Android’s Foursquare is it better than the iPhone?

During the past year, many mobile social networking fans have at least wanted to adopt the Foursquare app. However, in its earliest incarnation, its only availability had been for the iPhone and in the form of a web interface which was not so simple to navigate. Foursquare then called upon its...

The Location of Buzz

Buzz, meant to be Google’s answer to Facebook and Twitter, takes communicating with friends to a new level by integrating location services with it. However, Buzz still needs some tweaking to make it fully functional and more user-friendly. Buzz even brings all of those ideas to the mobile community...

5 Ways Google’s Real-Time Search will Change your Virtual World

Google dropped a bomb shell on the internet world yesterday as it announced a couple of new ways for users to search the net. The more prominent announcement entails the use of realtime data from the social media communities of Facebook, Twitter, and mySpace. ...

Quick Byte: New News for iPhone and Android users

Google announced yesterday that is has overhauled the news to cater to iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. With this new overhaul comes a user interface that displays more images, news and their sources. Google also promises “you can now reach your favorite sections, discover new ones, find...

What the Bing & Google Twitter Search really means for you

There is no denying it – Twitter is big! At the end of October, both Microsoft and Google made separate announcements that they would be incorporating live Twitter streams into their search engine results. This means that both Bing and Google would offer ways for web users to search within the...

Sunday Roundup: Top Internet Stories This Past Week – 9.20-9.27.09

100 Million to the Twitter Corp According to various sources on the net – this past week – Twitter received 100 million in funding to bring the Corporation to a whooping 1 billion dollar value. Investors Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital,...

Sunday Roundup: Top Stories This Past Week – 9.13.2009

Tweeter Changes Terms of Service – Twitter announces its terms of service changes – publicly on its blog. Making it clear that you own your own tweets, the advertising door is left open, SPAM will not be tolerated (as usual) and they are still working on guidelines for APIs. An Related...

Quick Byte: Google Docs, 42 Translations

Google posted today that it added a little flair to the popular Google Docs application – by allowing you to translate your text into 42 different languages. The translation process is overwhelmingly easy, after you are finished typing up a document, highlight the area you need translated. Next go...

Sunday Roundup: Top Web Stories this Past Week III

Twitter Plans to Add GeoData to your Tweets In a blog post on Thursday Biz Stone announced that they will be adding a geolocation feature to Twitter that will be first rolled out to developers. With this option users will be able to turn on an optional location aware feature that will add GeoData to...

iGoogle wants you to be Social

Google announced yesterday that they now have a group of widgets for your iGoogle page that will allow you to interact better with your peers. Currently they feature 19 different widgets that include chess, scrabble, flixster, trivia, photo sharing and more. iGoogle was implemented in 2005 to allow users...