I knew it. It was a matter of time before someone would create a Google Doodle logo in ASL. That has happened. Here’s the image below.

Click on ‘Grades 7-9′, and Region 2 to see it.

Kudos to Molly Kestenbaum for creating the art and getting nominated! Vote for her!

Thought I’d spread the word out.

http://video.google.com/videocaptioned

Displays 100 highest relevant videos with captions.

Here’s for a starter on Steven Pinker who is a linguist/professor at MIT. He supports that ASL is a language since humans have an innate ability to communicate, thus a language. :-)

Yay, I’ve been selected to attend this event to help man the booth, recruiting, and behind-the-scenes photography. Awesome!

The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. Whether you are a hard-core geek, a dedicated content creator, a new media entrepreneur, or just someone who likes being around an extremely creative community, SXSW Interactive is for you!

That means I’ll probably need to look for an interpreter around Austin, Texas. Anyone got a reference? Successful reference will receive a free Google t-shirt from me. :-)

Cool, my boss, Dennis Hwang, is in this video.

In case anyone missed this year’s doodle:

Read this article and you’ll see why Google is gonna be #1 media company, with YouTube, news aggregator, reader, and ofc the best search engine underneath.

Facing increased competition from cable and new forms of entertainment on the Internet, the broadcast networks have seen their hold on the American psyche slipping. This trend continued in 2007, when after a fairly promising upfront early in the year, the networks failed to produce the hits they needed to re-establish themselves. As of December, the networks’ prime-time ratings in the key 18- to 49-year-old age category were all down: at NBC by 11%, at CBS by 10% and at ABC by 5%.

Newspapers also struggled mightily in 2007, in ways that hinted at underlying problems in the business. The New York Times canceled its Times Select online tool because not enough viewers were willing to pay for content.

As usual, I was surfing and saw this page showing YouTube and Products results in the sidebar above the sponsored ad.

I cropped up the images so you can see the difference.

So, Google is combining videos, images, news, and products into the search . That said, it’s a universal search and the one with the fastest engine. I’m convinced that there is no other search engine that can output results as fast as Google does. It’s like you are in a Millenium Falcon (the fastest spacecraft in Star Wars) zooming through the universe.

He’s the guy in the orange shirt and know what? he happens to be my co-worker as a graphic illustrator. I can’t believe the video clip he made has been viewed 6,903,499 times and even more that his desk is right across from mine. His work is awesome.

The street view of my favorite building, the John Hancock Center.

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I knew it. It was a matter of time before Gmail would integrate AIM in. About a year ago or so, Google signed a partnership with AOL and offer their search engine into AOL network.

Looks like I don’t need to use AIM client. The OS is all in the browser.

Still can’t believe my eyes even I work there. What’s even more impressive is that profits keep going up while its operation costs goes down.

About time!

Google Talk and AIM Finally a Reality

Nearly two years after Google strategically invested $1 Billion for 5% stake of AOL, Google Talk and AIM services will finally be integrated.

Just found this info. Didn’t know we could share starred items from our Google Reader. Cool!

Share Starred Items, from Google Reader

Easily share starred items in Google Reader with this simple how-to from Tech-Recipes:

* From Google Reader, click the Settings Link in the upper right hand corner.
* Click the Tags tab.
* Click the Private link beside your starred items.
* The text will change to public and links will appear that allow you to share your starred items feed link.

I subscribe to Google’s investing email subscription and saw someone posted that Google is now the 5th highest-valued company in the U.S.

It’s time once again to step back, pause, and marvel at the growth of Google. As of the close of trading today, 10/30/2007, a company that is roughly a decade old and that has been a publicly traded company
for only a little over 3 years is now the *5th* largest company in the US by market cap.

A couple months ago we were roughly 15th. Companies this large don’t
usually shift around in the list this quickly, especially in the upward direction. We’ve grown and much of the rest of the market has shrunk recently. In trading today we went up over 2% and closed with a market cap of $216.86B (according to Yahoo Finance) while Proctor and Gamble, the previous #5 went down 4%, closing at $215.18B (after hours the gap continued to widen). Some of the other companies we’ve passed recently include Walmart, Johnson and Johnson, Chevron, Cisco, Citigroup, and Bank of America. The only larger US companies by market cap are now AT&T, Microsoft, GE, and Exxon.

Worldwide, Google appears to have just broken into the top 20 based on data from a recent article, but I don’t know how far in. (It’s harder to get a good up-to-date list of top companies by market cap worldwide. If someone knows a good site to do this, let me know.)

Wow!

BMW manufacturer loves to put latest gadgets in their cars like they did with iPod. Now, they’re doing it again with Google, putting their local Map search in. Google has a competitive advantage over other GPS providers with their fast-loading Map pages and relevant searches.

BMW is the only automobile manufacturer to offer the Google local search in the car - available now. For the first time, you can use this search function to look for local information everywhere in Germany with the world’s most famous online search engine. When you find what you want, the details are transferred to the navigation system and car phone at the touch of a button. The system identifies the location and destination of the vehicle automatically and displays the results in the vicinity with details of address, phone number and distance.

This is just going to be a little note of what I usually handle with my gmails.

First of all, gmail is the best web email app around, bar none. It’s light, efficient, fast, and you can check emails anywhere with an access to the internet, on computers or mobile. On top of that, you can search through your emails, which is really what separated it from other hundreds of email services. It also actually check for new mails for you so you don’t have to keep refreshing the page. And there’s no annoying flashing graphical ads that seem to take up half of your screen. Who ever wants that!?

Now, I rarely use archive, I just leave them in my inbox but all of them is marked read or in a light blue background from a white background color. If I get promotions, advertisements, or any non-personal emails, I delete them. Remember, when you delete, it’s going to stay in trash for 30 days, so no worries, if you ever need them again, just find them in the trash. Because I think 30 days is long enough to know that you don’t need them anymore.

Well, you might ask why I don’t bother to use archive? well, I kinda let it archive itself when it goes into the next page and I like to keep having a glance at my current messages on the first page; maybe I might spot some emails that need a reply. I try to mark all of my emails read so that the number of new emails stay at 0 next to the inbox label so it’s easy for me to know if I got a new email or not.

Lastly, this is more of advice, don’t delete your personal messages, keep them or archive them, because in 50 years from now on, you’re going to want to read some of ur old emails and remember the days. Some of your friends or family will be no longer able to email you anymore, so it’s going to be what you have of them. That’s what I said to my friends to convince them to switch to gmail. :-)

I’m going to email to my grandmother after this.