New Winsor McCay Little Nemo Google Doodle

Today Google is celebrating 107th anniversary of Winsor McCays by awesome new animated Google doodle. The Doodle is live in those parts of the world where its already Monday including India and Australia.

Who is Winsor McCay?
According to wikipedia Winsor Zenic McCay was an American cartoonist and animator, best known for the comic strip Little Nemo (begun 1905) and the animated cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). For legal reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend.

[Source: Wiki]


Expanded Version:

This is by far one of the most beautiful animated Google Doodle ever created.

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Google Acquires VirusTotal an Online Malware and Virus Scanner

Google has acquired an online malware and virus scanner VirusTotal for unknown amount. The service is used to analyze suspicious files and URLs.

VirusTotal Announces the acquisition on their blog

Our goal is simple: to help keep you safe on the web. And we’ve worked hard to ensure that the services we offer continually improve. But as a small, resource-constrained company, that can sometimes be challenging. So we’re delighted that Google, a long-time partner, has acquired VirusTotal. This is great news for you, and bad news for malware generators, because:
The quality and power of our malware research tools will keep improving, most likely faster; and
Google’s infrastructure will ensure that our tools are always ready, right when you need them.  

The service can be used to scan attachments in Gmail, suspicious shared links on Google+, shared documents in Google Drive etc.

Update: According to TechCrunch Google has confirmed the acquisition.

What Do you think about the acquisition? Let me know in the comment section below or share your thoughts on Google+

Using Content Curation to Create the Perfect Content [Infographic]

The New infographic by uberflip shows the rise of content curation for marketing. The infographic examines the effects of curation on SEO, visibility and social media reach.

KeyNotes from Infographics:
• 85% of brands use content curation
• 80% of the brand uses content curation to increase brand visibility.
• Content curation takes less time than content creation.

Tools for Content Curators.
1. Content Agregator sites
2. Social Bookmarking sites.

Top Content Agregator sites.
1. Google News
2. Reddit: Sub reddits
3. Alltop by Guy Kawasaki
4. Newsvine
5. Google Reader

Top Social Bookmarking sites.
1. StumbleUpon
2. Delicious
3. Digg

Top 5 Content Curators on Google+
1. Guy Kawasaki : CEO of Alltop and author of the famous book "What the Plus".
2. Jaana Nyström : Unofficial Google+ Evangelist, Entrepreneur and founder of Gplussa.
3. Luis Galarza : Digital Business and Marketing Consultant.
4. Johan Horak :  Founder of Cape Town Holiday Accommodation
5. Yifat Cohen :  Google Plus Marketing go-to gal and Social Media expert.

Infpgraphic Via Uberflip

More Google+ Update: Get Notification from Important Peoples

Google's Product Manager Austin Chang announced that they are adding more features for Google+ users. The new feature includes user end notification circle, ability to send email notification to circle and ability to mute individuals from notification circles.

Here is a Screenshot:

Notification Circle:

Mute Individuals From Notification Circle:

Notify Via eMail:

Read Official Announcement on Google+

As Always let me know what do you think about this new feature?

Google+ is Third Most Popular Social Network Among Marketers

According to study conducted by SeoMoz and Hubspot, Google+ is now the third most popular network among marketers with Nearly 55% market share beating YouTube(48.9%), LinkedIn(46.9%), Blog(46.5%), Pinterest(20.6), StumbleUpon(9.1%), tumblr(4.9%) etc.

The stats are very impressive for Google+ considering the fact that Google+ is only one year old.

It is worth noting that 60.2% of marketers are looking for analysis options and 45% are looking for brand monitoring(Hint Vic Gundotra).

Infographic Via Hubspot

A Reddit User Reports New YouTube Design

A User on Reddit reports new YouTube Design which looks nice and elegant. According to Reddit User the front page and channel view has changed, but video viewing and other views are still the old.

The Front page view

The Channel view

Both Channel view and front page view looks nice and elegant. Most of the users have not received this update but we all now how Google roll out new updates.

What do you think about the new design? let me know in the comment section below.

Source: Reddit

Google is Adding 8 New Options to I’m Feeling Lucky Button

Google has added a 8 new options to its I’m Feeling Lucky button. These options comes into play when you hover over the "I'm feeling Lucky" button.

8 New options are:
1. I’m Feeling Artistic: Takes you to a random Google Art Project.
2. I’m Feeling Doodly: Takes you to a random Google Doodle.
3. I’m Feeling Hungry: Takes you to a search for restaurants.
4. I’m Feeling Playful: Takes you to a random interactive Google Doodle.
5. I’m Feeling Puzzled: Takes you to a Google-a-Day site.
6. I’m Feeling Stellar: Takes you to Google Earth.
7. I’m Feeling Trendy: Takes you to Google Hot Searches.
8. I’m Feeling Wonderful: Takes you to a random World Wonders project for example searching for Rahul Roy leads me to following page.

Button Requests:
1. I'm feeling paranoid button
2. I'm feeling like a Boss button: Requested by Michael Stuart on Google+
3. I don't give a Damn button: Requested by Ben Lloyd on Google+
4. I'm feeling Hot Hot Hot button: Requested by Farhad Divecha on Google+
5. I'm feeling Hot and Cold button
6. I'm feeling super cool button.
7. I'm feeling like Eminem(sorry can't help myself :D)
8. I'm feeling Social button: leads you to Google+, requested by Rahul Roy :D


Via Search Engine Watch