The first thought that jumped into my head when I pondered the anniversary was this: It's only been that long? Google has become so core to how I live my life that I forget that I managed to spend thirty-four years without it--including twenty years of being online in one form or another. There just aren't that many commercial products or services that have become anywhere near so pervasive. (Coca-Cola? McDonald's? The Gillette safety razor?)

Once I started to think about life before Google, I began to toy with the idea of life without Google. What if the world had gotten to 2008 without the company ever being formed? (Maybe Sergey Brin and Larry Page had never been born; maybe they became Stanford professors; maybe they became fabulously successful at some other endeavor--I dunno.) Just how different would life--or at least life on the Internet--be?

A few thoughts, category by category:

Web Search
McCracken's Eleventh Law of Technology Innovation famously states that anything that's ever been invented would have been eventually invented even if the person or persons who invented it had never been born. If Thomas Edison hadn't come up with the light bulb and phonograph, for instance, we wouldn't be without 'em in 2008--somebody else would have invented in due time.

And as revolutionary as Google's PageRank algorithm was when it debuted, it was, in retrospect, an obvious idea: A Web site that has lots of links from other sites is more likely to be good, and should therefore rank higher in search results. I can't imagine that this notion would have simply never existed if Brin and Page hadn't originated it in the form of BackRub, Google's predecessor. Someone else would have come up with it, and would likely have blown away AltaVista and other early search engines in accuracy, just as Google did.

Google's original home page was almost as revolutionary as PageRank, simply because it was...simple. Not much more than a logo, a text field, a Search button, and and I'm Feeling Lucky one. It was a major part of why Google took off originally, and while nearly every major search engine ended up shamlessly copying it,
I think it's possible that nobody else would have been daring enough to try it.

Once Google had been successful with Web search, it was obsessive about building everything it did around search: If there's a Google product or service in which a search field is not core to the functionality and prominent in the user interface, I'm not thinking of it now. Countless other companies have bought into the notion that search is the Internet's defining tool; nobody else has riffed on the idea as effectively as Google.

So the bottom line on Web search is this: If Google hadn't existed, we surely wouldn't have gotten something exactly like Google in its place. And maybe not something as good. But search would surely have evolved just as radically, maybe as far, and probably in the same general direction.

Advertising
Google is the only technology company with a mission that I can repeat off the top of my head: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. That doesn't mention advertising, and it's probably a safe bet that Sergey Brin and Larry Page would hope that they're not remembered primarily as advertising men. But Google did revolutionize advertising. And the billions of dollars Google has made from advertising are what has funded virtually everything else they've done: If Google Web search was just as good as it is today but didn't carry such effective, profitable ads, Google would never have become the Google we know.

Google didn't invent the idea of auctioning off ads that appeared with a search engine's results. A company called GoTo.com was doing the same thing years before Google started, albeit not as elegantly and with more controversy. If Google had never come to be, other search engines would likely be doing it today. And I think there's a good chance that the democratizing effect of the company's approach to advertising, which lets companies of all sizes get in front of everybody who uses the Internet, would have happened.

But Google's approach to text ads was more user-friendly than GoTo's--the ads appeared alongside organize search results, rather than displacing them--and used more sophisticated plumbing. And it was paired with what would have been the best search engine with or without advertising. That was incredibly potent, and it's not clear that another company would have figured it out. Yahoo, after all, ended up buying GoTo.com, but has never monetized its search engine nearly as effectively as Google has, which is why it winded up agreeing to outsource some of its advertising sales to Google.

Microsoft has also consistently failed to match Google's potency as an ad platform, even though the basics of how Google does what it does are entirely public and available for imitation or refinement. You gotta think that if nobody can figure out how to top Google's approach to ads, it might be that nobody would have come up with it in the first place.

Oh yeah, one other thing about Google and advertising: The company only figured out the ad part of its business after it had created a superb, wildly popular search engine. It certainly didn't originate the idea of "getting big fast" on the Internet--many companies from the first dot-com boom also postponed worrying about revenue until after they'd built a service and gotten lots of people to sign up for it. But nearly all of those first generation Web companies should have worried about money; by not doing so, they turned from dot-coms into dot-bombs. Google re-legitimized the idea of figuring out a business model late in the game, and countless companies have copied it since...although none have done so with the same degree of success.

E-Mail
Google is ten; Gmail is only a bit over four. And when Google announced on April 1st, 2004 that it was giving users a gigabyte of storage, many took it as a hoax. (Looking back at the original Gmail press release, Google wanted folks to wonder if it was a practical joke.) At the time, Microsoft's Hotmail offered a parsimonious 2MB of space; how often does anyone top what a competitor is doing by a factor of 500X?

