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据国外媒体报道，当地时间本周一，互联网搜索巨头谷歌（Google）将其受欢迎的“谷歌地球”应用软件（Google Earth）移植到了苹果iPhone手机上，使iPhone用户只需触摸屏幕，便可“飞”往世界各地。

谷歌公司在其官方博客中称，目前谷歌免费在22个国家向iPhone和iPod Touch用户提供18种语言的“谷歌地球”服务。“只需手指一点，你就可以从皮奥里亚‘飞’到巴黎，‘飞’到巴布亚新几内亚或世界的任何地方”。

谷歌公补充说：“尽管在iPhone手机上使用‘谷歌地球’目标物体看起来有点小，但其包含了所有功能，包括所有与PC版本相同的全球图像和三维地形图”。

用户只需轻轻触摸屏幕，用户即可实现“点对点”周游世界，而且可以通过功能按钮放大或缩小屏幕，并且通过倾斜设置按钮获得山脉的3D视图。其中的“我的位置”功能，可以即时显示用户的真实位置，用户还可以利用谷歌本地搜索，方便找到附近企业和目标场所。“谷歌地球”内超过8万张的图片和风景名胜数码照片将使iPhone手机用户充分享受世界“虚拟之旅”体验。

据悉，“谷歌地球”应用软件还包括维基百科文章链接。 （计世网）

When Google introduced their new Finanace website a while back of course wanted to figure out what they where using.  I do my normal first test of using the right click button on the mouse to see if Flash comes up in the context menu.  Sure enough Flash is used on the charting part of the Google finance.

The more interesting part of this and why I bring it up is that Adobe actually acknowledges Google’s use of JavaScript and Flash in a technical document.

Also, because Flash Player is integrated with the browser runtime environment, developers can easily deliver applications that combine user interface logic written in JavaScript with components or entire applications written in Flex. For example, Google is taking advantage of both JavaScript
and Flash as part of its Google Finance site. As shown in Figure 12, the application uses common Ajax techniques to update news stories and highlight news items, while the interactive chart takes advantage of the Flash Player runtime to draw a rich data visualization and show the connections between breaking news and changing stock price.

Adobe® Flex™ 2 (page 18)
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/whitepapers/pdfs/flex2wp_technicaloverview.pdf

They go on to talk about the Flex-Ajax bridge (FA Bridge) but nothing concrete that Google is actually using FA Bridge.  Either way its nice to see high profile uses of Flash and JavaScript/AJAX being referred to in an Adobe’s technical white paper.

Zoho announced today that they’ve added hooks into Google Gears in their Zoho Writer program so that you can access and modify your documents when you’re offline. After hanging out with Dion Almaer on the bus I was really anxious to see someone else use Google Gears and I hadn’t checked out Zoho Writer in a long time. They’ve done a lot with it. The interface is much improved and it feels pretty snappy. I’ve been demoing Buzzword at the keynotes for the on AIR Bus tour and while I like Buzzword’s interface better, I think Zoho Writer feels very HTML/webby, so I think that appeals to a lot of people.

Google Gears installed just fine (but I hope they can do Camino support down the road) and even though I always hate restarting the browser because I “tab up” it’ to be expected for something like this. Once installed Zoho Writer worked exactly as expected. It downloads all the documents to the hard drive (I’m not sure if you can toggle which ones to grab or not) and you have access to all of your documents wherever you are. You can’t make changes and sync them up yet, but that’s coming according to TechCrunch.

I’d love to see Zoho as an AIR application and I think office apps are a natural fit for the browser/desktop blend because I think the experience is better for office apps as desktop applications. But a lot of people really love Zoho and working with office applications inside the browser. For those types of applications, Google Gears is a good fit. I think overall this is a good step for rich internet applications as we move into the world of the desktop experience.

Bi-directional messaging between heterogeneous (Flash and AJAX) clients and WebORB Message Server. The server performs additional processing to geolocate chat users, injects necessary information in messages so users can plotted on the map.

Click here.

As much as site publishers want to present the best possible presence to their visitors, they equally want to stay in the good graces of search engine spiders, and Google’s in particular. It presents a challenge to webmasters: how to use Flash while showing the Googlebot what it needs to see?

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“With almost no effort and at no cost, webpage owners can add complex, dynamically updating content to their own websites using Google Gadgets. Because there is such an enormous variety of Google Gadgets to choose from, webmasters also have a great deal of freedom to select only the gadgets that will best complement their own page. There are games, news clips, weather reports, maps, and more.”

Google Gadgets

Via lifehacker

Create 3D objects for free with Google SketchUp

Google SketchUp

Today Google introduced a new feature at Gmail that will allow user´s to chat with other user´s of Gmail
directly from the mail box…

This feature was not implemented in all mail accounts so if you still don´t see this feature at your Gmail account you will have to wait for the activation.

Take a look to a screenshot and get more info here

Yesterday while watching a video at “Google Video”, I detect some options at right panel to download the video, and a new option that will give you the code to embed the video on your site.

Google Video

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