As you all know that, Plus Google’s new social network is all over internet and news for couple of weeks now and every one is trying hard to get an invite to use it.

Google has learned a lot from their past experience and  this time made a product keeping a normal internet user in mind and not for the geeky developer. But that doesnt mean they forgot about developers… today Facebook and Twitter is more popular due to their Open social API’s which is allowing every single internet site to connect to Facebook or Twitter to share contents and may more.

Google will be soon releasing its APIs for developers and they have already started collecting information about developers who are interested in Plus development. Click here and make your entry and get the latest news on Google APIs

Today (9th June) is Les Paul birthday, the person who has invented electronic guitar and give a new dimension to rock and roll music. Google is celebrating his birthday by making Google.com log as an HTML based guitar which actually plays music.

Check it out yourself at google.com home page, it works with your keyboard or you can drag the stings with mouse. Happy Google-ing

MySpace CEO, Mike Jones in an online interview said that its parent company News Corp is planning for a sale or merger of MySpace.  Last year MySpace acquired iMeem to become the large Music sharing Social network, but it seems they could not stand aside of words largest social network Facebook.

According to reports, MySpace has already cut down its resource by 47% i.e around 500 employees where asked to leave MySpace, so that it could continue MySpace with the limited funding that they have today.  Reports also say MySpace is showing a good response after the new design changes that they had last year.

It is also in NEWS that  discussions are going on of sale or merger of MySpace. They are still a private discussion topic at News Corp, but two majors Social Network who could get into this deal and have some advantages too. Google and Facebook.

MySpace has the largest Music database and artist list and it was always the first choice for any budding star for promote his music, until Facebook Pages took on the Popularity. Facebook Page has emerged widely and people are getting used to Facebook Pages for promotion and staying in touch with their fans. Facebooks API and FBML also helped artist to customize facebook pages to their need.

Why MySpace would be a good deal for Google?

Google is looking out for a new edge in Social Network. Its own social network project Orkut and Google Buzz failed very badly in recent years. Google was rumered to come with a new social network Google Me, but it seems they are looking out for an opportunity.

Acquiring MySpace would help Google to directly get into a competition with their so called rival Facebook. MySpace has a large user base and huge music artist base. Google can combine the power of YouTube, MySpace and Orkut to make a fresh entry into Social Network.

Why Facebook should go for MySpace ?

Their is no need for Facebook to go for MySpace. It is already a leader in Social Network. But still Facebook could definitely get advantage from MySpace.

Facebook who is already Popular with Facebook Page, could use MySpace Music base and its own user base for getting into music industry. A high revenue generating market which is now lead by Apple iTunes.

Facebook can also put a full-stop to Googles ambition of  leading Social Networking space. Facebook has already made big plans for this, last year they have hired all the top engineers of Google and also announced their entry into the messaging service with FB mail. They have also spend a lot of efforts in improving their chat experience.

It would be interesting to know what would be the future of MySpace once a top Social Network. Coming days we could see a lot of news regarding this topic and what would be the best deal for MySpace to continue on.

Don’t forget to Post your views, TechGearz would be posting more updates on this event, so stay tuned

As Google Says, “Many of us these days depend on the World Wide Web to bring the world’s information to our fingertips, and put us in touch with people and events across the globe instantaneously. These powerful online experiences are possible thanks to an open web that can be accessed by anyone through a web browser, on any Internet-connected device in the world.”

It is very important for a new web-users to know basic concept of internet and Web 2.0, this would help them in understanding and trusting the web.

Google has taken this opportunity and designed an HTML 5 based interactive book called 20 Things I Learned About Browser and Web, this explains 20 most important thing you should know about Browser and Web.

Topics Included in this Book.

1) What is internet?

2) Cloud Computing

3) Web Apps.

4) HTML, JavaScript, CSS

5) HTML 5

6) 3D in Browser.

7) A Brouwser Madrigal
PLUG-INS

9) Browser Extensions

10) Synchronize the Browser

11) Browser Cookies

12) Browsers and Privacy

13) Malware, Phishing ,AND Security Risks

14) How modern browsers help protect you from Malware and Phishing.

15) Using Web Addresses to stay safe

16) IP Addresses and DNS

17) Validating Identities Online

18) Evolving to a faster Web

19) Open Source and Browser

20) Things Later or a day on cloud

This interactive book is written very simple and keeping in mind that the readers are non technical people. All the 20 points discussed in this interactive book are divided into 20 lessons of the book and explained in details.

You could also notice that most of the topics are related to Google in some or the other ways. Google with this Interactive Book want people to understand internet, Cloud Computing, Cloud Apps (with Google Apps) and Safe Browsing (using Chrome ). You can also say it is a way of promoting Google with the help of Open Web and people know about the advantage of Open Web.

With this interactive book Google has also provided a good example of how to replace Flash with HTML 5. [Apple would be Happy ]

Enjoy reading this book, hope this was a helpful update and do share with your Friends and Family

Click here to check out this interactive book.

