Google's new tabbed Gmail

Google has introduced ways to cut our time in checking our e-mails.

Welcome to tabbed mails.

Using this methodology, our e-mails will get divided into certain sections. This will be done so that we can only check the mails that we want to check. For example, if you want to check a mail sent by your close friend, you don't need to search that mail from the host of e-mails that you get everyday.

Instead, since your mails will get sorted into sections, you can enter a section (tab), and check your e-mail in a jiffy. Well, this is tabbed e-mail system and it should work great in your inbox too.

This will help you to prioritize your e-mails that are really important for you.

This method is not enabled by default. To enable it, go to your email 'Settings', click on 'Configure Inbox'. The different tabs available are Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates and Forums. Since your mails will be sorted in this format, you can check your mails in a flash and spend less time for other unimportant mails.

The below video also describes it all,

WatsApp and a Billion $$$

Going once .. Going twice .. Going thrice .. and it's a Billion !!!

Rumor has it that the most popular mobile chat software 'WatsApp' may be going for sale. The party to buy this mobile czar is none other than our next door neighbor 'Google'. Seriously if Google does buy WatsApp, nothing can beat the Internet Giants.

What's interesting is that last year or so FB has been on the lookout to buy WatsApp. But it seems that the deal just never took off. WatsApp being the best mobile chat messenger may be having other plans. But WatsApp can do big things if it sticks to what it has been doing rather than sell off your greatest and the most popular idea to net giants. 

Look at FB, they have gone miles from where they have started. From a simple social networking start-up leading to a billion dollar jackpot. And now FB deals with e-Commerce, Ads, Apps of all nature and sizes, Chat, Messaging, Groups and a whole lot of user benefit initiatives. That's what time does. You think, scratch hard and your start-up is a profit making venture. 

I would really like WatsApp to go the long way. It's tough but it's worth taking a risk :)

Google Goggles

It's finally out.

For Google fans, there's a good news. Android has opened out a new application called the 'Google Goggles'. It's on the same line as is discussed on my post Project Glass

Just in short, the application enables you to take a snap or a recording of anything around you. It then scans the image/recording and then provides information about the object you've recorded.

A good aspect of this app is that it's available for free :)

But there's a bad news too. It works well only for a few things like Text, Products,Landmarks, Logos, Artwork, Barcodes and a few more objects. Doesn't quite give a good experience with Furniture, Apparel and Animals.

The obvious reason being that things listed it works fine with, Google has taken initiatives to store and acquire such type of data with them. Artwork has been captured through their Art Project, Landmarks using Google Maps, Products and Logos using Images that they have stored using Picassa.

Overall it's a good application. It needs work on a lot of areas though before it can becomes foolproof.

Follow the app here

Google Turing Machine Tribute

Yesterday , Google gave a tribute to the popular scientist Alan Turing on the Google homepage. It was Alan Turing's 100th birth anniversary.

Turing had developed the Turing Machine in 1936 used widely around the world even today. 

His studies have come to great use by the scientists around the world and nothing better than a fitting tribute to a genius.

From Hotmail to Newmail

Microsoft has nowadays been kept busy by fellow competitors to hold on to its e-mail service customers. To keep the interest going on its e-mail service, the Silicon Valley giants have decided to give a makeover to its long serving Hotmail.

Hotmail was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and launched in July 1996.

This e-mail service is close to getting 2 decades old and is the world's largest web-based email service with 364 million members, followed by Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, respectively. It is available in 36 different languages.

The new e-mail service will be called 'NewMail'. It may bear some resemblance to Gmail owing to its similar font. The search engine Microsoft Bing also shares a similar web interface as Google search engine with the search results getting displayed in the same blue font and style.

The new service will keep the user updated on their Facebook and Twitter activities as well. This will help Microsoft enter the world of social networking, diverting from it's products that used to focus purely on office softwares.

