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Huusshhh

After a very long time, my Gmail Inbox says - No new mail! Want to read updates from your favorite sites? Try Google Reader And my Google Reader says Your reading list has no unread items.

Mac

Have you visited Google Products Blogs? If you happen to visit them, then you will find one thing very clearly noticable. All of thier demo images which are used to elaborate some new functionality, are taken from Macintosh. I keep wondring why they use Mac when they keep bragging about thier use of Linux. According to me, Mac is like a symbol of being elitist. What do you say?

Google SMS Channel

Well, well, well what you know? Google India has come up with SMS Channels. The product has great similarities with our own MyToday MOBS and Webaroo’s SMSGupshup. You can create an SMS channel which is a way of sending group SMSs. I guess the specialty of Google has always been the ease and simplicity of user interfaces. The same thing continues here also. You can create your own SMS channel with various options. You can use it to send RSS feeds or send alerts about your blog or alerts about your or send Google news alerts for particular keywords or send alerts about the emails sent on a Google group or the simplest of them all – send a “free” group SMS from the web site. If I have to compare the 3 services, two of which I have already worked on, there is one big Similarity in all. “DELAYS”!!!! Well, I have sent an SMS on my SMS channel Chikitsak and I still haven't received the SMS on my phone. You could expect it to happen with MyToday or SMSGupshup, given their huge subscribe...