Gmail Out of Beta After All These Years
Today is a landmark day for Google. The company has finally announced that Google Apps is no longer in beta. I suspect this is more of a way to increase the adoption of its services, particularly among businesses, than any new accomplishment being met, but it is what it is. No more beta label on Gmail and other products that fall into Google’s cloud offerings category.
The Older Demographic Makes A Large Push On Facebook
The demographic has shifted dramatically over at Facebook and that change could lead to billions in revenue, according to one prominent board member.
Mozilla Starts Big Collection of Open Web Tools
Mozilla has launched a new directory with the goal of providing a one-stop shop for open web tools and resources for developers. It is called the Open Web tools Directory.
The reason Mozilla says it decided to start this directory is simply because there isn’t one like it. "There’s no central index of these tools," the company says in a blog post.
10 Things You Might Not Know About Twitter
Last month a social media analytics provider named Sysomos released a comprehensive report on Twitter usage. The problem with most analysis on Twitter, though, is that it is limited by the minimal amount of data that Twitter collects. So, to fill the gaps, most reports do things like guessing gender based on real names or pulling data from keywords in people’s biographic information.
Yahoo Rolls Out Search Pad
Yahoo has introduced its new Search Pad feature, which allows users to organize, save and share information they find while researching information online.
Search Pad works by automatically recognizing when users are doing research and allows them to collect information and websites found in their search results. Search Pad organizes information in one integrated notepad that stays with users as they search.
Google Recognizing Non-Blogs as Blogs
A number of people have noticed that Google is viewing their websites as blogs when they are not really blogs. They are finding that Google is placing them in blog search portions of universal search results in regular Google searches.
Older Users (Sort Of) Overtake The Young On Facebook
Facebook is continuing to catch on with people who aren’t currently taking classes. Data provided by the social network indicates huge growth in the 55+ age group, and users between the ages of 35 and 54 now outnumber the 18- to 24- and 25- to 34-year-old sets.
Between January 4th and the 4th of July, there was an increase of 513.7 percent in the number of Facebook users older than 55. This means that about 5.9 million people who admitted to nearly or already being senior citizens can be found on the site.
Google Adds Real Estate to Australian Maps
Over a year ago, Google started incorporating real estate search into Google Maps in the US. Now Australia gets the feature.
YouTube Dominates Video In The U.K.
The total number of videos viewed online in the U.K. in April grew 47 percent over a year ago to 4.7 billion videos, according to a new report from comScore.
The report found that 21.8 million U.K. Internet users viewed a total of 971 million online display ads on multimedia sites during the month.
Google sites were the most popular U.K. online video property during the month with 2.4 billion videos viewed, an increase of 58 percent compared to a year ago, driven by the popularity of YouTube, which accounted for 99 percent of all videos viewed on the property.
Are Spammers Impeding Twitter Growth?
Over the weekend, Twitter found itself victim to the tomfoolery of 4chan as the online community’s members apparently launched an initiative to make "#gorillapenis" a trending topic. They were successful, but Twitter of course responded by removing it from the trending topics.
What is 4chan?