Lalit Wason

Google updated the music search OneBox, which used to include song titles, album names and some other information licensed from AllMusic. The new music search OneBox is only focused on finding music, previewing songs and easily buying them.
Search for an artist, an album name or even some lyrics and Google returns a list of songs that [...]

http://www.thinkseer.com / Wil Reynolds teaches which SEO practices are no longer used before explaining best SEO practices.

The sleek, stylish HP DreamScreen adds a fun new dimension to your digital content. Easily view photos of your last vacation, watch family videos, listen to Pandora Internet radio, get Facebook status updates, check the weather and more—all with this elegant wireless web-connected screen.

The HP DreamScreen’s sleek design and intuitive features give you and the whole family a fun way to enjoy digital content. Plus, functional features like an alarm clock and weather outlook1 allow you to get the information you need to start your day all in one place.

Wireless—Connect to your wireless home network to access weather info, Snapfish and Facebook with built-in Wi-Fi.2
Touch-enabled controls—Get fast, easy access to information and entertainment with simple touch controls embedded in the display that disappear when not in use, or use the included remote control for added convenience.
Day at a glance—Wake up to music and get a 5-day forecast1 with one glance thanks to built-in alarm clock and weather functions.
Social media hub—Keep up with your friends’ photos, status updates and upcoming events by accessing Facebook.1
Music—Turn your HP DreamScreen into your entertainment center by listening to Internet radio from Pandora or HP SmartRadio.1
Photos—Play a slideshow of your photos copied to the HP DreamScreen or directly on popular memory cards formats.
Videos—Watch home movies and video clips in full screen – Its simple!
Connect with your PC—Stream Photos and Music from your PC or wirelessly copy photos, music or video from your PC to the HP DreamScreen.

 
Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 10 months. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users:



    * This beta is now available in 70 languages - get your local version.

    * Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.

    * Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.

    * The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.

    * Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.

    * Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.

    * Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 and elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

For whatever reason this week’s launch of the beta version of AMD’s Fusion Media Explorer, the company’s first forray in the social media hub / browser space, isn’t being met with a mountain of buzz. For a 40-year old giant of a tech company that’s mostly known for its micro-processors and related technologies, that’s quite surprising, especially because the product actually appears to be quite cool, if not very innovative these days.

I say appears, because the installation failed on my computer for lack of an AMD processor (I should have known), and I should probably note the application has only been tested for use on Windows and Linux machines. From what I can gather, it most certainly makes me want to test it asap though.

 

IS YOUR Google Toolbar not running on Microsoft Internet Explorer? Google launched its own Chrome browser well after it had shipped toolbars for IE and Firefox. A beta version of an update is now available.

Google launched its Google Toolbar 6 Beta for the Internet Explorer. It has many exciting features. The toolbar team of Google described the same as a major upgrade. Interestingly, the Google Toolbar 6 Beta is available in 40 languages also.

t features the Quick Search Box, in which the users can click on an icon in the Windows task bar to open a small dialog box from which the users can search and even launch applications.

The updated IE toolbar also features the Firefox version. It can restore bookmarks and recently viewed sites. Google is also upgrading its “enhanced search suggestions”. The programming team of Google is eager for the users to try it out and provide some comments and suggestions.

 
What is Woopra
Woopra is a robust web-tracking & analysis tool that works perfectly on any website. It is mainly targeted for small to medium websites ranging from few hundreds up to tens of thousands of daily page views.
Essentially, it is targeted for blogs interested in the most minuscule details of every single action. In addition, Woopra provides a precise real-time streaming of every single activity on the website.
Woopra also features a clean interface, including many graphical visualization components, such as charts, maps, panels… Along with many other clean and advanced options that make Woopra an ideal solution for webmasters who desire to discern all the aspects of their website.
After reading the introduction of woopra I felt like why some one will creates one more Analytics tool to compete to Google Analytics. Google Analytics is already providing some of those features which woopra is going to provide so what’s use. But then I felt “people are not fool to compete with Google giving same functionally like Google Analytics”. it has to be some thing more then that. So I decided to give a look at woopra features
 
Here is list of Woopra Analytics Features


Live Tracking
Rich Interface
Visitor Tagging
Instance Messaging
Real Time Analytics
Custom Notification
Developer Tool

Now if we compare this with Google Analytics then we will find none of this features are provided by Google Analytics
 
Let me discuss some of issue/Disadvantages/Cons of Woopra over Google Analytics.


