Google Updates Picasa and Picasa Web Albums this week.
as rww reported,

the desktop application now lets you create collages, retouch photos, add text to your images, and upload your videos to YouTube.
...
You can now easily sync albums between your desktop and Picasa's online albums. Any change you make on the desktop will be reflected online.

Picasa 3 Download
Picasa Web Album

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The Google Chart API is an extremely simple tool that lets you easily create a chart from some data and embed it in a webpage. You embed the data and formatting parameters in an HTTP request, and Google returns a PNG image of the chart. Many types of chart are supported, and by making the request into an image tag you can simply include the chart in a webpage.

Currently kind of line, bar, and pie charts, as well as venn diagrams and scatter plots are supported.

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

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All of the Google Data APIs support OAuth - an open standard for authentication

Last night the Google Data API blog announced that oAuth is now available for all Google Data APIs, everything from Gmail contacts to Google Calendar to Docs to YouTube. This means that 3rd party app developers now have one easy, standardized and secure way to authenticate that their users really own the Google accounts they say they do

oAuth
Google Data APIs

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All you need is a PC running Google Media Server and a UPnP-enabled device (e.g. a PlayStation 3). At the touch of a button, you can then: Access videos, music, and photos stored on your PC, View Picasa Web Albums, Play your favorite YouTube videos...

Why Windows?
...the only way to connect the XBox 360 to a UPnP server, was to have a service that is only found on Microsoft services ... and for the server itself to be claimed to be made by Microsoft. Legal would not allow us to pretend to be Microsoft (although there are other servers out there that do).

sources:
Google Media Server
YouTube in your Living Room
From the desktop to your TV
related:
Create a Wii media server

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According to mir.aculo.us and of course

...thanks to Dion Almaer and Google, you can now use served-off-googles-infrastructure versions of your favourite JavaScript libraries, including Prototype and script.aculo.us.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/

most popular JavaScript open source libraries are

• jQuery
• prototype
• script.aculo.us
• MooTools
• dojo

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...with zembly, you easily create and host social applications of all shapes and sizes, targeting the most popular social platforms on the web. Using just your browser and your creativity, and working collaboratively with others, you create and publish Facebook apps, OpenSocial apps, meebo apps, iPhone apps, Google Gadgets, embeddable widgets, and other social applications.”

http://zembly.com/
http://blog.zembly.com/

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...which included the huge collection for Disney World in 3D, included many other 3D Buildings for cities around the world.
There are hundreds of cities with at least a few 3D buildings in Google Earth. But, there are now dozens of cities with nearly complete 3D renderings of at least the major skyscrapers. [via gearthblog.com/]

Video Demo: Frank Taylor's Disney World 3D for Google Earth

sources
Disney World in 3D in Google Earth has Arrived!
Explore Walt Disney World® Resort in 3D

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Fans will be able to keep track of the events of the tournament using the new Google European Football Championship 2008 Fan Map. Learn about the stadiums - the tournament kicks off at Basle's St Jakob Park and the final will take place at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna on 29th June...

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Senghor On The Rocks is an online novel written in german by Christoph Benda illustrated with animated Google Maps.

senghorontherocks.net, design flachware, development flo ledermann, cc

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