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NaggieWP Google-buzz v2.1.0

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Beautiful Google buzz integration to wordpress + 7 different admin panel options (Settings -> WP Google-buzz) + 14 diff button images + mouse over effects.

Automatically displays Google Buzz button for every post and pages. Google Buzz is shaping up to be an interesting new way to share content with your Gmail friends, so why not have a button for sharing blog posts/pages to the service? To make it work, you’ll need to make sure you’ve set up Google Reader and included that in your Connected Sites on Buzz. Ultimate all in one Google Buzz buttons. Beautiful popup window option included.

Features-

  • Show Google-buzz button before/after post content
  • Manual insertion of code: Use this: <?php if(function_exists(’add_wp_google_buzz’)) { add_wp_google_buzz(); } ?>
  • 13 different beautiful Google Buzz button images
  • rel=”nofollow” option for buzz links
  • Show/Hide option to show Google Buzz button on page
  • float = left/right option
  • NEW: Popup window option

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NaggieGoogle demonstrates phone that translates text

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Google Inc. is working on software that translates text captured by a phone camera.

At Mobile World Congress, a cell phone trade show in Barcelona at a demonstration, an engineer shot a picture of a German dinner menu with a phone running Google Inc.’s Android software. An application on the phone sent the shot to Google’s servers, which sent a translation back to the phone.

It translated “Fruhlingssalat mit Wildkrautern” as “Spring salad with wild herbs.” There was no word on when the software would be available.

Software that translates text from pictures is already available for some phones, but generally does the processing on the phone. By sending the image to its servers for processing, Google can apply a lot more computing power, for faster, more accurate results. The phone still won’t order for you, though — you’ll have to point at the menu.

The demonstration was part of Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s keynote speech at the trade show, the largest for the wireless industry. He said phone applications that take advantage of “cloud computing” — servers accessible through the wireless network — will bring powerful changes to the industry.

Schmidt’s speech also featured a demonstration of videos and a game running on an Android phone using Flash, a format that’s ubiquitous on Web pages intended for PCs, but hasn’t worked on many phones, including the iPhone. Support for Flash in Android and a few other smartphone operating systems are expected later this year.

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NaggieGoogle mulls stand-alone version of Buzz

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Google may create a stand-alone version of its Buzz social networking product but won’t separate Buzz from its Gmail service, a linkup that has spurred controversy over privacy, said the company.

The world’s No.1 Internet search engine, Google has launched Buzz earlier this week in a bid to tap into the fast growing social networking market dominated by companies like Facebook and Twitter.

Similar to Twitter and Facebook, Buzz allows users to broadcast messages and share photos and videos with friends and colleagues online. But unlike those services, Buzz is built directly into Google’s Gmail and the product automatically creates each user’s social network based on the person’s most-frequently emailed contacts.

According to Google spokeswoman Victoria Katsarou, they have considered among all other features that they add to Buzz in the future, to create a stand-alone experience in addition to it being in Gmail.

In the days since the product launch, a number of online blogs and publications have argued that the Buzz-Gmail link creates a privacy problem since the Buzz contact network is publicly viewable by default and could expose people’s private contacts.

Google announced Thursday, a couple of changes on its corporate blog designed to address some of the concerns, including making it easier for Buzz users to keep their contacts list private.

The blog Search Engine Land quoted Google Vice President of Product Management Bradley Horowitz as saying the company was considering removing Buzz from Gmail, but Google’s Katsarou said that that was not the case and the blog later reported that Buzz would remain in Gmail.

In the blogs posted, Google said that more than 9 million posts and comments have been created on Buzz since its launch and that tens of millions of people have “checked Buzz out.”

Gmail is the world’s third most popular Web email service, with 176.5 million unique visitors in December, according to comScore, behind Microsoft Corp’s Windows Web email services and Yahoo Inc’s email.

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