Disk storage has gotten so cheap that large inboxes would have come along with or without Google. I think it's possible, though, that they wouldn't have gotten as big as quickly--and Google's current 7GB allotment still tops Hotmail.  (Yahoo, on the other hand, now claims to offer unlimited space--something it might never have been prompted to do if Gmail didn't exist.)

Gmail was a landmark in another way: It scanned your e-mail and displayed relevant ads. At first, many people found this creepy and some even said it should be illegal. In the long run, though, almost nobody seemed to find it objectionable in practice, in part because Gmail was so basically useful, and in part because Google was entirely open about what it was doing. It's easy to imagine other companies who might have done something similar backing down during the initial firestorm--I'm thinking of Facebook and its Beacon ads. But Google weathered the controversy and changed how people think about use of their personal information. (One Google trait that isn't often discussed is its extreme stubborness: When it wants to do something, it really wants to do it...and probably will.)

Oh, and Gmail's emphasis on powerful search was a fresh idea in 2004; today, you assume that every Web service will have decent search. Woulda happened with or without Google; might not have happened as fast without the tendency of every other company on the Web to steal Google's good idea.

Ultimately, Gmail didn't change everything for e-mail, and some of the things it did change would have happened with or without Google. But the change likely happened faster than it would have otherwise.

Local Search
Google Maps is one of my favorite Google services, and arguably the one other than basic Web search where Google's approach to user interfaces has been most effective. It's also among the company's most-imitated products: The local search services from Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask, and others all clone the basic idea.

Before Google Maps came along, of course, Mapquest was the gold standard in maps and local info. Even today, it's struggling to get to where Google Maps has been for years. Local search would have been significant no matter what, but I think it's quite possible that we wouldn't have gotten to today's map-driven approach to things so quickly sans Google.

Then there's Google Earth. This one's easy: It would have existed with or without Google, since it began as a product from a company called KeyHole, which Google acquired in 2004. KeyHole's software was mindblowing even before Google got into the act. But Google instantly did something with it that was mindblowing at the time: It reduced the price to...nothing. That got the software in front of far more people than would have ever tried it if it had remained a for-pay application from a small company.

Google has also invested massive resources in beefing up both Google Maps and Google Earth, including efforts such as Google Street View and its photos taken by roving vans. Just this weekend, a satellite went up to supply Google with imagery for its mapping products. Nobody else as interested in local search as Google is has poured so much money into making it better. (Google Street View was preceded by a feature in Amazon's A9.com search engine that was virtually identical--but Amazon gave up before it had photographed more than a few areas.) As with many other areas, Google's combination of wild ambition and bushels of cash has let it push ideas that would have existed anyhow further than they might have gone.

Video
This one seems pretty simple on the surface. Google didn't really figure out video until it bought YouTube, which was trouncing Google Video at the time. It's done a nice job of integrating YouTube with other Google services, but none of the integration has been profound in any way.

But wait a minute--YouTube clearly borrowed ideas from Google in the first place, such as its search-driven interface. The company also borrowed Google's willingness to concentrate on making a good product first, then figuring out how to make money from it later. Video would surely be important on the Web in 2008 no matter what, but YouTube, like countless successful Web companies, owes a large debt to Google as an example. That would be true even if Google hadn't ended up buying YouTube and making the relationship official.

Social Networking
Really easy: Google started a service called Orkut that wasn't the first social network and is dominant in only a few places, such as Brazil. Yes, MySpace and Facebook (especially Facebook) riff on ideas that originated with Google. But a world without Google would likely still have had MySpace and Facebook in something damn close to their current incarnations.

Other Products
Google has an astounding array of services beyond the ones I've written about...and for the most part, they're either non-revolutionary or it's too early to tell if they're going to revolutionize anything. A few quick notes on some of them:

--It's certainly possible that Google Apps will end up replacing Microsoft Office as the world's dominant office suite. Hasn't happened yet, though. And Apps builds on ideas that other companies came up with (ThinkFree was taking on Office almost a decade ago) and is built on the technologies of companies that Google acquired, such as Writely.

--Google Health could change the world, but it's a long way from doing so. And even if it does some day, predecessors such as WebMD will deserve at least as much credit, giving that they originated ideas seen in Google' health product.

--Of everything that Google does, Google Book Search may be the project with the highest potential to change the world--wouldn't it be cool if every book ever published was available online?--and the lowest payoff to date. I remain hopeful that we'll eventually look back on it as something profound that might not have existed if Google hadn't devoted so much energy to making it happen;

--Chrome could be profoundly important. Right now, though, it's just an intriguing-but-unfinished browser.

Then there's another category of Google service: Companies it's bought and done little or nothing with. For instance, it bought Jaiku and Dodgeball. Both are kinda like Twitter...but it's Twitter that's the huge hit. Not only would a world without Google still have had Twitter; it might have had an independent Jaiku and Dodgeball that were more successful.

