Posted by
Christiaan Hendriksen at 8:25 pm on November 19, 2009
Twitter have stopped asking ‘What are you doing?’ and are now asking ‘What’s Happening?’ instead. Twitter say this reflects the shift in usage of tweets from Personal updates about what you’re doing to updates from websites and companies as well.
Posted by
Christiaan Hendriksen at 1:20 pm on November 17, 2009
Google Chrome currently lacks any sort of feed detection or handling, but all that is about to change. In the next chrome there will be an install extension for handing of RSS feeds, The extension “adds a button to the URL bar when a page has a feed that can be subscribed to”. When you click on the orange button, the extension previews the feed and it lets you subscribe using a feed reader. The extension is available now on the Chromium Developer Website.
[Google Operating System]
Posted by
Christiaan Hendriksen at 7:25 pm on November 14, 2009
One of my favourite features of wave, is searching for waves (with : public). The only problem with this is as soon as you click on one of the public waves, your wave account becomes crowded with all the public updates. Google have added a feature to wave however, which allows you to ‘unfollow’ a wave. Google give the following advice…
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Posted by
Christiaan Hendriksen at 12:45 pm on November 14, 2009
Yahoo Messenger has this week come out of Beta, releasing version 10. With a lot of new features, and Windows 7 support. Click here to read more at the Yahoo Messenger blog. TIP: Choose ‘Custom’ installation to avoid downloading extras such as the Yahoo Toolbar.
New Yahoo Messenger
[Yahoo Messenger Blog]
Posted by
Christiaan Hendriksen at 9:58 pm on November 13, 2009
Dave Girouard, president of Google’s enterprise division, says that next year businesses will have the choice to “get rid” of Microsoft Office.
He said in an interview that he believes that Docs is currently not as mature as Google Mail or Calendar, making it currently unsuitable as a replacement to Microsoft Office. He this will change though about a year, when docs will be ready to take on the competition. Read more at ZDnet
[ZDNET]
Posted by
Christiaan Hendriksen at 9:50 am on November 13, 2009
Starting next week, YouTube will be adding support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p. With the ever increasing resolution of cameras, YouTube want to be “the best home on the web to showcase your content.” If you have a 1080p HD camera, upload some videos! YouTube will be showcasing the best HD videos on their homepage in a future ‘Spotlight’.
[YouTube Blog]
Posted by
Christiaan Hendriksen at 6:45 pm on November 11, 2009
Face.Com have today launched Photo Tagger to the public. Like Picasa and iPhoto, it automates face tagging of photos. Facebook users can use Photo Tagger to automatically tag their photos, using facial recognition software to tag all of the photos in an album.
When you select an album, it groups together faces and suggests tags for them. It also constantly monitors new photos you add with its Face Alerts system, alerting you when it detects new, untagged photos of you or your friends.
Personally, I am a big fan of this feature in Picasa, and can’t wait to try Photo Tagger out on Facebook.
Posted by
Christiaan Hendriksen at 1:38 pm on October 31, 2009
Twitter has introduced a great new feature called Lists. It allows you to put certain twitter members into groups. From funny people to astronauts, there are almost an endless amount of groups that can be made. This is great for organising the people you are following. It also works wonders for websites as it allows you to can group twitter members that relate to the topic of your website. Have a car website? Then make a list of the top car twitterers. Then you can have their (interesting) tweets anywhere your blog/website.
[Twitter Blog]
