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Google Latitude can alert your friend’s location

Sundar — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:39:43 +0000

“In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.”

Technology has grown to great extent; you do not have time to visit your friends and dear ones. What if someone alerts you that “your school friend has landed in the city you live”? Yes Google Latitude does that.

Google has started its location-based services, which lets you to see and share your friend’s location on Google Maps. Google Latitude helps you to stay in touch with friends, or to track your loved ones get home safely.

Google Latitude Location History

Travel lovers will really love to have the visited place stored in Google maps. Enable Google Location History to store and manage your past visited locations on Google Maps. In your convenience you can also delete a portion or entire history.

Location history can be enabled using the following link.

Google Latitude Location Alert

Enable Google Location Alert, it will send the notification every time when friends are near each other. Your past location history is noted to recognize your routine locations which will avoid sending notification to your latitude friends.

What if your alerted every time for the your roommate or co-workers?
Do’nt forget to enable your location history, which will prevent alerting every-time for the roommates or co-workers.

Google Latitude is really wonderful service which should be enabled when you’re new to the city or when you feel the neighborhood is not safe. Its better check your neighborhood safety before visiting the new place.

Demo Google Latitude

Is your online activities tracked – check Google Dashboard

Sundar — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:23:40 +0000

“The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual”

Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? Yes google knows your online life on the web,at least when your logged in google.

What is google dashboard

Google dashboard is platform which gives the whole details of the online activities.You might me surprised and stunned to see these details stored by google.Nearly 35 products like Alerts, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Google Reader, Latitude, Voice ,Connect, Profile and more are listed in google dashboard.

A detailed summary of your usage is listed with direct links for you to control.Your given a chance to add or delete the activities in google dashboard

Just click here to have a look at your online activity
http://www.google.com/dashboard

Google has built this with greater transparency and control over our own data,To me its a best example of single-sign-on to access our wide data with single log in.Moreover information shared or summarised here are less important expect google checkout. Its a great effort from google as long as it protects our privacy and data.

To know more about Google dashboard Watch this quick video

What is Google Wave

Sundar — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:38:12 +0000

“Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.”

Google wave is surfing around the web since May 2009 and it is expected to be made open to the public in Dec 2009.Google wave brings hope of “e-communication” for the future.A bunch of invites has be sent to interested users to explore on 30th Sep 2009.

What is Google Wave?

Google wave is a simple fusion of gmail,picasa,google docs and social networking.Its a great tool which limits the screen hopping between the following applications ultimately.

1.Gmail(with inbox and instant messenger),
2.picasa(google photo sharing) ,
3.google docs(google file sharing)
4.Social media(Orkut,Facebook, twitter and many more)

Yes,your reading it right! Everything in one screen.Your professional and social network is managed in the same screen.

Google wave features
1.Spell checker
2.Embedding video instantly with chat or mail
3.social gadgets (to hit your social games eg.Farm ville)
4.exploring google maps
5.Seamlessly integrates with your blog or website
6.Wiki (collaborative editing of docs for the team or group)
7.Charter-by-character viewing(while chatting,you can view what is typed in opposite side)
8.Image drag & drop with integrated image slide show .
9.Native language conversion(chatting you type in English ,instantly your friend reads in French)
10.Handles RSVP efficiently
11.Play back of chatting or emails in same sequence.
12.search options to get the tagged mail or chat.
13.Google wave is very much friendly with iPhone and android phones.
14.Easy to communicate between your blog and wave
15.Integration of wave with orkut client.

Stay tuned to know the technical details with features of Google Wave.
if your searching for the link to get the invites.You can punch this link.

Google wave demo in 2 minutes

Monopoly play on google maps

Sundar — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:27:44 +0000

“Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side.”

Monopoly is a game of math which is the most played (commercial) board game in the world,it is a subsidiary of Hasbro. Hasbro(NYSE: HAS) is one of the largest toy makers in the world history.

Online games are the rapidly growing industry and analyst Colin Sebastian is estimating that online game revenue has now reached $11 billion as part of a $44 billion worldwide video game market.

Monopoly city streets is a game of monopoly which join hands with google maps to have world’s cities displayed in 3D version.It allows you to own, build and trade any part of the world city and streets virtually .

Game start with bank balance of 3 Million virtual Dollars. Unlike the traditional board game of “rolling dice and move like mice” is no more in monopoly city streets. Your earnings are calculated automatically by the game based on the property you buy and rent,thus reduce the burden of calculation(is then no more game of math).

Though popularity the game grows day by day ,this beta version of the game is open live till January 31, 2010.

With the development in social media, you can play the online game with your buddy or any one in the globe. Monopoly city streets thus gives great kick start of integrating social media with board games.

You play the game to become the richest property magnate in the world

Build your neighborhood against crime

Sundar — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:39:55 +0000

“All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such”

Knowing your neighborhood for theater,theme park and shopping mall seems to useful and interesting. It also important to safe scan the neighborhood on hand before you move in.

Crimereports.com will have the updated information of all types of crime which has made your neighborhood screamed in the last six months max. Just enter your zip code or city name, our favorite google maps will pop up with color-coded images with more details of the crime. Redefined search will give the crimes occurred over a day,week or months long back.

Information shared related to crime by Crimereports.com
Crime type, date of instance, distance from give zip code, identifier number of the accused, agency of police department.

You can also share the crime details if any to info@crimereports.com to build the safer community.

Familiywatchdog.us also a similar site which give more detail about physical offender by the name in each region. This is also powered by google maps for the detail reports. This site also provides the details of offenders with their photograph.

Information shared related to crime by Familywatchdog.us
Name and age with DOB, photograph, description of the accused, identification of the accused, nature of the crime committed and much more.

CrimeReports.com and Familywatchdog.usprovides community members to access their neighborhood crime information for free, empowering to improve the safety of their families, friends, property and the community at large.

To get the alerts users need to create an account with a valid address and an email address.

It will really helpful if it is implemented all over the world. Have a happy and safe neighborhood.