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Yahoo Syncs the New Homepage to Mobile
Today Yahoo announced that PC to mobile sync of the new Yahoo homepage is available on over 400 devices in 17 countries.…
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Google Provides Tool for Speeding Up Web Pages
Last month Google spoke about an initiative it was kicking off to call upon webmasters to help make the web faster. Larry Page once said he envisioned a web that could be surfed as easily as flipping through the pages of a magazine. This initiative is kind of an extension of that way of thinking.
Yahoo Provides Means for “Easy” Mobile Site Creation
Earlier this year Yahoo announced that the Yahoo Blueprint Platform was being extended from several hundred mobile devices in several thousand. Now the company has opened it up to third party developers. The BluePrint is a platform on which developers can create mobile websites. It uses simple XML, and is the same technology Yahoo used to build oneSearch and the Yahoo.com mobile home page.
Reasons to Use Bing for Reference?
Microsoft says that reference search sessions average over 9 minutes in length and over 6 queries per session before the user finds what they are looking for. With that in mind, the company is highlighting how Bing handles reference material. There is clearly great emphasis placed on Wikipedia results, and I have to admit that as I began to read Microsoft's explanation, I was starting…
The News Goes 3D on YouTube
Last week, we took a look at YouTube's testing of 3D videos after a thread was spotted in the YouTube Help Center where an employee was discussing the concept. This was part of his "20%" time.
Twitter Phasing Out The Term Updates In Favor Of Tweets
Twitter has changed the word "updates" to "tweets" on user profiles. Though the change seems insignificant, it's the first time the famed microblogging site has used the term "tweet" on their site.
