• 10 Vote!

    Google Buzz in Gmail

    Official Gmail Blog (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology

    Posted by Edward Ho, Tech Lead, Google Buzz Five years ago, Gmail was just email. Later we added chat and then video chat, both built right in, so people had choices about how to communicate from a single browser window. Today, communication on the web has evolved beyond email and chat — people are sharing photos with friends and family, commenting on news happening around them, and telling the world...
  • 17 Vote!

    If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present

    TechCrunch (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology

    See our live notes from today's Google Buzz event here . Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, they've never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fabric of the web: social. Yes, they have Orkut and OpenSocial, but no one actually uses them. Okay, some people use them, but not in the meaningful social ways that people use Facebook or even Twitter....
  • 11 Vote!

    Michael Steele Suggests Criticism Of His Tenure Motivated By Racism

    The Plum Line (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

    It’s been awhile since Michael Steele has landed himself in the news, but this might stir things up again: In a new interview, Steele bluntly suggests criticism of his tenure — and all the media coverage it’s garnered — may be motivated by racism. The story, called “Up in the Air,” is in the February [...]
  • 12 Vote!

    Vancouver forecast: light winds, unlimited visibility

    The Official Google Blog (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology

    The view from Whistler Mountain is something everyone should see: a range of rugged mountains, trails of snow, fir trees and placid lakes below. It's changed since I lived there some years back — there are many more houses, and far better chairlifts — but what remains is the rare feeling of being free, in nature, about to tear into peak snow. In time for the Games in Vancouver and Whistler, we're thrilled...
  • 11 Vote!

    TweetDeck Brings YouTube and Flickr Inside the Client

    Mashable (subscribe) | 02/08/2010 | Technology

    All right Tweetdeck fans, rev up your engines and prepare to update to Tweetdeck 0.33 , which adds a slew of new features, better API management and more in-Tweetdeck media previews. We could list all the new features in Tweetdeck 0.33, but the company was nice enough to make this little video that shows everything off: Some of the highlights: Tweetdeck Can Manage Your Twitter API Usage — This means...
  • 9 Vote!

    Street View hits the slopes at Whistler

    Google LatLong (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology

    In just a few days, the events in Vancouver and Whistler will be kicking off. The world’s best skiers and snowboarders will be taking to the slopes at Whistler Mountain , tearing down the mountain at world record speeds or gracefully navigating a slalom course. You can view the terrain in stunning 3D detail in Google Earth, and we recently added 3D models for all 9 competition venues, but I couldn’t...