The YouTube Blog just announced the winners of this year’s YouTube Awards. The winning videos include:
Congratulations to all.
Eugene Teo, Fedora Ambassador for Singapore and a mentor in this year’s Google Summer of Code for Fedora got this t-shirt from Google. “May the source be with you…”
[photo by Eugene Teo (thanks!), used under a CC-license]
The above doodle appeared on the Farsi version of Google yesterday to celebrate Norouz, or the Persian New Year.
Nowruz marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the Iranian year as well as the beginning of the Bahá’í year. It is celebrated on the day of the astronomical vernal equinox (start of spring in northern hemisphere), which usually occurs on the March 21 or the previous/following day depending on where it is observed. [Wikipedia]
As stated above, it was the first day of Spring yesterday, and Google celebrated the day with another logo on other Google home pages worldwide. It took me two minutes to noticed there’s something weird on the second “g” on the logo, and another 3 seconds to realized that those are lady bugs. Oh well.
Another holiday celebrated on the first day of Spring is the Mother’s Day of Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, [Wikipedia] which appears on a number of Google home pages.
The Google Code team released add two new APIs to the AJAX API family this week, the Visualization API and Language API. The Google Visualization API enables users to use the API to create visualizations from raw data using SQL-like queries with the API and it is integrated into Google Spreadsheet so that you can include the visualizations in the Spreadsheet.
The other one, Google Language API, offers language translation and detection for all the languages that Google Translate supports - currently at 13 language and 29 language pairs. Basically, they stole the idea that I stole from them. :) Of course, they got everything covered.
