Ever since the inception of RSS feeds there has been tools such asFeedity, Feed43 and  Yahoo Pipes that allow you to make an RSS feed out of any website, but today Google has released an update to Google Reader that allows you to track any website changes thanks to its own RSS feed creation tool. Sample Google Reader Generated RSS Feed “Feeds make it easy to follow updates to all kinds of webpages, from blogs to [...]

Google have just announced that their specially built ‘Street View  Trike’ has come to Australia, and has opened the polls for Aussies to vote for locations they think should be visited by the contraption. Google’s Street View Trike at Taronga Zoo (Credit: Google Australia) The trike, which allows Google to film off-road locations for their Street View service on Google Maps, today launched for the first time in Australia at the iconic Taronga Zoo. “We’re really excited [...]

YouTube has today received one of its biggest makeovers in a long time, with a new opt-in style that provides a more streamlined and simplistic interface. YouTube 1bn Views Logo (Credit: YouTube.com) “We’re excited to unveil the first major example of our efforts to simplify and streamline the video page to offer the best possible watching experience to you,” Julian Frumar, a YouTube User Experience Designer and Igor Kofman, a Software Engineer said today. With the [...]

In the first ever live stream of sport on the service, YouTube Australia has today announced it will be streaming live footage from the Indian Premier League cricket events from March 12. IPL YouTube logo (Credit: Google/YouTube) “Howzat YouTubers! In a world first, we’re bringing live sport to YouTube. From March 12 you’ll have front row seats to all 60 matches of the latest cricket sensation, Indian Premier League, streamed live on YouTube,” Ryan Hall [...]

A recent upgrade to Google Reader has left some users unable to access their account via third-party client software and applications. Google Reader iPhone Interface According to a Google spokesperson, the issue stems from a new deployment of Reader which included “some changes to how authentication cookies are handled.” Apparently, the users experiencing issues are having trouble because they are using expired session cookies. The best way to alleviate the problem is to clear your [...]

IBM debuted their augmented reality application, dubbed “Seer”, at Wimbledon last year, and have now bought it the 2010 Australian Open. IBM’s “Seer” in action at Wimbledon (Credit: IBM) Though at this stage the application will only run on Google’s Android operating system, rendering it virtually useless to many Australians due to the low levels of penetration of phones running the operating system here (we haven’t even got a version of the Motorola Droid here [...]

Google has today, as expected, announced the immediate release of its very own Android-powered smartphone, the Nexus One. At a press conference in the US, Google’s Mario Queiroz, Vice President of Product Management announced the phone, dubbed the Nexus One because of the meaning of Nexus – a point of convergence or in this case ”a convergence point for mobile technology, apps and the Internet.” “Nexus One is an exemplar of what’s possible on mobile devices through [...]

As tomorrow dawns, excitement has begun to peak around an announcement being made by search giant Google surrounding its Android mobile operating system, with the almost certain aarrival of a ‘Google Phone’. The phone, which is believed to be built by HTC on behalf of Google, is said to most likely be sold direct by Google online and unlocked, meaning users can in theory use it on all phone networks. Google gave the phones out to employees at [...]

A new patent has revealed a possible reason why Apple may have rejected Google’s native Latitude iPhone application – because a patent application reveals they may be building their own similar service. The patent, discover by Patently Apple suggests that a users location would be sent via a modified SMS message containing the  original devices geographic location to another device which could be another family member or friend. The friend or family member could then view the senders [...]

Google today announced new real-time features that amongst other things will display updates on sites such as Facebook and MySpace in search results in real-time. By joining with popular social networking sites Twitter, FriendFeed, Jaiku, MySpace, Facebook and id.entica, Google search results will soon be populated with live results that will be updated as information is posted. Also combined with these updates will be headlines from news and blog posts gathered in real-time. “Search is [...]