After the launch of Google Earth’s sky feature in August last year, see: Get Ready To Explore Space With Google Earth! made us experience the space in a totally new way.
Cool Little Google Reader Feature
This is a cool “little” feature in the latest version of Google Reader. if you subscribe to multiple people’s Shared Items’ blogs (I call that a link blog) it won’t send you duplicate items anymore, but will show you how many people actually linked to it. That’s a KILLER feature. But, what’s next?
Xing Prepares News Feed Feature
Facebook had it first, and then MySpace beat this company to the punch. But the concept of a news feed has now spread to Xing, the professional networking site.
Google Maps For Mobile Gains My Location Feature
This announcement was determined to find people wherever they were; in different forms, it popped up on the Official Google Blog, the Google LatLong Blog, the Google Mobile Blog, and in a formal press release. And interestingly enough, the announcement was about Google gaining a sort of location-seeking ability.
Google Releases ‘Conversion Optimizer’ AdWords Feature
Inside AdWords informs the launch of Conversion Optimizer, a CPA bidding product.
Cool New Little Facebook Feature
So, four people unfriended me from Facebook today. Given that I have 4,995 friends that’s probably to be expected. But I have 150 waiting to get onto my friends list. But that brings me to the new feature that just appeared.
Facebook now shows me how many friends we have in common BEFORE I add you as a friend.
YouTube Tweaks Related Video Feature
YouTube recently update their embedded video player with a scroll-through feature that displayed related videos on external sites.
“YouTube Tweaks Related Video Feature”
StumbleUpon Deletes Audience Rank Feature
StumbleUpon has ticked some of their users off recently by removing their audience rank feature.
SEO expert Joe Whyte wrote this on his blog about the sites actions. "It looks like Stumble Upon has taken a page out of the book of digg and started removing factors that allow you to gauge your rank and profile power within stumble upon."
AOL To Feature UKTV Clips
UKTV and AOL have entered into a content syndication deal that will provide broadcast lifestyle content to AOL. UKTV will offer 70 video clips from some of its most popular shows On UKTV Style such as Our House and Our Home, and UKTV Food.
UKTV’s Commercial manager of New Media, Amber Coley, and AOL’s Director of Content Acquistion, Niall McOnegal completed the deal.
Digg – Future or Feature?
No matter how you slice it, getting to a million registered users is a pretty impressive achievement for Digg, a service that Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson and a couple of others started as a lark after TechTV shut down and Kevin was looking for something to do. It may be true that the million number has a lot of holes in it, as some of the commenters over at TechCrunch have pointed out — multiple accounts, etc. — but still impressive nonetheless.