PRIVATE PROFILES WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN GOOGLE + AFTER JULY 31ST

Don't want anyone searching for you on Google+? No problem! Just leave your profile marked as private and Google will punt your page from the cloud after July 31st. If you still want your profile around come August, you'll need to mark it as public before that deadline. You can still keep most of your personal details under lock and key, limiting access to specific elements to yourself, your circles, extended circles, or anyone on the web -- Google does require that your full name and gender be available to everyone, however.

GOOGLE TO LAUNCH PHOTO SHARING SITE PHOTOVINE

Back on June 7th, Google filed a USPTO application for the name Photovine, sending sparks flying down the, er, grapevine about a possible photo-sharing program. The application cites a service dedicated to the "transmission of visual images and data by telecommunications networks, wireless communication networks, the Internet, information services networks and data networks." Unsurprisingly, it looks like the internet giant's also picked up the corresponding domain name.

PANDORA'S IPO CLOSES 9 PERCENT UP

Pandora, the internet radio company, became the latest web company to go public Wednesday in what has become a full-blown IPO gold rush.

After pricing its shares at $16, Pandora’s [P] stock opened at $20 and then immediately soared to $26, an increase of more than 60 percent. In mid-day trading, the company’s shares had fallen below $20, closing at $17.42, up 9 percent over its opening price.

Like several of its web IPO brethren, Pandora currently loses money. But that didn’t stop the company from raising $235 million at the $16 offering price, well higher than expected range of $10-$12 per share. At the offering price, Pandora was valued at $2.6 billion.

GOOGLE'S ANDROID WEB MARKET CHECKS TO SEE IF APP IS COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR DEVICES

Google has already made some tough moves to tackle fragmentation, but it's clearly still wary of the problem. It's just tweaked the Android Market web store to show users which apps are compatible with which of their gadgets. Of course, compatibility screening was already in place for users who accessed the Market from within their device, but this update should still be of use to those who surf the web store, especially if they're rocking multiple handsets or a phone-plus-tablet combo.

RUMOR: ANDROID MARKET COMING TO WEB AND GOOGLE MUSIC LAUNCHING

Androidandmeis reporting that at Google's Android 3 Honeycomb event tomorrow, they will be announcing a web based Android Market and unveiling Google Music.

This is all rumor at the moment and Google of course is staying quiet until the event tomorrow.

GOOGLE RELEASES CHILDREN'S BOOK ON BROWSERS AND THE WEB FOR FREE

Wondering how to explain the brave new world of Web 2.0 and HTML5 to your children… or simply want to correct your own childlike understanding of how the internet works? Search giant Google has just the picture book for you… and best of all, it’s both free and charming.

The book is called 20 Things I Learned About Browsers And The Web

Sure, we all use the internet every day, and most of us are pretty astute with it… but it’s surprising how little many know about the inner workings of the web behinds its various sites and interfaces.

As such, 20 Things I Learned About Browsers And The Web is a breath of fresh air, offering eminently understandable primers about HTML, Javascript and Ajax. It’s also a future-looking book, spelling out many of the developments we can expect next from both browsers and web apps. Even security, privacy, open source and design are touched upon.

The book reads like a picture book written as a Christmas present from the Google Chrome team to its children, and in fact it is: the collective Chrome team is the book’s author, and we — the users — are their children. [Geek]