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Google Unleashed the Sky Map for Android today at the company's Searchology event. This is an application that is available for download…
Webproworld had a very nice discussion with Charles Buchwalter, Senior VP of Research and Analytics at Nielsen Online. He had some quite interesting things to say. For example, he notes that despite the economic downturn, there is plenty of innovation and change happening online.
It’s not clear why anyone would want to do this but it’s interesting nonetheless. Stweet, aside from making those who speak its name sound like an infant, is a mashup of Google Maps and Twitter enabled by TwitterFon, an iPhone and iPod Touch application.
Four months ago, a report claimed that the act of performing two Google searches produced as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle of water. Google wasted little time in disproving the idea. Now, the search giant's returned to the concept and tossed out even more comparisons to show how "green" it is.
Facebook has faced a fair amount of heat over its tolerance of Holocaust denial groups on the social networking site, especially from billionaire Mark Cuban’s attorney brother, Brian Cuban. Yesterday, in an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg*, Cuban reiterated his request that Facebook remove Holocaust denial groups. Cuban claimed allowing them to remain only helps them “spread their message of fear and hate.”
URL shorteners sprang into sudden essentialness with the advent of microblogging, and especially with the advent of Twitter. Until yesterday, TinyURL was the shortener of choice, boosted by Twitter’s default shortener setting. Twitter’s sudden switch to competing URL shortener Bit.ly not only was a surprise to many, but the move could spell an unforeseen and swift death for TinyURL. So what gives? What makes one…
