So I’d thought I’d give Google’s Friend Connect a whirl. Friend Connect allows you to embed social networking components onto your website. Out of the box you get a members gadget, a wall gadget and a review/rate gadget. Since it is all based on OpenSocial you can add any other OpenSocial gadgets to your site [...]
Two interesting bits of news from Google today. The first is adsense for games which allows game developers to place Google ads inside games.
Only flash games are currently supported and there are some fairly hefty entry requirements for early adopters:
Game plays: Minimum 500,000 per day
Game types: Web-based Flash only
Integration: Must be technically capable of SDK [...]
It’s Googles 10th birthday and they have put together a neat little timeline showing major milestones during their history.
I was particularly impressed with how their home page has evolved over the last 10 years, nice and simple all the time with just minor tweaks and content changes along the way, all hiding more and more [...]
Ooooooo, Just found a link to the new Google Chrome browser on my Google home page.
Its pretty cool, very lightweight and very very fast. It even has as “stats for nerds” link on it’s task manager which gives heaps of detail on memory and CPU usage. The internals of the browser are pretty interesting as [...]
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