Finally Google announced beta release of Google voice. The service is old GrandCentral, which google accursed in July of 2007. Google voice will have new features other than what GrandCentral was having. And now, the service is available for existing GC customers only. But soon, everyone will be able to access this service. You can submit your email address so that you will get alert when the service is open for public.

Using this service, you can archive all your text messages and ofcource search :). Also you can make international calls cheaper. Screen calling ( announce and screen callers ), Listen in (listen before taking a call), Block calls, SMS, Place call ( all US calls are said to be free !), Taking call ( you can take all your numbers with one phone), Phone routing and Forwarding phone are the main features of Google number.

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Apple has just brought out a brand-new third-generation iPod shuffle that is almost twice as small as the previous model. The device also has an exclusive new feature called VoiceOver that allows your shuffle to speak song, artist and playlist names to you.

The new iPod shuffle looks nothing like its predecessor. It comes in two shades – silver or black – and has no more buttons! (It looks a bit like a fancy cigarette lighter.)

The new shuffle is truly tiny: smaller than an AA battery and the redesign means that all of the controls are now placed on the earphone cord instead of the body.

The VoiceOver feature speaks 14 languages, including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish, and even tells you how much battery life you have left.

Priced at 75 Euro including VAT, the new 4GB shuffle holds up to 1,000 songs and starts shipping today.

Source: SiliconRepublic

Many people who start a website think that it is possible to get high rankings on Google within a few days. Unfortunately, this is not possible. Competition on the Internet is fierce and there are several factors that influence how long it takes until Google lists your website.

1. How old is your website?

If you have a brand new website then you have to wait. You can submit your website to Google but Google will only index your website if other websites link to your site.   In addition, you have to prove that your website is not spammy. Google has several filters for new websites and you have to earn Google’s trust before your website can get lasting high rankings. A new website can get good rankings for less competitive keywords but it usually takes about 6 months to gain the minimum level of trust that is necessary to get high rankings.

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Designing and publishing your first web site can seem a daunting prospect to the uninitiated, not just because of the technical aspects involved, but because of the many different options too – it’s often hard to know where to even start. This mini-report gives you an introduction to the process of planning, designing and publishing your site in the hope that it will help you overcome that initial inertia – to get you off the starting blocks. The first thing you need, when starting an online site is objectives.

Objectives

Nothing will hinder you more than if you set out not knowing exactly what it is you are trying to achieve – clear, concise objectives will keep you focused, across all aspects of the site creation process. Indeed, you ought to be continually referring back to these objectives as your site development progresses. Objectives might include "selling a product" or "building a mailing list" or "communicating your brand" or perhaps simply "providing information about you, or your business". Whatever your objective is, online, write this down and pin it to the wall where you can refer back to it on an ongoing basis.

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If you want to link to a specific part of a video on YouTube, you can. For example,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI#t=31m08s

Notice the “#t=31m08s” on the end of the URL? That link will take you 31 minutes and 8 seconds into that video. Linking to a particular minute and second can be really helpful – for example, that link takes you straight to where someone asks Eric Schmidt a question about Twitter. From there, you can listen to his answer, where he says (among other things):

“We’re in favor of all of these new communications mechanisms. I think the innovation is great, Twitter’s success is wonderful, and I think it shows you that there are many, many new ways to communicate, especially if you’re willing to do so publicly.”

Source: Matt Cutts

Google AdSense has been so successful you can find Google Ads in almost every site you visit. AdSense has truly brought a faster, more efficient way of earning money online while at the same time you get to do the things that you want on your site. This low maintenance way of making money has since become a regular fixture in today’s websites almost every site owner hopes to generate profits from these pay-per-click ads.

However while there a lot of success stories that have risen out of AdSense, there are still owners who find it difficult to use this money-making scheme on their sites, hence they still have to figure out how to actually earn from the ads.

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comScore’s online video numbers for the US in January are out, and YouTube is, unsurprisingly, doing great again. In January, 100.9 million visitors viewed 6.3 billion videos on the popular video sharing service, surpassing the 100 million viewers milestone in the US for the first time.

YouTube also led the large growth in online video watching, accounting for 91 percent of the incremental gain in the number of videos viewed compared to December. Fox’s MySpace also experienced large growth: from 444 million videos viewed in December 2008 to 552 million in January 2009, with Yahoo, Viacom and Microsoft’s properties following in places three to five.

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