Lively is Google’s answer to Second Life. An online 3D social network which allows users to interact with each other and their surroundings. Build your avatar, choose and room and you are ready to mingle.
Second Life has been around for a few years now, it’s going to be interesting to see how Lively competes with the big boy.
Source: Lively by Google
This is the latest webcast from Google titled “Google Factory Tour of Search”. It’s centered around where Google currently is and where it plans to go in the near future. Google’s latest service Google Health is also introduced in the webcast.
Some of the topics I found especially interesting.
Google joins the Social Network boom by introducing it’s latest work, Google Friend Connect. The basic idea behind the new service is to socialize any website looking to be socialized.
Google Friend Connect provides a platform for website owners to interact with their users through current social networks like Facebook, GTalk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo and the many other social networks available today.
OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, Yahoo, Myspace, Google, Facebook data access APIs and many others. There are so many social standards today and Google’s target to to simplify access to them through Google Friend Connect.
So what’s in it for you?
The service is currently in preview release. If you are interested in taking Google Friend Connect for a spin, sign up for a preview here.
Source: Google
That’s the famous Googleplex. A place many dream to work at.
But why? Is it their brilliant ideas or os it the alternative office workspace that Google practices? Either way I would love to work for them someday.
Today, Google is not longer the pioneer in alternative office workspaces, familiar companies like Facebook, Flickr, Mozilla, LinkedIn and many others are coming up with impressive office workspaces too to bring out the best in their employees.
If you need a glimpse of what these offices look like, Office Snapshots has an impressive collection of snapshots of workspaces
Trust me, after looking at them. What we have in Malaysia feels like a factory. Seriously.
A spanking new release of Google Earth is out. The latest 4.3 release comes with Photo Realistic 3D modeling for buildings, “Swoop navigation” for an improved navigation experience, “Light and shadow” to catch sunrise and sunset from anywhere and finally the popular “Street View” which was previously a Google Maps only feature.
Now something to excite Linux users, Google Earth is now available for Linux. Not on WINE as but as a native application based on Qt and openGL. I’m yet to try it but for those who have I have heard nothing but good reviews with some minor glitches.
However Google Earth for Linux currently only supports the i386 architecture and seems to only work with 32bit processors.
The embedded video speaks for itself.
