Google Instant is an enhancement to the Google Search that shows results as you type. With Google Instant users will be getting instant & faster search results. The thinking behind Google Instant is that the research shows that people type slowly and scan fast, so while the users are typing they can scan the results shown and choose the most appropriate out of that.

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The most obvious change is that users get to the right content much faster than before because one don’t have to finish typing your full search term, or even press “search.” This has been there in various search engines and many others are using this from a long time.

The benefits to this is that the users get instant, faster and more accurate search results. This will certainly help users in searching and most of all choosing the right keyword to get appropriate results.

Google came up with a new product in May called Google TV. The main aspect that Google associated with Google TV was the developer ecosystem,  apart from viewing the TV programs you can also Internet TV Application built using Google Mobile OS, Android.

Google is not offering hardware platform like AppleTV or Microsoft Mediaroom, instead, Google has partnered with electronics giant Sony on the hardware side. Google TV launches in the fall inside a new line of Sony TVs, so let’s look at what we can expect to see.

Both Google and Sony has benefited from this deal.

The Google TV is built on the Android platform so it will rely heavily on the Google Chrome browser. With lot more things coming up down the line Google surely wants to take the TV experience to a different level. With Google TV one can watch Photo Slideshow, play games, listen to music and more.

Google will release the Google TV SDK and web APIs for TV. This will enable developers to build applications, which will then be distributed through Android Market.

So wait for the next generation TV and enjoy the new experience.

#	Name (Screen Name)		Followers	Following	Updates	Joined
1.		Lady Gaga (ladygaga)	6,061,909	147,996	459	30 months ago
2.		Britney Spears (britneyspears)	5,843,700	419,041	436	24 months ago
3.		ashton kutcher (aplusk)	5,696,907	604	6,215	20 months ago
4.		Barack Obama (BarackObama)	5,262,912	715,576	872	43 months ago
5.		Ellen DeGeneres (TheEllenShow)	5,161,246	46,006	2,659	25 months ago
6.		Justin Bieber (justinbieber)	5,015,550	82,821	4,834	18 months ago
7.		Kim Kardashian (KimKardashian)	4,686,233	101	5,142	18 months ago
8.		Oprah Winfrey (Oprah)	4,168,062	19	99	20 months ago
9.		taylorswift13 (taylorswift13)	4,087,023	46	740	21 months ago
10.		Katy Perry (katyperry)	3,728,221	61	1,758	19 months ago

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Here is the code through which you can get this symbol on the web.

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If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you.

Supported Features

PhoneGap aims to solve device integration by web enabling devices native functionality with open standards.

Above all its totally an open source, hurray…

Here is what the creators of PhoneGap say:

1. First you need to download Adobe AIR from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html

2. Install Adobe AIR

root:~/adobe$ chmod +x adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin

rppt:~/adobe$ ./adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin

3. After installing Adobe Air download Twhirl from http://www.twhirl.org/project/twhirl

4. Open the Twhirl application with Adobe Air and here you go, Twhirl is installed.

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YouTube also had their logo symbolizing the earth day celebration.

YouTube Earth Day Logo

Blogger/Cartoonist/Ad Man Hugh McLeod posts Why I Deleted My Twitter Account with the cartoon above

Google yesterday released Google Calendar Sync, a small Windows program that allows users to “Sync Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook

calendar.” You can choose how to sync your calendars with the program, whether 2-way syncing, which will sync both Google Calendar and the Outlook calendar with each other, or 1-way syncing in which you can choose to sync from Google Calendar to Outlook calendar, and vice versa.There’s an option that you can enter you preferred time interval between each syncing (with the minimum of 10 mins.), and the default is set to 120 minutes (2 hours).

Once you finished the initial setup process, the program will minimize to the system tray and display itself with the Google Calendar icon ().[via Googling Google]