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Google buzz and google map’s latitude soon going to be married
Mar 10th
Google buzz and google map’s latitude soon going to be married(via: eweek), most you know what google buzz is if you’re a gmail user, also latitude if you use google maps extensively,
google latitude, it will share your whereabouts to your friends, eg: you run google maps application, and it joined latitude program, and have the google maps application run all the time, you’re friends will know were are you right now etc. it is fun at the same time huge privacy problem, now they have alert service to remind the users that their location is being shared.
google buzz, have privacy issues too, it will expose all my google contacts to public, and if you are not careful and spend enough time with it, you never know who is reading your updates, next time someone from next cubicle smiling at you strangely go check it out, if you have buzzed anything weird to your friends, i mean all your friends.
with these two major privacy issues, i cant imagine, this two joining hands, this is going to be very big privacy discussion yet to happen. just imagine, everybody know where are you moving, what are you doing, what areyou thinking… lol reminds me “truman show” movie.
already these privacy stuff started eating me, not just google buzz and latitude, there are many other. there should be a application that promises “ just tell me, i will not tell anyone.” i see a huge market for it.
Google wave now notify the updates to your email
Mar 5th
Finally google wave ready to do a bit to reach outside world, now it will send notification to your email id, whenever there’s a update at your wave, if you got added to new wave, etc.
I dont think they’re going to send out a micro updates like a email for each and every updates at wave, that will be annoying for sure.
Also it seems like you will get update notification even for the changes made by you, i think it comes under known bug.
Seriously, anyone using the google wave for anything serious? I used it for couple of consulting project i worked on, my client insisted on that, end of the work we were talking much in google talk and hardly used google wave at later.
Anyways, google wave started doing bit to reach outside world, i hope it will start talking to others as well like email, social network, blog etc… you can google.
Posted by Wordmobi
tweeter’s advert dream..how far or close?
Mar 3rd
Recently read a article from gigaom, that twitter trying to set up a advertisement medium like google did. I have mixed feeling about, this can be good for both – users and twitter or suicidal for twitter alone.
Why twitter cant follow food steps of google, facebook in twitter?
Simple, google and facebook serve their visitors on their webpage, but twitter is different, they serve their users from anywhere, i.e any twitter clients, not necessary visit twitter website anymore once account created and patched with twitter client.
What they can do now?
1. Either they need to lure their users to start using the website primarily. In this case there will be loss of users, many comfortable tweeting from the client tools.
2. Force client tools to display the twitter adverts. – this might be feasible, but again how far the tweet clients going to agree is the big question. Again, will client ok with this, for instance i tweet ONLY from my mobile using gravity tweeter client, i will be annoyed to see adverts in my client.
3. Else post the advert tweets between actual tweets, this is already happening, some third party players will send across the adverts need to be tweeted and you post it, and they pay you based on clicks, views etc.
Probably tweeter will choose what is happening in 3rd point with some customization, they might capture the geo location, frequently used hash tags, tweeted subjects, following people, and being followed by etc and decide what kind of advert will suit them and their followers and send across the advert text and ask us to tweet, to be less annoying, and probably share money or some sort of karma points etc.
Bloom box – energy box launching this wednessday.
Feb 22nd
Bloom energy a ultra stealthy fuel cell maker, founded by indian origin scientist Dr. K.R. Sridhar, is launching officially this wednessday.
Has produced working fuel cell box, that will be in the size of a wardrobe that can power entire house.
Fuel cells technology was under development by many companies from samsung to toyota, but the problem is it was expensive, bloom box is expected should be affordable a little.
Early customers are google and ebay, were using the large bloom box’s which is said to cost between $700000 – $800000, this will power their campuses and data centers.
Sridhar, said they are planning to produce smalled bloom boxes that will cost under $3000 for residential market in 5 – 10 years.
There’s interesting story behind bloom box, Sridhar, originally developed it for NASA, but not to create energy but produce oxygen in mars, but when NASA dropped the mars mission, Sridhar reversed Oxygen creating machine by taking oxygen as input, awesome isnt it?
Future looks green 
Posted by Wordmobi
Farmville reached 80 million user mark
Feb 21st
wow, can you believe it? Farmville’s daily active user count is 29.7 million, they’re using it everyday.
For those dont know what farmville is, i bet you dont have facebook account. Its a app in facebook, a small game within facebook, damn addictive, i recently gave farmville in my facebook before i end up any rehab for it.
According to appdata, farmville reached 80 million monthly active users this week, facebook has 400 million users.
Posted by Wordmobi
Google energy?
Feb 21st
Google added Google energy a subsidiary under its huge umbrella, which got approval from federal energy regulatory commission to buy and sell energy.
nope, google isnt power company yet, but they might have plan for the future, right now they are doing it because they need control on their high energy costs, and become carbon neutral and use green credit. Just imagine how much power would need to back up their data centers, that entire world uses.
Posted by Wordmobi
html5 coming, bye bye google gears
Feb 21st
long back google already sent out the message that google will stop google gears development and invest that effort in html5.
after google, another player using gears most is zoho, they aee following google route and explore the possibilities with html5, untill the support will be available for their products with gear.
What is html5? Need to explore, will let u know, when i know any.
Posted by Wordmobi