If Not Google, Who?
By virtually any definition, Google is the most important company on the Web. Which brings up an obvious question: If there'd never been a Google, who would have been the most important Web company?

Microsoft? There's no question that Google's success gives Microsoft fits and has left it trying to turn itself into Google. Or that back in the mid-1990s, Bill Gates and company envisioned themselves as being more important on the Web than they turned out to be. But if you take Google out of the equation, I don't see a scenario in which Microsoft turned out to be as powerful online as it's been on the desktop; it was already failing to be so even before Google came along.

AOL? Nah--it's too obvious that its success was built on dial-up and it failed to be as relevant in the broadband era. That would have happened with or without Google.

Comcast or AT&T? God, I hope not!

Yahoo? Maybe! For all the company's much-publicized challenges as a business, it's still huge and moneymaking and used by almost everybody. Google's dominance forced Yahoo into a second-fiddle role, but if you simply imagine the Web as it is in 2008 except without Google, you might come to the conclusion that Yahoo was its most important company.

Somebody else? What-if questions are by definition unanswerable, and the more you depart from reality as it is, the more unanswerable they become. If Brin and Page hadn't built Google, somebody else might have built something similar that would have become the dominant search engine--and maybe even the most important company on the Web. But simply building a search engine similar to Google wouldn't have led to everything that's Google circa 2008.

Final Thoughts
Thinking about everything that Google does, the company really does boil down into a few simple items that make it what it is. Namely:

--it built a splendid product that came to dominate one of the most important tasks on the Internet;

--it does a remarkable job of leveraging that success to make boatloads of money;

--it has extended the idea of search in a zillion directions--not always successfully, but often so;

--it's fairly frequently had brainstorms that other companies would have rejected, such as giving away a gigabyte of space for e-mail;

--it's almost always focused its energies on building simple interfaces that people like, then monetizing them after the fact;

--it's used some of its bushels of money to buy many other innovative companies, such as KeyHole and YouTube and--in some cases, at least--taken their ideas further than they could have on their own;

--it's used other bushels of money to engage in wildly ambitious projects like Google Book Search that other companies might not have pursued.

These are the things that make Google Google. It's a strikingly different list of corporate characeristics than those of Microsoft or Yahoo or any other major Web company. And while every single thing that makes Google Google has been widely copied by other companies--sometimes very successfully--the whole package remains unique.

In the end, I can imagine a world without Google; I can imagine an Internet that's just as wonderful without it; I can even imagine an Internet that's better in certain respects. (People have been asking whether Google is too powerful for years, and even if the answer is "no, not really" right now, it may not stay that way forever.)

I still feel fortunate to have had it for ten years, though--and if I spend the rest of my life using Google in one form or another, it would neither surprise nor displease me...

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Ho confrontato Google Chrome con la versione beta del nuovo Firefox 3.1, che include l'aggiornamento del motore di rendering (Gecko) e l'introduzione della tecnologia TraceMonkey.

SI tratta in sostanza un compilatore particolarmente ottimizzato per Javascript che velocizza l'esecuzione di tutte quelle applicazioni web che ne fanno uso: tutti i siti di social network (tipo facebook) e i motori CMS per i blog (come wordpress), ovvero tutto il cosiddetto web 2.0, nonché gmail, google docs e tutte le applicazioni che funzionano dentro un browser.

In altre parole, l'equivalente di V8 presente in Google Chrome, ma, allo stato, più veloce.

Il test su Javascript utilizzato è Sunspider, di Apple webkit (ricordo che webkit è il motore di rendering di Safari e di Google Chrome).

Inoltre ho sottoposto i due browser al test Acid3 per la verifica della rispondenza agli standard web. Maggiori informazioni su questo test sono reperibili su Wikipedia.

Le versioni confrontate sono:

Google Chrome Beta come distribuito da Google

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

Firefox 3.1 beta1pre, nightly build del 5 settembre 2008 (con jit attivato)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080905031348 Minefield/3.1b1pre

Entrambi, ovviamente, in versione Windows.

Ed ecco i risultati dei test:

ACID3:

Da notare anche che durante il test, Google Chrome ha notevoli problemi di performance.

Passiamo ora al test di velocità Javascript:

Firefox batte Chrome per la seconda volta.

E' necessario però abilitare Tracemonkey, che di default è disattivato.

E' semplicissimo.

1. scrivere about:config nella barra degli indirizzi di firefox

2. scrivere la parola chiave jit

3. cliccare sulle 2 opzioni che compaiono (se leggete chrome sappiate che non c'entra con Google Chrome :) )

Curiosamente, Google Chrome batte di molto Firefox 3.1 nel test dromaeo, di Mozilla, che però è  molto meno approfondito di Sunspider e difatti quasi mai preso in considerazione per i confronti, neppure da Mozilla stessa che, all'annuncio di Firefox 3, pubblicò i dati di Sunspider.

