Let us face it, email just doesn't cut it anymore.For most people, email is just a minor portion of our social communication, between messages like "xyz is now following you on Twitter" and "New offers from eBay" you are bound to miss out on what is really important and relevant to you. For most people the biggest part while checking their email is to identify the relevant messages, and after reading them it's usually select unread and delete. Email has stopped being personal. For the most part all our personal communications now occur on more instantaneous mediums and services such as Twitter and Facebook, where you know for the most part that the messages are coming from your friends. Relevancy is assured.With the tagline "making your inbox personal...

Google never seems to just be satisfied with the status quo, and when they run out of fields to compete in they create their own! Google’s new “Go” programming language is one of their newest ventures, a language which is an amalgamation of Python and C++. The Go language, in development since September 2007, has been unveiled by Google along with the release of a free and open source compiler. In fact, Google has released both a stand-along compiler implementation with cryptic names such as 6g (amd64 compiler), 8g (x86 compiler), and 5g (ARM compiler) and one which is a front-end for GCC (gccgo).Born out of frustration with existing system languages, Go attempts to bring something new to the table, and mix the ease of dynamically typed and interpreted languages with...

Google has already made the fastest browser with Chrome 4 - which has the fastest JavaScript execution speed - and now it intends to speed up the web even further by changing the very protocols with which we communicate with the web. HTTP as Google points out is rather clumsy when it comes to concurrency. Currently multiple connection need to be made, and each additional connection incurs an overhead as another connection is negotiated. Google points out further problems with the HTTP protocol: The communication between client and server is initiated exclusively by the client. While browsing a news site, for example, the server has no way to inform the client that a new news item is available. In websites, Ajax solves this to an extent by polling the server for updates but its...