Rumours have been flying around about Facebook searching for a partner to take over its classifieds listing application, which it had launched almost one and a half years ago. There is a chance that the application may be re-launched before the end of December.
Facebook has, it seems, contacted many classifieds websites earlier this year. The […]

Regardless of whether or not SearchWiki was approved of by users, it was a rather huge step for Google to take the decision of switching on this service for all users of Google accounts at one time rather than gradually introducing it - one step at a time. SearchWiki, just launched, is a feature for […]

Recently, LinkedIn launched a refurbished version of its search engine. The new version will streamline the business social network most often used features. The majority of the new features are based on the people-search.
Most of the changes are subtle. For instance, as users start typing names, LinkedIn will offer an auto completed list of […]

The effect of downsizing has come into play even for search engine giant Google that has just declared it will be getting rid of Lively.
Lively is a browser based virtual world that has the ability to be embedded into various sites. Lively was released to the public just a little while ago, only last July. […]

There has always been a fair amount of speculation with regards to Facebook wanting to acquire Twitter. The rumours sometimes even talk about a deal in the making suddenly ending. However, this time, information has been passed via Kara Swisher from BoomTown and a few of her sources.
Kara Swisher has provided a look into […]

For the past couple of weeks numerous rumours have been passed around and discussed regarding the fact that Google was forced to depend on a third party CDN (content delivery network) for the YouTube Live concert to be able to stream well on that scale.
Although Google does have its own content delivery system, carrying […]

Google recently introduced a service for users that would allow them to change the way search results are displayed on their accounts. It is called ‘SearchWiki.’ The application allows users to customise the order of results and add comments to pages for upcoming reference.
The new application will allow users to completely remove a page and […]

A team of engineers from Facebook have developed a small but significant project by the name of Palantir. The experts, who form part of this team, are Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford. Palantir came into existance during a Facebook Hackathon event. The project name is based on ‘The Palantir of Orthanc’, which is […]

The “Verified Apps” program, which was discussed for the first time in summer at the F8 Developer Conference, is now going to be released by Facebook. Applications via third parties will be divided into “Great Apps”, “Verified Apps” and others. The “Great Apps” segment will contain applications like iLike and Causes. The “Verified Apps” segment […]

Adding new content or updating the existing content on the website is the best way to keep a website dynamic and let search engines be aware of the fact that the pages of the website are still active. But in the case of certain search engines such as Google, it does not recognise the new […]

The voice-search application by Google can finally be procured at the App Store. The application was supposed to be available earlier and had generated a lot of excitement. However, the application failed to launch on the day it was supposed to be released. This resulted in a criticism of Apple with regards to its method […]

Twitter had a good time in the month of October. The election Tweets resulted in an addition of 25 percent in visitors from America as compared to the previous month’s figures. The number is now 1.45 million different visitors, as per a report by comScore. As per worldwide figures, September showed a number of 5.6 […]

Yahoo is currently on the look out for a new CEO. The search for the next potential CEO has led to numerous names being thrown about by interested and curious parties. Some of the names being talked about include Jonathon Miller, the previous CEO of AOL and Jeff Jordon, the former eBay superstar exec and […]

Two books, one about MySpace and the other about Facebook will be launched in 2009. These books will discuss two of these largest social networks that the world has seen to date.
The first book will be about MySpace and is supposed to be released on March 17, 2009. It is written by Julia Angwin, the […]

Boxee has managed to procure $4 million in the first stage of funding. This amount was provided by Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. Boxee is known for creating a social media center software platform for HDTVs and laptops.
Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures each provided exactly half of the total funding amount. The […]

Etherpad, a new group productivity application, has just been released by Appjet. It was created by a group, which was previously with Google and was funded by Y Combinator, the founders of Friendfeed. Etherpad is quite possibly the most productive application to date.
Etherpad can be compared against Google Docs or Wikipedia. However, it is believed […]

Google put a lot of planning into the release of its all new application, which deals in voice-recognition search. However, all its planning went to waste as the launch of the application flopped somewhat. The voice-recognition search application was a no show on the day it was supposed to be brought out and resulted in […]

Yahoo Buzz is in the news again. In order to make its websites more social, Yahoo has introduced a lot of new features. It is no more connected with new universal profiles of Yahoo. And now, even as it resembles to Digg, the user base of Yahoo is very much there to sustain the latter.
Now, […]

Google Reader is a very popular tool when it comes to retrieving news and blogs. It pulls up news from various sources and it does so in good quantity and quality as well. Now the service features a translation facility, which is sure to help users to cull news in different languages as well, which […]

There is good news for YouTube viewers. MGM is going to start movies in full length on YouTube. They will announce their partnership very soon and viewers will have instant access to movies and shows from the MGM catalogue. This viewing is free of cost but some ads will keep running with the videos.
But MGM […]