Did you miss a day on Techmeme? If that day was the 28th, you might have missed a new buzzword on the blogosphere. If not, you must be by now, jammed with the keyword-Cuil. Launched as the Google killer(yeah right) by ex-Googlers, Cuil did manage to make the entire blogosphere go haywire and make them lap it all up desperately, as if the Blogosphere was desperately waiting for a debutante. And then they talked and talked about it, about how they managed to index the web, the image results and then the hype on day 1 brought the site down. The site couldn’t handle the unexpected load on day 1 and was temporarily unavailable. But then, the question is, how did Cuil manage to create such a buzz all over?
If everywhere, everyone has been flooded with this image showing an article on INSOMNIA, it is so because KNOL is out for the public now. KNOL is Google’s knowledge base ( a way to tackle Wikipedia) of articles written by people ranging from specialised ones to bloggers to anyone stung by the writer’s bug. As if your blogger/wordpress account wasn’t enough. Google wants to centralise it all. But yeah, no one here would be interested a status update of you at 2 am. Articles here aren’t anonymous. There are personally written posts (quite long ones) on topics by people who are specialized enough to know the ins and outs.
Firstly, do NOT go to Knol.com. That is a Dutch website offering Steam machines. The business for them is so gonna break through the roof. At least they should include Adsense!! Anyway coming back, the official website of Knol is http://knol.google.com. And the homepage has a few past articles featured written by authors who are Neurologists, Proffessors at renowned Universities, and highly qualified physicians. Most of the written posts featured on the homepage are on health topics viz. Heart Diseases, Cancer, Fighting Obesity etc. But there are other topics as well. As this one, written by a certain Chewy (Geeky Geekington) who has written a post on Devil May Cry 4. And from his anonymous profile, (here known as biography of the author) we still don’t know much about Mr.Chewy. So that brings us what Knol is all about. I shall point it out in the points below.
Category : google
Tags: gmail, google, intro
I knew this would soon be fixed and it was quite sooner than I expected. If you have closely followed the trend, anyone whom you mailed twice appeared in your contact list on the left side chat window. This made your chat window filled with even all those names with whom you would never chat. The result- an unorganised, cluttered and populated chat contact list. And as expected, it is FIXED. GMail Blog reports today that the automatic addition to contact list has been modified. The automatic contacts addition/update still works but on two levels viz. My Contacts and Suggested Contacts.
What is the difference? My Contacts are the one added by you explicitly through invites,import,sync etc. This also includes frequently mailed email IDs (not as frequent as the previous one, this one now has a minimum of 5 emails. )
And well, Suggested Contacts is where GMail puts in all the auto-created contacts. The default settings are, that for frequent email-ed Suggested Contacts will be automatically shifted to My Contacts. But the settings can be altered. Through this, the usage based addition to My Contacts can be changed or even removed.
I’d say this one is a good change. Would definitely remove a lot of clutter on my contact list. At least I can tick one on the checklist now.
Rub your eyes, pinch yourself and still it will be true. Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing Truphone, a new Application available for FREE on the Appstore and with which you don’t have to worry about that international roaming when you want to call back home. For frequent flyers, or people who are always on the move (of course, this one has a catch, but what good thing doesn’t), Truphone is the perfect solution to reduce all those International Roaming Bills that have burned not juts a hole, but your entire pocket.
So here is the deal. Instead of the regular GSM network, all you need is to switch over an Internet network via Wi-Fi and voila, through Truphone you can make calls to anywhere for FREE. Anywhere? Yes, anywhere across the world -to landlines, to mobiles et al. But not all of them are for free. And here is the catch!!!
Category : apple
Tags: apple.iPhone
I don’t need to keep repeating what the zillions of bloggers across nations are busy writing now in languages I can’t keep count of. Every second blogger right now is blogging about the new iPhone or the App store. People have been waiting for nearly 72 hours in queue and braving cold, heat, and even ridiculous price plans to lay their hands on the new darling from Cupertino-phew, the new iPhone 3G. So, by the time this post will be finished, there is just 2 hours for the clock to strike 8 am at the 5th Avenue store in Manhattan,NY.And then there is the utter confusion of whether people are more excited over the new iPhone or the App Store’s simultaneous release. There are almost 500 plus apps up for grabs with almost 30% of them being free. Like it or hate it, you just can’t ignore it nor can you get enough of it.
This is not another post which will keep you engaged with many more features of what the new iPhone looks like, feels like, or how it is when it is unboxed etc etc. This is just one huge post of all the biggies who have reported this LARGER THAN APPLE event. And we begin with the marathon post which spans across the world.
Engadget’s LiveBlog of the International Launch of iPhone 3G
And after the jump, all that the blogosphere is buzzing around with. (To have a sneak peek, go straight to the current page of Techmeme, and you’ll get a taste of it).
Google’s first native app for the new iPhone 3G and iPod Touch has been just unveiled. And from what we have seen from it, it is almost too good to be true. The power of Google in yur palm, on the move, all in ONE BIG APP. It combines all the services of Google (almost) and brings it to your new iPhone and iPod Touch. And even with enhanced features like, suggested search keywords, suggested website domains, local services integrated with Google Maps and even call history search. Needless to say it is for FREE.The best part of it is of course TAP TAP TAP!!
To get the Google Mobile App, go to the App Store on your iPhone/iPod Touch or your iTunes and search for Google Mobile App. One more thing, it is still not available elsewhere but only in the US.
And what other features does it carry besides Search. Almost all the Google services which include: GMail, Calender, GTalk, Docs, Google 411, Maps, News, Notebook, Photos, Reader, Youtube and iGoogle. Check out the Youtube video after the Jump.
