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Real-time search is, appropriately enough, going to become quite visible very soon. Google announced today that it's rolling out real-time features, and…
Twitter announced that it will be opening up its data stream (otherwise known as the Firehose) in early 2010. This means the number of Twitter apps will skyrocket, and the potential for functionality in existing Twitter apps will be greatly increased. That means good things for developers, and most likely great things for Twitter.
Facebook is rolling out new features today to allow users to have more control over how they share content with others. Users will be able to control who sees each individual piece of content they post. Facebook's new Publisher Privacy Control will allow people to select a privacy setting for every post they make at the time they create it. By making selections in a…
Google announced that is now including Google Groups in the Premier and Education editions of Google Apps. The company says Groups is one of its most widely-used applications, so it only makes sense. When a group is set up, employees/students can share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, shared folders, sites, calendars, and videos with the group, rather than having to include individual email addresses or try to…
In Google Docs, there is a new sort-by-relevance feature for search results. When you search in Google Docs, your results will be organized by relevance, rather than "last modified date", which has been the way of the past. There is a menu on the right side of the toolbar that lets you decide how you want your results sorted.
An advertising campaign can have miraculous effects, causing people to feel better about a company and give it more time and money. Or it can be as effective as burning a pile of cash (on primetime TV, no less). Luckily for Yahoo, Nielsen data indicates that its "Y!ou" campaign is imitating the first formula.
