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Google conducted a workshop on their AppEngine and OpenSocial on 5th September at the Taj Palace, New Delhi. Im sorry i couldn’t blog about it earlier, to let all the Delhi readers know 😛 I myself was an unconfirmed guest at this event, but the people from Google were friendly enough to confirm my seat once i reached there 🙂 The event started with Rajdeep, Anash and Seshu going into the depths of the OpenSocial API and what it stands for. Anirudh, on the other hand, took us for a deep dive on the AppEngine. Their presentations covered everything from introduction to even code snippets. We also had presentations from Google’s partners for OpenSocial: Impetus and Satyam. They gave an insight on what they are doing with OpenSocial. I’m afraid, i still haven’t received any of the presentations from any of the presenters, although with a quick search on SlideShare, i was able to find some similar presentations. I’m embedding two of them here: ...

Ok, this just in! Google’s planning on an open source browser based on the WebKit engine. Via Googlesystem blog, Google Chrome has been built in a time when browsers no longer render mostly web pages, but full-blown web applications. That’s why browsers need to be more powerful, more stable and more secure. One of the problems of the existing browsers is that a web page can lock the browser and there’s no way to isolate that tab and close it. Google Chrome uses a new process for each tab. “We’re applying the same isolation you find in modern operating systems,” says Arnaud Weber. Each process is sandboxed to prevent malware from affecting your computer. ...

Google has just released Google Desktop for Linux! Get it here.

YAY! This move is a lot better than giving us unlimited storage space! A boon for gmail drive and gmailFS users! Source.

Microsoft Office is surely the most popular office suite in the entire world, providing extremely useful applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and many other tools that are making our computers work much easier. At this time, Microsoft’s solution is challenged by a similar product available for free, OpenOffice representing a tool that is chosen by millions of users from all around the world. Nowadays, Google owns the most powerful search engine technology in the entire world, being challenged by similar services provided by other companies. Microsoft is trying to win the battle with Google’s search engine by improving Live Search, a similar technology that allows users to search the internet. ...