Da notare anche che, tra i browser in beta basati su webkit, Google Chrome è quello con la percentuale peggiore all'acid3 test (da marzo infatti, le versioni di sviluppo del motore webkit raggiungono 100/100).

Ho fatto anche un confronto con Opera.

Questi sono i risultati di dell'ultima versione di Opera (9.52.2):

Acid3: 83/100

Sunspider: 8816.4ms

L'ultima versione stabile di Firefox (quindi senza TraceMonkey), ovvero la 3.0.1, impiega la metà a superare il test Sunspider (precisamente 4440 ms) mentre per l'Acid3 si ferma a 75/100.

Installare Firefox 3.1b1pre (nome in codice: minefield)

Windows: scaricare l'installer qui ed eseguirlo

GNU/Linux: scaricare il file compresso, scompattarlo ed eseguire il file "firefox" in esso contenuto

Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04): Aggiungere i repository seguenti e successivamente installare da synaptic i pacchetti firefox-3.1 e firefox-3.1-gnome-support

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu hardy main

Se non sapete come si aggiungono i repository guardate qui.

Ultima nota: le build di Firefox 3.1 per GNU/Linux sono un po' indietro rispetto a quelle per Windows, per cui le prestazioni sono minori per Javascript, ma comunque migliori di Google Chrome.

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Αφορμή για τις σκέψεις αυτές πήρα από φίλο ο οποίος μετά από χρόνια τριβής με του υπολογιστές αποφάσισε να βάλει στο Vista Vaio του και browser Firefox. Kαι όταν τον ρώτησα γιατί, εισέπραξα την απάντηση "γιατί είναι πιο trendy από τον explorer". Αφού ξεπέρασα το πρώτο σοκ (trendy browser) έρχεται το δεύτερο αφού η απάντηση αυτή συμπληρώνεται και από μία αιτιολόγηση. "Είναι -λέει- σαν να χρησιμοποιείς σήμερα Hotmil, την ώρα που υπάρχει το Gmail".

Μετά από τόσα χρόνια επαγγελματικής -και όχι μόνο- ενασχόλησής μου με τους η/υ και έχοντας χρησιμοποιήσει δεκάδες διαφορετικά μηχανήματα και εκατοντάδες διαφορετικούς τίτλους λογισμικών, μαθαίνω οτι υπάρχει κόσμος που χρησιμοποιεί τον Firefox γιατί είναι trendy. Ένα πράγμα σαν τα τζιν τα οποία βρέξει-χιονίσει είναι πάντα εντός μόδας. Εν' αντιθέσει με τον κακόμοιρο MSIE ο οποίος είναι πλέον πασέ και που αν τον χρησιμοποιείς δεν είσαι "In". Αντίστοιχα και με το Gmail και το Hotmail.

Εγώ προσωπικά δεν μπορώ να δεχτώ στη δική μου συλογιστική οτι ένα "λογισμικό" είναι trendy. Ένα λογισμικό είναι απλά (ή δεν είναι, αναλόγως) ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟ. Και από το πόσο χρήσιμο ή μη μου είναι, το χρησιμοποιώ και ανάλογα. O Firefox λόγου χάρην θεωρώ οτι είναι πιο γρήγορος στις λειτουργίες του, εμφάνισε πρώτος tabed browsing & pop up blocker, έχει plugins για πολλά πραγματάκια, είναι λιγότερο επιρεπής σε web ιούς. Όλα αυτά για εμένα αποτελούν συγκριτικά πλεονεκτήματα σε σχέση με τον MSIE και γι' αυτό τον χρησιμοποιώ. Για αντίστοιχους λόγους εξακολουθώ να χρησιμοποιώ και το Hotmail. Όλες μου οι καρτέλες ηλετρονικών συναλλαγών (Amazo, iTunes κλπ) είναι εκεί, ο χόρος που μου διατείθεται είναι επαρκέστατος, μέσω αυτού έχω φτιάξει Messenger account ενώ παράλληλα το χρησιμοποιώ και για λόγους δουλειάς. Tσεκάρω διαφημίσεις όταν και όποτε αυτές είναι στον αέρα. Δεν βρίσκω λοιπόν απολύτως κανένα λόγο να το αλλάξω. Διατηρώ μεν παράλληλα και Gmail account αλλά το κάθε ένα για διαφορετικό λόγο.

