Google publicly announced episode filters to the Video search sidebar for television content this past week. Google's indexing Hulu, YouTube, and a lot of other video sites, so it's a good place to mount an expedition to find that episode you're looking to stream over lunch.
Now you can navigate the world's terrain, great cities' buildings, and your neighborhood's restaurants in 3D, without having to install a hefty separate application. Google Earth has arrived in Maps in a new "Earth" view, and its pretty great.
Using Earth View requires the installation of a browser plug-in that is, at the moment, available for Windows and Mac. Chrome users may not need to install the plug-in, but I seemed to require it in Windows.
Earthly pleasures come to Maps [Official Google Blog]
View Thru is a neat extension for Google Chrome that lets you instantly see what's hiding behind a shortened link. You simply hover over the link (say, http://is.gd/bJoc7) and get an instant tooltip showing you where it's leading.
The shortened URL must be an active link, though -- it doesn't work when it's just text on the page. View Thru has earned a five-star rating in the Chrome extension gallery.
Microsoft and Facebook just launched Docs.com, a document creation and sharing web site that integrates with Microsoft Office and Facebook.
You log into Docs using your Facebook account. Once there, you can view shared documents.
Facebook just announced via its Facebook profile that the ultra-lightweight version of its website, Facebook Lite, is no more
