This month Google didn't release its
presentation tool, didn't launch any new version for Google Talk and JotSpot is still outside Google Apps. But what did Google do in August?
Mapping
Google launched
a new version of Google Earth that lets you explore the sky and also includes
a "hidden" flight simulator. Google Maps made it easier to
embed maps into your site without knowing JavaScript. Four new cities from the US
were added to Google Street View.
Communication
Gmail added the option to
pay for more storage and started to share this additional storage with Picasa Web Albums. Gmail is now
the top webmail service with the least amount of free storage.
orkut suffered a small redesign and it's not ugly anymore.
Search
Google News had a lot of updates this month:
the addition of comments from persons involved in a story,
videos hosted by YouTube and articles from news agencies like AP that will be
hosted by Google. Google
indexes web pages faster than ever and gives more options to
find fresh web pages.
Video
Google Video
closes the video store and concentrates on advertising-supported solutions. YouTube
experiments with overlay video ads for premium content.
This month we also found out that
the internationalization of Google search has interesting side-effects,
Google Browser is already here,
Google Docs has a lot of interesting uses and
organizing data is a difficult task.
Tip of the month:
use Google Reader to power your blogroll.
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