Consumers in UK could now access Google PowerMeter which is an online software that would tell them how much electricity their house is using. The online software receives this information from the electricity management meters and displays it to the user’s personal iGoogle homepage.

Google has partnered with first:utility, which supplies free smart meters to its consumers in UK. first:utility has now 30,000 users. According to first:utility’s Chief Executive, Mark Daeche, “At the end of the day, if you can’t measure and view your energy use, it’s very difficult to make savings.” The customers using first:utility meters could access their electricity consumption data starting early November.

Google has also partnered with AlertMe, another consumer device manufacturer in UK. AlertMe users could access their home’s data through Google PowerMeter on their iGoogle homepage from today. According to Pilgrim Beart, founder and CEO of AlertMe, “Our partnership with Google PowerMeter puts your home energy consumption right in front of you every time you go online.”

Now it is upto the consumers how much benefits they can get out of this service. One thing is for sure that this service is going to inspire people to save electricity which is much required in the era of global warming.

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Pop Icon and one of the biggest entertainer of all times died after being taken to hospital on Thursday. He was suffering from Cardiac arrest. The medical team arrived at Michael Jackson residence after a 911 call and found that Jackson has no pulse and he was not breathing. The medical team tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive.

Michael Jackson is the seventh child in his family and he has three children, Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II.

A large crowd gathered out side the hospital where Michael Jackson as the news of Michael Jackson demise spread like wild fire.

Michael Jackson was going to perform in London in a series of 50 shows which was going to start in the month of July.

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The cool little feature is going to integrate event planning with your twitter account. Now one could update twitter while planning events. This helps to:

• Post event information on twitter
• Event messages are posted from personalized event page.
• Event proceedings could also be broadcasted live on twitter along with your personalized event page.

It will help to let followers of a twitter account to be in the loop. Now all the followers would be able to know about all the fun from planning to event day. This is also going to help in promoting an event.

This could be useful for all kinds of events including public as well as personal events. Say, you are a consulting company which organizes conference and panel discussion events on monthly basis in various cities.

Following is how funpiper helps:

• Publish the event on funpiper and twitter, and invite your users to join the event by providing their details.
• Once approved, you shall be communicating with your invitees using email and mobile messaging. Also, all your follower community on twitter shall
  be knowing about all the messages communicated to invitees. This is optional.
• Your invitees could as well post messages on your event page using their mobile phones and get their doubts clarified.
• You could broadcast the event proceedings on funpiper as well as twitter and let all your follower community know about the event live.

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Top 10 sites are beginning to stabilize in India when it comes to mobile websites. In the last month’s mobile web ranking report we saw 1 change. This month there was a change but only in terms of ranking. Gmail went up to 3 from 4th place where as Yahoo slipped from number 3 to 4. my.opera.com came up to 8 from 9 while youtube.com slipped from 8 to 9.

Google now holds all top three positions as gmail.com got ahead of yahoo.com for the 3rd spot.

Source: opera.com

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Myxer to offers $5 Million In Advertising completely free. Well, almost: Mobile content based website Myxer is going to launch a program under which it is going to offer $5000 worth of free advertising on its website to 1000 cell phone stores. The catch is that these stores must promote Myxer in their stores.

Gigafone is offering full screen mobile content with each incoming call and SMS. Their solution is integrated with operator mobile handset.

Marketers in India are targeting rural market population in an innovative way. They are pushing voice based advertisements on mobile phones in regional language that could language and literacy barriers which otherwise is not possible via other media.

What is SMS 2.0? SMS 2.0 is an application through which users could send SMS via their mobile phones. Once the message is sent, instead of “Message Sent” screen user would get full screen message with text which will include news and advertisements.

Google SMS Channel: Google is testing waters for its new SMS service in India before going full fledged launch worldwide. It lets mobile user subscribe to blog updates, news alerts, jokes, stocks etc. via SMS messages. Currently there is a limit to 10 messages a day and Google says that service is advertisement free for time being. Well, I feel it will be only free till it is launched worldwide.

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From their weblog. “We have received and heard your feedback concerning the latest changes to the website. We will implementing a rollback to the website immediately. We will also be responding to each of your support requests as soon as possible. If you have any questions please let us know.”

That was one of the best news I got in the recent past.

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Well, it was only because of its simplicity. Google analytics is also free and far superior then sitemeter but I never required that many details and charts. I just wanted to see the traffic stats for my site which is what old sitemeter provided me. Well not anymore…

Any of the reasons mentioned below might be true:

• Get rid of as many accounts as possible as they might be in losses.
• Bitten by web2.0 bug
• They might have taken the decision to upgrade under heavy drugs. Any guesses (Cannabis, alcohol …)
• They want to close down their site in near future.
• Somebody they hired for upgrade is from rival company

I am using both premium and free service at sitemeter and I have to now find alternative for both. I am going to check statcounter.com and addfreestats.com. Any more alternatives…

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