Kevin Rose, a part of the Milk Product Team and founder of a number of projects, has been high in demand with a number of major tech companies. Earlier it was reported that both Facebook and Google are in talks with the team to hire them. And now, it has finally come to light that Google has outdone Facebook in bagging the team in a acquire-hire sort of deal.
Google has been updating its maps. Every now and then it comes up with significant and important updates for Google Maps. This time it is about Japan’s new imagery after the Tsunami. The new updates will show the progress that has been made in these tsunami and earthquake hit areas through Google’s satellite according to The Next Web. With the help of these people who want to know what had happened can have a satellite view and those who are interested in making out studies can link their research to these Google Maps to show a better look at what happened and what recovery has been made.
Google has been very vigilant in improving the security and efficiency of it’s browser, Google Chrome, which now stands as the second most used browser around the world and may exceed Microsoft’s Internet Explorer not too later. A hacker has now found a serious exploit in the browser, while participating in Google’s Pwnium contest, a contest Google launched to entice the hackers to find vulnerabilities in Chrome. The reward for the feat was $60,000 and this has now gone to a Russian hacker.
It seems like the popularity of Google Wallet hasn’t really picked up at the pace Google expected. Reports now suggests that Google is pushing app developers to use Google Wallet rather than other rival payment alternatives. Google however stated that it’s policy hasn’t changed.
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If you have a web site, knowing what your visitors think about it is very crucial to keep your web site fresh and interesting. Whether you want to gather opinions or ideas, it is always interesting to create questionnaires. With the Google’s Documents free service Forms you can easily create an online survey that your visitors can easily fill directly on the Internet. To create your survey, you can define as many questions as you want and the form that suits you: text fields, multiple choices, checkboxes, combo boxes, etc… You can even make some mandatory questions or ask questions that depend on the answer to the previous question. Once you collect the survey results, you can easily access the data collected by the form and operate with predefined graphs or formulas. In this tutorial I will show you how to set up an online survey and process the collected data with the Google Docs Forms.
Google has invested itself deeply into Google+. Whereas the momentum of G+ hasn’t been extra-ordinary and has rather slowed down in recent times, with other social networks such as Pinterest gaining rapid traction, Google is still willing to push G+ more. During the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Google+ product manager said that by next year ‘we will be talking about Google games’ rather than games from Google’s different platforms. This clearly indicates that Google is working on a unified gaming platform.
Google’s Android Market actually has not been popular because 25 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s store, whereas only 13 billion apps have been downloaded from Google. It is just half and it is like an old things are coming back to us with new modifications style. However, Google has launched their new service named Google Play and it is integrating apps and games store with its ebook store and film rental service.
Google continues with its retiring strategy of its services that it finds has not given it much that it expected. This includes retirement of Knol too, the site where users’ can practice their skills of writings and express their knowledge and understanding on any subject they want to. It is basically a writing site, though many might have not heard of it, but it has received a fame light of its own in its heyday. There are around thousands of writers for it on a regular basis.