Share Google Reader Feeds in GTalk

Another interesting integration for your Gtalk and Google Chat: you can now show your shared items from your Google reader with people from your GTalk/GMail buddy list. You can make them visible to your buddies from Google talk, and they’ll be able to see your Reader items in the chat tool. This makes it a lot easier to share the items in your personal feed reader, and essentially integrates your feeds with your chat.

Introducing Google Knol

Google Knol is Google's version of Wikipedia. It's currently in a private beta stage, but you can see a sample page here.

Picasa Redefined for your iPhone

"Today, I'm happy to tell you that we've just released this new iPhone interface for Picasa. After you go to Picasa on your iPhone and log in, you can quickly see all your albums that you've uploaded to Picasa Web. If you click on any of the albums, you can get a full view of your picture with comments from your friends. Or you can click on Slideshow, sit back and watch the pictures scroll. You can also search for photos in your album or through community photos. Finally, with one of my favorite features, you can view your friends' albums through favorites."

Video: The New Google Toolbar (BETA)

Toolbar features:

• Add gadgets to your Toolbar
  to view your favorite content from any site.
• Fill out web forms with a click
  and even keep multiple profiles, with improved AutoFill.
• Access your Toolbar from any computer
  by saving your settings online.
• Clip content as you browse the web
  with Google Notebook, now integrated with Toolbar.

Requires Internet Explorer 6.0, sorry no Firefox support.

Google Pre-Launches New iPhone Interface

If you visit Google.com from an iPhone, you now get a menu of services to choose from - home (search box), Gmail, Calendar, Reader and More (docs, sms, goog-411, news, photos, blogger and notebook). It’s basically all of the core Google services, accessible from a single easy to use menu. Accessing the site through other mobile devices continues to deliver the old Google Mobile interface. Read on for more screens.

Gmail ♥ AIM

Today we are happy to tell you about a new feature we've started to roll out which will enable you to sign into your AIM account and chat with your AIM buddies right inside Gmail. When you log in to AIM through Gmail chat, your AOL buddies will appear in your chat list with friends from your Google Talk network, and you will see the yellow "running man" logo to the right of your AIM friends' screen names. To your AIM friends it will look like you are logged in to AIM as usual.

Gmail Introduces Colored Labels

Oooo, Aahh.

Gmail Adds Group Chat and Emoticons

Group chat has finally found its way to gmail’s instant messaging system. So right there while you have your email inbox open, you can chat with multiple people at one time. Start a group chat by clicking on the Options link at the bottom of a conversation window. You’ll now see “Group Chat” as a new option. Once that’s selected, just type in the name of the person you’d like to add to your current conversation.

Google Reader Adds Recommendations & Drag-and-Drop Folders

Google Reader has made two improvements to its interface, one Web 2.0-ish and the other pretty darn useful. The change Reader users will really appreciate is the ability to simply grab newly-added feeds and place them in their folders—no more clicking through menu bars, which really helps when doing multi-feed updates. The other new addition is recommendations, which can be found in the "Discover" link and points you to feeds based on your current list, your search history and your location. As you can see, Reader probably knows you better than you'd think.

Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results

This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for the same keywords again, you’ll continue to see those changes. If you later want to revert your changes, you can undo any modifications you’ve made. At the moment the results of the program will only be stored per user and not applied to the general search index, so that sites buried (”I don’t like”) will not appear in future results for the user, where as sites voted up will stay up. Google Labs notes that “this is an experimental feature and may be available for only a few weeks.”

Google Mobile Maps Updates

Google Maps has added some new ways for you to find your way using your mobile device. You’ve now got contacts integration and GPS functionality on Windows Mobile, for version 2003 or higher. There’s also GPS-Enabled Google Maps for the rest of us to use, as well as an optimized version for your Treo and your Blackberry. And some stuff that’s been rolled out on the web version of Google Maps and Earth that’s now available on its mobile implementation: real-time traffic conditions, favorite places and routes, and additional details for businesses marked on your maps.

Better Gmail 2 Firefox Extensio for New Gmail

If all of your Greasemonkey scripts have stopped working like mine did since the new Gmail arrived, then this might be the solution for you.

The Voice Behind GOOG-411's Fetch Audio

One of the things that makes the GOOG-411 directory service awesome — besides the fact that it’s free — is that cool “bippedy-bippedy-bippedy” sound it makes while searching. And now, for the first time ever, the man behind the “bips” (and the voice of 1-800-GOOG-411) breaks his silence to talk about that famous sound.

Gmail Gets IMAP

It appears that Google is working on integrating IMAP into Gmail. Download Squad reader eD! Thomas sent in a tip letting us know he came across the new IMAP setting while snooping around Gmail. However, it is only appearing in select few Gmail and Google Apps for domains accounts at the moment.

Google Docs Mobile Now Available

Google launches Docs Mobile, a slimmed-down view of Google Docs and Spreadsheets for your handheld. At the top of the narrow page is a search box, followed by a list of recent documents with links to view (but not edit) spreadsheets and documents (presentations are not viewable.) You can also navigate folders, and move between rows and columns or to a particular cell in spreadsheet view.

Google Acquires Jaiku

Jaiku is joining Google. While it's too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you'll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers lead to great innovation. We look forward to accomplishing great things together. In order to focus on innovation instead of scaling, we have decided to close new user sign-ups for now. But fear not, all our Jaiku services will stay running the way you are used to and you will be able to invite your friends to Jaiku. We have put together a quick Q&A about the acquisition.

Fmail Brings Gmail to your Facebook

Fmail is a new Facebook app that lets you check your Gmail from your Facebook account. Built on Gmail Lite, all of your Gmail messages show up in an iFrame within your Facebook account. It’s somewhat interactive with Facebook, meaning there are tabs for your mailbox actions for this application, like access to your Inbox, starred items, spam folder, etc. There’s also a separate button for composing a new email message.

Gmail for the iPhone

Stupid. If I were to buy an iPhone, I would have done it for the "real" internet.

Google Reader Gets Search!

Google has recently added a searchbox to Google Reader allowing you to search your subscriptions and shared items from others. Other tweaks include the ability to hide the side navigation and unread counts that go all the way up to 1,000. They’ve also made the forward and back buttons work like you’d expect, despite the heavy use of javascript.

Blogger Adds Video Uploading Feature

Now you can upload videos to blogger the same way you do pictures. blogger supports AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real, and Windows Media with a 100 MB maximum size and with convert you video into google video format.