Even Google is not secure from the downturns on the economy. This week it announced the discontinuation of its virtual world service called Lively. Lively was launched with a lot of fanfare earlier this month, but quickly lost traction with the crowd. I personally only checked it out once. Google does give a reason for why it is shutting down the service on its own blog here. Here’s the gist of this reason:
Faroo is a P2P Search Engine which seems to be gathering quite a lot of traction. It builds its index based on the actual pages that its users visit while surfing on the Internet.
After using it for a while in searching, the results are not half bad. And you also have the option of using secondary search engines to populate your results in case what you are looking for is not present in the Faroo Index.
Do you have one of those presentations coming up for which you have less than a day left to create the content? Are you running out of ideas and time? Worry not, rescue is here.
Online Service SlideShare.net is the place to go to. It’s a site where people share PowerPoint presentations for free. You can go there and search for your idea and choose from the many presentations that show up. You can then view them online or download them to your desktop.
For instance, take a look at the results when I searched for “blogging”.
Google finally gave way to massive requests for PDF support to be added to Google Docs. There were a number of users who felt that this was a sorely missing feature in Google’s offering. I guess you don’t have much of a choice if you get comments such as this one asking you to give this feature:
"If you’re listening O Great Google Demi-Gods, we supplicate
thee for PDF storage!!"
While this is a welcome feature, it is still far away from being a full-fledged module of Google Office. Currently, you can do the following:
Do you like Graffiti? Despite the fact that it ruins walls and landscapes, there is still something very artistic about it. It would surely require a lot of talent to create something like that. I could never do it. However, I can still create some graffiti for my desktop with this neat tool I found (thanks to Pixeloo). Take a look at the graffiti below:
For me the search box on the Google home page (or my browser’s search box) has always been like a command prompt to the Internet. You can do calculations on it, you can check for the weather, the time, flight status, and a whole lot more from this little box. Someone, it seems took that thought too seriously and created a Google Shell (much like a Unix Shell). It’s called Goosh – the unofficial Google Shell.
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