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...

Google Caffeine the Mystery of the Sandbox

Google released a beta version of a new search engine that engineers have been working on in secrecy over the past several months dubbed Caffeine. While most people will not notice any aesthetic differences, many developers have said the new google search engine is a lot faster. Google claims that the...

Quick Byte: AdSense Plans Routine Maintenance

The engineers at Google plan on doing routine maintenance on Saturday, August 8. So if you have an AdSense account- don’t be alarmed if you can not access your user interface. Google ensures us that all people running AdSense ads will still get credit for ad clicks and impressions will be...