I have registered for woopra but after you add site for analytics it requires approval. it takes up to 7 business days to receive Approval/Response of added site. Which is not a case for Google analytics
Real Time Analytics is one of features of Woopra, if its going to be real time then think about you site bandwidth and website loading time. I am sure it’s going to be increased by marginal percentag
Goal Conversion one of most powerful features of Google anal

Here are a few of the exciting features

* Performance graphs: Spot trends over time with custom graphs on every campaign management page.
* Insight across ad groups: Focus on the high-impact areas of your account with new roll-up tabs on every page. You can see and edit keywords, placements or ads from all ad groups on a single tab.
* In-line editing: Want to change a keyword or bid? Click on it and make changes in-line instead of loading a separate page.
* Easier content network management: Improve content network performance through a new Networks tab. Look at statistics for the placements where your ads have appeared, and then take action by setting unique bids or excluding placements directly from the report.

Keyboard shortcuts

* g then o: Go to All Online Campaigns
* g then c: Go to Campaigns tab
* g then r: Go to Ad groups tab
* g then k: Go to Keywords tab
* g then n: Go to Networks tab
* g then a: Go to Ads tab
* g then s: Go to Settings tab
Learn More About the New AdWords Interface

" Every hardship, let down, or tough time in my life has made me who I am today. And I cannot imagine being anyone different."

The e-book market is still up for grabs. And in a sign that Sony is far from ready to let Amazon get a lock on the market, yesterday it announced a deal with Google to include in its eBook Store over 500,000 public domain books scanned by the search company.

That means that while the Amazon Kindle allows readers to select for purchase from among 245,000-plus books (in addition to assorted newspapers, magazines, and blog content), the Sony Reader will now offer more than 600,000 book titles.

The big difference, however, is that many of the Sony Reader titles will be those books in the public domain and not more recent releases. In that area the Kindle will still have the edge



If anything, this news is a sign that Book Search is one product that GoogleGoogle reviewsGoogle reviews remains committed to in light of the discontinuation of other, non-core products. Other recent improvements to the tool include options for embedding books on your own site, an API, and deals with publishers to bring more content into the tool.

Google Chrome launch has a new beta

What Google claim about his new beta version. it's 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version.

This product allows a person to store transcripts of voicemail phone messages in their email (gmail) inbox and also makes it possible to find a specific information within a phone message as its converted into a text based email conversation.
This is inline with Googles strategy to organize all the worlds information and make it accessible.
Features

* Call screening - Announce and screen callers
* Listen in - Listen before taking a call
* Block calls - Keep unwanted callers at bay
* SMS - Send, receive, and store SMS
* Place calls - Call US numbers for free
* Taking calls - Answer on any of your phones
* Phone routing - Phones ring based on who calls
* Forwarding phones - Add phones and decide which ring
This product is currently open to Grand Central Users only and the features of the same can be looked up here. Its not difficult to imagine how effective this would be for business users in India.

About Google Health

Google Health allows you to store and manage all of your health information in one central place. And it's completely free. All you need to get started is a Google username and password.

Google believes that you own your medical records and should have easy access to them. The way we see it, it's your information; why shouldn't you control it?

* Keep your doctors up-to-date
* Stop filling out the same paperwork every time you see a new doctor
* Avoid getting the same lab tests done over and over again because your doctor cannot get copies of your latest results
* Don't lose your medical records because of a move, change in jobs or health insurance
* Share your health information securely with a family member, caregiver, or doctor

With Google Health, you manage your health information, and you can access it anywhere, at any time.

Features

*  Build online health profiles

*  Import medical records from hospitals and pharmacies

*  Share your health records

*  Explore online health services

Browse the online health services directory to find services that are integrated with Google Health that can help you better manage your health needs.

Google has finally fleshed out its Google Sync to work beyond just BlackBerry handsets - enabling (most) smartphone (and iPod touch) users the ability to perform bi-directional syncing of Google contacts and calendars. Today’s update adds support for iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, and any phone with SyncML support.

