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Google Chrome OS next year

Many years we talked about Google plans to release their own OS, this time this is real. Google OS will be all about the web. All apps are web apps. The entire experience takes place within the browser and there are no conventional desktop applications. This means users do not have to deal with installing, managing and updating programs. Video is here:

Google Image Swirl - new image search

New feature from Google Labs Beta - "Image Swirl" introduces a Wonder Wheel-like user interface for Google Images. The new search interface combines the Wonder Wheel experience with Google's ability to find similar images and discover faces in these images. That's the way new image search must be. More information here

Obama: "I Have Never Used Twitter"

USA President went to China, was asked about Twitter and it was streamed live on his Facebook page. Nice change in the world. Obama was asked by a student, "Do you know about the great firewall and should we be able to use Twitter?" His reply: "I have never used Twitter but I'm an advocate of technology and not restricting internet access." All those people voted for him because they thought he was on Twitter. I bet they are gutted.