Chrome Experiments

Here is something interesting. It’s Chrome Experiments.  The clever chaps at Google are show casing some pretty cool and very techy experiments using JavaScript and web browsers.

These experiments are all in the aid of making the web faster, more fun and more open and are created by designers and programmers using the latest open standards, including HTML5, Canvas, SVG and more.

Arcade Fire are being extremely digitally aware, or at least they have a good management team that have embraced this digital creation, and have got the film maker Chris Milk to create the video for ‘We used to wait’ in HTML5 which of course can only be viewed if you are using Google Chrome!

They invite you to send in any JavaScript experiments of your own so if you are a budding programmer that just loves to share then give it a go! www.chromeexperiments.com

Google Logo built in 5 in a half hours!

Google’s offices in London have been quite busy for the last five and a half hours!
They have been created Google’s logo out of 884 individually printed 4-inch by 6-inch photographs.
You can watch the creation and the result on the Youtube video below. A camera took a shot every seconds and the entire thing has been compressed into less than a minute.
It’s already becoming viral!

Picasa now has Twitter, Google Buzz and Blogger sharing

Google’s photo sharing platform Picasa has made a couple of updates today.
The new Picasa will now allow visitors and album owners to share photos with friends on different social networks. Now while you’re looking a photo album, you will also see three new sharing options, Twitter, Google Buzz and Blogger. You just have to click one of the icons and the selected photo or album will be shared to one of the chosen social network.
That’s a really good update but not unique, Flickr users have had Twitter functionality and a URL shortener for quite a long time now.

Google Launches Twitter Timeline search

Google’s real-time search has a new perk. It’s launching a timeline of archived Twitter messages organised by topics. The real-time search engine already pulled in tweets as well as Facebook and MySpace updates.
This new service allows you to see when Twitter activity peaked with tweets related to your topic search. When you click on a particular day which has the most tweets related to your topic, you will then see a scrolling list of the individual tweets of that day. For now the service has only archived the tweets back to February of this year but their plan is to surface tweets as far back of March 2006, when Twitter was launched.
To try it, go on Google’s search page, select ‘options’ and then click on ‘updates’, you will then see the timeline updates for your chosen topic.

This new service is a brilliant way of keeping track of what has been said, by whom and when, around the world and never loose a bit of it.
It will be a very useful tool to know what the world is really concerned about!

The Google Search Story App is out!

Google’s creative Lab has been thinking as usual and came up with another cool project.

They have created a lot of short funny clips showing how their search engine helps people not just find websites but also improves their lives.
Do you remember the ‘Parisien Love’ video that became viral after being one of the ads shown during the 2010 Super Bowl? Well, it’s all part of the series of online ‘Search Stories’ to tell the stories of changed lives.
Now Google came up with the ‘Search Stories Video Creator’ app which lets you create your own story and share them with the world. It’s really easy, just type in your searches and select the kind of results that best communicate your story (web search, maps, books, news, videos, images…).

Try it, tell us your story !

Google’s Bookmarking becomes social

Oh Google Google how do you continue to make our lives easier!?
The Google bookmarks was already a perk in the way we could save time with quick links to our favorite websites or get our bookmarks on any computer.
But now Google add Lists to the bookmark, it’s an experimental feature. Lists introduce the notion of social bookmarking to the Google service. You can now save your links privately in buckets, share them with friends or publicly publish them to the web. And with their other new feature adding stars which allows you to bring your favorite search results right to the top of your search page, Google has become really practical. With these Lists, you can also have list comments, in-line Youtube and content previews, recommended links and location features. A really interesting point is that Google detects local links in your lists and will automatically provide a map for the context.
Not bad right? If you want to see how it really works check out Google’s demo.

The Indian Premier Cricket tournament streamed live!

If your looking to the start of The Indian Premier League cricket season starting, well this year you’re there is more than one way to follow all the action.

The Indian Premier League has become one of the world’s most popular sporting events. The third season is starting today (12th March 2010) in a few hours in India over a period of 45 days.
Youtube will be streaming full coverage of the tournament. You will be able to watch nearly live coverage (one to two hour delay) of the IPL from all over the world. But that’s not it, Google has also secured full internet broadcast rights for all 60 Indian Premier League matches and will be streaming every minute of them.
Everything seems ready for a powerful, unlimited and full streaming service of the big sport event. Things are definitely going to be different to NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage, where a lot of criticism was made about it.

This time you won’t miss a beat of the action. One thing is sure we are in a changing era where big sporting events are broadcast via the internet. And that’s what people want.

A real-time sharing tool

Want to share the latest cool thing you saw on the web with you friends much easier than having to copy/paste the link in a e-mail? A new sharing service named ‘ShareThis’ is becoming really popular. It enables you to find, share and discuss the best of the web.

The service just included ‘ShareThis Stream’ which adds an real-time feed with trending topics and a social element to what is being shared by your friends and other users using the service.
This sharing tool has a lot of convenient features. You can sign-in with your Facebook, Twitter, Google and Yahoo identities and share across all your networks. Thanks to the ‘ShareThis’ button you can see how many times a particular link has been shared, which is really useful when wanting to find out its popularity and statistics. You can also encourage people to share stuff from your website by adding a downloadable widget.

Why connect to different platforms to share and spread what’s popular with your friends, when you can just try this real-time multi-sharing tool?

Music dominates on Youtube

Who doesn’t take a look at Youtube at least once a day? We all do, it has became a routine, just to check out the latest movie trailer, music video of your favourite band or the daily scoop. Youtube has so many different categories mashed up together that basically any kind of topic can be find.

A study has been made by the research company Sysomos, to know which of the categories is the most watched. Well it appears that Music is the most popular category, accounting for 30.7% of all views on the video service. The music industry might be keen to know that that the main social group embedding video are bloggers aged between 20-35, accounting for 57.3% of all links
Of course this comes after Vevo, Youtube and Google’s premium music video channel.
Another study shows that Universal and Sony delivers an average 30m streams a day in the US.
Moreover earlier this year, comScore said that 92% of Vevo’s 35.4m visitors in December in the US actually came via YouTube rather than through Vevo’s own landing page.

So here are the main content categories on YouTube in order of popularity:

- music (30.7%)

- entertainment videos (14.6%)

- people and blogs (10.77%)

- news and politics (6.7%)

- sports (6.0%)

- comedy (5.2%)

- education (4.1%)

- film (3.6%)

- animation (3.2%)

- how to/style (3.1%)

- science and technology (2.86%)

- other (9.2%)

MySpace now part of real-time Google search

Google ‘Real-Time’ search is now part of our life. We remember when Google first launched it, including live tweets, Yahoo fresh news and more.

Well, now Google has added MySpace updates. That means that publicly available status updates, blog posts, and other MySpace details will now be shown in the “latest results” area.

Will Facebook be next?