Google means business. Continuing its spending extravaganza, the search engine giant has announced its acquisition of Panoramio, a geographical location based photo sharing site developed by two Spanish entrepreneurs, Joaquin Cuenca Abela and Eduardo...
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We have been talking about the social networks for the straight, gays and lesbians at a length these days. Let's take a break from all such networks and talk about Vivapets, an International social network in English, Spanish and Portuguese versions...
With almost everyone blogging these days, advertisers have come up with a unique way to generate income from blogs. Most of the time bloggers write about technology related stuff or product reviews. This benefits both the producer and advertiser of the...
Google is now busy doing experiments with its YouTube player and hopes to make it more functional and visually pleasurable. You can find that the screenshots depict a good looking player that integrates some of the features from the Google's video...
Apple has now confirmed a ban on the popular social networking site MySpace in its stores. The ban was announced following the reason that visitors use the Macs on display, take photos of themselves with the built-in webcams, and spend a lot of time...
We have already come across a number of online video sharing sites that started with an aim to take on YouTube. Many of them failed and a few are still doing good but could't reach anywhere close to YouTube. Now, French media giant Vivendi is ready...
Google has updated its free webmail service, Gmail by doubling the file attachment limit from 10MB to 20MB.
A Gmail page leaves this message:
With Gmail, you can send and receive messages up to 20 megabytes (MB) in size. However, the precise amount...
The latest hype in the web2.0 community is the launch of the Facebook Platform. The new platform will come loaded with an array of user-friendly applications for use within Facebook. More than 70 partners have already joined in. Mashable has mentioned...
Beijing has abandoned the plans to force bloggers to use their real names. Now the bloggers would be only encouraged to use their real names.
The Chinese government, as Xinhua reports, is still worried about blogs' potential for slander, libel,...
The world of Internet has seen many kinds of pricing frameworks. It started with the fixed cost based pricing to pay per click. While the former lead to the creation of artificial traffic on the website, the latter (Pay per click based advertising) had...
Some members of the social news site Digg have reported that their accounts were banned claiming that the users were digging or burying stories without actually reading them.
Now, this is beyond my comprehension as there are a less number of users...
The rumors that search engine giant Google will be acquiring RSS management company Feedburner are finally confirmed.
The deal will put Google down by $100 million. According to some sources the deal will be all cash and mostly upfront.
The...
Whatever you search for on Google will now become an important factor for rating Web sites on a Google search. Google has announced that it will soon unveil its new 'trends' ranking system. According to this system, the most searched for keywords...
Recently, MySpace was in news over the refusal to give the names of registered sex offenders following a request by attorneys general from eight states. But now, following continuous legal demands, MySpace has agreed to disclose the information of...
Good news for Bollywood movie buffs as its first channel is being launched on YouTube. The channel is a joint venture between Eros International and YouTube.
This new channel will offer movie trailers, music videos and other exclusive footage...
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