Official Google Blog: Overview of our accessible services

Official Google Blog posted a blog for their accessible services.
It is good to see all the services that they have as a list cause there so many of them now.
The List and more
* Web Search: Result pages include headers to delineate logical sections.
* Accessible Search: Promotes results that are accessible.
* Book Search: Full-text access to public-domain works.
* Gmail: A simple yet functional HTML mode that works well with screenreaders.
* Gmail Mobile: A lightweight user interface that is also speech-friendly.
* Google Maps: Easy-to-use textual directions.
* Calendar: A functional, yet speech-friendly user interface.
* Audio Captchas: All services that use Google Accounts provide an audio alternative for the visual challenge-response tests that are used to distinguish humans from machines.
* Mobile Transcoder: A mobile lens for viewing the web that produces accessible views.
* Google Video: Allows uploaded videos to contain captions/subtitles in multiple languages for viewers who are hearing-impaired or unfamiliar with the original language.
* Google Talk: IM clients inside a web browser can pose accessibility challenges, but the use of the open Jabber API means that Google users can choose from a variety of Jabber clients, many of which work well with adaptive technologies.
* Web APIs: Many Google services offer high-level web APIs that aid in authoring mashups; this provides a means for creating highly customized accessible views.
* 1-800-GOOG-411: Here's an exception to the rule that we deliver most things through a web browser. Our experimental Voice Local Search service lets anyone who can speak into a phone search for a local business by name or category; get connected to the business free of charge; get the details by SMS if you’re using a mobile phone. (Just say "text message".)
Official Google Blog: Overview of our accessible services

Old people dig Facebook, too

As recently as late May, The Browser’s Fortune colleague Adam Lashinsky posed the question in his must-read Go West blog: Will anyone over 25 really embrace Facebook, the social networking site that began life as a way for college students to communicate with each other? This was on the heels of Facebook’s announcement that it was opening itself up to programmers and innovators of all kind. Lashinsky wrote: “My hunch is that adults are finding out about Facebook and then inviting everybody they can think of. But will they actually visit the site and see who is ‘poking’ them? I seriously doubt it.”
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Scott's iPhone Story: great summary as a IPhone user

"This past Saturday, I went to my local Apple store, Woodfield Mall, Schaumburg Illinois and bought an 8GB Apple iPhone.
What drove me to get up early and get to a store before it opened?

Last December my Sony Clie organizer died. I was in need of a new device. I started to look at new Palm PDAs and cellphones that had built-in organizer features. I looked at Palm-based devices, Blackberry and even Windows Mobile (but not for very long). To make a long story short, too many friends told me about too many bad stories with their various devices. I also heard that Apple would be introducing a phone next year. Full disclosure: I'm a very happy Apple user (iMac, MacBook Pro, iPod, even a Newton MessagePad, which I still have). So what should I do? "

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MSN Live Earth Streaming A Success

by Nathan Weinberg

"MSN streamed the Live Earth concert even this past weekend, and by all accounts it was a success. Microsoft claims it connected more than 10 million streams, the most simultaneous viewers of any online concert ever. The worldwide audience tuned in to see concerts in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Hamburg and acts including The Police, Genesis, Bon Jovi and Madonna, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Black Eyed Peas and Jack Johnson."

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Steve Lamb's Blog
liveearth.msn.com

Google Pays $625 Million For Postini

By Nathan Weinberg


Google Inside Section from Blognewschannel.com posted a comment on Google's aqusition of postini.com. As Nathan Weinberg mentioned I also was very surprised that it would cost that much to get it. Good luck to Google and Postini!
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Official Google Australia Blog: Google Australia celebrates NAIDOC Week

Quote from Google blog
"You have undoubtedly noticed today's Google doodle on the Google Australian homepage. It's in recognition of NAIDOC Week which is an annual celebration of the continuation of Australia's ancient Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and the contribution made by Indigenous people to Australia. NAIDOC stands for "National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee". Historically, there was only the one day of celebration. Now a whole week is set aside to celebrate our Indigenous cultures (you may see the Australian Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag on Government buildings)."
Official Google Australia Blog: Google Australia celebrates NAIDOC Week

Yahoo! Answers: 10 million strong and growing

"At around 5:30 am on Sunday, May 7th, almost precisely five months since we launched, a user posted the 10 millionth answer on the service. This is a big day for us, and we�ve decided to celebrate by coming out of beta, and beginning the integration of Answers into our core search services." To original

One blogger's mind

It is always challenging to pick a subjects and how honest you can be and how far you can go with your personal stuff.
Here is a blogger Andreas's quote
"I just spent three hours on writing the most personal and honest blog post I have ever written. I have written similar personal posts a couple of times before, but I have never published any of them. Instead, I save them in my private offline diary. But I was really close to posting this one, and I am actually planning to do it once I've got a chance to read (and edit) the post with a clear mind and some time for reflections."
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Site24x7: Website Monitoring

Cool System to watch over your site 24X7.

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Place for the day

It has such a deep blue color for the sky and the ocean.
It feels so live.. I tried to make it show here but not showing. Please follow the link.
by Heath
more photos by Kylie