Pi Day and Pi Approximation Day are two holidays held to celebrate the mathematical constant ? (pi) (in the mm/dd date notation: 3/14); since 3, 1 and 4 are the first three digits of ?. March 14 is also the birthday of Albert Einstein and the two events are sometimes celebrated together.

Pi Approximation Day is observed on July 22, because of Archimedes’ popular approximation of ? being 22/7. However, this may be considered misleading, as all cited dates are “approximation days” (as ? is an irrational number) and 22/7 is actually a closer approximation of ? than 3.14. Typically, March 14 is more popular for countries using the month/day format (22/7 being an impossible date in this format), and the 22nd of July is more popular for countries using the day/month format (since 3/14 and 31/4 are impossible dates in this format).

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Although this new feature is in experimental stage, the new interface shows only one new item at a time when at full screen, focusing on images, videos, maps and other attractions to “fill the eyes.”

“In essence, Reader play is a different view of the Reader”, “It is designed to be an easy and fun to browse through interesting items, while Reader is much more customizable to organize your feeds.  says Garrett Wu, product manager for Reader.

Basically, the Reader does not require anyone to subscribe to feeds. In automatic mode, it puts the contents of your “Recommended Item” on the top.

From the first navigation, the content is tailored to the individual taste of each user. For this, it is necessary for Internet users to interact with what they see by clicking on the items “Like”, “Add Star” and “Share.”

For many, this new standard of viewing the content is ideal for the TV format and even more so for the tablets, especially because it is fast, simple and visually appealing. Also, there are rumors that this feature is going to be completely awesome on the Apple iPad (now that apple is not on the Google’s list of competitors), while reading news.

You can test it by visiting – http://www.google.com/reader/play.

The study consisted of 44 people divided into two groups: those seeking information and those who wanted to buy a product. 73% of the volunteers had never heard of the results in real time. The study aimed to answer three main questions:

1. The average user of the browser, you recognize and understand the results in real time
2. Consumers, “use the results in real time
3. What do the consumers of such results

The results:

• Only 25% of consumers used and viewed the results in real time, compared with 47% of those seeking information.
• Most participants were indifferent to the results in real time.

From the graph, users only take into account the window of real-time results of Twitter. Maybe better if Google place it higher on the page, but I think the results would be similar. The fact that there is not much importance given to these results could indicate that you the profile is ranked low or Google is aware of the devaluation of the quality of the results due to real-time search results.

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In 2008 & 2009, Google only listed two major competitors – Microsoft and Yahoo. And now in 2010, Google lists 10 major competitors starting from Microsoft, Yahoo on top of the list. This is not surprising, BUT the surprise is that, Apple actually was not listed on the chart.

Here is a list of ‘Top 10 Google competitors’:

1. Microsoft will be (Bing)
2. Yahoo
3. Amazon
4. EBay
5. Twitter
6. Facebook
7. Yelp (Business Review website)
8. Monster.com (Human Resources \ Job site)
9. WebMD (medical information site)
10. Kayak (travel website)

I wonder whats going on between Google & Apple

Today when I was just going through my Google Reader, I found a new message at the bottom. Guess what? Google is now promoting recommendations.

It says:

“But wait! We have recommended items waiting for you to read.
Sweet! Show me my recommendations”

Seen more new stuff on Google? share them with us. Contact us and we’ll be happy to post them

Once that is done you can then set the frequency of email reminders. You could choose and update reminders per hour / day or simply shut down notifications.

Currently this feature is still in the testing phase. So there are some wonky stuff like, emails broken (not showing properly) and sometimes the generation of reminders would fail and never will be sent to the inbox.

Google Wave in the opening of a large number of users, and has not been envisioned before the explosive success of everyone. Recent Wave team again after another of its ease of use and functions carried out a number of adjustments, obviously they still want Google Wave return to the line of sight of everyone.

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If you want to test Chrome geographic features, you can access using the HTML5, Geo-location API site. If you have pop-up window asks you if you are willing to submit their geographical location, then the description of geographical features then that means Chrome has already begun its work.

In the Windows 7 system, the user can activate the taskbar to open Chrome geographic features command.

It is reported that the new version of Developer Chrome also added a number of other features, most of the new features are for the Mac and Linux users. Mac version and Linux version of Chrome helps improve stability of the plug and form auto-fill feature.

DocVerse would be similar to Google Docs and Zoho. This web-based collaboration tools, with the world’s most powerful document processing procedures for most users to integrate Office can provide in the Office where the real-time sharing and editing functions, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents. It is the biggest advantage is that you do not need to re-learn new ways of working exclusively as a seamless plug-in work in the Office Lane.

Although DocVerse do not use Google Docs as a real-time integration of the back support of the plugin.

Google says:

People are still accustomed to using desktop software, so this acquisition will help users in their favorite desktop software, where most familiar experience of cloud services.

Two former Microsoft employees wrote on the DocVerse official blog,:

We believed strongly that the world of productivity and collaboration was changing.  The world started moving toward easy-to-use web applications, like Google Docs & Apps, offering a new way to work with all kinds of benefits.   However, for the many people who use desktop software, like Microsoft Office, transitioning to the cloud was a challenge.   Unfortunately, today, individuals are still forced to make a choice between those two worlds.  Even worse, teams who use both products find that Office and web applications do not play well together; most times, teams choose one product or the other.  Google’s acquisition of DocVerse represents a first step to solve these problems.

Currently, you cannot create a new account, but you can still download their Office plug-in, and create an account for the first time use.

It looks like Google will hit most of the Microsoft foundations in 2010 – including, Microsoft Windows and Office packages.

Via Google Operating System

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