Gmail Voice and Video chat first impressions
Submitted by Federico Pistono on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 10:04.This is quite revolutionary. I have been waiting for this feature for a long time. Just like Justin Uberti said video and voice chat were added today in gmail.
"We've tried to make this an easy-to-use, seamless experience, with high-quality audio and video. And we've built this product using Internet standards, such as XMPP, RTP, and the newly-standardized H.264/SVC video codec."
Radiohead - House of cards video shot with lasers and Google code releases sources
Submitted by Federico Pistono on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 14:20.Radiohead just released a new video for its song "House of Cards" from the album "In Rainbows".
Radiohead - House of Cards
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.
Google helping Burma with the Cyclone Nargis
Submitted by Federico Pistono on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 09:56.Google is showing "Support disaster relief in Myanmar (Burma)" due to the Cyclone Nargis, at least in all English speaking home pages, as far as I could see.
Consider a donation to UNICEF.
Google is really pushing our limits with April's fool
Submitted by Federico Pistono on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 07:43.
Google is really pushing my limits, and I don't mean it in a bad way. April 1st has been a very special day for Google, and every year I don't know what to expect, and whether it's for real or if it's yet another hoax. When they announced Gmail nobody believed it, 1GB of space when not conceivable in the hotmail-era of a 20MB or so...
Now they even started a wikipedia war by linking the Grandfather paradox page (which is now protected for obvious reasons) on their last hoax: Gmail custom time.
gDay - Google will search into the future
Submitted by Federico Pistono on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 07:23.Google Australia launched gDay today, a new search engine that allows users to search a day in advance of real time:

























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