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Google today announced that it was launching a new operating system in its most direct challenge yet to the dominance of Microsoft.

We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

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It’s dead simple. Just write whatever you want to publish on our homepage fields (title and text). Then, hit the “click to publish” button.

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Done! Your text is published (and tweeted!). Now you’ve got a personal page, blog style, with all your articles

URL : http://write4.net/

TInychat is a interesting yet simple service. It uses a ajax and does a pretty good job.

It is pretty much like Chatterrous but bit simpler and could be used for a quicker light chat.

To create a chatroom, just go www.tinychat.com/chatroomname , replacing the chatroomname with the name you would like.

URL : http://www.tinychat.com/

Google started another new service today, Latitude, which helps you locate your friends in Real Time. Latitude uses GPS on their phone to track them and let you know. You can also contact them with SMS, IM, or a phone call.

• See where your friends are and what they are up to on your phone or computer.
• Quickly contact them with SMS, IM, or a phone call
• Maintain complete control over your privacy

Share locations
Location sharing starts only when both you and a friend agree. Invite friends via email or easily add them from your Gmail contacts.

Control privacy
You can share, set, or hide your location – or turn off Google Latitude – from the privacy menu. You can also hide your location or share only a city-level location with certain friends. For more information, see the Privacy FAQs.

Share status
Create a status message and upload your photo within Latitude. It also syncs directly with Google Talk. Check your friends’ status messages to see what your friends are up to.

Contact your friends
Quickly contact your friends with an SMS, IM, or phone call. You can also get directions to lead you to your friends.

URL : http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html

Pixelpipe is a content distribution gateway that allows users to publish text, photo, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe website and have the content distributed across over 60 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and online storage. Much like Ping.fm but better tools.

It supports a number of mobile, desktop & browser applications for different operating systems for users, liberating their content and sharing their life.

URL : http://pixelpipe.com/

Automattic today launched a new service called “WordPress.tv“. It is an interesting service which includes a nice list of wordpress related videos such as tutorials, Wordcamp videos etc.

URL : http://www.wordpress.tv

Windows 7 is creating the fuzz and the microsoft servers are not having a nice time. So here’s a working downloads 34-bit and 64-bit version of Windows 7. ISO image of Windows 7 Beta (build 7000.0.081212).

Windows 7 Beta Direct Download Links

Windows 7 Beta (x86) Direct Link: 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.ISO

Windows 7 Beta (x64) Direct Link: 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO

Google adds Twitter option to its Google Friend Connect service. This means that when you join a Friend Connected site, you can choose to use your Twitter profile, discover people you follow on Twitter who are also members of the site, and quickly tweet that you have found a cool website.

To send a tweet about a site you have joined, click the invite link in the members gadget, then click the Twitter icon on the share tab. The next time your followers sign in to Twitter, they’ll see a your tweet containing a link to the interesting site you’ve found.

This integration with Twitter is an example of how we want to continue improving Friend Connect, extending the open social web and bringing social features to more places on the web.