In an official post, Google announced the launch of new search index devil named as Caffeine. In a statement Carrie Grimes, (Software Engineer at Google) stated that

Today, we’re announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.

What is the reason behind the launch of Caffeine

The main reason for Caffeine is to equipped the Google search with realtime and ignored contents. It includes the fast and growing contents like video, images, news and real-time updates at blogs.
Google itself stated that:

So why did we build a new search indexing system? Content on the web is blossoming. It’s growing not just in size and numbers but with the advent of video, images, news and real-time updates, the average webpage is richer and more complex. In addition, people’s expectations for search are higher than they used to be. Searchers want to find the latest relevant content and publishers expect to be found the instant they publish.

Extra Dope: Google’s Matt Cutts on Site Speed and the Caffeine Update

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Samsung Bada OS applications demo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bH5RrUL7kA

Check out the bada developer tools and resource.

Have a look over this screen shot

Note: You need to allow facebook account to sign-up for youtube account

You need to create new google account if you want to sign-up

In order to sign you up for YouTube, we need to log you out of your Google Account before starting the sign-up process.

When you sign-up you will be asked for confirmations and usernames

We all know that Facebook grabs 41% of social media traffic , Yahoo mail offers Facebook status updater ,facebook is top search on all major search engines and most importantly Facebook is the biggest site in United States so its quite obvious that all the user based websites need to follow Facebook for account portability and users ease. Its new for me that Google accounts are bending against Facebook accounts.

Do they also allows tweet login? (depends ? )

Mark Zuckerberg clearly states that:

Looking back, the first version of Facebook was very simple. There were almost no features. There were no status updates, photo albums or messages. There was no News Feed or Platform. The only people who could use it were college students in the United States.
The way the site worked was that everyone could see some basic information about you and the rest of your information was only visible to people in your networks and your friends by default.

For more info check out the new Facebook Privacy Page.

Google Wave Extension

There were lot of buzz after the launch of Google Wave and guys gone crazy for wave invites. Last year 6rounds was in the list of first six Google Wave extensions. Till now it is the only video chat extension available on Google wave directory.

Google Wave extensions of 6rounds includes features like  live snapshot stream containing snapshots taken from sessions within all waves. In addition, 6rounds was invited to participate in Google I/O this week, where it will be announcing the launch of its developers API.



What is the turning point in Developer API

6rounds claims the developer API to be the game of 15 minutes. The best way using 6rounds simple API, developers can quickly and easily transform their existing social activities and games into 6rounds video chat experience, or create new inspiring applications, within a mere 15 minutes.

Ilan Leibovich (Co-Founder and COO, 6 rounds) states that:

Typical social activities are focused primarily on an asynchronous experience. 6rounds finally changes this

Gadi Srebnik, VP Product Director of 6rounds says:

As developers ourselves, our focus was to create something that will speed up the development process and concentrate on game functionality instead of platform boundaries

6rounds Video Chat Experience – Google Wave Extension Demo

Short Glimpse of the Video Experience

Last but not least developers are invited to create real-time multi-user rich activities through 6rounds API. If you are a developer then you should look into 6rounds Leaflet for Developers (143)

We click photos so that we can share it with our dear ones and so we have lot of service that help us sharing pics in few clicks. Google’s Picasa is one of the most widely used services for photo sharing that let you store photo album online and sharing it with preferred ones. And, Picasa makes it even easier to share pics by introducing share button for Blogger, Twitter and Google Buzz.

Ping Chen, software engineer at Google, wrote.

Like many other things in life, photos are best when shared. I share the majority of my photos on Picasa Web Albums, but I also sometimes tweet about specific photos or share them on my blog,

Today, we’re making it a little simpler to share your PWA photos to whichever destination you want, with the launch of easy share buttons for Google Buzz, Blogger and Twitter. To share a photo or album from Picasa Web Albums straight to any of these sites, just click the appropriate icon to the right of your photo, customize your message, and post it. he added.

Next time when you go through your Picasa album, you will locate three new sharing button on the right. They will let you share the photos in few clicks with others. Twitter being the largest sharing platforms deserves the place and Blogger and Buzz is Google’s product so obvious choice. It would have been nice if Google will also soon incorporate Facebook share button.

