Start chatting in iGoogle now
The ajax based iGoogle is one of the most widely used start-up page for rich personalized user experience in recent times. Sometimes i check Google mail through iGoogle as Gmail is not directly accessible in my company. Gmail is one of the Google Gadgets which is quite popular among the iGoogle users but still users are not able to get the real Gmail experience with Google chat missing out. So Google has now extended the chat feature to iGoogle officially today after testing it out with few iGoogle users internally.
Multi-user collaboration is one of the new buzzing words that has become so common these days with the advent of Web 2.0 and other new technologies in the internet. Whenever I think of a collaborative exercise, generally a white board exercise in the conference room comes into my mind and it doesn’t help much when you have something projected on to the screen instead a white board and people want to share their ideas at the same time. This makes multi-user interaction and collaboration with the one computer or a projected output from a computer tough. 
Google translator which is one of the widely used translator in the world is still in beta and is getting improved every day. Google Translator can now translate 41 languages and new languages including 
Gmail one of the most celebrated free email service crashed last night leaving users denied access for few hours. I happened to know this information through twitter and have seen lot of twitter messages using words ‘Gmail Down’ and ‘Gfail’ broadcasting this epic failure. Though Gmail reportedly crashed couple of times last year this one is huge and the failure halted the users from using Gmail for 2.5 hours last night. The crash happened yesterday at 8:30 Sydney Time which lasted for 2.5 hours. 
Xbox live, online multiplayer gaming by Microsoft is now the target of hackers where Xbox live users appears to be taken out by the hackers applying DDos(distributed denial-of-service attack). Even Hackers started selling Xbox Live attack services and booting services to others through internet for as little as $20. Microsoft is currently investigating the scenario though it is very tricky to track down the attack by finding players who are getting booted off.