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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BraxN10dHmU[/youtube] 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. Universal search. Enhanced image search. Image recognition. New cluster. Finance news. Visualizing finance news. Global finance news. Experimental search. Google trends. Google Map. Street View (Freakin cool!!) Local search Live edits Google Health Open platform QA session ...

The first release candidate Firefox 3 is out. It’s mainly targeted at developers, bug testers and superusers. Installed it yesterday and only managed to get 3 of my add-ons working but the performance improvement on the other hand was noticeable as promised. [Take it for a spin.][2] [1]: /wp-content/uploads/2008/05/firefoxlogopi91.png) [2]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

My Facebook page has become one giant ball of information. Cluttered and confusing with the increasing amount for new applications being shared and circulated. I’m quite sure I’m not alone on this. Facebook has announced a makeover which is panned for roll out next month. The roll out will happen in stages. The goal is to un-clutter, simplify and organize the mountains for data being moved around over Facebook everyday amongst users....

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....

Linux to me is like religion. Even though I am not religious but I feel that Linux in some way is like religion. It’s free, goes by many different names, it’s changes over time to suit needs but ultimately it’s personal. There will never be one “ultimate distribution”. It will always be a personal choice for the end user. I love openSUSE, my hardcore Linux friends love Debian and BSD....