The first ten teams have been announced for Google’s Lunar X Prize, its competition for a civilian flight to the moon. Vying for the $30 million prize are groups from Romania, Carnegie Mellon University, Italy and other diverse origins, all of which you can read about here.
(via Slashdot)
Google has announced AdSense for Video, a video ad program for decent sized video publishers, letting them place overlay ads on their videos on their own websites and make some cash. You’ll need at least 1 million video views per month and semi-pro video production skills. The ads will come in two types
Here’s a video Google released about the new program:
Gmail Chat, Google’s instant messaging application inside of Gmail, has added the ability to show your status as Invisible. This way, you can be signed in, see who’s online, and send instant messages, but no one can see you’re online (and interrupt you while you’re trying to get some work done.
As Ionut points out, since Google Talk has been abandoned and ignored, if you use it and Gmail Chat, you lose this feature, since it won’t work in GTalk. How much longer before Google Talk gets an update or an end-of-life announcement?
GrandCentral, Google’s “one phone number for everything” service, has been stuck in a private, impossible to get into beta for months, but Google just opened up a backdoor. Blogger users (or, seemingly anyone who clicks the link) can now get into GrandCentral, and add a GrandCentral “Call Me!” badge to their blogs so readers can call them without revealing their phone number. Just go to this page to get started.
Blogger users also get the ability to post GrandCentral voicemails to their blog, turning their weblogs into a sort of radio call-in show.
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