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Google TV

 RELATED TWEET: I WANT CREDIT, LOL ---> My (psychic power) prayer a year ago for all-in-one WEB-HDTV was very close to #GoogleTV http://bit.ly/cbXGFz

Blogger Template Designer

For more info, go to Blogger in draft

Google's Gmail goes social with Buzz

FOR DESKTOP AND MOBILE BUZZ, GO TO BUZZ
"Unlike Twitter tweets/Facebook wall updates, Google lets you go back to edit Buzz posts -- good and bad!" – Twitter/namn
SCREEN SHOT WITH HIGHLIGHTS OF BUZZ FEATURES:

Google Picasa Web Albums

Google's newly Picasa 3.5 Web Albums features Mac-friendly, face-tagging and iPhoto compatibility -- a powerhouse for managing photos and graphic images online. Go to Picasa Web Albums | name tag

Picasa uploader: For uploading more than one photos at a time, this version is for Mac

Google Wave 2009

Where conversations and documents meet in one single platform. 

Will be available later this year. Learn more about Google Wave

Google Local Business Center Dashboard

This free Google service allows anyone set up profile for a business (or personal) so the information (query data) will be available for search engines. The platform is users friendly, allowing businesses to include hours of operation, menu, list of services, coupons, map. Businesses can learn about competitors or related businesses in the immediate surrounding areas, audience's behaviors, and geographic locations -- thru feedback, tracking charts and maps. Businesses will able to keep taps on phone numbers, street addresses and related links to company website. Users can give online reviews and get driving directions from a PC or mobile phone. Businesses will be able to connect better with customers in a more personal level, by letting users/customers doing most of the business/social networking, spontaneously.

This looks like good news for all businesses for saving money on advertising. But bad news for advertisers and news media companies that already struggling with decline in ad revenues. However, it's good to know the rough sea ahead, and what's available to everyone out there, no matter how big or small the companies. I am only wondering what the business world will be like in, say two to three years from now. It's scary and/or exciting.

Go to Google Local Business Center for test drive!

Create My Map in Google Maps

Go to Google Maps Help for more info.

Earth Album Cooliris Edition

From Earth Album Cooliris: "earthalbum: cooliris edition is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google Maps, Flickr, and Cooliris..."

Browse user photos in Google Street View

This feature available since Feb. 2009.

See sample: Time Square, New York City

Screenshot sample below.

Video demo:

Breaking-news visual story telling

This post was created on Dec. 10, 2008 for another blog with much wider display format (for learning purpose.) This shows how you can use free Web hosts like Slice.com and Google Maps/Streetview features to visually tell a major breaking-news event quickly, from any location using a computer with access to the Internet.

F/A-18 jet crashes into homes

A Korean immigrant who lost his wife, two children and mother-in-law when a Marine Corps jet slammed into the family’s house said Tuesday he did not blame the pilot, who ejected and survived. (AP photos show in slide below)

Smoke rises from a fire in a suburban neighborhood, foreground, after an F-18 military jet crashed in San Diego Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. In the background is the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. (AP/Denis Poroy)

View F/A-18 jet crashes into homes in a larger map with picture.

Below is interactive Google Street View showing the destroyed homes and neighborhood before the accident. Click and dragmouse to activate:

Google Street View (undated) of the homes before the crash:

View of the destroyed homes immediately after the Dec. 8 crash. (AP/Matt Rose):

H1N1 flu tracker map by Recombiomics

Here is the link to this comprehensive map. Below is the introduction excerpt:

“ Tracking the progress of H1N1 swine flu

This map and the data behind it were compiled by Dr. Henry Niman, a biomedical researcher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, using technology provided by Rhiza Labs and Google. The map was compiled using data from official sources, news reports and user-contributions. ”