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Google recently announced a much-anticipated addition to the Google Talk service. In addition to being able to sent text instant messages from within the Google Mail system, users can now conduct voice and video chats — all from within the browser.

After users download a Google-provided plugin, they will see “Video and More” in the conventional chat window. Other IM systems, such as MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Chat, have had voice/video capabilities, but Google just added the feature. However, is this product a “Skype killer” like some are saying?

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Google Brings Video and Voice to Google Talk

Well, one analyst believes so. Those involved with the Web 2.0 industry are in trouble, according to Oliver Young, a Forrester Research analyst. He believes that the supply of Web 2.0 service applications is becoming too great, and that prices will decline as a result. As if that didn’t sound bad enough, pricing is one of the few aspects left to compete with.

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Web 2.0 Implosion Imminent?

Last July, it was all bad in Sazell town, when they released the beta version of their platform, which is used to take and share snap-shots of the Web. In addition to having a highly-unattractive website, their logo was an obvious rip-off of the almighty Google — probably, one of the last logos you want to copy.

Recently, Sazell revealed their new site along with a ton of improvements to their platform that we hope will surely rectify the previous abomination.

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Sazell Ups Its Game, But Still Falls Short

There is a new eye in the sky — GeoEye-1 — and while Google isn’t the only one involved in the satellite action, the company is already receiving high-resolution images that are beautifully detailed.

Google has gotten exclusive rights to integrate these 50-centimeter-resolution images taken from GeoEye-1 into mapping applications, so we already know what is in store for the Google Maps and Google Earth users around the globe.

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Google Maps Get Better Eyesight With GeoEye-1

TweetDeck, a Twitter desktop application built using Adobe AIR technology, has released version 0.19b of its popular Twitter desktop client with the hopes to recapture those who shied away from the previous releases.

This latest version adds new quality features that just might be able to recapture those users who have moved on.

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TweetDeck Matures Into Quality Twitter Application