Winamp one of the most popular windows music player has launched its android version. Winamp for Andorid is availble for android 2.1 and above, its powered with the features of winamp 5.6 media player currently available. Click here to download.

Android version also allow you to synchronize your phone with musics on your PC or import your  iTune music library. It also steams over 40,000 internet radio stations with the integrated SHOUTcast Radio directory (Android 2.2 & above).

Check out the features of Winamp for Android.

Wireless Desktop Sync
No need to tie your Android phone down. Enable Wi-Fi sync and leave your cable behind. Now your playlists are also synced wirelessly.

SHOUTcast Radio
Extend your listening experience beyond your own library. Search, Favorite and play over 40,000 internet radio stations.

Android Widget Players & Shortcuts
Now in addition to the standard widget there is a new smaller (4×1) widget. You can also add your favorite playlists to your Android home screen, as well as enable playback control from the lock-screen.

Now Playing
Displays song info, album art and more. Press and hold on the song info to interact with other apps like Pandora, YouTube and the Amazon MP3 Store (requires that these additional apps are installed on your device). Get Artist information like bios, pictures, and more by clicking on the info icon.

Persistent Player Controls
Intuitive interface with player controls that are always available. Quickly pause, change tracks, manage your play queue, see what’s playing and access the Winamp Home screen.

Play Queue Management
The play queue is a temporary track listing that allows you to easily see what’s playing next, jump ahead or change the order of tracks in your queue. And if you like, save it as a playlist.

Scrobbling
Supports scrobbling with the Last.fm app installed (on your Android device). Capture all of your mobile listening history in real time.

Language Support
Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, & Russian. More to come.

According to TechCrunch’s Curnch Base Lars Rasmusse has joined Facebook yesterday (02/11/2010). This year many google employees has joined facebook including the founder of Project Android.

This news is really shocking for Google. Google has already lost its social networking market to Facebook, it would be interesting to watch out what would be the new steps from Facebook by hiring these ex-Google-rs

Few months back we had seen some  Chinese devices in market powered by android claiming to be iPAD killer.  It was in news all over the internet and tech-blogs. It was also very much expected that some big mobile companies would officially come up with a iPAD alternative which is worth a buy. HP and Dell also came up with some cool tabloid concept which is yet to be released in market. Well Samsung seem to be the first official competitor for iPAD with Android 2.2 (Froyo) powered Samsung Galaxy Tab .

iPAD is not officialy available in India, people who are crazy about tabloid can defnitly go for this Android powered Samsung Galaxy Tab.

It has a 7.0 inch TFT screen and dozens of Android applications.  It has bunch of social networking application pre-installed in it, you also get accesses to 70,000 + android application from Google Android market. At a first look it has every thing that iPAD can have and many more with the power of Android.

Unlike iPAD this 3G powered Galaxy Tab also have a 1.3 mpx vga cam in front for video calling. It also has a 3.0 mpx camera with flash for taking HD quality video and photos.

Check out the specification

If you are regular on Techgearz you might have noticed last year Techgearz featured an article on Colayer, a Google Wave like project which is in market for all most a decade now. I had an exclusive interview with Markus Hegi, CEO Colayer yesterday on twitter. We discussed about Google Wave, Colayer and the future of real time communication. This discussion is based on the article that Markus posted on Colayer blog about Colayer and the Rise & Fall of Google Wave.

Interview with Markus Hegi, CEO Colayer ( @mhegi ) – on twitter by @anix86

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You could also check these time lines in twitter search click here. Post your comments and view on the above discussion.

I am sure everyone have played pac-man atleast once. Pac Man is the most famous MS Dos game which was launched 30 yrs back and still played widely around the globe. It is still very famous with school computer labs and in many hi-tech gaming consoles in the more advance versions.

Google is today celebrating Pac Man’s 30th birthday on its google.com homepage. They have replaces their logo with a JavaScript based PacMan Game which puzzle around the name google. It is really a creative and awesome way to celebrate most popular game. This is also a good way to promote the JavaScript and HTML 5 canvas based games which is trying hard to replace the flash games on the internet.

I have just played this game and refreshed my old school days memory of 3rd grade, when we use to go to computer lab to play pac-man

Log on to google.com and start playing the Pac Man game.

Last weekend Apple release the iPad. Forums, technology blogs and people all over the world has still not over come the hangover.
Though iPad is not released in Inida but new channels and pint media here have been featuring iPad storied all over.

Well HP says they can over come this iPad mania, soon HP will have a iPad competitor i.e HP -Slate. HP release a 30 second demo of new HP- Slate, powered by windows 7 , powerful camera and a HDTV slot. Demo also feature few cool in built social networking apps. They have not yet announced the cost HP-Salte.

Hope Google will soon join this race with their Android power Google – slate which they have already presented on google-concept website.