Pinterest, an online pin board, is all the rage these days. The World Wide Web has seen its massive growth, and many online marketers are quickly adapting to the image-heavy platform. Thus, a 20-year-old computer science undergrad Ammrita Sharma of India created a Pinterest app, Pinpuff, which can measure your “pinfluence” or pin worth. According [...]
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MingleWing is Your Reddit for Facebook
If you’re tired of mingling and exchanging discussion with your Facebook friends, it’s time to present your content to a new audience. While the social networking giant is good at connecting its users with the people within their social circle, it’s not the same when it comes to going outside the social graph. Good thing, [...]
China Infuriated at Google’s Implied Accusations
Earlier this month Google revealed that they’d uncovered a series of cyber-attack attempts against U.S. Government officials, U.S. military leaders, Asian political leaders, Chinese activists, and journalists. These attacks happened in the form of “spear phishing” efforts that sent highly personalized messages to the Google accounts of specific users, attempting to get access to secure [...]
Google Docs Team Hops on Reddit to Answer User Questions
Many divisions of Google’s business see powerful but fairly slow innovation. While there are certainly improvements to be seen in every element of Google’s world, the company has to develop the entire movement – from inception to implementation – without the example of others. One notable exception to this rule does apply, however: Google Docs. [...]
Google News in the Time Since 9/11
The events of September 11th changed the way Americans thought about themselves, both in terms of their safety and their role in the world. In the aftermath of that tragic attack, citizens of the U.S. became more patriotic, and more enthusiastically examined news stories and events from around the world. 9/11 caused a great many [...]
Groupon Takes Another Bite Out of Google’s Local Market
Google’s Marissa Mayer, who heads up Google’s local projects and is one of the big voices behind Google Hotpot, has been telling us a lot about local features at Google. Mayer even went so far as admitting that there were too many different products, and that some should be – and likely will be – [...]
Social Media Suite Launched By Jaguar Land Rover
In the Mena region in India, high-end luxury car makers have developed their own set of social networking components launched towards the car manufacturer’s target markets. Tata Motors of India is the first automotive manufacturer to launch what is a first of its kind targeted social media “suite” for their Jaguar Land Rover automobile business. [...]
Google Offers $25k to Successful Hackers
Google and the open source community have a strong relationship. Google has contributed significantly to the open source code available, including through programs like the Google Summer of Code where open source developers are given a cash stipend to help them continue their project. Further, much of Google’s internal development is created as open source, [...]
American Idol FINALLY Uses Facebook!
Tired of dialing to vote for your favorite Idol contestants but can’t get through? Now all you have to do is login to your Facebook account and vote. After their MySpace audition breakthrough this season, the Fox hit show is adding online voting for the first time. Entertainment Weekly recently reported that Facebook users will [...]
Renren.com Social Network Gaining on Facebook
In China, Facebook social networking services are banned by Chinese authorities from developing an online presence in the country. With over 500 million registered users in over 25 countries, Facebook as the largest social networking service in the world can’t compete on level playing ground with the quickly-rising new social network that’s based in China. [...]
