Cover Girl Ines Rivero

Ines Rivero (nee Maria Ines) was born in 1976, in Cordoba, Argentina. Although it wasn't hard to see her natural beauty, Ines' mother thought that she lacked the grace of a lady, and therefore enrolled her into "ladies school."

She made her modeling debut at the age of 14, when she worked in a local fashion show. An agent discovered the now mature and more ladylike stunner at age 16 in her hometown, and one year later, she got another break when she won the preliminary of the Elite Look of the Year contest in Argentina.

Ines had more than the "Look of the Year;" she had the figure and face to make it in the modeling world, and started out appearing in a Giorgio Armani campaign.

Now calling New York home, (Ines is a Ford model in New York and Paris), she has appeared in many advertisements since the start of her career. The ads she has appeared in include H-I-S Jeans, Mossimo, Romeo Gigli, Saks Fifth Avenue, Sky, and Vitamina.

Ines has become an international face, with her cover appearances on magazines like Marie Claire France, Elle Argentina, and Mirabella US. She has also graced the pages of fashion magazines such as Vogue and Glamour.

Already a print model veteran, Ines has also strutted down catwalks for designers such as Herve Leger, Michel Klein, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, and John Galliano (whose dresses she swears by).

Apart from modeling, Ines proves that she also has vocal chords, after having recorded an album entitled Hasta Siempre and released a popular single about Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. She also appeared in an Enrique Iglesias video, "Esperanza".

Besides intense exercising, Ines takes boxing classes, practices yoga, and enjoys riding motorcycles.

Taiwanese TV Host/Actress Rainie Yang

Yang Cheng Lin or popularly known as Rainie Yang (derived from her girlband, 4inlove, where the girls' names were the kinds of weathers), was born on June 4th 1884 and started her career when she was 14 and started appearing in Hong Kong movies and commercials. At 15, auditioned for a girlband to be launched by BMG called 4inLove and passed with flying colors, from then on, she was called "Rainie" along with other 3 girls.

Rainie standing at 164 cm, moved to Taiwan and pursue her acting career as she lived with her co-band members under one roof. She starred in various dramas starting with the mega blockbuster 'Meteor Garden' where she played a supporting yet pivotal role, the cute Xiao You (Hana Yori Dango's "Yuki" Chinese counterpart) and at that start, the rest was history as she proceeded on to be a much-loved leading lady by respectable men and starred in more bankable dramas.

In 2002, 4inLove was disbanded. Windie and Sunnie proceeded with their studies and Cloudie pursued to be a stewardess. Rainie was left in the E-circle and now as a solo artist resumed with her career and reached new heights and levels with a new alternative --- a TV host. She had discovered her hosting skills therefore hosting jobs she did left and right. She did that without recking her acting career which was she also received numorous projects. She continued singing by performing on the OSTs of her dramas.

Now, Yang Cheng Lin is considered as one of Taiwan's cutest faces, youth models and an idol. Rainie enjoys reading and loves street dancing. She was a gymnast when she was younger.

The world is your JavaScript-enabled oyster

Posted by Bret Taylor, Google Maps Product Manager

If you like Google Maps, but think you could do something better, now's your chance. Check out the Google Maps API, which lets web developers put Google Maps on their own sites, just like housingmaps.com and chicagocrime.org. You can also reach out to other API developers and the Google Maps team in the API discussion group.

Search gets personal

Posted by Sep Kamvar, Software Engineer, Personalized Search Team

With the launch of Personalized Search, you can use that search history you've been building to get better results. You probably won't notice much difference at first, but as your search history grows, your personalized results will gradually improve.

This whole concept of personalization has been a big part our lives since some of the team was in grad school at Stanford. We shared an office, which happened to be the same one Sergey had used before, and we were pretty familiar with the research he and Larry had done. Related to their work, we thought building a scalable system for personalizing search results presented an interesting challenge. We've still got a long way to go, but we're excited to release this first step. So check out this latest addition to Google Labs and tell us what you think.

Cover the earth

Posted by Bill Kilday, Google Earth Product Marketing Manager

Last October Keyhole and Google joined forces to integrate satellite imagery with Google search technology in a single product. Now we've landed on Google Earth. You can fly from space right down to any place on the planet and take in spectacular 3D views, and for major US cities you can now see 3D city models. And more: where Google Local works today (the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.), you can search Google Local from within Earth for points of interest, businesses listings, driving directions, and lots more (like some of these excellent locations). True to Google form, there is now a free version. Ready to explore?

Google Video. Now with ... video!

Posted by Matthew Vosburgh, Google Video Software Engineer

A couple of months ago we launched a video uploader so you could add your own videos to Google Video. Well, now we're ready to start displaying all that stuff.

I've been amazed by your cool videos. I had never seen a robot dog harassing an iguana before, or a monkey doing karate, and I had no idea you were such good dancers. There's more than home video, too - like this UNICEF story featuring David Beckham.

The clips play right in the page using the brand new Google Video Viewer, which was created by our engineer Aaron Lee using code from the open source Videolan project. It works great in both Firefox and IE, and we've designed it not to fight with any other video plugins you might have. We're releasing the Windows version first, with Mac coming soon.

A feature we're especially pleased with is search within a video, which means you will get a result pointing to the precise spot in the video that matches your query. Try looking for sergey brin and you'll see what I mean. There are even more people getting creative with video here. So have fun watching, or shoot your own videos - and keep sending them in!

Just call him Bruce

Posted by Biz Stone, Blogger team

You'll never guess how I uploaded this photo of Brewster. Okay, maybe you could guess, but I'll tell you anyway: Blogger Images.


All Blogger users can now upload photos to their blogs. There's a button in the posting interface that looks like a little image, and when you click it, you can browse for an image on your computer or input the location of an image on the web. If you don't have cat photos to share on your blog, that's okay. We accept non-cat photos as well.