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Google To Announce Venture Fund
Google is going to announce a new venture capital fund.
(Via NYTimes).
Picasa for Mac
Google SketchUp 7 – Dynamic Components
SketchUp 7 has been released (PC and Mac), and one of the new features are Dynamic Components. If you’ve done any 3D work, you’ll find this of interest:
Google Rolls out Video Chat
Google’s rolling out Video/Audio Chat in Gmail. That’s a picture of the settings with my mug on video.
Want to try it for yourself? You’ll need a Gmail account… then go to http://www.gmail.com/videochat
and install the plug-in. After you get it installed, it should take you to the Settings->Chat menu where you can configure your camera.
If you don’t see it, Google hasn’t activated it in your account yet. Be patient. It wasn’t on for me earlier this evening and when I checked again, it was up and running.
Google Picasa Adds Fact Recognition
Google launched a new face recognition feature for Picasa Web Albums which will automatically tag faces with names after you train it a bit.
Google Chrome Browser Launches Today
I worked on Mosaic back in the day, so I found this latest entry into the browser market interesting:
Google MySQL Tools
Google has a bunch of MySQL tools.