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Google presents Fast Clip news service for faster news browsing

Rohan Khanna — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:13:29 +0000

Fast Clip is a new tool launched by Google. This will enable a quicker news browsing. The objective of this browsing tool is to reproduce the experience that reading a magazine gives.
“One problem with reading news online today is that browsing can be really slow. A media-rich page loads dozens of files and can take as much as 10 seconds to load over broadband, which can be frustrating. Hence Fast Clip is a way to flip through articles really fast without unnatural delays, just as we can in print”, claims Google.
There is a selection of news stories, most viewed, recommended (which learns from your browsing habits) and headlines in this service by GoogleLabs.
You can read the stories of your choice and choose from the categories namely, politics, sci/tech, entertainment and all others available on Google news.

The Fast Clip news tool will also be available on the iPhone and Android phones.

Facebook is most popular after Google

Rohan Khanna — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:21:45 +0000

Facebook is the most visited website after Google.com, Facebook has been ever growing after it’s relaunch under the name facebook.com from older domain thefacebook.com.

It’s traffic never went down and is still going upwards. And if it maintain their current growth for more 3-6 months they may be the mosted visited website on internet.

6 months back facebook has been the 10th most visited website in the world,where as today its the second most visited website. As per Alexa it have the maximum number of page impressions beating Google, Yahoo and Youtube.com, but their overall traffic rank is 2. where as google stands at rank 1 and yahoo at 3.

The recent launch of facebook lite can even further pull up their traffic to beat Google. Facebook don’t have a strong business plan to convert their traffic into money. but as per their management they are not really looking for money as yet their goal is to grab more and more users.

Google and Hasbro set off the World Monopoly Tournament

Abhishek Kapoor — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:41:43 +0000

Google and Hasbro have joined hands to launch ‘Monopoly City Streets’. With this launch, most popular board game around the globe will be reformed to another stunning success.

It is reported that the players will now be able to compete with each other in a live version of famous game and with this will be created the largest Monopoly tournament played ever.

New player will have three million Monopoly dollars to start with. You can use these to but a street or offer an existing owner. A huge starting money also means that the streets too will be expensive. Pennsylvania Avenue will cost $2 million whereas the Downing Street in the UK will cost $231,000. this money can obviously be compensated if you collect rents from stadiums, castles, hotels etc.

A strange rule brought in is that if you do not reply to someone’s offer within seven days, then that gets accepted automatically, however low it may be.

So this will require you to log in pretty frequently.

Contact-chooser finally on Gmail too

Abhishek Kapoor — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:07:35 +0000

Gmail is considered to be one of the best email services being offered presently. But since the time it was launched in the year 2004, it never brought up the facility of being able to have a pop up window to choose a contact that you want to send an email to.

But now the email services provider has finally added the option of contact chooser for its millions of users all across the world.

Benjamin Grol, Product Manager (Gmail) wrote that in a blog. The post goes as follows:

“When composing messages, you probably rely pretty heavily on auto-complete to add recipients. Auto-complete is convenient and fast, and usually does the trick. But sometimes seeing your list of contacts can help you remember all the people you want to include on your email.

“So, we’ve added a contact chooser to Gmail. Click the “To:” link (or Cc:/Bcc:) when composing a message and you’ll see something like this:

“You can click on the contacts you want to add or search for others.

“If you use contact groups, your groups will appear in a drop-down menu in the contact chooser, so you can select contacts from the groups you’ve already created. And if you happen to use Gmail in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, being able to pick from your list of contacts should be particularly useful since auto-complete doesn’t offer the same search as you type experience that it does in other languages.”