4 days ago

Search Engine Land Billed as the first major redesign in a decade, Microsoft has introduced a dramatic new look and feel for the MSN portal. The redesign simplifies most elements on the site. Among other things, it removes clutter, incorporates Facebook and Twitter, creates a dedicated new local area and emphasizes search.MSN, which Microsoft (Read More)

5 days ago

ReadWriteWeb The next version of popular web dashboard service Netvibes will push "near real-time" updates from feeds to the browser, a dramatic change in how the service works. Those feeds will be served up along with the standard suite of functional widgets the company has always provided. As the number of real-time feeds available (Read More)

6 days ago

mashable Confused about how to use Google Wave, the new Google product that combines messaging, wiki-like features and group collaboration into a single app? You’re not alone.To clear up the confusion, we recently published Google Wave: A Complete Guide, a feature-length article that explains Wave in plain English.Now Gina Trapani (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Some people believe that Augmented Reality (AR), the class of technologies that place images or data on top of other views of the physical world, could be the web browser of the future. AR has rocketed out of the research labs and is catching mass market interest fast - from mobile phones displaying restaurant reviews wh (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

readwriteweb New data released from Experian Hitwise reconfirms what we've known for some time: Facebook is killing the other social networks. Nowhere is that more true than here in the U.S. where they found that the visits to the site have increased 194% from September of last year to September 2009. However, it's Twitter that's seen t (Read More)

Oct 24, 2009

Scobleizer Facebook yesterday turned on a bunch of new features on its news feed. It looks a lot more like FriendFeed, even though Facebook claims that the FriendFeed team didn’t work on these new features.What does it do? Now Facebook mostly displays items that got engagement. You know, comments. Likes. Tagging. Etc.This makes Facebo (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. Figuring out how to rank real-time social content is "the great challenge of the age," Schmidt said in an interview in front of thousa (Read More)

Oct 16, 2009

CMSWire.com - All News Do you constantly watch the Google toolbar in your browser to see if your Google PageRank has changed? Do you worry constantly about why your rank is less than that of a competitor? Well, there may not be any reason to worry any longer.Google has dropped PageRank data from Webmaster Tools. In a thread on Google Webmaster he (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

CMSWire.com - All News Right now, most document management solutions work under the idea of many people making separate edits, locking the document to prevent edits stepping on one another. But what if you could all edit a document at the same time like you can in Google Docs and similar tools? That, in some ways, is the promise of Google Wave (n (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Submitted by Alltoute from Google Reader: We just presented yesterday at ISMIR a tutorial about Linked Data for music-relatedinformation. More information on the tutorial is available on thetutorial website, andthe slides are alsoavailable.In particular, we had two sets of slidesdealing with the relationship between music recommendation andlinked data. As this is s (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Submitted by Alltoute from Google Reader: Google may be an also-ran in the social networking market with its Brazil-centric Orkut service, but that hasn’t stopped the search giant from adding social features to its products. A post at the (unofficial) Google Operating System blog recounts the history of Google Reader’s social evolution, up to but not including its (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

TechCrunch Last week at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google’s Marissa Mayer took the stage for two reasons. The first was to formally announce the Google/Twitter search deal, but the second was the show off a new product: Google Social Search. The on-stage demonstration was interesting, but left a lot of questions unanswered. (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Social networking sites are quickly becoming one of the most important places where retailers can meet potential customers and interact with their current customer base. According to a new report from eMarketer, social network users are a lucrative target demographic because they are more likely to make online purchases tha (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

TechCrunch Google has just announced the release of a handful of major new features for its Google Custom Search products, including a new set of themes, improved use of rich snippets in custom search, and a new Wikipedia search. The announcements aren’t especially related, but they’ll be welcome news to the millions of sites that ha (Read More)

Oct 21, 2009

mashable Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer has just made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo: a new Google Labs feature called Social Search. They just gave a quick demo of the new feature.While the details are still sparse, here is what we currently know (and we’re still updating, so check back for more infor (Read More)

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