Adobe has just announced that the latest version of its flagship product – Creative Suite 5 is now available for shipping after the launch earlier this month. There are many exciting new features of Photoshop CS5 and particularly the Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5 is amazingly great. The product will be hitting the stores and online outlets, to eagerly waiting people for it can purchase. Adobe CS5 is available in many choices, depending on the bundled product. The Master Collection comes with all 15 point products available in CS5 J

John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe, said.

We’ve seen from early customer reaction that Creative Suite 5 continues to inspire the design and developer world by combining time-saving workflow and productivity features with astonishing new capabilities, such as Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5, that really push the creative envelope,

Whatever the media, CS5 is ensuring that publishers and creatives can deliver stand-out work and build great businesses around their unique digital assets and content.

Adobe CS 5 is released 18 months after CS4 was appeared and brings stunning 250 new features among all the products included. With CS5, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects will get 64-bit versions for both Windows and Mac that should further help performance and compatibility. Also, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 could make use of the hardware acceleration in NVIDIA GPUs for a important improvement in responsiveness and performance. The Adobe Creative Suite 5 collections and individual products are already available for purchase on Adobe’s online store.

You call it the most-search brand, the biggest site or most-visited social network; we have one answer “Facebook”. It is no surprise that Facebook with 500 million users grabs 41$ of Social Media traffic is now the biggest thing online. Now we see another sign of it with “Facebook” being the number one search term on all major search engines. On third place we have “facebook login” or “facebook.com” says a recent study from Hitwise.

Report from Hitwise reads -

Experian Hitwise announced today that the search term Facebook was the top U.S. search conducted in the four weeks ending March 27, 2010. Overall, Facebook related terms accounted for eight searches across the three top 10 lists,

Yahoo! related terms accounted for six spots while MySpace terms accounted for four searches across the search engines. Other search terms that were among the top 10 searches for all three search engines include youtube, facebook login, craigslist and yahoo mail, it added.

Over all Yahoo grabs a decent pick with three searches “Yahoo Mail, Yahoo and Yahoo.com among the top 10. Yahoo is doing pretty well on Bing by taking seventh place on Bing. Another interesting thing to know is that term “Google” is the second most popular query on Bing. Other search terms that were among the top 10 searches for all three search engines include youtube,  and craigslist.

You might be using some kind of bookmark-sync option if you often move and switch between devices and browser. Mozilla has its Weave project and Google Chrome comes with bookmark and preferences sync incorporated. But for cross-browser option you must try Xmarks which is available for IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Xmarks has recently launched a tab-sync feature and now using online components you can sync your last opened tabs with any desktop or mobile browser even if you do not have Xmarks installed.

According to the Xmarks blog

We’ve been on a roll lately with tab sync. Three weeks ago we announced Tab Sync for Firefox. Two weeks ago, we announced parallel support for Internet Explorer and Chrome. This week, we’re happy to announce that you can open remote tabs from your iPhone — or any device with a browser,

To check it out, open your browser and log into your account at My Xmarks.com. With this new feature you can navigate to my.xmarks.com and open any tabs that you used in last session. They have even started a customized version of the site particularly for iPhone. And of course, any mobile browser could take advantage of the feature.

FastMail.FM has been providing email accounts for 10 years to the world’s most demanding users. Opera on the other hand is the oldest browser manufacturers in world, while Opera might not be doing extremely well on the desktop side; it managed pretty well on the mobile browser side. Opera was recently also announced as the fastest browser for Mac and now it acquired FastMail.FM which is an Australian email provider. This is the second acquisition for Opera and sounds great for both the parties.

FastMail.FM’s Rob Mueller on the blog wrote

Some exciting changes will be occurring with FastMail.FM. FastMail.FM has been acquired by Opera Software, the developers of the Opera web browser,

This is great news for FastMail.FM users. FastMail.FM will continue to run and grow as the reliable email service you’ve known for over 10 years. We’ll be combining forces with Opera’s technical teams, expertise and products to develop new and innovative products, he added

For present FastMail.FM users, nothing changes and they can continue working with it. The FastMail.FM group would further start working with Opera and some employees will also move to Norway as part of the acquisition. Opera or FastMail.FM has not disclosed any details on the financial side and it is not even clear about what Opera is planning to do with email service.