Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:
- Google Maps tracks Olympic torch around world
- Google hiring: "Gmail doesn't yet build itself"
Google Maps tracks Olympic torch around world
Starting March 24th, the Olympic torch will leave Greece on its way to Beijing and the rest of the world. A grand tradition to spread the Olympic spirit, peace, and friendship - and you can now track it's progress on Google! If you're passively interested in the location of the torch this is the place to go. If you'd like to share the experience you can embed it in a website. But if you need more tracking ability, you will need Google Earth, into which you add the tracking info and you're good to go. Have fun watching the icon move from place to place!
Google hiring: "Gmail doesn't yet build itself"
It looks like Google is looking to acquire some more minions to build more Gmail goodness. Along some of the positions they are hiring for are a Rapid Prototyper and User Interface Software Engineer. A new look for Gmail in the making (again)? A new feature that will blow everyone's mind (again)? Or maybe they are just going to try to keep tame the beast that is Gmail.
It's been a busy week in Google world. More things Google related we covered this week:
- New project aims to combine Flickr, Google Earth, and "spatial location" - Project which aims to combine Flickr and Google Earth by placing 2D photos within a 3D environment. Take "I've been there" to the next level.
- Yahoo and Google go on a date: we'll see where it goes from there - Yahoo is testing Google's Ads, since it seems to be losing faith in bringing in ad revenue on their own. Beginning of a heartfelt relationship or just a fling?
- Google adds PowerPoint export option for presentations - Finally, the much needed ability to be able to export your Google presentations in PPT format has been added.
- HuddleChat is dead, long live Campfire - Shortly after going up, HuddleChat went down, after people criticized Google for imitating Campfire. Google earns a point in PR here, which instead of making a fuss, wisely decided to focus attention on the Google App Engine instead.
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4-12-2008 @ 4:41PM
tahar said...
slt
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4-13-2008 @ 7:09AM
keeves said...
There is an interesting graph on their hiring page showing that about 70% of the total mail that gmail receives is spam
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