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The new Google Earth plugin for browser is getting popular day by day. It let Google Maps developers to incorporate added features of Google Earth in their mashups. Now with the efforts of Street Cities and Google Hacks, you can add Google Earth to your own blog or website, even when you’re not a developer.

Street Cities merges Google Street View and the Google Earth Browser to create double map that allows you to view both locations simultaneously in the air or on ground. The navigation around Google Map in Street View is tracked by the Google Earth plugin. An interesting aspect in watching the Google Map is that it rotates as you turn around in the Street View.

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Blogflux, a company that wants to become one stop shop for bloggers, has acquired Commentful.

Commentful is a service that lets you track comments on Digg stories, Youtube videos, blog entries, MySpace pages, Flickr photos and almost anywhere you see a comment field. All a user has to do is create an account on Commentful and add the URLs he wants to track to his watchlist. The service also offers a Firefox extension that allows users to add items to watchlist by right clicking on them and get alerts when a new comment is posted. Commentful is a really easy to use service, that ease out following your comments. However I still would like the ability to reply to my comments right from inside Commentful other than going back to site and replying there. Such a feature will eliminate the need to go back and forth between sites while checking and replying to comments.

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Google´s Blogger has added a really exciting new feature to its mix, the ability to Post in Hindi while writing in English. This might sound crazy to some, but Hindi, Urdu and Persian are amongst those languages that could be written in Roman English as well. The new English-Hindi transliteration feature introduced in Blogger now enables you to type blog posts in Hindi using English Keyboards.

In order to use the transliteration all you need to do is select the feature by going to Settings | Basic. Once enabled the setting will affect all blogs in your account.

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Dave Sifry, the CEO of Technorati who usually publishes statistics about the blogosphere has decided to unveil some stats about Technorati, or is it that he now thinks that the state of Technorati is in fact the state of blogosphere itself.

According to Dave, Technorati had 9 million unique visitors during the last month as against 3.5 million two months ago. He further points out that the page views have increased 53% in March, and 141% over the last three months. However the exact numbers on page views were not disclosed. Statistics are not something Technorati has ever disclosed, but may be they now want the potential suitors to know how big they are and how fast they are growing. Another point that they wanted to make was “We are ahead of Google Blog Search by all ends and means“.

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