Google Pakistan

Today is 14 august 2011 , Clicked Google for searching and found that the big G has turned into green on the Independence day of Pakistan.

They have turned Google Pakistan into a very right combination of colors and symbols. Moon & star following Minar-e-Pakistan , which is the symbol of declaration of Pakistan in Lahore . But , there are some more little stars which is the sign of celebration of Independence day.

As a Pakistani i am personally very proud of Google that they have supported somehow from this world .

Thank you Google!

Google is finally set to give tough time to Facebook .  The searching giant recently launched Google+, a social networking site that aims to rectify the company’s failed social media efforts, such as Google Buzz and Wave, and put a dent in Facebook’s business.

So does Google+ stand a chance against Facebook, which is now over 750 million users strong and hasbeen valued at $100 billion? Google isn’t giving up without a fight: the behemoth needs a hit in the social space and one Google executive called Google+ a bet-the-company effort. To help you decide, here’s a look at six features Google+ has that Facebook doesn’t (You can see what they have in common here).

Are these elements important? Are they enough to tempt you to make the switch–or at least join Google+? Let us know in the comments below. For more on Google+, check out our tips for Google+ newbies and 9 things you need to know about Google’s new social network.

Seperate News feed

Google+ comes with “Sparks,” a basic news reader offering users access to separate news feeds covering a variety of different topics. Google+ members can customize what interests appear on their Sparks page, which is directly accessible from their Google+ profile. Clicking on one of the topic–say “soccer,” or “fashion”–in the Sparks page delivers a stream of stories from around the web, presenting the headline and first several sentences of articles from outlets such as New York Magazine, The Next Web, and YouTube.

What differentiates Sparks from the Facebook news feed is its focus on specific topics and on news: you won’t find information on your friend’s newborn, but you will find highlights from blogs, newspapers, and other media outlets sorted by topic.

Keep Your Social Circle secret

When Google+ users sort their friends, acquaintances and other contacts into Circles, no one else knows how they’ve been grouped. Google will show other Google+ users who you’ve put into your Circles, as well as who has put you into their Circles, but it won’t reveal how you’ve characterized those Circles–who else in them, how they’re titled, etc. For each post on Google+, users can specify, via a convenient drop-down menu, what Circles can see the content.

Facebook Groups operate a bit differently. Though there are different privacy settings (“open,” “closed,” and “secret”), the bottom line is that all the members of the group will be able to see all the other members of that group, as well as the type of group they’ve been added to. The members of an individuals’ Circle are visible only to the invidual who created it.

In addition, Facebook uses Lists, not Groups, to help users restrict the audience that can view status updates and other posts. But Lists remain an imperfect solution, requiring extra steps for users, who have to click through several screens to specify what “list” to share with, and setting up Lists isn’t quite as seamless as on Google+. The New York Times’ David Pogue observes, “Facebook has something similar, called Lists. But compared with Circles, it’s buried and a lot more effort to use.”

See What Strangers Are Saying

Whereas on Facebook the only posts and status updates that appear in your news feed come from people you’re friends with, Google+ allows you to see updates from people you aren’t yet following, but who are following you. The “Incoming” stream displays posts from other Google+ users who have put you into their Circles, but you have not yet “circled.” You can follow them if you choose by putting them into one of your circles.

Hang Out With People You Don't Know

Facebook Chat requires you to be friends with someone before you can chat with them. Google Hangouts, for better or for worse, are much more open: up to ten people can join a Hangout video chat, and they need not be in each others’ Circles to do so. If you’ve “circled” someone, but she hasn’t put you in one of her Circles, you can still join a Hangout she creates.

Get To It From Gmail (Or Google.com)

Via its social graph, Facebook has spread far beyond its Facebook.com domain. Facebook “like” buttons populate a slew of news sites, your Facebook friends’ activity appears on numerous third-party sites, and more and more of the information you see is customized based on your Facebook profile and personal interests.

Facebook follows people around the web, encouraging them to constantly engage with and click back to its site, but Google+ has its own advantage: it’s embedded directly into Gmail, valuable real estate that users navigate to repeatedly each day. Every interaction with their email inbox presents an opportunity for them to log on to Google+–with a single click, users can go from their inbox to their social network. Google+’s integration with Gmail also provides an easy way to populate the social network.

Embedded in the black header that now appears on Google.com, Google+ also follows people as they browse the search engine. In other words, Google has found a way to immediately put Google+ in front of users multiple times a day.

Facebook and Google in the ring

Facebook vs Google

Google announced Tuesday the launch of a new social network, called Google +, or Google Plus, which aims to take on Facebook. As our sources reported:

Google made a huge announcement this tuesday, launching Google +, or Google Plus, its long-awaited version of a social network to rival Facebook.

Google’s been trying to crack the social market for years, running into false starts with content-sharing services Wave and Buzz. (The former fizzled and the latter set off a privacy complaints that ended with a lawsuit and an FTC settlement.) Many have been waiting for Google’s big push into social since it rolled out its +1 button in March, especially as Facebook gets cozy with its search rival, Microsoft.

