Just some thing to ponder after we have seen eBay acquired Skype just 3 days ago. It’s almost certain Skype will start integrating some services related to eBay business in near future. So, that actually rang me a bell that Google might do the same to its Instant Messenger application, Google Talk, as well.

In fact, I think Google is definitely considering to integrate one of its advertising services, Google AdSense, into Google talk.

The purpose of AdSense in Google Talk can be as an advertisement banner or text link. It might appears whenever we write some keywords. Take for instance, when we type CRM (stands for Customer Relationship Management) software, there will be a text advertisement shows up some where in the conversation windows.

Personally, I think this is quite highly possible as we have already seen MSN Messenger having an advertisement banner at the bottom of the application. However, if this feature is enabled by default, Google Talk should allow the user to turn it off because some times it’s very annoying seeing too many advertisements while chatting. :p

Some of us might already known that Google was actually a research project done by the founder Sergey Brin and Larry Page when they were pursuing their PHD doctorate programme in Standford University. And it is now 7 years old.

In fact, when Google was just set up, there were only less than 25 million pages indexed, this number has gone rocket high since it started to serve us and reach countless pages nowadays.

IBM, Intel and Sun were the hardware sponsors to Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Besides, they were using GNU, Linux and Python as the foundation software for Google. No wonder, they seem to be a big threat to Microsoft nowadays. :p

By the way, how many of us have any idea how was the setup of all the machines for the project? Let’s have a look how Google looked like in 1998 :-

This is the server using only 300 MHz Dual Pentium II, 512MB of RAM and nine 9GB harddisk.

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When Google Is Born !!

After I showing you guys some pictures of Windows Vista. Now there are more screenshots have been revealed in the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005 VPR.

Old Start Button

Something caught my eyes when I was glancing through those new pictures from Microsoft, maybe you have spotted what I saw too. There is a screenshot of the Digital Locker showing a different Start button in Windows Vista. Somehow the rest of the pictures are showing the old Start button.

New Start Button

It looks nice to me and I like it. However, i am not too sure will Microsoft remain this new Start button in the next release of Windows Vista.

ArggGg….

I am 2 days late to wish Google happy birthday. Perhaps late better than never. :p

In fact, Google should be celebrating its 7th birthday this year as its official birthday is September 7, 1998. From an underdog to Yahoo search engine in those days to the leader of search engine now, Google has gone through all sorts of improvements and invented all sorts of innovative services for us, free of charge !!

Here I wish Google from the bottom of my heart to have a bright future ahead and keep on inventing new and useful services while sustaining the edge that they are having in the industry now.

Happy Belated Birthday, my beloved Google. :)

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Many of us must be very concern of the impact of Hurricane Katrina in the past few days. Now we can have a look of the outcome of the disaster through Google Earth. Google Earth is different to Google Maps, it is a desktop application which provides you similar functionality as Google Maps. It is FREE for personal use and no registration is required to download it. Please refer to the minimum PC configuration before you start installing it, because it is a broadband and 3D application.

In the past few days, Google has been providing some links to the latest snap shots of the impact of Hurricane Katrina from the satellites, those images (as shown on the right) are latest.
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Impact of Hurricane Katrina On Google Earth

Sick of application forcing you to restart your PC after installing patches the operating system? I have a painful experience when the system automatically rebooted after installing Acrobat Reader’s patch, and I lost all my unsaved data.

Fortunately, the next Windows, Windows Vista, will have a new restart manager called “Freeze Dry“.

Perhaps in most instances, users won’t have to restart Windows Vista after installing the patches or updating an application even while the application is running. In fact, Windows Vista is doing a workaround trick by replacing the patched file and wait for the next time the application is restarted. It is at least useful for some people.
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“Freeze Dry” In Windows Vista