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it's Wednesday May nineteenth i'm natali del conte and it's time to get loaded the Google developer conference is going on right now at the same time that we're filming this episode so far the big news is that Google Wave is now open to everyone and Google is launching an app store for Chrome operating system this basically is just a software store where you can find programs to run online we will have a more in-depth summary of the conference announcement in the next episode of loaded as expected the European Union did slap a hefty fine on chip makers for price fixing the fine was for 331 million euro or 420 1 million dollars Samsung received the highest fine at 145 million euro Barnes & Noble wants to make it easier for you to publish your novel the company announced puppet it lets you upload a document convert it to epub and sell it over the barnes & noble store we don't know what Commission they will take on your book sales because this service is not open just yet they're just taking requests for invitations you can find it at barnesandnoble.com / puppet you can now make shutterfly albums from facebook albums these are those cute photo books that you create an order unfortunately Facebook photos won't look so great if you blow them up because they're uploaded to the site and low resolution so if you make these books don't take those photos full page and a new site called together Ville wants to be facebook for the kiddies it's aimed at children between 6 and 10 years old parents will have a lot of control over what goes on there they can approve or reject their children's friends activities and games kids and parents will have separate login and the site will look different depending on who is logged in the parent or the child and of course it is free those are all your headlines for now thank you for watching I'm Natali del Conte we've seen it and you've just been loaded