Google Friend Connect helps easily insert social features to make "any app, any site, any friends" a reality.

Google is saying goodbye to "Hello," Picasa's photo sharing service which was part of the Picasa acquisition in 2004. The Picasa's Hello site now simply says the following.

No doubt the biggest story of last weekend was Microsoft abruptly walking away from their unsolicited deal with Yahoo!. And no doubt among the biggest stories of today are "what now?" and "what's happening to their stocks?"

Google TV Ads service has exited invitation-only beta and gone live, as announced on the official Adsense blog.

iGoogle, if you didn't know, is your personalized Google page. Besides adding news and different content to it, you can now add world class artists' themes.

As with anything, it all depends on who you ask and how. Earlier I wrote that Brandchannel's survey indicated that Apple was pretty much #1. However, if you ask Millward Brown Optimor and their BrandZ Top 100 Ranking, it's Google that's tops in terms of power and value. See also the top then brands.

Geotimes magazine examines Google’s efforts to develop affordable renewable energy in the April issue, available online and on newsstands now.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 saying "our ongoing innovation in search, ads, and apps helped drive healthy growth globally across our product lines, yielding another strong quarter for Google," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.

Today we are announcing a preview release of Google App Engine, an application-hosting tool that developers can use to build scalable web apps on top of Google's infrastructure. The goal is to make it easier for web developers to build and scale applications, instead of focusing on system administration and maintenance.

Google Street View caused a great deal of consternation over privacy as soon as it was introduced last May. And the military has even shut out Google Street View researchers from its bases. So, as the first lawsuit over Street View is filed, I can only ask: what took so long?

Virgin teams up with Google to announce project Virgle that aims to establish a permanent human settlement on planet Mars.

Yahoo!, MySpace and Google will form non-profit OpenSocial Foundation, which aims to assure neutrality and longevity of specification for building social applications across the web.