And then, today, Google announced +. The site bears a striking resemblance to Facebook, with streaming feeds and specialized groups of friends. In fact, Google + gathers many of the features of existing social networks.

The network has five basic components: Circles, Sparks, Hangouts, Instant Uploads and Huddle. It also requires a Google profile, meaning you’ll need to provide Google, at minimum, with a name and a photo.

Circles lets you group your contacts — e.g. friends, work, family. Like Facebook, this features lets you share information with groups of contacts instead of hitting everyone with your latest update at once. Sparks acts like an RSS reader or Facebook news feed, letting you input things you’re interested in and pushing relevant content to you. Hangouts features live group video chats, aiming to foster spontaneous meetings with up to 10 people. You can also alert certain groups of friends when you’re hanging out.

Instant Uploads takes care of the increasingly important mobile aspect of social networking, automatically posting users’ phone pictures and videos to a private album. From there, users can decide if and with whom they want to share their media. You also have the option to add location data to every Google + post.

And Huddle is a group texting feature — similar to Beluga, which Facebook acquired in March — that lets you have a group chat through your phone.

Some analysts are asking whether Google expansion into the social media sphere is a bad move. TechCruch guest contributor Semil Shah asked the same question:

Today’s soft-launch of Google’s new social galaxy, Google+, raises one interesting question: Can Google, a massive, multinational, cash-rich, consumer technology company with multiple successful productivity applications and services, take its dough out of the oven and bake a social network into their bread?

-Jago News-

Google Calls

Google is coming up with some amazing and needy upgrade that we will be able to call anyone from our Gmail. Gmail and Google voice together soon to launch phone call integration within Google chat and Gmail.

Our resources have told Google is testing now days , and the test is going at its best. So soon you will find this fusion of GTALK!

Citing several Google employees, the report claims the decision to move to other operating systems, including Apple Inc’s Mac OS and open-source Linux, began in earnest in January, after Google’s Chinese operations were hacked.

Internet security firm McAfee Inc said at the time, the cyber attacks on Google and other businesses had exploited a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, which was vulnerable on all recent versions of Windows.

 The FT quoted one Google employee as saying: “We’re not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort.” Another said: “Getting a new Windows machine now requires CIO (chief information officer) approval.”

Google said in a statement: “We’re always working to improve the efficiency of our business, but we do not comment on specific operational matters.”

Google, which already offers e-mail, Web and other software products that compete with Microsoft’s offerings, is developing its own operating system based on its Chrome browser. It will initially target netbooks, or inexpensive, pared-down notebook PCs.

Microsoft Windows runs about nine out of 10 of the world’s personal computers.

Pack-Man game in Google

Google surprised everyone this Saturday , having a Pac-Man game , inside Google embedded, This might be surprising that google this time introduces game on search engine page. However, this year google is more frequent in doing such things.

As, google use to change logo with some event , or some special day. What you think will this be more entertaining to have such a google.

Earth Day - Grow her Green once again

Google Celebrates Earth Day, recent event of  Volcanic explosion in Iceland gives an indication how we are ignoring our Earth needs , we have bound ourself to destroy this earth in respect of our wishes.  

Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22, 1970. Earth Day is celebrated in spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Many communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on environmental issues.

The first Earth Week originated in Philadelphia in 1970 (starting April 16 and culminating on Earth Day, April 22.) Earth Day Network, a group that wishes to become the coordinator of Earth Day globally, asserts that Earth Day is now observed on April 22 on virtually every country on Earth. World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5 in a different nation every year, is the principal United Nations environmental observance.

This is an appeal to the whole world please “Save this Beautiful Planet”.

Google Leaving China

Google’s decision to cease its operation in China is edging closer to reality after months of negotiations. China Business News reports that Google plans to leave China on April 10, 2010.

The report quotes an unidentified Google China employee, but this information has not been confirmed by Google. Allegedly, Google gave its China employees the option of moving to the company’s U.S. headquarters or working for its Asia-Pacific operations.

If this is true, it once again raises the question of what, exactly, is Google pulling out from China: its entire operations or just the search engine, which it has declined to censor? The latter now seems more likely.

In any case, if Google does pull out, it may be a long, long time before it returns. Peter Lui, who was formerly Google’s financial controller for the Asia Pacific region, said that Google’s public announcement to leave had “burnt bridges… There is no way Google can ever come back.”

Do you think , Google will quit from china due to censor issues of search engine?

YouTube Dropping Support For IE6 Starting 13th March

March 13, 2010, YouTube will no longer officially support Internet Explorer 6. Ars Technica found the specific date buried in a YouTube Help item pertaining to browser support. Under the section header, “When does older browser support end for YouTube and what does this mean?,” it reads:

“Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won’t work in older browsers.”

The support entry also details that Google’s YouTube will notify site visitors of the change in browser support by displaying an interstitial every two weeks — indefinitely until the user upgrades — that will serve as a very blatant visual reminder and encourage IE6 browsers to upgrade accordingly.