Category Archives: Google

Group Chat in Google Talk Gadget

The web based Google talk gadget now allows you chat with multi users in a group chat. To open group chat click on the icon Group Chat when you are on a conversation with somebody, you can invite several people … Continue reading

Youtube Gadget for iGoogle

YouTube has created an iGoogle Gadget to add it to your Google homepage. It’s the first official youtube gadget for iGoogle. YouTube gadget enables you to watch videos and search directly in the gadget itself without leaving your home page. … Continue reading

Google Acquired Feedburner

Now its official, Google acquired [tag]Feedburner[/tag]. After much rumors the deal is through. Google Blog Excerpts As you know, we’re constantly looking for ways to identify and offer new tools for content creators and website publishers. Likewise, we constantly aim … Continue reading

Google acquires GreenBorder

Google’s acquisition spree continues with the latest acquisition of GreenBorder, a company focussed on security software. GreenBorder Pro is designed to protect computers from malware execution through browsers. The software separates browsing session from the computer virtually, so that malware … Continue reading

Adsense Video ads formats extended

Google Video ad formats now extended to support the 728×90 Leaderboard, 120×600 Skyscraper, and the 160×600 Wide Skyscraper. Previously video ads were enabled only for rectangles and squares. Now publishers using leaderboards and sky scrapers can also be able to … Continue reading

Gtalk Gadget adds emoticons

The Google Talk Gadget now supports emoticons, they just introduced this feature. Now you can IM your freinds with your favorite emoticons, total 15 emoticons to show your emotions. These emoticons comes in 3 different types, rounded, ractangled and naked. … Continue reading

Rumor confirmed: Google to acquire feedburner

Last week rumors started that Google is interested in acquiring Feedburner, today Techcrunch reported that the deal is confirmed. Feedburner to receive $100 million from Google for this acquisition. Feedburner is a popular service among blogs for RSS management. Feedburner … Continue reading

Google Introduces New Blog for Online Security

Google introduces an online security blog to keep users up to date with the recent trends, interesting findings, and efforts related to online security particularly malware. I wrote about Google’s efforts to identify malware sites, now they have started this … Continue reading

Google Adsense disabling arbitrage publisher accounts

Google Adsense is disabling all arbitrage publisher accounts from June 1st onwards. Google is sending emails to all these account holders saying that their business model is not suitable. What is Arbitrage: From wikipedia “arbitrage is the practice of taking … Continue reading

Better Google Reader for Firefox

Lifehacker came up with a firefox extension to pimp Google Reader in Firefox. Better greader is a Firefox addon that rolled up three greasemonkey scripts (maximizing the viewing area, skipping Google’s default subscribe mechanism, and adding keyboard shortcuts.) in one … Continue reading