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In case you were thinking that Google hadn't made enough announcements this week, they have made a couple more. First, they are…
Remember when Microsoft's Bing launched and one of the features that really caught people's attention was the interface of its image search feature? It was unique in that you could simply scroll down on the results page infinitely. You didn't have to go to multiple pages to find more images. You just kept scrolling. Google is now testing such a feature for its own image…
This week Facebook will reportedly be rolling out the ability to send status updates to Twitter directly from the publisher box. There are apps that cater to the cross-posting of updates between the two social networks, but this would mark the first time Facebook itself actually encouraged it.
Amazon.com said today it would start offering electronic versions of books by business author Stephen Covey exclusively in its Kindle Store. Electronic versions of Stephen Covey's best-selling books, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and "Principle-Centered Leadership" are available in the Kindle Store for $7.99. The e-books are being published through RosettaBooks.
Over the past several months, MySpace has become much more formidable thanks to some new features, a deal with a record label, and a couple of acquisitions. It looks like the growth spurt may not be over, either, as a report's indicated that MySpace is now interested in getting to know Flixster.
Long URLs cut into character limits, are difficult to remember, and simply look awkward. Quite a little industry has sprung up in response. Only it looks like a major player is now entering the game, as a URL shortener created by Facebook has been sighted.