Για τον ίδιο λόγο που άλλαξα και υπολογιστική πλατφόρμα εδώ και κάποια χρόνια και χρησιμοποιώ  Mac. Έκρινα οτι τα πλεονεκτήματά του είναι πολύ σημαντικά έναντί του παραθυρικού περιβάλλοντος και έτσι το επέλεξα. Ο υπολογιστής (όπως και το συνοδευτικό λογισμικό) είναι εργαλείο που απλά σου κάνει τη ζωή πιο εύκολη. Δεν είναι ούτε μόδα ούτε lifestyle. O υπολογιστής δεν είναι γκόμενα, και ο Firefox δεν είναι παντελόνι του Armani ή μπλουζάκι του Ralph Lauren.

Τελειώνοντας, να πω οτι ο άνθρωπος που μου συζήτησε περί trebdy Firefox αρνείται πεισματικά να αγοράσει Mac γιατί -λέει- δεν ξέρει αν θα μπορέσει να τον συνηθίσει. Και δεν μπαίνει καν στον κόπο να εξετάσει αν και κατα πόσον έχει να του προσφέρει κάτι περισσότερο. Απλά δεν...

"I believe that is really Google's intent," said Sridhar Vembu, the chief executive of Zoho, a California-based softwaremaker.

It's true that Chrome currently requires Microsoft's operating system to work, but the browser's code base and Google's other online applications -- including mail, document editors, spreadsheets and photo editing software -- demonstrate that the age where practically everything you need will be stored online and not on your computer is just around the corner.

This is called "cloud computing" and it's the way that many people like myself are already working. And there are big savings to be had for organisations if they move this way. It costs around $2000 for licences, computer maintenance, staffing, and the like, to have one person use Outlook an organisation's standard operating environment, including the growing storage costs over a few years. Google's Apps Premier subscriptions cost $50 USD per user per year with a 99.9% uptime service level agreement [1].

Taking advantage of the savings to be had in cloud-computing, 40,000 of the Arizona State University's 65,000 students have switched to Google accounts. While previously, the university offered inbox quotas of 50 MB per student, Gmail offers 2 GB of storage. As a result of the move, the university has already been able to transition two of its four full-time engineers who had managed the 4 terabyte (TB) NetApp storage system to other more important functions. The savings offered by the switch to Gmail are $350,000 per year alone in storage, maintenance and personnel costs [2].

How much does maintaining your infrastructure cost? How much do you personally spend on software? Maybe you need to consider the move to cloud computing?

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[1] Ribeiro, J (2008) Google extends Apps Premier credit for Gmail outages. 28 August, 01:45 PM. Online at: <http://www.itworld.com/.../premier-credit-gmail-outages>, accessed on 7 Sept 2008

[2] Pariseau, B (2007) College slashes storage costs with Google Gmail. 01 March. Online at: <http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/.../245576,00.html>, accessed on 7 Sept 2008

Opening each Inbox, so you can monitor them, is a simple matter of opening a new tab (see, Browser tab quick tips for more) and logging in-- as long as we're talking about different services.

If you have more than one "Identity" at a Webmail provider, (two different Gmail accounts, say) you typically are automatically 'logged out' of one when you log in to the other from the same computer. This is annoying. Here's how to fix that behavior.

Tip of the day: Change IE's settings to allow separate log ins.
As strange it may seem, you need to close Internet Explorer, and then make a change in Folder Options.. this will affect IE as Microsoft consider it to be a part of the operating system.

1) Start >Control Panel >Folder Options (XP user: Start >Settings >)

2) Click on the "View" tab.
3) Scroll down until you see "Launch folder windows in a separate process" and place a check in the checkbox.
4) Click "Apply", and then "OK".

That's it. You're done. Now you can launch IE and you will be able to log in to each of your Identities/Inboxes, and one will no longer 'log out' the other.

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The new version of Gmail included major performance improvements and new features such as colored labels, group chat and rich emoticons, invisible mode, AIM integration, Gmail Labs, an updated contact manager, and remote sign out. But as these features are very complex only newer browsers could handle them.

The Gmail team has written a new code with small simplifications of user interface which will work in Internet Explorer 6 if you update IE6 with the specific patch that was released by the IE Team performance problem with how the script engine allocates and frees memory.

This a good move as (still) majority of people use Internet Explorer 6 as there default browser and Gmail was not available to them.

[via The Official Google Blog]

1. Pertama buka link ini dan isi kotak yang kosong
   (klik image untuk melihat contoh lebih besar)
   
   
   1. Isikan nama depan (contoh : Anang)
   2. Isikan nama belakang (contoh : Boedi)
   3. Isikan nama account email yang diinginkan (contoh : anangboedi)
   4. Cek ketersediaan dengan mengklik button. Bila nama yang kita inginkan tersedia maka akan tampil pesan seperti diatas. anangboedi tersedia
   5. Kemudian masukkan password yang diinginkan. Password sebaiknya merupakan paduan antara alfabet (abcde..) dan numerik (123..). Penanda Kekuatan password akan menguji apakah password kuat. bila ya akan kelihatan seperti diatas : Kuat

      Masukkan kembali password tersebut ke kotak dibawahnya.

