Introducing Google TV
Google launched a new service today called Google TV in an attempt to expand beyond its usual area of business. At the launch, Google took a few jabs at Apple for not supporting Adobe Flash, saying, “It turns out on the Internet people use Flash.” The Google TV will use the next version of Flash.TV meets web. Web meets TV.
Learn more about Google TV at:
www.google.com/tv
Google Inc said it may create a standalone version of its Buzz social networking product but won’t separate Buzz from its Gmail service, a linkup that has spurred controversy over privacy.
Google, the world’s No.1 Internet search engine launched Buzz earlier this week in a bid to tap into the fast-growing social networking market dominated by companies like Facebook and Twitter.
Buzz allows users to broadcast messages and share photos and videos with friends and colleagues online, similar to Twitter and Facebook.
But unlike those services, Buzz is built directly into Google’s Gmail and the product automatically creates each users’ social network based on the person’s most-frequently emailed contacts.
“We have considered, among all the other features that we add to Buzz in the future, to create a standalone experience in addition to it being in Gmail,” Google spokeswoman Victoria Katsarou said.
BUZZ TWEAKED TO TACKLE PRIVACY FLAWS
Google moved quickly to contain a firestorm of criticism over Buzz, and tweaked it to address privacy problems. Under fire was the ready circle of friends that Buzz gave new users.This was based on the most frequent e-mail and chat contacts. Now, Buzz suggests to new users people they may want to follow or want to be followed by. Buzz will also no longer connect public Picasa albums and items users shared on Google Reader automatically.
Also, Google is creating a new Buzz tab in Gmail’s settings page that allows users option to disable Buzz, deleting their posts and removing Google profile, which in many cases listed publicly a user’s circle of contacts.
On Tuesday, Google introduced a new service called Google Buzz, a way for users of its Gmail service to share updates, photos and videos. The service will compete with sites like Facebook and Twitter, which are capturing an increasing percentage of the time people spend online.
No setup neededAutomatically follow the people you email and chat with the most in Gmail.
Share publicly or privatelyPublish your ideas to the world or just to your closest friends.
Inbox integration
Comments get sent right to your inbox so it's easy to keep the conversation going.
Photo friendlySee thumbnails with each post, and browse full-screen photos from popular sites.
Connect sites you already useImport your stuff from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader.
See updates in real timeNew posts and comments pop in as they happen. No refresh required.
Just the good stuff
Buzz recommends interesting posts and weeds out ones you're likely to skip.
Google Buzz Website
The Internet Bus Project is an attempt educate people about what the Internet is, and how it may be beneficial to their lives, by taking the Internet experience to them through a customised Internet-enabled bus, which will travel to several towns and cities across India.
This very unique initiative is launched by Google India to educate the offline population in India about the benefits of Internet.
It is a web connected bus that will travel to different cities of India giving people an opportunity to experience the Internet first hand through the various computers installed inside the bus.
The Internet Bus website is
http://google.co.in/internetbus. Here you can see the exact itinerary of the bus or check out Picasa -
http://picasaweb.google.com/internetbusindia/ for more photos of this Internet bus.
The bus was flagged from Chennai and will cover most cities in the state of Tamil Nadu over the next six weeks. Prem Ramaswami & Srikanth Belwadi of Google India say that the bus will showcase Internet services like search, email, social networking, maps and others.
