Google 10th Anniversary

To celebrate its 10th birthday, Google publish a new logo today. There is a birthday cake and a present. Happy birthday, Google!!!

Google Logo - Olympic 2008 (Last)

Here are the last series of olympic-related Google logo:
15 Aug - Tiger in badminton

16 Aug - Horse in soccer

17 Aug - Sheep, and someone else that I can barely see, in rowing

18 Aug - Dragon in pingpong (table tennis)

19 Aug - Snake in swimming

20 Aug - Horse and Rabbit in trackfield

21 Aug - Rabbit in high jump

22 Aug - Rooster in baseball

23 Aug - Tiger in martial arts

24 Aug - Closing ceremony (hey, Dragon is the champion ^^)

Google Logo - Olympic 2008 Basketball

The dragon at last! My Chinese astrology animal is playing basketball in this logo, trying to do a dunk with a mouse trying to block it.

Here are the previous logo that I have not posted.
Aug 11 - Boar in diving sport

Aug 12 - Ox in gymnastics rhythmic

Aug 13 - Monkey in gymnastics artistic

Google Logo - Olympic 2008 Weightlifting

Just as I predicted, today Google change its logo again to another Olympic-related logo. Today, the sport is weightlifting and the athlete is a rat. Thanks to the rat, now I understand why did Google use a sheep yesterday. Sheep and rat are two of twelve animals that are used as symbols of the Chinese astrology. The other ten are ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, monkey, rooster, dog, and boar.

My Chinese astrology is dragon. Can't wait to know which sport I'm participated in...

Google Logo - Olympic 2008 Cycling

After yesterday's new logo which is related to the opening of Beijing Olympic 2008, today Google publish another Olympic-related logo. The logo is about cycling, one of many summer sports that take place on this year Olympic (38 sports in total, if I'm not mistaken). The thing that I can't understand is why does the athlete pictured as a sheep. If there is any of you who understand, please give some comment.

Since Google has published two new logo back to back (the opening on August 8 and cycling on the next day), I figured that Google will change its logo with another Olympic-related logo everyday during this year Olympic (until August 24).

Google Logo - The Opening of Olympic 2008

Another unique logo from Google. This logo is published to commemorate the opening of Olympic 2008 at Beijing, China. The interesting thing is the date, 8 August 2008 (08-08-08). It's triple 8, which is believed by the Chinese people as a lucky number.

In the logo, you can see a flag with the Olympic logo on it, which represents the double 'O' of Google and an athlete bringing a fire torch.

del.icio.us Changes Its Name

One of the most famous social bookmarking site, del.icio.us, has rebuilt its website. Not just its appearance, but its name and address too. The brand new name is simply Delicious and its new address is delicious.com. However, you can still visit del.icio.us but you'll be redirected automatically to delicious.com.

The new Delicious is just like the old del.icio.us, only faster, easier to learn, and more delightful to use and to look at. Here are the main changes (according to Delicious itself):

Speed: We’ve moved to a new infrastructure that makes every page faster. This new platform will enable us to keep up with traffic growth while ensuring Delicious is responsive and reliable. You may not have noticed, but the old back-end was getting creaky under the load of five million users.

Search: We’ve completely overhauled our search engine to make it faster and more powerful. Searches used to take ages to return results; now they’re very quick. The new search engine is also smarter, and more social: you can search within one of your tags, another user’s public bookmarks, or your social network. Now it’s easier to take advantage of the expertise and interests of your friends, not to mention the Delicious community at large.

Design: Finally, we’ve updated the user interface to improve usability and add a few often-requested features (such as selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks). Our goal has been to keep the new design similar in spirit to the old one, so all of you veterans should be able to jump in without any confusion. At the same time, we’re hoping that newcomers to Delicious will find it easier to learn.

Source: blog.delicious.com