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Google has purposed a new application protocol running on SSL, intended to make the web faster, and have called it SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY"). Google calls SPDY an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web. PDY is designed specifically for minimal latency. As per Google, "HTTP is the application level protocol providing basic request/response semantics. While we believe that there may be opportunities to improve latency at the transport layer, our initial investigations have focussed on the application layer, HTTP. Unfortunately, HTTP was not particularly designed for latency. Furthermore, the web pages transmitted today are significantly different from web pages 10 years ago such and demand improvements to HTTP that could not have been anticipated when HTTP was developed..." "SPDY replaces some parts of HTTP, but mostly augments it. At the highest level of the application layer, the request-response protocol remains the same. SPDY...

Gina Trapani and Adam Pash of Lifehacker have put together a comprehensive guide for Google Wave. Guide is available for free viewing here. A DRM-free is expected to be available for download in next couple of weeks, followed by print version in 2010. Link: The Complete Guide to Google Wave Add me on Twitter! Come follow my daily antics, links, tips and more @rajneeshgarg on Twitter!

Like lots of you, we've been drawn into Twitter this year. After all, we're all about frequent updates ourselves, and there's lots happening around here that we want to share with you. Of course, we enjoy watching, and contributing to, the tweetstream (we hope you find our tweets useful, too). Because there are many programs and initiatives across the company, we've got a number of active accounts. Here's a list of the current ones. We'll update this list from time to time. twitter.com/Google - our central account twitter.com/Blogger - for Blogger fans twitter.com/GoogleCalendar - user tips & updates twitter.com/GoogleImages - news, tips, tricks on our visual image search twitter.com/GoogleNews - latest headlines via Google News twitter.com/GoogleReader - from our feed reader team twitter.com/iGoogle - news & notes from Google's personalized homepage twitter.com/GoogleStudents - news of interest to students using Google twitter.com/YouTube -...

Herald Sun reports that Google Australia is considering a plan to take on payments giants such as Visa, Mastercard and B-Pay in the booming online payments market. The move comes as the search giant secured a financial services licence from local regulators. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission recently issued Google Australia with an authority to provide deposit and payments services to local merchants and shoppers. While the licence does not permit Google to provide cash-based payments services to Australian clients, it will enable the group to facilitate digital or online transactions. Web-based commerce is a hotly contested and lucrative market for payments providers and has spawned a raft of new players including E-Bay subsidiary PayPal. The ASIC licence potentially opens a fresh revenue stream for Google which will be able to collect processing and transaction fees for bringing shoppers and merchants together via its websites. Through PayPal, EBay has stolen a ma...

Google today released a new browser based tool that will make learning and testing code for Google's Javascript APIs a lot easier. Google's AJAX API Playground gives developers an easy to use interface to write some basic Javascript code for Google's eight Javascript APIs (Maps, Search, Feeds, Calendar, Visualization, Language, Blogger, Libraries, and Earth). The programming console provides sample starter applications for all APIs but you are free to change the source code and save the modified version to your own Google Account for referencing later. The Playground runs on top of Google's App Engine and was developed as a '20% project'. It will also be Google's official way to show Javascript samples. For anyone interested in exploring various Google APIs, I am sure this could be a great way to get some coding experience. Link: Google AJAX API Playground

Do you share your Google Reader items? I have been doing so for quite some time, but, alas, none of my friends have been doing so. Do you share your Google Reader items. My Google Reader page is available here and feed here. ↑ Grab this Headline Animator

I tried reaching Google Adsense via google.com/adsense in Google Chrome, and I was prompted with the this message :) Amazon.com Get Technical Books from Amazon.com

There has been a tremendous response to Google Chrome (at least from the Techie community), however, people are still holding from using Chrome for the simple reason - it cannot stop those ads being served to you. Now, there is a 'fix' to avoid that. At Geekzone forums, Master Geek wmoore explains how to block 'em without an extension. Download and install Privoxy. Click on the Wrench icon in Chrome in the upper right corner. Choose options>Under The Hood>Change proxy settings. In the Internet Properties dialog's Connections tab, click on the LAN settings button. Check off "Proxy settings" and in the address setting add 127.0.0.1 and in the port 8118. If you have the option, you can also check off "Bypass proxy for local settings". Click "Ok", close Chrome and restart it. Geekzone - Adblock for Chrome Amazon.com Get Technical Books from Amazon.com

On the heels of launch of Firefox 3 and IE 8 Beta launch, comes the news of Google's own browser - Google Chrome . Google has used altogether a different strategy to announce the launch - it released a comic book for the same. Certainly Google want to show that it is a fun tool, and there is still room for it in the browser space (despite the furious battle between Microsoft IE and Mozilla Firefox). Chrome seems to have a fresh approach to browsing tools, and a new set of features. With the IE 8 in beta, and Firefox 3 going strong, it looks to be a good season for innovation on the Web. Amazon.com Get Technical Books from Amazon.com

Google Maps Street View is now partially covering Phoenix, Az. I was looking for the nearest bank of America ATM close to my place, and then on Google Maps, I find the Street View option. Advertisement Get great discounts on Amazon.com Textbooks