Google Buys Picnik - A Online Photo Editing web site

Google has added a new feather in his crown. Yes ! the searh giant has buy the online photo editing site – “ Picnik”. A photo editing utility, which allow users to edit their photos online.

Picnik has large number of users with lot more features for photo editing . Picnik works with a variety of web services, including Google's competitors,Yahoo Mail users. Which creates a ease for users to edit their photos when they are online. 

Picnik also provides similar facilities with other popular social-networks like  Facebook, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums, and Photobucket.

Google product management director Brian Axe said  "We're not announcing any significant changes to Picnik today, though we'll be working hard on integration and new features. As well, we'd like to continue supporting all existing Picnik partners so that users will continue to be able to add their photos from other photo-sharing sites, make edits in the cloud and then save and share to all relevant networks,"

This is gonna be a new experience for Google users.

Google Buzz – A new social network launched by Google

After the popular social networks like facebook and twitter doing well in the web content and picture sharing . It’s now Google’s step into the social network, which is called Google Buzz. This is launched yesterday. Google has just started rolling out his new social network. Its is said to be rolled out in few weeks.

Google Buzz is integrated with Gmail, hence all the Gmail account holders can access this easily for sharing their interests, pictures, mails and some more with this new social network option. If you have friends contact list in Gmail; you can get in touch with them easily and share your thoughts. It also has options to import all the contacts from facebook and twitter.

Google Buzz will be having all the missing features of facebook and twitter.Google also launched mobile phone applications to use Buzz in Apple's iPhone and in smartphones powered by its own Android OS.

As this is not a new idea or initiative work by Google. There are quite a lot of social networks available already. But it is a very special and must watchable one, because Google is the name behind this and they are capable of giving out their products as their best with lot more new features.

Read the complete story in Google’s official blog

Did you check you Gmail account for Google Buzz?  How it looks ?

Google Chrome OS - Google’s biggest rival ?

Many of us  have  been using the light weight  Google Chrome browser .Same technology transformed to a lightweight, browser-based operating system for net books.

Google Inc. reveals new details about its upcoming operating system. Google targeting for their OS release by late 2010. System boot time targeted for  7 seconds.They are calling it as  Google Chrome OS . 

"We want Google Chrome OS to be blazingly fast ... to boot up really fast , just like a TV," said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management for Google.

The next question ??? that  strikes in my mind is 

“ Will this Chrome OS be available as a freeware?”

But Google says no to this question. Pichai said, “It will not be available as a download to run and install but instead Google Chrome OS can only be shipped.” Chrome OS netbooks will not have be available with traditional hard disk drives -- they will rely on non-volatile flash memory and Internet-based storage for saving all of your data.

But later on Jul 8 2009 , Google says, Google is releasing a lightweight, open-source PC-operating system later this year. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/07/google-announces-pc-operating-system-to-compete-with-windows/

Its really going to be an interesting moment to watch out this technical talented war between chrome OS (Google)and windows 7 (microsoft)

Source : http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/20/google.os/index.html