Google Grants is free Google AdWords advertising available to various charitable organizations. The program is designed to help organizations extend their public service messages to a global audience, in an effort to make a greater impact on the world.

I just logged into my gmail to find “buzz”, a new feature integrated into my gmail. I’m not quite sure what to think of it. Other than google, I don’t think anyone wants status updates in their gmail, but perhaps I’m wrong? I’d rather see Wave integrated, once it stops hiccuping of course.

Comcast will continue to share what we learn with the Internet community, particularly with the IETF, for the benefit of other users of the Internet. What you didn’t notice in that statement was the font size 0.0001 where they added some disclaimers about their definitions of community, share, and benefit.

Did you know that you can send SMS text messages from Google gchat? Right from your email inbox window, you can add the phone number as a new contact. Here’s the response I received when I sent a message to someone’s phone recently:

The Nexus One was released today! Built by HTC, the unlocked version is $530 (the phone works with “nearly all” GSM SIM cards, according to Google) or you can pay $180 for the typical two-year contract with T-Mobile. if you already have tmob service, but don’t have a data plan, it will cost $280 for the phone. Google says there will be other carriers and plans coming sometime in the future. I think the arrival of the Google phone pretty much spells the end for the Droid.

I can understand not including the support by default. No need to create bloat, but I want flash support, so here goes… Install gnash-plugin, create a plugins directory under chrome and create a softlink to the .so file. about:plugins will show your shockwave flash plugin. Here’s some test sites to test it with.

Why is it that when you click the “I’m feeling lucky” button on google without typing in anything into the search bar, it displays a large countdown timer that peels off a number each second? It seems to be a count down to the New Year. But why choose this instead of just a random page or something else? I hit the button wondering if it would just take me to a random page on the web, just any old page would do, but it gave me this timer instead. Why?!

I think it’s easier just to setup the google repo and fetch it all at once. blah, blah, blah, Done. Launch it via “google-chrome” or from the gnome toolbar. That’s it for installing on Fedora 12. If you’re looking for Fedora 10 or Fedora 11, try these links…

The google repo has google-desktop-linux, google-chrome-unstable, and a ton of other packages. Or you can just open the two links in a browser and download/install them from there. You’ll find things like the kmod-VirtualBox-OSE kernel module, mythtv, xmms, vlc, ffmpeg, libmpeg2, gstreamer, and Nestopia (remember nesticle, the Nintendo emulator?) here. You can get Adobe Reader here if you want to go full retard. I use a much faster pdf reader called “Poppler” (package name is poppler) that you can get in the standard repos.

I finally got a reply to my request for Google Wave. And my first message was that I have a few invitations I can send out to friends. I had a friend that got on before me by getting an invite, but he said he didn’t get any invitations to send out. It reminds me of when gmail was beta and you got like 99 invitations to send to other people. So is there anyone out there that wants an invite?