This service will work properly on mobile devices, tablets etc. Microsoft has some bigger targets to achieve on the Social Networking front. Integrating other networking services on it's products is a good idea sure to keep the customers on their pages and increase their market.

Google Doodle

Google today came out with its new doodle to pay tribute to the great Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé. It was his 166th birthday today.


Peter was well known for his easter eggs known as Fabergé eggs. He made these eggs by using precious metals and gemstones.

Google Knowledge Graph

Well what is it? The Knowledge Graph (KG) is actually a box that appears next to the search engine. Not any ordinary box though :)

Google say it's a kind of revolution that they have brought for the search engine. It will contain humongous amount of data that connects places, people and things and their relation with each other. It will lead you to your exact required search that you need to gather information about. It can be used to further enhance your search result.

The Knowledge Graph can understand the difference if the search may have different meanings and accordingly provide you the results that you are looking for.

The knowledge graph will not only provide information about the search you are asking for, but it will also provide information and links about subjects related  to the search that you have given in the search box bar. For example, if you search about 'Earth' the planet, it may also give you information about the other planets in the Solar System. They will only refine the search results by analyzing what people are often looking for the same search that people give on the search bar so that you will probably get the desired results only for your search.

This means you can also see key facts about the search that you have given based on the questions other people have asked on the search.

This feature will also be available on smartphones, desktops, laptops so that you can discover more information and other features at the go and at your fingertips.

This will mean less amount of wastage of time and effort for your search and spending the same amount of time for your further analysis. How nice that would be.

The KG provides answers and not just links. A knowledge engine then may be the right word rather than a search engine.

You can look for the demo here.

Watch the video, they make it so good :)

Google's Augmented Eyewear - Project Glass?

Google is at an all time revelation make. The normal eye-wear may just be a thing of the past now. Google X was started by Google Labs with an intention to develop amazing technologies. And this one gets very close to the WOW moment one can imagine of.

The're on the verge of developing an eye-wear which can show you maps, chats, route directions and much more than one can think of. Street view, Friend lists etc etc. Thinking is one thing but thinking and making it is another.

It really takes brilliance to do something like that and Google aren't short of it. With a host of new devices and inventions, this one takes the cake. I had posted an article about Apple developing a seriously cool I-phone http://techstuffwiz.blogspot.in/2011/11/apple-itransparent-concept-phone.html . Well at least I can't wait to lay my hands on these techno freak devices.

Competition is better and who knows what these guys will come up with next. It only gets better :) . But time and again they have proved to be the masters of technology and innovation and this one just makes it a little more interesting.

Google Gravity .... It all falls down

Google has come up with a gravitational effect called Google gravity
go to this site
http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/

With a move of the mouse cursor , the elements on the webpage come down giving the effect of gravitational pull. Look below in the pic ....

Whereas for updates for the rest of the products,the list below is taken from blogs of google.

Sidewiki
Over the past few years, we’ve seen extraordinary innovation in terms of making the web collaborative. So we’ve decided to discontinue Sidewiki and focus instead on our broader social initiatives. Sidewiki authors will be given more details about this closure in the weeks ahead, and they’ll have a number of months to download their content.

Desktop
In the last few years, there’s been a huge shift from local to cloud-based storage and computing, as well as the integration of search and gadget functionality into most modern operating systems. People now have instant access to their data, whether online or offline. As this was the goal of Google Desktop, the product will be discontinued on September 14, including all the associated APIs, services, plugins, gadgets and support.

Image Labeler
We began Google Image Labeler as a fun game to help people explore and label the images on the web. Although it will be discontinued, a wide variety of online games from Google are still available.

Fast Flip
Fast Flip was started to help pioneer news content browsing and reading experiences for the web and mobile devices. For the past two years, in collaboration with publishers, the Fast Flip experiment has fueled a new approach to faster, richer content display on the web. This approach will live on in our other display and delivery tools.

The rest of the list includes Aardvark, Google Maps API for Flash, Google Pack etc.