Last month @Last Software joined google and now they have released a free version of Sketchup which will really help get 3D modelling to the masses. Just check it out. They also launched a 3D Warehouse where you can publish your models and share them. Read more on the link below.
The new Google SketchUp is for the do-it-yourselfer, the hobbyist — really anyone who wants to build 3D models for use in Google Earth. Go ahead and model that new kitchen, or deck, landscape your virtual garden, or impress your teacher with a roller coaster or medieval castle. When you’re finished, place your model in Google Earth. There! The beginning of a virtual world. Warning: don’t start messing with this stuff after dinner because your first experience could be an all-nighter… making an idea come to life in 3D can be very addicting.
Read more on Official Google Blog: A great day for 3D
I was recently attempting to mail some javascript code from my yahoo account to my gmail when I came across this vulnerability.
Apparently javascript will run if it is withing the preview of the message.
I only tested this sending from a yahoo account. Sending gmail to gmail appears to filter this out.
This is what the message has to compose of
* A short subject to increase the ammount of code to run
* A short bit of text in the body so that the code isn’t treated as quoted text
* And your code
My simple test was : Subject: a Body: asdfasdf<script>alert(”asdF”);</script>
Here is a screen: http://www.ipnow.org/vulnerability.png
This vulnerability could be used to gather email addresses. Or even possibly to compromise the account.
A 14 year old, Anthony discovered this vulnerability. Right now this has been fixed by Google but no statement has been issued by them regarding this.
Read Anothony’s Blog
To heap on one more thing to screw with your head this Friday, Google is selling vintage commercials through its Google Video search. You heard right, if you want to view the commercial, you’ll have to pay a dollar. Anybody else hear Gabriel’s trumpet?
Just a few weeks ago advertisers paid $2.5 million for a 30-second ad on the Super Bowl. Looks like some are trying to make that money back. Granted the commercials for sale through Google Video are vintage-commercials we knew and loved as kids-but some of these companies are still around.
Hang on. Let’s talk about the cool changes to Google Video and then get back to this. Google has added category tags-very YouTube-esque. This must have been what Larry Page was yelling about. Searchers who just want to browse videos can do so with the help of tags marked “Popular,” “Animation,” and “Educational,” among others. Sweet.
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Businesses have been warned by research company Gartner that the latest Google Desktop Beta has an “unacceptable security risk,” and Google agrees.
On Feb. 9, Google unveiled Google Desktop 3, a free, downloadable program that includes an option to let users search across multiple computers for files. To do that, the application automatically stores copies of files, for up to a month, on Google servers. From there, copies are transferred to the user’s other computers for archiving. The data is encrypted in transmission and while stored on Google servers.
Source: Neowin.net
The internet search giant has promised that all of its services will be translated to Hebrew and moved into Israel within 18 months as the company’s grip on the web tightens.
Google appears to have put a lot of work into the Israeli operation, as the new Hebrew branch comes loaded with a CEO and trained staff.
Meir Brand, CEO of Google Israel revealed: “We discovered that the Israeli surfer has unique characteristics that the American surfer does not have.
“Israelis are chronic searchers. The search is the main use they make of the internet, while for Americans, the main use of the internet is email,” he added.
It seems, however, that Google’s main focus is on advertising. In Israel 15% of all online adverts appear on search engines, whereas in the US this figure is as high as 40%. Google have seen the gap and are closing in before their rivals do.
Source: Neowin.net
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is warning people not to use Google’s newest desktop search product, saying it provides a “convenient one-stop-shop for hackers” who’ve gotten a user’s Google password.
The new search tool allows consumers who regularly use multiple PCs to search all of those systems simultaneously, even when they are not connected to the Internet. But EFF says that feature makes personal data “more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants.”
Google has included some privacy protection measure to the feature, allowing users to screen out specific files or folders and promising to delete any copies of the files from its servers within 30 days and encrypt the data.
Read More on CNet
What’s new?Gmail learned to Talk. Now Gmail accounts are automatically enabled with chat features. You don’t have to do anything special, it just works. See when your friends are online and decide for yourself how you want to get in touch with them. Email and instant messaging don’t have to be so different. And why should you always have to remember whether something important was said over email or IM? We’ve made it easy for you to save chats, so you can search for them, print them, even reply to one over email.
Well not yet, but it will be coming soon. Chat feature in Mail thats the latest buzz from GMail and I am excited 
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Web search powerhouse Google has joined with Sun Microsystems to fund a new anti-spyware coalition that is on tap to launch on Jan. 24, according to information reaching eWEEK.
The nonprofit group is setting up shop at StopBadware.org to help computer users deal with the scourge from adware, spyware, rootkits and other malware threats.
Sources say the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School will run the operations of the coalition with help from Consumer Reports WebWatch, a consumer advocacy group.
Vint Cerf, the renowned technologist who was recently hired as chief Internet evangelist at Google, is on board as an adviser to the coalition.
Former ICANN board chairman Esther Dyson, who publishes the influential Release 1.0 newsletter, is also involved.
Source
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders and co-presidents Larry Page and Sergey Brin will retain the $1 paid salaries from 2005, according to a filing this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The three will instead rely on stock options and grants for their pay.
The action, approved by Google last week but only made known yesterday came during a week in which Google’s stock lost 14 percent amidst fears stemming from a flap with U.S. Justice Department. However, don’t expect to see these men on the streets any time soon. Google’s stock recovered 7 percent yesterday, meaning that Schmidt’s stock value alone increased $413.8 million in a single day of trading. His total wealth in shares is estimated at $6.3 billion.
Google’s policy of paying top executives $1 started in the second quarter of 2004, leading up to the company’s initial public offering in August 2004.
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Leading internet company Google has said it will censor its search services in China in order to gain greater access to China’s fast-growing market.
Google has offered a Chinese-language version of its search engine for years but users have been frustrated by government blocks on the site.
The company is setting up a new site - Google.cn - which it will censor itself to satisfy Beijing’s hardline rulers.
Google argued it would be more damaging to pull out of China altogether.
Read More on BBC NEWS
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