New Telemeeting from Google “GMeet”

Teleconferencing is all the rage with businesses in the internet age, and Google is just as poised as anyone to provide a platform suitable for the types of corporate meetings that have to take place in such a manner. If Hangouts video calling wasn't already enough, the company could be working on a standalone platform meant specifically for businesses.

You sign in, you join a meeting, and you (presumably) conference over voice and/or video.

Kiersch says the app only accepts Googler logins right now, so it’s unclear if this is a tool meant for internal use by Google or if it’s a user-facing service where the prerequisite only exists to make sure prying eyes can’t get an early look at what’s inside ahead of any official announcement.

Searches for G Meet and Google Meeting pull upinteresting anecdotes and code snippets from as far back as 2011, but most of the code references things we already have access to in the latest rendition of Hangouts, such as whiteboards, screen sharing, and integration with Google Calendar. A URL that once existed in the code (google.com/talk/meet) also now redirects to Hangouts’ main landing page.

A standalone meeting app would likely use Hangouts technology for its backbone so there’s nothing out of the ordinary than meets the eye. But until we can get into the app for ourselves or get an announcement from Google, we’re left to our educated guesses. Let’s hope to hear more in the very near future!

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GOOGLE SCIENCE FAIR 2014

The Google Science Fair is an online science competition sponsored by Google, Lego, CERN, National Geographic and Scientific American.It was announced in January 2011; all entries were due at 11:59:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time on April 7, 2011 and judging occurred in July 2011. The competition is open to 13–18 year old students around the globe, who formulate a hypothesis, perform an experiment, and present their results.All students must have an internet connection and a free Google Account to participate, as the projects are submitted through Google Sites in English, German, Italian, Spanish, or French.The final submission must include ten sections, which are the summary, an "About Me" page, the steps of the project, and a works cited page.

Entries are judged on eight core criteria, which include the student's presentation, question, hypothesis, research, experiment, data, observations, and conclusion.Prizes are awarded to three finalists. The grand prize includes a National Geographic trip to the Galapagos Islands, a US$50,000 scholarship, and an "experience" at a sponsoring organization; finalists will receive a US$25,000 scholarship and assorted packages from sponsoring organizations.While Larry Page and Sergey Brin were PhD students at Stanford University in California, they created Google in January 1996 as a research project; Google employee Tom Oliveri highlighted the company's early days: "Science fairs help students to explore their vision and curiosity through science. Our company was founded on an experiment. We firmly believe that science can change the world," he stated.

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Google introduces automatic video editing, photo and Hangouts updates to Google+

After successfully making your photos look better, Google is now taking on your shaky mobile phone videos: The company introduced automatic video editing features at a press event in San Francisco Tuesday, allowing users to turn clips that they recorded with their phones into small, sharable videos, complete with a soundtrack and effects.

Auto-awesome for videos takes single clips, identifies key scenes, adds image stabilization and other effects and even a soundtrack based on licensed music that can be legally shared. Users can either leave everything to Google’s algorithms or decide to manually tweak the result by making videos longer or shorter, swapping the soundtrack and applying different video filters. In many ways, auto-awesome for video resembles some of the features offered by startups like Magisto, which just announced a new round of funding earlier today.

Google also introduced a number of new photo editing features Tuesday, which are also automatically applied to any photo uploaded to Google+. One of the most impressive features automatically removes people in the background of your photos — think of it as a secret weapon against photo-bombing. And the company announced a number of new filters for its Snapseed mobile app as well as its Nik filter collection for professional photographers.

The continued focus on photos and videos shows that Google believes media to be the key to turning Google+ into a real success. Google SVP Vic Gundotra said Tuesday that Google+ users now upload 1.5 billion photos each week to the service, no doubt thanks in large part to auto-upload functionality in the service’s mobile apps. The Google+ Android app has been offering automatic backup of images in the background for some time, and Google announced Tuesday that background uploading is soon coming to iOS as well.

The company also added a few updates to its Hangouts messaging app: Users can now easily share their location with the press of a button. Hangouts is also now integrated with SMS messaging, allowing users to text and send Hangouts messages from within the same app. Gundotra said that the goal was to have “one place for all of your communication.” And finally, animated GIFs are now available in Hangouts chats.

Google also updated the Hangouts video chat experience by making HD hangouts available to all users across all devices — a move that is part of a bigger shift towards the VP8 video codec and WebRTC as a real-time communications protocol, allowing Google to run Hangouts in the browser without the need for any additional plugin. And to improve the video quality during a call, Google is automatically applying filters to fix bad lighting – something that Gundotra compared to the auto-awesome filters for photos and videos.

Gundotra said Tuesday that Google+ now has 540 million monthly active users, with 300 million of them participating in the stream.

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