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Google Doodle – Confucius’s Birthday, China

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:15:04 +0000

Confucius, lit. “Master Kong,” (traditionally September 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese thought and life.

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Happy 11th birthday, Google

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:51:14 +0000

It’s Google’s 11th birthday today, September 27th: YAY…. to celebrate, the company has changed its logo to a version that turns the letter “L” into the number 11.

Happy birthday Google!

Google Doodle: Ilya Repin’s Birthday – Russia

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:04:52 +0000

Ilya Yefimovich Repin (5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844, Chuguyev, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire – September 29, 1930, Kuokkala, Viipuri Province, Finland) was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. An important part of his work is dedicated to his native country, Ukraine. His realistic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order. Beginning in the late 1920s, detailed works on him were published in the Soviet Union, where a Repin cult developed about a decade later, and where he was held up as a model “progressive” and “realist” to be imitated by “Socialist Realist” artists in the USSR.

Google Doodle: Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s Birthday – Spain

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:33:12 +0000

Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963) was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He influenced Luis Buñuel to a considerable extent.

Ramón Gómez de la Serna was especially known for “Greguerías” – a short form of poetry that roughly corresponds to the one-liner in comedy. The Gregueria is especially able to grant a new and often humorous perspective. Serna published over 90 works in all literary genres. In 1933, he was invited to Buenos Aires. He stayed there during the Spanish Civil War and the following Franco regime. He died in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1963.

Dont freak out, Gmail is an year older – turns five today!

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:49:18 +0000

It was five years ago yesterday that Gmail launched by giving out a gig. Back then, a typical webmail account could only store about five megabytes of mail. It’s hard to remember what those days were like, considering that today, you can send a single 20 megabyte attachment, four times the size of an entire webmail account from 2004. A gigabyte of online storage may have been what got a lot of people to give Gmail a try, but changes to the email experience — like search, labels, conversation view, and strong spam protection — seem to be what kept people around.

With all the new April fool’s bash of fooling people around and creating hoaxes, Google sure seemed to celebrate the birthday very well….

Rumor: Gmail with translation for the 5th Birthday

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:40:52 +0000

As the PCWorld reported, Google users will be given a gift for the 5th Google Birthday. The report states: “Google opened on Monday a further step in the evolution of Gmail, a new product with a European multilingual aspect announce. At a meeting in Brussels will be the impact of the Google Cloud Computing at the conduct of the people to manage their tasks show. In addition, the development of Gmail’s review and the next step in the development notice, the company has sent an invitation. “

I suspect that Google’s Gmail Labs in other languages. It has a screenshot is found, which points out that Gmail soon just like Google Reader will have an automatic translation in it…

Never miss another birthday again – Orkut friends birthday shows in Google calendar now

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:08:59 +0000

Now, in conjunction with Google Calendar, you can see all of your orkut friend’s birthdays for the whole year. If you’ve already used Google Calendar before, you will shortly see a link (right below the “upcoming birthdays” section) where you can add your orkut friends’ birthdays to your Google calendar.

Once you’ve added your orkut birthday calendar to Google Calendar, you can navigate forward and backwards through time to see whose birthday is coming up and any birthdays you might have missed. If you don’t see the promotional link, use this URL to subscribe to the calendar, announces orkut Blog.

For more information, visit orkut Blog Here..