I am a big Instant Messenger fan and Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger remain as my ever favorite IM softwares. Google Talk Gadget is the a web messenger for Google Talk and is the best alternative in case you do not want to install the application on a local PC or want to access it through a public PC.

Google Brings Group Chat To Google Talk

GoogleOS reports that Google has added a new feature to Google Talk Gadget which is known as "Group Chat" or Conference Talk. I did not get hold of this story myself as I do use Gmail Chat instead of the Google Talk Gadget. The feature is only available for those users who use Google Talk Gadget so if you invite any of your Gmail contacts who are on Windows Google Talk or Gmail Chat version then they will be given a link to the web version of Google Talk.

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Blog popularity checkers are online tools or in most cases online services that help you check the popularity of your blog. There are thousands of such tools available online which will tell you about your blog pagerank, Technorati stats, bloglines stats, backlinks, alexa stats and etc but this tool has something that makes it different.

PopUri.us: Instant Blog Popularity Checker Tool

PopUri is an online tool which checks the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more. This tool distinguishes itself from the rest in the manner that it fetches stats using ajax and has got a very visually appealing stats showcase.

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Though I am not a big fan fan of Personalized Google Homepage i.e. iGoogle but it definitely has some features which really make it interesting and the best user choice. Previously iGoogle had some problems which caused users to lose their personalized settings and since then Google has tried its best to win the heart of its users.

Share a Tab From iGoogle

Googlified reports that Google has added a new feature to iGoogle which will let users share their personalized tabs with their friends or family. Moreover Googlelified suggests that this feature can be useful for those users who are always scared to lose their personalized tab settings.

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The wireless and mobile communication trend is growing day by day and in a very advance and rapid manner. Internet surfing over mobiles, PDAs and other wireless devices is now becoming an addiction for the new generation. Especially with the release of services like MobileTube everyone now needs to spend their time more with their mobiles.

Opera Mini 4 Beta is available for Download 

Opera Mini 4 Beta does the job easy for you when it comes to surfing Internet through your mobiles. The Opera Mini series has been a popular mobile browser series that brings a lot to your mobile and gives you a lot of features. But with the release of this new version of the Opera Mini browser new dimensions have opened their ways in the world of mobile browsing and it surely will give the Opera Mini Lovers a new and refined experience.

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It is the social networks like MySpace and Orkut that have made the people more addictive to the Internet and now people cannot spend a day without interacting within these social platforms. Messaging and scrapping have become the most addictive online social trends. But MySpace has something new offer which adds more spice to the MySpace flavor.

MySpace Introduces Instant Messaging Service

MySpace has officially announced the beta release of MySpaceIM which is an Instant Messaging software service by MySpace. According to an estimate, 17 million people of the total 180 million population of MySpace have already downloaded the MySpaceIM client. Previously MySpace had browser-based IM service but releasing MySpace Instant Messaging service now MySpace is going to make its place on user desktops.

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Google does have that "teasing factor" which keeps you waiting for new products/services but at the same time Google has that "pleasing factor" which soothes your mind when you know that one of the most anticipated Google product/service is now going to be a reality.

Google Office is now Complete with Google Presentations 

Google just acquired Zenter which is a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations. This is a good news for all those Google fans out there who use Google Docs and Spreadsheets already. This finally suggests that Google Presentations is no longer a would-be service. Google Presentations will complete the virtual Google Office Products and shall be a lead competitor to Microsoft Powerpoint.

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I was pleased to see major improvements on YouTube's side but this news has totally stunned me. Personally I really liked the recent innovations made by YouTube in its design as well in introducing new features and concepts to the YouTube community and I admire the new step taken by Google to make YouTube a world wide video village.

YouTube To Go For 9 New Domains 

Official Google Blog reports that due to the huge amount of appreciation and considerable traffic received from countries outside the United States, Google has finally planned to release the biggest video community in 9 more languages. Today at a Google press event in Paris, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are announcing the launch of nine new domains in Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland, and the UK.

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If you have a good and a little famous blog that makes the Google frontpage for some specific keyword searches then you are definitely interested in knowing your Search Engine Ranking Position for certain keywords on a daily basis. Instead of wasting your time over online SERP tools why not try a desktop utility which does the same job.

Search Engine Ranking Positions Finder

SERPs Finder is a SEO Tool or utility allows you to find your ranking for specific keywords in all major search engines namely Google, Yahoo and Live Search. It is a very simpl and light yet very powerful tool that analyzes the first 1000 search results of any search

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It is hard to maintain your computer and that is a very bitter fact. Especially Windows OS are annoying in the sense that their registries can be easily hacked, manipulated, destroyed or jumbled. you can't just always format your drive and reinstall your copy of Windows again and again. For that here is a perfect solution for you.

5 Free Registry Optimizers For Windows

Registry Tuners or in other words Registry Optimizers are handy little apps that will optimize and clean your Windows Registry database. The need to clean and optimize the Windows Registry database is that when you often delete, copy, cut or move files the Windows Registry keeps making instances of registry for the location of that every file and thus some registries are left broken and some have wrong paths. So it is very necessary to tweak your Windows Registry for faster performance.

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The Internet is becoming full of webware or in other words web 2.0 apps and it is really hard to decide which of these services are the most unique ones and deserve awards. Keeping this in mind the guys at Webware decided to kick-off the first user-generated web 2.0 awards program called as the Webware 100

The Winners of Webware 2007 Awards

Finally congrats to all the Winners of Webware 100 Awards. The users were given a time of almost 20 days in which they were allowed to vote for any one webware app in each category. The Webware 100 had 10 categories and 10 winners were to be announced under each category which means that it was a basic hunt to discover the 100 best and most popular Webware services as voted by the users. There were almost 5,000 nominations with over 489,467 votes casted which made up a list of 250 finalists.

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