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Google TV is a Smart TV (or set-top box) which aims to seamlessly combine your Internet and TV experience.

Google Buzz is yet another way to share photos, status updates, videos, news and more with friends and family. The best part is that it lets you start with your existing Gmail contacts…

This article shows you how to get started with OpenID. If you use Gmail, Yahoo, Blogger, Wordpress, AOL and many other services – you already have an OpenID. It also explains how to use your homepage as your OpenID using a delegate meta tag. Finally, there are links for Java libraries which you can use if you want to OpenID enable your Java application.

Today Google introduced a new tool called Page Speed. Page Speed measures the speed at which a web page loads in your browser. It analyzes the webpage and makes a bunch of recommendations based on best practices that Google has identified and used in their own website. Page Speed is similar to another tools called YSlow by Yahoo which was release in 2007.

I’ve tried to explain what Google Wave is without going into complexities of API’s and extensions. A “Wave” is like a very dynamic wiki page that you can send to someone. Multiple people can post comments to the Wave, very much like the chat room, or edit already posted comments or content like the wiki. You can also embed waves in your blog or photo album. While simple Waves look like chat rooms, but more advanced Waves could become collaborative gaming software like chess, sudoku etc.

This article shows you step by step with screenshots how to write a simple hello world app in Java in Eclipse and deploy it to Google App engine. At the time of writing, access to google app engine for java is limited and you have to wait to get permission from google. In the meantime, I hope you find this tutorial insightful.

Measure site performance and response time using Google Analytics events API