   6. Bila anda bekerja di desktop/laptop pribadi, berikan tanda check pada kotak dengan keterangan "Ingat saya di komputer ini".
      Ini gunanya pada saat anda akan login ke email anda password dengan otomatis akan terisi. Tapi bila anda bekerja di komputer kantor/warnet, kosongi saja checkbox ini, kecuali anda ingin mengambil resiko email anda dilihat orang.
   7. Pertanyaan rahasia dimaksudkan bila kita merasa sewaktu-waktu kita bisa lupa dengan "password" tadi..  Google akan menanyakan kepada anda pertanyaan yang anda pilih dan jawab sendiri. dan pertanyaannya bisa disesuaikan dengan pertanyaan yang sangat anda kenali. Misalnya pada contoh ditulis : teman karib saya? yang dijawab : draguscn. Anda harus yakin pada saat nanti google menanyakan pertanyaan ini anda hapal betul jawabannya. Karena kalo tidak kita harus mulai lagi dari langkah satu.

Setelah itu anda mengisikan

1. disini tinggal memasukkan email sekunder bila ada .. (contoh : tidak diisikan)
2. Lokasi diisikan sesuai negara. (contoh : Indonesia)
3. Kemudian mengetikkan huruf-huruf perot yang ada di pertanyaan verifikasi kata (contoh : commares)
4. Setelah itu tugas anda tinggal klik button paling bawah dengan bunyi "Saya menerima Buat akunku". Bila tidak ada kesalahan pengisian maka halaman berikut yang muncul adalah :

Bacalah sedikit tentang tulisan-tulisan diatas kemudian klik tulisan di pojok kanan atas *yang saya lingkari*

Setelah itu layar akan menjadi seperti ini :

Lihat beberapa hal yang saya lingkari di atas dan buat diri anda nyaman dulu dengan account email anda.

• Alamat email anda tertera di atas : anangboedi@gmail.com
• Tombol arsip digunakan untuk menyimpan surat dalam folder semua pesan. Jangan buang email anda, karena ruang penyimpanan cukup besar. Arsipkan saja, suatu saat bila ada perlu anda bisa bongkar lagi email lama itu.
• Kumpulan folder ada di sebelah kiri. Kotak masuk (inbox) untuk semua surat masuk, bertanda bintang untuk email yang ingin anda tandai dulu mungkin karena akan dibaca lagi; pesan terkirim adalah pesan yang sudah kita kirim, konsep adalah pesan yang belum selesai ditulis, semua pesan adalah kotak arsip semua email, spam adalah kotak email yang oleh google dianggap mengirimkan iklan ke inbox anda. Anda juga bisa menyertakan beberapa email dari sumber yang anda tidak inginkan. termasuk langsung menghapusnya.
• Kontak adalah nama-nama teman-teman anda beserta dengan alamat emailnya. Sekarang juga ditambahkan foto, alamat rumah dll.
• Label adalah penggolongan surat anda. Misalnya teman, keluarga, kantor, pribadi dll.

Sekian dulu .. silahkan mencoba.

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This week Google has announced the Chrome browser. I tried it. It is ok for now – not great – but ok. It’s fast and clean but missing some key features and many sites still don’t work with it. I think the importance of this Chrome browser is what it tells us about Google’s plans for the future – applications will come from the Web and run inside a browser. This is not a new concept – many of the applications that we use today are web-based.  Think about Gmail, Salesforce.com, web-based office suites, YouTube, etc. Chrome just makes it clearer – forget about desktop applications, they are something of the past.

There is a slightly more subtle implication, but to me a far more important one. Google and the likes of Google are establishing a direct relationship with the enterprise end user, bypassing the traditional IT-department controls over which applications are used and who can use them. The IT department only needs to provide the pipes. Google will take care of the rest. And speaking of pipes – that DS3 link you have isn’t big enough. It needs to be upgraded - quickly! Google needs you to have more bandwidth. With everything coming in on ports 80 and 443 to the browser, QoS doesn’t work. So, more bandwidth please.

 The migration of applications from the enterprise data center to Google and Salesforce.com, accompanied by the corresponding shift of information from the data center to the Internet is slowly changing the IT department’s role. It also changes the security risks that need to be resolved. When users have the ability to choose the applications they use, when data resides outside the corporate network, and when everyone can use any application and access data wherever they are in the world – we are dealing with a completely different beast than we are used to!

