Ingress: Arguably The Best Augmented Reality Game Every Created

Ingress is an augmented reality, massive multiplayer online, GPS online game that created by Niantic Labs, a startup within Google. The game originally can be played only on Android devices but has recently been ported to Apple's iOS devices.

The gameplay consists of establishing "portals" at places with religious and geographic landmarks, great architectural works, etc, and linking them to produce a virtual triangular fields over geographic areas. Progress in the game is measured by the number of "mind units" (MUs).



The game consists of two factions, the Enlightened (which is represented by the color green ) and the Resistance (which is represented by the color blue).


To my fellow bloggers who are either travel bloggers or frequently travel to various places, this kind of game would suit your lifestyle.

Resistance players working on a "Op" 

Google Panda and Penguin Survival Tips

Google has recently rolled out their Google Panda and Penguin updates to "clean up" search engine results from websites that are spammy and/or have low quality contents. As a webmaster or blogger you should know guidelines on how to avoid your website being penalized.

Here are links that you might want to check out:

Google Panda Tips

Google Panda: 5 Tips You Should Know

Google Panda (wikipedia)

Google Panda Survival Guide

Google Penguin Tips

10 Tips to Adapt Google Penguin

4 Tips to Avoid the Next Google Penguin Update

Google Penguin (wikipedia)

Joining Google Plus

It's been rumored for quick some time now that internet search engine giant Google will create their own social networking service that might rival Facebook and Twitter and finally they launched Google+.  It basically turns all of Google into one giant social network, thanks to a core group of social products (Gmail, Picasa, Buzz and Blogger) and a new navigation bar that integrates sharing into every single Google product.

One of the great features on Google+ is adding your friends in the "circles". The friend "circles" are basically categorizing or "grouping" your set of friend depending on how you label them (friends, family, co-workers, etc.) to which you can later on filter you news feeds by "circles".

So if you have not join Google+ yet, you login to the Google Plus site and sign-in using your Google account or register and finally you can add me on your circle of friends via http://gplus.to/cesarnoel

Google celebrates Pacman game birthday today

To celebrate the 30th birthday, Google has embedded the Pac-Man game on the Google homepage itself. And it playable too using the arrow keys to control Pac-man

Learning Google Wave

Since getting the invitation, I was so excited to have my very own Google Wave account. But since getting the account, I'm having problems exploring Wave since there's no definite Google Wave guide yet since Wave has just been recently released.

Good thing I found this video that is really helpful for me to learn Google Wave.

Google Blogger for Dummies

Google's Blogger.com is one of the most popular blogging (Wordpress.com is the other one) but we all know that Blogger's supremacy over it's rivals is the integration of Google Adsense with its system. But not all tricks are being shared by Google itself so I found this book called "Google Blogger for Dummies" for both beginners and seasoned bloggers.

Buy you own copy by click the link below:
Google Blogger For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))


Here's a detailed review from Blogger Buster

6 Useful Tips to Help Get the Most of Google Docs

Google Docs has been a very useful tool at because of its flexibility and easy project management. I found this article by SixRevisions.com very useful for like of my who are using Google Docs at work.

6 Tips to Get the Most out of your GoogleDocs

Gadget Directory blog site for Google Evangelisits

Google addicts and evangelists might want to check this blog/directory website where you can find highest quality Google gadgets that are useful and fun for all. Need reviews about a Google gadget? you can find it there also

Visit the Site Gadgets Directory

My First Adsense Payout

I got a good start with new year when finally with almost a year and a half of blogging and optimizing my blogs, I got my first payout from Google Adsense Sa Wakas!.

Download Youtube videos using KickYoutube

I found this interesting tip from blog post which I reader from my Google Reader. The blog post talks about how you can download videos on YouTube using his method called "KickYouTube".

The idea is to simply go to the YouTube video you’d like to download and insert the word "kick" at the start of the URL (e.g http://kickyoutube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxx) and options to download the clip are provided at the top of the page.

Unfortunately, this method wouldn't last long since Google will find some ways to prevent this time of "hacking"