The Earth Day from wikipedia is one of two different observances, both held annually during spring in the northern hemisphere, and autumn in the southern hemisphere. These are intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth's environment. Google celebrated the Earth Day with a new original Doodle. Hope that we goes green not just on websites.
The article introduces the YouTube Data API, demonstrates how you can use it to browse user-generated video content; access video metadata, comments and responses; and perform keyword searches. The author used the power of SimpleXML to parse Youtube data and build customized PHP applications.
As usual during holidays a new series of Doodles, and like every year we'll keep this posted updated with 2007 holiday's Doodles. It's amazing how in a very small portion of the page, Google is able to have some fun and keep all eyes on it. Notice there is always a small story behind Holiday's Doodles.
Google Reader have just been linked to Google Talk to offer the possibility to share items with your friends. A new share icon have been added in bottom of each post. All your friends are able to subscribe to your shared items and so read stuff that you like or recommend for reading.
Google is boosting its services with sharing capabilitis and it's great to see talk integration after Gmail also inside Google Reader. Feature available only in english at the current time.
Once you've logged into Reader and been notified of the change, these friends will be able to see your shared items in the Reader left-hand navigation area under "Friends' shared items". We've provided an option to clear your shared items in case you don't want your friends to see what you've shared in the past. We've also added a Settings page so you can choose which friends you see and invite friends who aren't yet sharing to try it out.
Your friends shared items will be available in the right menu, but there is also a special page for displaying your friend's shared items with photo and profile information.
Google announced recently a new amazing API go generate charts. Google Charts API allows to create different type of charts on the fly in the PNG-format with the limit of 50,000 queries per day. Currently charts supported include line, bar, pie, venn diagrams and scatter plots. The chart below is generated for example directly using the Google Charts API. Very useful to create charts on the fly and it could be easily integrated with online publishing tools. No need to have GD installed for charts creation, now just read the Charts API documentation and get the PNG anywhere you want.
A new feature have just been introduced to Gmail talk which enable it to create group conversation. Now you are able to start a conversation with your friends or collegues then invite other to join it, right from your Gmail. This is probably the first change since Gmail 2.0, we are expecting more new features coming in the future. The chat got also some nice emoticons (Finally), to give your conversations richer experssion.
To try the group chat feature :
1. Start a chat with a single person in your Contacts list.
2. Once you've started the chat, click Options at the bottom left of your chat window and select Group Chat.
3. In the field labeled 'Add a person to this chat,' enter the name of the contact(s) you want to add to your group chat.
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