Yowazzup: A Directory of Happening Things

Google Wave, which combines e-mail, instant messaging and wiki-style editing went on public trial today. It will be opened to 100,000 invitees at 10/7c.

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Come September 9, 2009, Monopoly City Streets will go “live” and people all over the world will be able to play monopoly the MMORPG way, thanks to Google and Hasbro’s collaboration by using Google Map. Everyone will start with 3 million Monopoly dollars and players can build football stadiums, castles and skyscrapers, according to the UK’s Guardian. How fun is that?

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Now, you can search for millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most of these photographs were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

You can also add “source:life” to any Google image search to search only the LIFE photo archive, i.e. movie source:life.

Below are some samples you can get from LIFE photo archive.

Marilyn Monroe

Elvis Presley

Neil Armstrong

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Google has announced on its YouTube blog that it will begin offering full-length TV episodes, including classic shows such as "MacGyver" and "Beverly Hills: 90120" and newer shows such as "Dexter" and "Californication" through its YouTube platform beginning this week.

The videos will be free to YouTube users but will have advertisement before, during and after the episode, similar to rival video site Hulu which promotes NBC Universal content.

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Happy 10th birthday, Google! Google commemorates its 10th birthday with a special Google logo.

That’s not all, check out what happened in Google in the past ten years.

Also, don’t forget to check out Project 10^100, Google’s USD $10 million dollar contest.

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Missed out on all the cool Google Logos for Beijing 2008 Olympic? Fret not, check out the collection of Google Logos for Beijing Olympic here.

View the entire collection

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Former Google Employees has unveiled Cuil Inc (pronounced “cool”), a new search service at www.cuil.com that the company claims can index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the Web than Google, which boasts the largest online index. Cuil claims it boosts an index of 120 billion web pages, and is the most comprehensive search engine on the web.

Tom Costello, Cuil co-founder and chief executive, said in a statement.

“Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user.”

A search of the term "yowazzup" shows 13,548 results compared to 11,000 at Google. However, Cuil only shows up to 23 pages, which means a maximum of 230 web pages.

When I go to the Preferences and turn on "Safe Search" and "Typing Suggestions", the term "yowazzup" shows zero result.

Cuil may be cool but it still lacks something that Google has.

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Google has just launched Lively, a new social network which let users to create an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web.

To get started, just download a browser plug-in from Lively. From there, you can customize your own avatar such as skin tone, hair color, and eye colors.

Check out Lively.com

In terms of hotels, 5 room apartment, you can do things like add your own background music, insert furniture, pull in photos from Picasa (and other .services) and embed YouTube videos on a virtual plasma screen TV services, Apartment.

Unlike other virtual worlds, you can embed your virtual room into any of your favorite social networking page or your blog/webpage.

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Good day and Happy Independence Day, USA!

• Transgender man gave birth! Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but after surgery and hormone treatment lives as a man. He kept female reproductive organs and gave birth to a girl.
• Still want that meatball after watching Hancock? Well, Nesbraka beef recall is now expanded to 2,650 tons.
• Judge orders Google to turn over YouTube view to Viacom. Now, that’s scary!

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Google has set up a page to support disaster relief in Myanmar (Burma). There are two options of donation — donate to UNICEF or donate to Direct Relief. For both of these, 100% of your contributions will go to the programs. You need to have a Google account though as both of these use Google Checkout to process the donations.

Let’s help the survivors of the cyclone to rebuild their communities, and their lives.

Go to www.google.com/myanmarcyclone/ and start donating.

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