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Twitter launched the official tweet button
Twitter has launched the official tweet button which allows you to share links from the page you’re on. When you click on the Tweet Button, tweet box with shortened URL pointing to the link you are sharing appears and you can post to Twitter. Previously there was several tweet buttons which allowed doing the same most notable one is “retweet button” by TweetMeme. Now the “retweet...
Digg has temporarily stopped Sign up
Digg the popular social news site has temporarily stopped new sign up, you can notice by clicking Join Digg link which states “Temporarily, we’re not accepting new Digg accounts The New Digg is Coming…”. We have to wait for the new features and there is no news on when it is going to be revealed.
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Twitter Reaches 20 billion Tweets
Twitter, the micro blogging site has now more than 20 billion tweets since its creation in 2006. A graphic designer from Japan claims this 20 billionth tweet GGGGGGo_Lets_Go and the tweet gets famous as the url suffix is given as ‘20000000000’.
The number comes from unofficial source from a research firm Gigatweet. Earlier twitter reached the ten billion mark in March. Twitter is...
Apple Updates Safari 5
Apple has released Safari® 5.0.1, turning on Safari Extensions and introducing the Safari Extensions Gallery. Apple introduced extensions support in Safari 5 in June so developers could begin creating extensions with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript web standards. Extension Gallery enables to find extensions new features to Safari, from toolbars that display live web feeds to sophisticated programs...
Winamp supports WebM project
The latest version of Winamp, Winamp 5.58 now officially supports WebM video. WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web. WebM defines the file container structure, video and audio formats. The video streams are compressed with the VP8 video codec, while the audio streams are compressed with Vorbis audio codec. WebM video files play directly in your media player or web...
Phot viewing in Orkut
Photo viewing is improved on Orkut, the photo viewing on full screen is made easier to use. When you see an update on your homepage saying that a friend has uploaded some photos, just click the "view in full-screen" button, and an automated full-screen view of the album will begin and also you can use keyboard controls (like Home, End, left and right arrows, Spacebar, and Escape) to...
Older YouTube account need to connect to the Google account
Google acquired YouTube in 2006 and Google given choice of two accounting systems on the Google account and the other YouTube account system (built in 2005). From May 2009 Google started requiring all new YouTube usernames to be powered by Google Accounts and now Google wants all the remaining pre-May 2009 users still using the older YouTube account system to connect a Google Account to their...
Orkut Scraps is now evolved with more Privacy
Orkut has added new features to its scraps, now you can send private scraps which were not possible earlier. Online privacy becoming an issue everyday Orkut has come up with private scraps that lets you to have private conversation with your friends. To start a private conversation just use the privacy label that is now added to scrap, photo, video, etc and the recipients can also reply, creating...
Twitter World Cup Site
Twitter has come up with a website featuring live tweets on FIFA World cup. World cup fever reaching its high with the kick off and fans raising their voice, Twitter using live widgets, real-time search, and Top Tweets put together in a special site to capture the spirit of World cup. Twitter also added hashtags to add respective icons such as #WorldCup for world cup icon and respective hashtags...
Google pulled back the changes to Gmail chat window
Google earlier has added a new chat interface that made Video chat, voice chat, and group chat at a click away, now Google has discovered some issue with the new chat design that impacted a small number of Google Apps users so Google has pulled back this change to fix it.
Google also added that this features will be added in the coming week until then you could use the menu at the bottom of each...
Google New Search Index – Caffeine
Google has announced the new completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine and is said to be providing 50 percent fresher results for web searches than Google’s last index. Google the most used search engine wanted to give more relevant and fresh search results in quick time, this new indexing system promises to give more fresh results.
The Google old index had several layers and each...
Google goes Bing Way – have custom background on Google
Google has added a new feature last week that lets you add a favorite photo or image to the background of your Google.com homepage. Google would have drawn inspiration from Bing homepage with background image but Google allow you to upload your own image where as Bing have its own image which changes every day. Try out by uploading image, you could see a Change background image link in the lower...
Mobile Apps now included in Search results
Google search results in mobile now include mobile apps. From today if you search by using your iPhone or Android-powered device and search for an app, you will get links along with regular search results that go directly to the app’s Android Market or iPhone App Store page which allows you to get easy access to the app. It also contains app’s basic details including the price, rating, and publisher....
Google Buzz available on more devices
Google Buzz for mobile which was available for Android 2.0+ and iPhone through the web application is now available in other mobile devices as well. Google has released a XHTML version of the Buzz website which can be accessed from many other mobile devices including those running Android pre-2.0, Blackberry, Nokia S60, Windows Mobile and Palm WebOS phones by going to buzz.google.com in your phone’s...
Zynga Games at Yahoo !
For the folks who enjoy Social games, here comes another place to hang out, Zynga Games to be integrated in Yahoo. Zynga Games are already popular at Facebook with the games that include Farmville, Fishville, and Mafia wars. Yahoo! has announced a partnership with Zynga to integrate Zynga’s popular social games in Yahoo!’s global network. This will allow you to play Zynga games and...
Firefox Home Coming Soon to the iPhone
Mozilla Firefox Home app for iPhone will make your browsing easier. The app will sync your browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs of most recent browser session from your desktop and also to provide the Mozilla’s “Awesome Bar” capability which enables you to browse through minimal typing. The app is expected to be soon in the iPhone app store.
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