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Google Apps ‘founder’ Rajen Sheth

( Google and India )

Ack :- ZDNET.Com

Introducing Gmail Custom Time - April Fool’s Prank

( Google )

How do I use it?
Just click “Set custom time” from the Compose view.
Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient’s inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option.
Is there a limit to how far back I [...]

One hour, America. Earth Hour. Turn out for Earth

( Google and Videos )

On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund.
Earth Hour was created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and in one year has grown from [...]

Google Earth Hour - Google Celebrates Black Day

Earth Hour

Google users in the United States will notice today that we “turned the lights out” on the Google.com homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to why we don’t do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of [...]

GOOG-411 - find and connect with local businesses for FREE

( Google and Videos )

About GOOG-411
Google’s new 411 service is free, fast and easy to use. Give it a try now and see how simple it is to find and connect with local businesses for free.

Learn more - FAQ

Liked the video? Want to comment or guess who the voice [...]

Apps on orkut coming soon

( Google )

Orkut Blog Reads as follows ::
Back in November, Orkut announced that orkut was open to developers. Developers have been building exciting new social applications over the last few months that will make the orkut experience even better. This is why we’re excited to announce that apps will be available to a subset [...]

Russian Gmail art

( Google )

We’ve seen people recreate the M from the Gmail logo out of dominoes and even sand, but until our colleagues in Google’s Moscow office created this video, we’re pretty sure no one had ever made a giant Gmail interface with:
- 162 meters of gray tape- 45 lego pieces - 32 sticks of plasticine- 18 [...]

Invisible mode is here for Gmail chat

( Google )

Sometimes you need to chat with someone about an urgent project, but can’t be bothered by anyone else. And going “busy” just isn’t enough — you might still get that unwanted ping. So, as some people have already noticed, we rolled out invisible mode for the latest version of Gmail chat last Friday. With this [...]

Orkut Scrap notices!

( Google and Orkut )

We all love receiving scraps, but constantly checking back to your scrapbook page can be tedious. How many of us have our scrapbook page open and are clicking refresh on it constantly!
With scrap notices you can be on any orkut page and find out that you have received a scrap - that very minute. You [...]

Google buys Zingku

( Google and Internet )

Just got an email from Zingku stating that they have been acquired by Google. I don’t know the details of the acquisition. Zingku is a Mobile Social Networking Service. Maybe Google will have it integrated with Orkut further.
Just wonder what Google would do with their Dodgeball !

What is Zingku?
With Zingku, things you wish to [...]