Google acuqire metaweb and facebook release C# sdk

http://www.metaweb.com/

http://www.freebase.com/

Google acquire today metaweb. A company that maintains an open database of things in the world.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/deeper-understanding-with-metaweb.html

for example the site of freebase database include over 12 million things, including movies, books, TV shows, celebrities, locations, companies and more

This give us better results in search, and depper understand the web.

Other news:

Facebook annonced C# SDK

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/395

http://github.com/facebook/csharp-sdk

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Android Application inventor

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

Google developed (now in beta)  an application for creation and invention applications for android.

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.

To request Access

Complete this form and Google have you building apps soon!

Menawhile see all the porcess.

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/

 

Sample applications

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/gallery.html

 

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WebMatrix

http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/

a beta from microsoft.

WebMatrix was built to streamline Web development and make it easy, whether you're getting started or you just want to get things done. It lets you focus on what’s important — your Web site. Here’s a snapshot of some of the great things about WebMatrix.

 

simple to code

 

database made simple

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New features in blogger.com - stats

http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2010/07/introducing-blogger-stats.html

Very cool feature added today for blogger draft http://draft.blogger.com

"The coolest thing about the new Blogger Stats is that it monitors and analyzes your visitor traffic in near-real-time. You can see which posts are getting the most visits and which sites are sending traffic to your blog right now. For example, if a reader shares one of your blog posts on Twitter and the post is getting lots of clicks, you will see a traffic increase in Blogger Stats almost instantly, with the particular Tweet mentioning your post being identified as the traffic source. Of course, traffic data across longer time periods (day/week/month) and all-time historical data are available as well."

http://buzz.blogger.com/2010/07/get-related-content-for-your-blog-with.html

Click this link: Add Zemanta gadget. It will take you to a page to add the Zemanta gadget to your blog: 

Simply write a couple of sentences and the recommendations and other releated contet will show up automatically. You can preview them and then simply click on an item to add it to the post.

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OCR in google docs

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/06/optical-character-recognition-ocr-in.html

Now you can convert your scanned images (JPEG, GIF, PNG) or PDFs, and Google Docs will extract text and formatting from the scans for you to edit away.

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Chrome DevFest Israel

http://code.google.com/intl/iw-IL/events/devfests/2010/israel.html

TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2010

Where? Avenue Convention and Events Center Airport City Israel

Curious about what's new in Google Chrome or what makes the open Web so exciting?

The day will focus on the open web, HTML5 and how it relates to Google Chrome. We'll give you the tools and means to develop the next generation of applications for the web, covering topics like Chrome Extensions,Chrome Apps, HTML5 and Chrome's Developer Tools. Once everyone's filled with ideas, we'll spend a few hours hacking, so you can try out these technologies for yourself.

A special track will be dedicated to webmasters and will include sessions about web compatibility and Chrome Frame.

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Google caffeine is out

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html

The new search index Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index.

Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles.

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