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As usual Google first ignored my begging for an invite on the official page, but Florian Rohrweck (http://www.stilbruch.at) somehow had pity with me and sacrificed one of his invites for me. Thanks a lot, Florian!
After one minute on google+ I knew this would  be a long night and way too little sleep.

The startpage reminded me a little bit of another social network, just less blue…

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Some time ago I created this set of social media icons and decided to share them with you, they were not a creative revolution, but hey, they are for free! As I got some positive feedback, I now revamped them a little bit, updated and added some new companies, like amplifiy, picasa, bebo, diigo, Google buzz, Google Plus and xing.

Same issue as before feel free to use them, if you want to give me credits, it would be nice, but you do not mandatorily have to.

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Even James Bond would be desperately lost, if Q would not provide him with his genious masterpieces of technikal gadgets. Same as Double-O, those amoung you who have to cut their own path through the street jungle without a license to kill will inestimably value to be able to conjure up the right tool at the right time.

So here’re some neat stuff, that might represent the the slight difference between hero and zero, pimp your individual style or could simply work as a life-saver:

• Porsche challenges Tesla Motors
  Alternative drives get hip, so Porsche tuning specialist Ruf constructs an electric version of the Porsche Cayman claiming to have more torque than the Tesla Roadster
• T-Mobile G1 running Google Android
  For the early adopters. Google’s attempt to set foot on the mobile OS market

• Table Football – style edition
  This one should not be hidden in a dark, shady corner of a bar, here come a real eye-catcher!
• Classic retro telephone handsets
  Still remember the time, when teleohones had dial plates and huuuge handsets? Here’s your ticket into the past!
• Super Mario Brothers metallic graphic Belt Buckle
  Video games geeks behold! This shows you’re a seriously gaming addict
• Solar powered iPhone case
  Ok, it ain’t a real beauty, but definitely might come in handy sometimes.

Google is passing the next logical milestone towards complete internet domination in a determined way, they are releasing their very own browser. Denied since years the gauntlet shall be slapped on Microsoft today at 20:00 GMT and Chrome should be available for download in over 100 countries.

The own browser closes an important gap in the Google web portfolio, offering already email and office applications, online advertisement, analysis tools, a feed reader, an instant messenger, blog software, online photo albums, translators and not to forget the different websearches.

So it’ll be interesting, what exactly they will deliver…

But as Michael Arrington from Techchrunch said, one should think about whether we really want Google to know everything we do online.

(Btw, Techchrunch.com seems to be offline, any coincidence with their critic…?)

There is someone new in the search engine shark pool: cuil.com.

They do not start silently, they know who is the enemy and the attack is declared:

cuil.com [Cuil means knowledge in Irish] claims to search 121,617,892,992 web pages, which is “three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft”.
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