So, what can the IT department do about it? First they need to go through the five stages of grief –

1) Denial (our users are using these applications? Nah!);

2) Anger (our users are using these applications? WTF!);

3) Bargaining (hey, if you stop using these applications we will upgrade your computer);

4) Depression (I can’t believe our users are using these applicationsL);

5) Acceptance (fine, are users really using these applications – let’s deal with it).  

At that point, just deal with it. Put controls in place to allow you to determine who can use which application and put security measures in place to protect the use of these applications. How to do it? Sorry. I cannot promote my company’s products in my blog so I cannot answer this question…

Nir.

Well, I'm currently having the damndest time getting into a work rhythm. I was ready to blame all of my online activities... facebook, ravelry, gmail, wordpress, etc. for distraction, but the fact is, I could sit outside with a notebook and a pencil and stalk my story like a hunter in the jungle.

So what's stopping me from doing it? Why is it so hard to start a book? Maybe it's the fear of the unknown. Maybe it's having to always open up a vein and use it for ink. But somehow, I've got to get going because I don't eat if I don't write.

I actually started one of these a while back but somehow lost / misplaced the account name and password. There are a lot of things I think we could do with this. There's a gmail account, itservergroup@gmail.com, tied to this blog. I'll be sending you all the password(s) for both of these so that we can start using them right away. I'm pretty sure that you can subscribe to this blog and then we would all get updates whenever they are published out!

It has the great features that Gmail users love.

What are they? For those who are not a user already.

1. If you are on a PC, you can download Google talk and send a voice mail instead of typing an email
2. You can do a Google search right from the search bar at the top bar
3. You can reply to a mail via google chat
4. If you email has a date, time and location, Gmail will auto suggest if you would like to add the event to your Google Calendar
5. You can retrieve you Gmail from your mobile phone, not via internet browser. There is a light install that you can do, so that there is a icon you can click under your menu to go straight into your gmail inbox. You get access to your contacts stored in gmail and calendar as well. Keep watch of WAP charges if you are not on a unlimited plan
6. You can sync your outlook with your gmail and keep a back up.

So, with Google Apps, we can have many types of communication :

1. Send a voice mail via email and play the voice mail within the gmail inbox
2. Use Google Talk and speak with them like a phone call, free of charge. Sure saves a lot of phone bills
3. Use Google Chat to discuss matters and have them logged as a form of meeting minutes which you can refer to later. Have a Black and white trail.
4. Have group chat either using Voice call or text chat – a cheap solution to virtual meetings and conference

Imagine all these happening without getting out of your Gmail browser or launching a few applications all at the same time.

Meaning, travel to wherever you need go for your business or personal matters and still have everything you need in the "CLOUD"…..on the web,……………….instead of your Hard Disk Drive.

1. Create a slideshow presentation using Picasa and store it there for sharing or distribution

   (You can actually convert your PowerPoint to individual jpeg files and create a web album on Picasa for public for private use.)

   (You can then share it as a link or embed it into your website or blog)

    

2. Now, create a blogger account using the same Gmail account.

• You may want to have one blog which is used for internal distribution
• You can have another blog for external communication, where you can share more content and information about your products and services.
• Make it a 1-stop-shop where website visitors can retrieve every new updates you have from your business and marketing activities.

What is great about this is, you can write articles to your blog from your "Gmail", attach picture files as well. Isn't that easy?

یک مرورگر با سرعت بیشتر: گوگل کروک از JavaScript engine, V8, جدید استفاده می کند. که برای اجرا از اول تعیین شده بود. چنین ویژگی دسترسی به جیمیل را بسیار سریع تر می کند.

فضای کاری بیشتر، پنجره های کمتر: ما تمام پنجره ها و اجزای غیر ضروری را حذف کرده ایم. ما (گوگل) به شما فضای کاری بیشتر را با این کار برای نمایش صفحات وب می دهیم. اگر شما استفاده کنید از “میانبر برنامه” (Application shortcuts) (توضیح در زیر) شما می توانید سریع جیمیل خود را باز کنید بدون نوار URL یا نوار ابزار و فضای کاری بیشتری هم نیز داشته باشید.

میانبر برنامه ها (Application shortcuts) : شما می توانید یک application shortcut برای دسترسی – سریع تر  به جیمیل از دسکتاپ خود ایجاد کنید.   به سادگی به جیمیل خود بروید در حالی که شما دارید از Google Chrome​ استفاده می کنید. روی page menu کلیک کنید و گزینه 'create application shortcuts را انتخاب کنید. شما وقتی که روی آیکون آن دابل کلیک کنید پنجره جیمیل شما مستقیم باز می شود.

Crash control: هر زبانه (TAB) در گوگل کروم به طور مستقل کار می کند. بنابراین اگر یک زبانه هنگ کند زبانه “Inbox” شما متوقف نخواهد شد.

