Filed under: Google, Googleholic
Googleholic for May 7, 2008

In this edition:
- Google Maps gets a minor makeover
- Increased photo storage on Orkut
- Multi-size embedding and select for Google Presentations
- Google supports Unicode 5.1
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Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google, Social Software
Sure, Orkut may be big in some nations. But in the US and Europe, Google is best known as a a search engine/e-mail provider. While the company lost out on its bid to own a stake in Facebook, maybe Google doesn't really need Facebook.Filed under: Business, Blogging, Web services, Google, Social Software, web 2.0
Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google, P2P
It seems like Google could be working on integrating Google Talk into their social networking tool, Orkut. The Google Talk and Orkut teams are rumored to be in the final stages of the developmental integration, with news of the rollout this week. Google came to the decision to integrate the two tools when they noticed that users of Orkut quite frequently had their Talk application open. Through the new Google Talk integration, Orkut users will be able to voice chat or instant message other users immediately. Users of Orkut, will also have their friends list show up in their GTalk users buddy list. Maybe this will pump up Orkut, and move it on up to competing with the likes of MySpace.Filed under: Google, Googleholic

Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, Google, Social Software
It's been a long time coming, but Google has finally handed over Orkut data to Brazilian authorities. Google is complying by surrendering data on users with the requests that were requested by Brazilian courts. Filed under: Google, Googleholic

Filed under: Web services, Google, Googleholic
Filed under: Google, Googleholic
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