Google Goggles

Google Goggles (now say it five times, as fast as you can) is breaking some grounds on mobile web search. When you take a picture on Google Goggles, that picture becomes the query against a database of billions of images.

This products is in an infant stage, still at Google Labs, and is currently available only on Andriod 1.6 and above.

If You've Been Waiting for Apple's Tablet...

If you are a bit tired of the wait for the the rumored Apple Tablet, check out JooJoo. It does not offer everything we speculate the Tablet will, but Joojoo's price may be significantly lower than the Tablet and the experience satisfying to those who are primarily interested in using a touch screen gadget to search the web.

The 411:

- On sale staring December 11th

- Price tag of US$499

- 12.1-inch diagonal 720p capacitive touch screen

- 1366x768-pixel resolution

- Runs a proprietary Linux-based operating system

- 4GB of cache memory

- Undisclosed processor

- Thinner than a MacBook Air

- Built-in camera

- Microphone

- Speakers

- One USB port

- A card slot

- One button: the power switch

- The browser supports Flash and other standard HTML extensions, but it won't run non-Web apps (e.g.: No Skype)

- Solely focused on running the Web

source: CNET.com

2010 Top Web Trends

Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO of Mashable predicts the top 10 web trends for 2010:

1. Real-time ramps up- including real-time collaboration
2. Location sharing services- our whereabouts may optionally be appended to every Tweet, blog comment, photo or video we post.
3. Augmented Reality- e.g.: Layar
4. Content curation- filters to prevent information overload
5. Cloud computing
6. Internet TV and Movies
7. Convergence conundrum- while many of our gadgets are folded into our smartphones, task-specific devices gain popularity, such as e-readers and flip video cameras
8. Social gaming- FarmVille on Facebook allegedly has more active users than does Twitter
9. Mobile Payments
10. Fame abundance, privacy scarcity

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/03/cashmore.web.trends.2010/index.html