ترجمه شده توسط محمد | دنیای شیشه ای از “وبلاگ سرمی Gmail”

آماده اید برای Google Chrome، آنرا از اینجا دانلود کنید. (بدون محدودیت برای ایرانیان – نصب کامل)

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin on September 7th 1998. The two students from Stanford University started Google with just 100,000 dollars. And over the past 10 years they have built it in to a multi billion dollar corporation. August 19th Google went on the stock exchange, making it worth 23 billion dollars. Today it is worth an outstanding 179,07 billion US dollars.

So how does Google make money? It sell advertisements associated with search keywords. Say for example you type in the word car, it will find links for you. If you look to right after you have done a search you will see the payed links, or ads. But Google doesn´t just make money with these links, Google owns many other internet sites and applications. Google make money from normal ads here as well. 

So which web sites and services does Google own/provide?

Here is a list on most of them:

• www.Google.com          Google´s search engine. 

• Google News          Automated news aggregator

• Google Product Search          Price comparison service

• Google Groups          Discussion website

• Google Spreadsheets          Web-based word processor

• Google Maps          Offers street maps, a route planner

• Gmail          E-mail service 

• Google Video          It´s own version of Youtube

• Google Sites wiki          Helps small-businesses have their own website

• Google Desktop          A desktop search for your own computer

• Google.org          Charitable arm of the Google´s search engine

• Picasa          Software app. for organizing and editing digital photos

• Orkut          Social network service

• Google Earth          Virtual globe, uses satellite imagery, aerial photography                                       and GIS 3D 

• Google Moon          Shows satellite images of the Moon

• Google Mars          Shows pictures of Mars

• Google Labs          Shows Google´s up and coming projects

• Google Checkout          Online payment processing service

• Google Book Search          Search engine for books that Google are scanning

• Knol          Described as a complement to Wikipedia

• SketchUP          3D modeling program

• Youtube          Google bought YouTube for 1,65 billion in 2006.

• Google China          Google´s search engine for Chinese users

• Google Chrome          Open source web browser

So how does the search engine work? Well, when you type in your keyword its find web pages that have that word in them. After it has found them it has to rank them. The pages are ordered by what the search engine thinks is most relevant. But how does it think?. The entire Google search engine is basically just a bunch of algorithms. Mathematics put in a sequence to make instructions. For example, when ranking the algorithms look at how many ingoing links every page has. The more incoming links a page has there more relevant i becomes. But i doesn´t stop there. The incoming links to the incoming are also counted. This goes on and on. Thats the simple version.

Did you mean: .......   Is something that often pops up when using Google. It is a kind of spelling corrector. On online dictionary. Lets says you spell your keyword wrong, Google comes up with it believes you are looking for. This is a very helpful service that Google provides. I used it many times myself while writing this post. But have you ever wounded how the search engine knows what you meant?

Researchers at the at a Defcon hackers’ conference revealed a flaw in the way Google's Gmail handles session cookies. According to the Hacking Truths. web site:

The problem lies with the fact that every time you access anything on Gmail, even an image, your browser also sends your cookie to the website. This makes it possible for an attacker sniffing traffic on the network to insert an image served from http://mail.google.com and force your browser to send the cookie file, thus getting your session ID.

However, Google does provide a way to prevent that risk.  Login to your Gmail account and click the Settings link in the upper right hand corner of the page.  At the bottom of that page look for the Browser connection section and make sure that Always use https is enabled.

My email journey has actually been very fascinating. I started of with hotmail, my first mail account. However I had to let in go since it was too slow for a 64kbps dial up connections and that too when the rates of accessing internet in a net cafe were as high as INR 100 to 150 per hour. After dabbling for few days with Rediff, I moved to Yahoo.

Yahoo, I must admit, introduced me to the world wide web. It was the best and most talked about thing about 8 years back from now. My teenage thrived and bloomed on Yahoo messenger ( :mrgreen: ) and so did my professional self. I remember registering in the websites of the likes of Naukri and Monster using my Yahoo account. I remember uploading photographs for the first time on flickr using a yahoo id. All the final year project, Yahoo mail has been the carrier of the documents between our team (I headed them... Yo!) and our professor who was away most of the times. And when I tried my hand at doing Post Graduation in management, Yahoo it was again. And Yahoo it was, when I got through. But in the end, I ditched Jerry Yang and shifted my base to Google.

I don't know what made me go back to the Yahoo account. May be all the memories did. Sadly, all that communication which would have felt me nostalgic is now lost. But my Yahoo is back. And it is looking really good. I mean they have put good effort in developing the new mail client. One reason why I continued with Google was I found it easy on the eys as well as to use. May be I will change that perception now. May be I'm starting my Yahoo again.

PS: "maxmayur" actually is my name since my Yahoo days. It was my chat id. :-)