Finally, Google has launched its product for this category as well, where till now SecondLife has its major stake, google through its service Lively.com now offering people to build their virtual life by creating 'Avatars' as their very own clone, play with them and roam around in 3D virtual world, make friends and interact in real time with your friends' avatars. Be who you want on the web pages you visit, says Google official blog post, where user with google's Lively.com's service can create their own virtual world just like what SecondLife.com has done earlier. Through Lively users can create avatars, change its looks or wardrobe, be it your surroundings, environment such as furniture, nearby objects, rooms where your avatar put up and decorate your places etc. Lively is a outcome of Arizona State University social networking project where Google wanted to create SecondLife's rival. Eventhough in beta and asking for feedback, Lively.com is ready for all actions to download and give it a try against SecondLife

Google and other search engines can now be able to crawl and index Flash content which is so far is indiscoverable for search engines crawlers, thanks to Adobe enhanced Flash Player Technology and Flash indexing algorithm because of which now search engines can crawl the Flash based sites, however crawling will be limited to textual content in Flash only and not the images that could be Flash media. Search engines can now be able to crawl and index text that users can see as they interact with Flash based website or file (.SWF). The textual content in Flash files will than be used to generates snippets to display in search engines results. Moreover, search engine cant index FLV files as well, such as the videos on YouTube, because these files contain no text elements. All in all, search engine with Adobe's optimized Flash Technology can now find themselves feasible to crawl textual content in Flash based SWF files and others are still under R&D block of search engines and Adobe to fix Flash indexing algorithm further. Webmasters and Web designers can find the general FAQs for further clarification Google Flash Indexing FAQs and Adobe Flash Searchability FAQs, although they do not have to ...

Just within a couple of months when we wrote about Google Health's sneak peak, the Health product of Google is now finally launched as Google Health beta today, as previously declared the new app let you manipulate your health information as your personal repository for all your health records along with online tools and also let you find/ search doctors in your local area. One can say its a "HIS" (Health Information System) likewise to MIS or DSS in management information system.

Google this week lets view its new Google Health service, a new app that let manage health information along with online tools and services, it also provide you to import your medical report and search doctors and hospitals, but Indian audience got to wait as one has to only speculate if google include India for search service of health or its just for US users. Google official blog last week provides screenshots of Google Health Login page and an internal page of google Health App, seems to be home page after user login. The core part of Google Health service is Personal Health Records (PHRs), which is like profiles of Patients with their health data which is a common thing in Health industry and doctors, google take this as elementary stuff and lets their Health service users to collect, store and manipulate their own PHRs so as to ease the way they handle it every time they need medial service regardless of their geographical location. Google has used GData Protocol for supporting standards-based medical information formats, this protocol has already been used in other Google services. Google inculcate a one of the most innovative idea in its Health service is to closely embed ...

A new site Criticat has launched with different concept in its own category, though the structure is same as that of any Product Reviewing sites but this time "Employers" being the product and the reviewers are those employed at these respective companies/ organizations. Criticat is a platform where people can rate their employer and share workplace experiences. The website lets employees review and advise their employer anonymously.At Criticat, employers at respective companies can also answer questions asked by prospective employees and create polls to build consensus around an issue. Evenmore, it lets read those reviews/ feedbacks of companies from thier own current employers, at time when one is offered a job at a company and have to decide the prons and cons, if he/ she accepts it . It should tell you what is broken inside that its employees have advised to be fixed. They should let you talk to any employee to the company and let you ask them any question without the influence of HR.Apart from Ratings, Reviews and indulging in discussion about any employer, one can create polls for specific topic (one of them like - Should Microsoft insist on buying Yahoo at any cost? or What ...

Indian companies and entrepreneurs seems to be busy in making acquisition news these days, first it was Zapak.com to acquire Sony online and now its Indian IT giant Wipro making news of acquiring Computer consulting firm Capgemini well known for being largest distributor of Google Apps.Capgemini, an European computer consulting firm facing a lot of competition from Indian IT firms is on a verge of getting acquired by Wipro, earlier this year it was rumored that Infosys would buy it, gone in time now its Wipro that planning to buy the European uber-consulting firm. Although Capgemini last year itself has bought Kanbay for $1.25 billion and BPO arm of Unilever India.Capgemini has just made a deal  September with Google over distribution of  Google Apps, all this doesn't suit with news of acquisition of the company, moreover integration management would be a problem for Wipro if acquired capgemini as Wipro has 77,000 employees whereas Capgemini possess over 80,000 and planning to expand furthermore.The rumor might be true but not come alive for atleast a month as Capgemini denied the rumor as expected and Wipro officials refused to comment. 

PC to PC telephony is one such service that every big companies are providing it for free to its customers and companies such as Skype, Yahoo, Google, MSN and Net2Phone.com are prominent ones in India with its net telephony services, all you need is PC, headphones with mic and software (online or downloadable such as Skype). Internet Service Providers Associations of India (ISPAI) are alleging that internet companies mentioned above are eating market share of Indian companies and thats too illegaly i.e. without any licensed net telephony services. ISPs also allege that voice chat through Google, MSN and Yahoo is resulting in revenue leak for the government. Internet telephony, estimated at 200 million minutes a month in which use of illegal net telephony without valid license is estimated at 10 million minutes a month. ISPAI had alleged that an ISP licence or a unified access services licence (UASL) is required to provide Internet telephony, which these companies do not possess. However, MSN and Yahoo denies such claims by putting a point that they offer free service so levying a service tax through licencing is not an issue anymore. In India, companies like Skype, Vonage, Packet 8, Go2call, Lingo, Impetus, Dialpad and Net2Phone have been offering ...