But as Google has started upgrading all Gmail accounts to a new and improved Gmail a new version of the Better Gmail extension is needed.

The aptly named "Better Gmail 2" is available at the Lifehacker site.

The new Better Gmail 2 extension lacks some of the features of its predecessor — I'm missing the Airwaves skin, for instance — but it's still at version 0.1, so they'll probably resurface in later versions.

In other news: All Gmail users now have IMAP access.

Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka”
Apparently some sort of API's that will be Googles answer to Facebook's succes.

Mozilla Prism
A piece of Mozilla software that lets you run your online applications directly from your desktop.

My favorite has to be the the "Google Earth Flat" link :-)

So, when will we see a 1407'izer, that can take ordinary web pages and 1407'ify them?

You are currently using 639 MB (21%) of your 3044 MB.

A quick look at the official Gmail blog and yes:

That said, a few of you are using Gmail so much that you're running out of space, so to make good on our promise, today we're announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage.

Storage boosts are also on the way for Google Apps.

As Borat would put it: Very nice!

Update 1 @ 12:20
Just stumbled upon my post "5 GB of storage at Hotmail. As it now turns out, Google did not do nothing :-)

Interesting thing though.. when you look at the blog entry in the blog and in the feed, you'll see a difference:

From the blog:

[...] We plan to use the ideas and technology behind Jaiku to make compelling and useful products. [...]

From the feed:

[...] We plan to use the ideas and technology behind Socialite to make compelling and useful products. [...]

A minor detail, I know ;-)

Exciting news: Google has bought Jaiku today.

What does that mean? First and foremost, we’re of course continuing to support our existing users. So fear not: your Jaiku phone, the Web site, IM, SMS, and API will continue to work normally.

The acquisition means that Jaiku has closed for new user signups for the moment — although existing users can invite their friends.

This is great news for Jaiku users and could be Jaikus big break — as far as I've head, Twitter is by far the most popular microblogging service in the US — although Twitter really can't be labeled as 'blogging' since others can't comment on the microposts — Jaiku supports this.

Jaiku is a service that gives you 115 characters per micropost. You can either post from the Jaiku website, your instant messaging client (for instance Google Talk or from your cellphone. More about Jaiku.

That link took me to google.com/history. Since this is the first time I'm hearing of this, I can only tell you what is written on that page:

View and manage your web activity.
You know that great web site you saw online and now can't find? From now on, you can. With Web History, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you've visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time.

Get the search results most relevant to you.
Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you've searched for on Google and which sites you've visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time as you use Web History.

Follow interesting trends in your web activity.
Which sites do you visit frequently? How many searches did you do between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Web History can tell you about these and other interesting trends on your web activity.

I'm gonna take it for a test toast now and see what it is :-)

Update 1
Okay, a quick stare at the Google History site reveals, that Google History as actually active if you have a Google Account. You don't need to activate anything, if you log on to Google History now using your Google Account, you'll see what sites you've visited and what you've searched for while you were logged in.

One question remains: Is that a good or a bad thing? I for one would perhaps prefer, that you'd need to active your Google History.

The books are 19th century books which belong in the public domain — to avoid copyright infringements.

Google is also working in the digitizing of books department, but with other libraries: Stanford, Harvard, and Michigan university libraries, the New York public library and the Bodleian library in Oxford.

Read the BBC News article for more information.

Needless to say, he uses Google ;-)

PS: If the MI5 website uses a robots.txt to avoid the search robots crawling the web, I don't assume that the above tip will work…

The method: Google's new service for sharing your favorite content: Shared Stuff.

I haven't really had the time to test it yet (I dragged the Shared Stuff icon to my browser bar — but the pop up window doesn't always load correctly) so give it a spin and see what you think ;-)