.
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Use Google docs as online storage – store any file
Jan 13th
Google now will officially allow uploading any file into the cloud. If you used to use Gmail drafts to save some work online, you can now stop doing that and use Google Docs. You don’t have to carry a storage device with you anymore. All the data you need to access somewhere else can be simply uploaded to Google Docs. The file size limit is presently 250mb. This is a threat to other such paid services, which don’t allow storing more than 2GB without payment.
You can also use a shared folder to share the files with anyone else. For more information, check out our post on the Google Docs blog.
If we look in the past, Gmail changed the way we used our email. It came in with a serious blow to yahoo. The email storage space and attachment size it could provide at that time was the largest in the market and made people to shift to it. Even presently Gmail gives huge storage space which increases every second. I can see a similar trend building up in the cloud storage section again.
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