Even after the recent hullabaloo about Twitter, it is still missing out on a significant number of potential users. Blame it on the core purpose of Twitter, which is to tell everyone what you are doing. Twitter was created as an easy-to-understand micro-blogging site but it seems like this is causing more confusion than intended. Most people who land on the site do not see the point of Twitter. They simply do not see the point of telling people what they are doing. And the homepage is definitely not helping ...
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YouTube: Step Aside 2D, 3D is here.
Ever since the news came out about YouTube experimenting with 3D video making, many users have started making their own. If you would like to join in the fun and maybe show YouTube the potential of the feature, simply (or not) make one and tag it with yt3d:enable=true, before leaving the link as a comment on YouTube’s blog. It seems like FlippyCat has done it right! To try your hands at making 3D videos, YouTube has some basic instructions for you: Use two cameras arranged like a pair of eyes Start both cameras recording ...
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YouTube Video Statistics is Now On!
Statistics of your YouTube videos are now no secret to the public as long as you are willing to share. You can enable this new analytics tool called YouTube Insight by going to your privacy settings, under “my account”. Viewers can find useful statistics at the “Statistics & Data” section located below your video. "What statistics?", you might ask. For a free tool so conveniently available, the data presented is rather impressive. The section shows you the total number of views, comments, favorites, ratings and average ratings received by your video. ...
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Yahoo New Homepage, finally!
After one year of painstaking user testing and tweaking, the new yahoo homepage is finally here. U.S users will get to see the final masterpiece tomorrow and it would slowly be available to users in other countries. Besides a new design and some rearrangements, new features were added. “My Favorites” section can be customized with a variety of widgets. With a little personalization, you can choose to view your Facebook activity from the Yahoo homepage or get timely news from your favorite news website such as New York Times. Personally, I feel ...
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New Usage Rights Filter on Google Images
Facing difficulties finding safe images on Google for your creative work? Google has launched a new feature on its image search that helps you solve this painstaking problem. This feature is created to search images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons. With this new feature, it creates a win-win situation for both the artists and its users. Artists whose works are under Creative Commons licenses can specify how others may modify their art piece while on the other hand, users can rest assure that they are not infringing ...
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Let The Google Map Find You
Google Maps has just made locating yourself without GPS or the trouble of entering information possible. Now there’s an option to show you your current location with a click of the blue circle button - A new addition to the top left corner of the map, which is also more formally known as the My Location button. The Geolocation API is a new feature available in the latest web browsers which allows any website to access your current location. Hence, this blue circle only works on Google Chrome, Firefox 3.5 or ...
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New on Facebook: Fan Box, Event Publisher, Live Video
The Fan Boxes Now Facebook Page users can find a new “Add Fan Box to your site” link under the logo of their page. Similar to the Facebook Badge, Facebook Fan Box can be added to users’ website or blog as a widget simply by copying and pasting the given html code to their respective sites. Through its widget and without leaving your website, your site visitors can view your Facebook Page’s latest updates and become a fan with a click of a button. Event planning made easy This addition to Facebook’s Publisher Tool ...
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No more Beta for Google Apps
Nice and clean? Google has finally removed the beta tag from its various products – Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk from both its enterprise and consumer versions. Gmail users are very much the most affected lot and many probably can't get use to it! Does that also mean that these products which are freed from the beta tag are also free from R & D? Bet not! An extraction from Google Blog: "Beta" will be removed from the product logos today, but we'll continue to innovate and improve upon the ...
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Google’s New Weapon: Google Chrome OS
According to Google, Operating Systems that browsers run on today were designed in a pre-web era. This comment alone was enough to hurt some ego and we all know whose ego was at stake. Even though Google's blog post announcing the launch of Google Chrome OS was filled with missiles, most of us would concur with the improvements that should be made to existing Operating Systems. This is one big opportunity Google is exploiting to grab a share in today's lucrative Operating System market. This lightweight operating system will cater to ...
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Twitter Is Now A Real Word
You will know you are officially famous if your name or brainchild enters one of the dictionaries. While it would be no surprise if Twitter lands itself with the 2009 “word of the year” status, it is still trying to meet all requirements by first becoming a recognized word. The word “Twitter” will appear in the next edition of Collins English Dictionary, which is also celebrating its 30th anniversary. According to The Telegraph, “The entry under noun will read: "a website where people can post short messages about their current activities" and under verb ...
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What is Web 2.0 Technology?
Web 2.0 can mean different things to different people. But it is actually a technology that made all the different things possible. The basis of sharing, commenting, connecting people, editing other people’s web pages and interactive web designs would not have been viable without this technology. We would all agree that all online interactive services and communities such as social networks, wikis, social bookmarking, Weblogs and social news, which all fall under social media represent the success of Web 2.0. Web 1.0 has come to pass and so have static web ...
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