http://pc-news.diaryhosting.com Computer Research Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:23:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google has gone live with a big change to their result pages, at least for those of you who are logged in (if you’re not seeing it yet, it may still be rolled out for your Google Account). It’s called SearchWiki, and lets you edit the position of the results ... http://pc-news.diaryhosting.com/1797-google-now-lets-you-upvote-results-and-comment-on-them.html EtherPad is a collaborative, real-time text editor created by, among others, two ex-Google employees*. An EtherPad document is quickly set up without any need for registration. You can then share the URL of the document, and others who will visit that page will then be able to see, in real-time, ... http://pc-news.diaryhosting.com/1798-etherpad.html Google announced that on December 31st they will shut down Lively, which was their 3D chat world, and somewhat of a potential competitor to Second Life. Room widgets embedded in other sites are then supposed to show an image but no more interaction, which would add Lively to the list ... http://pc-news.diaryhosting.com/1799-google-plans-to-shut-down-lively-3d-world.html The Shanghaiist reports: <<With political arrows still being shot back and forth between Beijing and Dharamsala [home of the exiled current Dalai Lama], China has been panning out its efforts to win the propaganda battle over Tibet (...) Lately we’ve been observing lots of Google ads pointing to the China Tibet Information ... http://pc-news.diaryhosting.com/1800-china-tibet-information-center-google-advertising-its-views-on-tibet.html A couple of months ago it was mentioned here that Google’s web mail client Gmail might get themes, like a black-and-green terminal view, and the waiting time seems to be over soon – Google announced they’ve started to roll out this feature. While I don’t see it in my Gmail ... http://pc-news.diaryhosting.com/1801-gmail-rolls-out-themes.html