Google provides specific usage instructions for the following platforms: iPhone (including iPod touch), BlackBerry, Nokia S60, Nokia standard, Sony Ericsson, and Windows Mobile.  That’s pretty much all there is to it.  An official app.  Contact syncing.  Calendar syncing

Supported phone

* iPhone
* BlackBerry
* Nokia S60
* Nokia standard
* Sony Ericsson
* Windows Mobile

Microsoft has announced today at CeBIT the expanded commercial availability of its Surface machines.

Up until now Microsoft Surface, the computing platform that responds to natural hand gestures and the like, has only been available to purchase from the US and Canada.

Now it is being made available to buy in 12 markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), including France, Germany, United Arab Emirates and the UK.

As with the Surface machines available from the US and Canada, the devices are still only available for commercial businesses.

To make your life easier, google are introducing Google Ad Planner, a research and media planning tool that connects advertisers and publishers. When using Google Ad Planner, simply enter demographics and sites associated with your target audience, and the tool will return information about sites (both on and off the Google content network) that your audience is likely to visit. You can drill down further to get more detail like demographics and related searches for a particular site, or you can get aggregate statistics for the sites you've added to your media plan.

I highly suggest signing up for the beta and taking this very powerful tool for a test drive because it totally kills Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast. I am not sure how Google measures the traffic because they are a third party and they can’t actually track users unless they are directly auditing ALL users of a website.

GMail team announced the addition of a new feature in the Gmail Labs - a Task Manager, or to do list. It's quite an elegant little feature, when it and the rest of GMail work. Below we've got a two minute video tour that shows how the feature works, in case Gmail is down for you and you can't see it for yourself!

To turn on the task manager for yourself, click on the settings link in your Gmail, then go to labs, enable Task Manager and then scroll to the bottom of the page to save your changes

To enable Tasks, go to Settings, click the Labs tab (or just click here if you're signed in). Select "Enable" next to "Tasks" and then click "Save Changes" at the bottom. Then, after Gmail refreshes, on the left under the "Contacts" link, you'll see a "Tasks" link. Just click it to get started.
Tasks in Gmail Labs for your phone also

Keep track of what you need to do with this simple list that's with you everywhere you go. http://gmail.com/tasks

New! in Earth 5.0 (beta)
Google Earth is one truly amazing piece of software, and I am glad that I am alive to actually see it work - something our ancestors could not, having to settle for maps instead of turning on a computer to view other parts of the world from the comfort of their air-conditioned room. Well, there is no reason for Google to rest upon their laurels, which leads us to an improvement on their project by offering a new feature to users - allowing us to dive beneath the water surface to explore underwater terrain in 3D while browsing ocean-related content courtesy of leaders in ocean science and advocacy. Personally, I think the entire effect would be much more pronounced if Google included some sort of Trash-o-Meter to indicate which segments of the earth’s water are polluted so that more awareness can be raised among the current generation to prevent further degradation of our seven seas.

Now Advertising on TV just got easier with Google TV Ads

Google’s all-digital, user-friendly interface allows you to launch and manage your TV ad campaigns in minutes. Buy five networks or fifty − no forced bundling means that you can choose the networks that are right for you and try new networks without commitment. And as you learn what’s working with viewers, adjust your campaign accordingly with just a few clicks of the mouse



Sample TV Ads from the Ad Creation Marketplace

Google now aims to educate Indians about power of Internet with its 'Internet Bus'.

The Internet-enabled bus will focus on the four themes - education, information, communication, and entertainment. It will be loaded with useful and informative content in English and Tamil. Google said it will showcase how the Internet can make everyday life simple through services like search, email, social networking, maps and others.

The bus project took off from Chennai yesterday and will reach Vellore tomorrow and will cover numerous cities in Tamil Nadu over the next month and a half.

You can visit the Internet Bus Project website to see when the bus will visit your city; get regular updates.


Route

03 Feb Chennai
05 Feb Vellore
06 Feb Krishnagiri
07 Feb Salem
11 Feb Erode
12 Feb Tiruppur
14 Feb Coimbatore



18 Feb Dindigul
19 Feb Madurai
23 Feb Tirunelveli
25 Feb Nagercoil
27 Feb Tuticorin
02 Mar Pudukkottai
03 Mar Tiruchirappalli
06 Mar Thanjavur
08 Mar Kumbakonam
10 Mar Neyveli
12 Mar Cuddalore
13 Mar Tiruvannamalai