- Picasa, as part of last week’s major update, now provides the ability to upload photos to web albums from email. You can customize your @picasaweb.com e-mail address, and send pictures to your web album from your mobile phone, or forward images from family and friends to upload them instantly.
- MapQuest continues to make improvements to their new “beta” site, adding MapQuest Local this week. The new start page contains a series of drag and drop customizable widgets, including traffic, weather, gas prices and more.
- Google launches an initiative to digitize printed newspapers, just as they appeared in print. In 2006 they were working with The New York Times and Washington Post to index the digital archives they were creating, this initiative will expand on that by digitizing a greater range of material. You can explore the results using the Google News Archive. Here is an example that Google gives on their blog, from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1969, of the landing on the moon.
- Google is working with ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane to debut the Google content network, a new way to distribute original material on the web. This program will distribute the content of ‘Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy’ using Google’s AdSense network.
- Microsoft revealed the new Microsoft Translator, a free translation service that is available on Live Search, IE8, Windows Live Toolbar, and even for Windows Live Messenger. You can test out the service here at Windows Live Translator. Enter text to translate, or enter a URL to translate a page and see it side by side with the original.
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