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Google Maps to soon have branded advertisments

A while ago I wrote about how companies came up with innovative ideas with creating giant symbols on the ground so they might make it on Google Earth’s satellite images. Now brands do not have to do anything that drastic but only advertise their locations on Google Maps. This feature is being tested in Google Maps Australian locations.

How will the ads work?
Google will show a company’s symbol or logo withing…

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Will Google run your Television in the future?

Google is into the business of Internet, Operations systems with Android and Chromium and now mobile phones with Nexus. Now that leaves out Television and Google is now rumored to be planning a two pronged strategy to enter the Television market. The first strategy is by tying up with Dish Network where their set top boxes will run on Android. The other part of this strategy is a tie up…

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Branding the earth for satellites in space [Video]

Branding is very important. Almost all advertising is based on the concept of brand building. Large companies use everything from celebrities to tag lines which make you recognize the brand immediately. There is a trend now a days to brand your company for a previously unknown market which is space.

No aliens are not looking down through space and I am sure Firefox is not branding itself to aliens but it is doing so for a lot of people using Google Earth. A few years ago satellite pictures were only available for government agencies but today anyone with a computer can look up Google Earth imagery.

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New Settings updates for Buzz updates in your Gmail Inbox

Google recently announced new updates to features with Google Buzz. Now Buzz is part of the settings section within Gmail and also you can mute a Buzz within the Inbox. Google Buzz has had a tumultuous start with many questioning it’s privacy features and there were a spate of posts on how to remove Buzz from Gmail only a day after it was introduced. ;-)

New Updated Buzz Settings
Buzz settings now…

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Google Buzz giving Better Control for Email Notification

Google buzz is in news from some time now and slowly but its getting hype among internet users. Integrating Google buzz into Gmail is the best thing Buzz developer did, but this also created problem for lots of email notification. Google buzz announced that they will be rolling out updates soon, in which you can control your email notification for buzz.

For now, when ever any one comment on your post…

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5 Great extensions with Google Wave

Is Google Wave really worth visiting all over again? I am not sure about it’s pros and cons but a lot of people signed up with a lot of hope and expectations and really thought it would take over the internet but were a let down more than a little because when we all used it, it seemed like a over glorified version of Gmail. We even wondered on how…

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Google Reader trying to take on Stumble Upon?

If you have recently in the past few hours logged in to your Google Reader you might have noticed a link to Google Reader Play. This is a concept where you can look up random and interesting articles on Google Reader with a very different and interesting layout. The layout of reader does not change and Reader Play is a totally different landing page. One playing around a bit with…

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Google is God- Or Is It ?

Google has touchedĀ  our lives in ways no one could have dreamt. Be it latest news you want to read (Google news), looking for some good pics for your presentation (Google images), or looking for directions to a new place (Google maps), Google is there to help you out every time. All this had made a strong group of Google worshippers. Lately I came across an article that shows how…

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How to get your YouTube account ready for auto captions?

YouTube comes up with a lot of innovation from editing your videos online to watching television shows online. Recently YouTube announced recently that all the videos they have will have automatic closed captions enabled. The feature is available with many videos but not all. Apparently YouTube will take a little bit of time to give all the videos captions.

What are automatic closed captions?
Auto captions are captions or subtitles in English…

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Get notified of Google Wave through your email

A few weeks ago I had covered a Chrome extension and Firefox add-on which covered notification of Google Wave on your browser. This is quite useful for people using Wave either extensively or not much at all. I personally think that I if you are using Google Wave not that often you might want to be notified about it as through your email rather than with a browser add-on.

Google Wave…

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