01Dec
Google’s blogging platform has a new feature added on 29th Nov 2007,
Blogger now supports openid commenting.
This means that if you are a blogger / google account holder or if you have an openid you can use it for commenting on any blog in blogger/blogspot.
for author’s in order to enable this feature you ned to change your setting’s.
Currently it only supports users to comment on blogger blog’s
but google is taking feedback from users and is planning to let them use thier blogspot url or custom domain url as openid. in other words it will be providing openid based facility for all blogspot users.
you can have more information about this at the official blogger’s blog here.
13Nov
after the unofficial acceptance by google authorities earlier. Google has today launched its mobile application development platform ANDROID
This mobile platform has a lot of new things including but not limited to
1) Open Access through standard API calls even to the core mobile functionalities
2) On of the most intersting feature i liked is its non discriminative nature — even the dialer or home screen can be replaced.
3) As always google is now targeting mobile users and in order allowing desktop applcations to migrate to mobile level.
4) Complete SDK also includes device emulator and advanced debugging tools.
We have seen the growth a platform can get with the open developer’s involvement (simple example is Facebook), and hence came the google android chalange a $10M Challange for the best android apps.
As per android challange site
Cool apps that surprise and delight mobile users, built by developers like you, will be a huge part of the Android vision. To support you in your efforts, Google has launched the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million in awards — no strings attached — for great mobile apps built on the Android platform.
How It Works
The award money will be distributed equally between two Android Developer Challenges:
* Android Developer Challenge I: We will accept submissions from January 2 through March 3, 2008
* Android Developer Challenge II: This part will launch after the first handsets built on the platform become available in the second half of 2008
In the Android Developer Challenge I, the 50 most promising entries received by March 3 will each receive a $25,000 award to fund further development. Those selected will then be eligible for even greater recognition via ten $275,000 awards and ten $100,000 awards.
Read more about it at TECHCRUNCH and GIGAOM
06Nov
Recently many person’s are facing this problem on orkut,
If you open your account and click on any top link’s or navigate away from one page what you get is a login page again,
problem unknown till now.
my speculations may be some of the maintainence stuff or may be some opensocial integration related problem.
but these are pure speculations.
