Google Doodle: Father's Day

"Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting, and to honor and commemorate fathers and forefathers. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving, and special dinners to fathers and family-oriented activities. In 2008, it will be celebrated on June 15th in most countries."
Google celebrates father's day from today because some countries like Austria and Belgium celebrate this day by June 14(Second Sunday of June). Google probably will keeps the doodle until tomorrow, so the most countries celebrate father's day by June 15.

Google Doodle Japan: Yasunari Kawabata

Today, Google Japan celebrates the birthday of Yasunari Kawabata how was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.

Google Winner of The Prince of Asturias Awards 2008

The Prince of Asturias Awards is a series of annual prizes given in Spain by the Fundación Príncipe de Asturias to individuals, entities, organizations or others from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, or public affairs.
This year The Prince of Asturias Awards has been awarded the Internet giant Google as the best Internet search engine of all time in the category of communication and humanities.
The jury, which announced the win yesterday, justified the decision that Google is the "best search engine" a "gigantic cultural revolution" that allows access information without ideological, economic or linguistic barriers.
Last years winners of Prince of Asturias Awards were former US vice President Al Gore and singer song writer Bob Dylan.

Sergey Brin Will Fly Into Space

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has put down a $5-million deposit for a seat aboard a Russian spacecraft, tourism company Space Adventures. From 2011 Space Adventures will send paying customers into space.
Space Adventures is a U.S. company, which organizes flights with a Russian Soyus to the ISS. By now five space tourists joined to such missions. From 2011, the company will start with its own rocket into space. The New York Times has already paid Brin 5 million U.S. dollars for the flight.
The chief of The Russian Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov makes the company from 2010 no places available to flight to the ISS, but there has been given places to Space Adventures by October 2008 and April 2009.
The exact date of Brin's flying into space is still not known. It is also unclear how much he still must pay.

"I am a big believer in the exploration and commercial development of the space frontier, and am looking forward to the possibility of going into space," Brin said in a statement released by Space Adventures.(Los Angeles Times)

Directly Sharing YouTube Video with orkut

YouTube recently has added a orkut sharing button to the list of sharing thumbnails. Previously, you had to copy & paste the video URL to post the clips to your orkut favorite videos. Now you can simply share your favorite videos using orkut sharing button directly from YouTube.
Previously, YouTube promoted only 2 social networks - Myspace and Facebook - so now with adding the orkut thumbnail.

YouTube now promotes orkut as well as the other ones, even though Google owns orkut.

Easter Egg appearing in Google Reader

Do you use Google Reader? Open your Google Reader and try out the following buttons to see what happens in your Reader:

up up down down left right left right b a

You will see the appearance of an Easter egg on the right side of the reader.

You will also see "Ninja!" written in the search box.

50 Ways to Use Google Chart API

College@Home posted an useful article about how Google Chart API can be used in different interesting ways, so a list of 50 links where you can get useful details and tutorials to learn about Google Chart API.
With Google Chart API you can create maps, weather charts, tracking charts, meteorological wind graphic, pure data and much more. You can also create interface to use with Google Chart API or even having fun with it, so everything you need to know about Google Chart API.

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