Facebook Username Grab Generated Record Traffic Levels
A lot of Facebook executives and employees are probably wearing big, satisfied smiles this morning. As statistics continue to trickle in, it looks like the vanity URL offering that the company held over the weekend was a huge success.
Google Maps Gets Some Improvements on Android
Today, Google announced the addition of search-by-voice and transit directions to Google Maps on Android devices. In addition, some improvements have been made to Google Latitude in Google Maps for Android.
Searching By Voice
Salesforce Gives Force.com Users Free Sites
Salesforce has announced the general availability of Force.com Sites, which was demoed last year at the Dreamforce event. With it, companies can build and run any website on Salesforce’s cloud platform Force.com, the same platform that runs the company’s sales and service apps.
Google Readying Bing, Twitter Countermeasures
It’s no secret that real-time search is one of Google’s weak points. Since Bing launched, fewer people have been willing to acknowledge Google as the best search engine overall, too. But the search giant seems to be fighting back, as new reports have it addressing issues on both fronts.
Twitterrific 2.0.2 Fixes All Known Twitpocalypse Errors
UPDATE: Twitterrific 2.0.2 has been approved by Apple’s Application Store. Below is message from the official site…
StumbleUpon Jumps on the URL-Shortener Bandwagon
StumleUpon announced today that it has launched a new URL-shortening service called Su.pr. The twist, however, is that this one is designed to help content creators actually increase their traffic with it. According to StumbleUpon, this is the first such service that does this.
The Twitpocalypse Claims Its First Victim
It appears that the Twitpocalypse has drawn first blood.
Twitterrific for the iPhone and iPod touch is currently experiencing problems. The issue is leaving some faithful users frustrated and looking for a new app.
5 Twitter Tools to Help You Tweet from Your Desktop
Does anyone even go to the Twitter homepage anymore? It seems like more and more users are changing the origin of their tweets as Twitter desktop clients are becoming more mainstream.
There are literally dozens of desktop clients available for download… but which are the best?
Do You Think Google Favors Big Brands?
As you may know, Google’s Matt Cutts regularly answers user questions in the form of YouTube videos at Google’s Webmaster Central channel. One recent question he took on goes:
As far as big brands go, why is it that they seem to do well irregardless of relevance, content or links when analyzing keyword placement in search engine result pages?
5 Twitter Tools to Help You Manage Unfollowers
Twitter has an insurmountable number of applications from the very useful to the rather comical . It’s hard to weed through and find the truly great applications/services.