The Google Apps Status Dashboard came online in late February as a way of offering "performance information" about Google’s various products. The information was only available in English, however, and Google’s now letting users all over the world become more well-informed with the introduction of 24 new languages.
Google Launches All For Good
Google, Craigslist Foundation, YouTube, FanFeedr and UCLA have partnered to launch a new site called All for Good, which is designed to connect volunteers in their local communities with charitable organizations.
All for Good helps people find ways to get involved in their community, from being a mentor to helping design a website for a nonprofit. The platform allows people to sign in to Facebook or Google to share volunteer activities with others across social networking services.
Real-Time Search Engine Collecta Launches
Collecta, a new search engine, launched today with a unique twist… they’re one of the first real-time search engines.
Searching with Collecta, you get real-time results from blogs, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, social sites and various news outlets.
EFF Launches Terms Of Service Tracker
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a "terms of service" tracker for Facebook, Google, eBay, and other popular websites.
The goal of the EFF’s "TOSBacK" is to give users a real-time feed of changes and updates to more than three-dozen policies from the Internet’s most popular online services. Clicking on an update displays a side-by-side before-and-after comparison on what has been added and removed from the policy.
PR Newswire Launches Social Media Tracking Tool
PR Newswire has launched Social Media Metrics, a new intelligence tool powered by Sentiment Metrics that allows users to monitor, analyze and measure the impact of what is being said about an organization, brand, or competitor on social media sites.
Google Launches Analytics Dashboard For Local Businesses
Google is launching a new dashboard feature today that allows business owners to see how customers find their website.
The new dashboard is called Local Business Center (LBC) and is a free tool that allows business owners to also control the content of their business listings as they appear in Google Search and Google Maps.
Business owners can take advantage of the new tool by claiming their listing in the LBC and going through a brief verification process. Once a listing is claimed, business owners will have access to the following data:
comScore Launches New Online Measurement Service
comScore has introduced Media Metrix 360. a new panel centric hybrid that combines panel based data with Web site server metrics.
"comScore Media Metrix 360 represents an innovative and elegant measurement solution to the increasingly complex digital media landscape," said Dr. Magid Abraham, comScore President and CEO.
Adobe Launches Some Flash Platform Beta Releases
Today Adobe announced the launch of some new beta releases for the Adobe Flash Platform. These are Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder), Flash Catalyst and the open source Flex 4 framework SDK.
MSN Launches Celebrifeed
Tired of the pervasive coverage of celebrity minutia? Too bad, because Microsoft just made it much, much easier to follow celebrities’ every move online. The software company’s Wonderwall has introduced the “Celebrifeed.”
Mozilla Launches Jetpack API
The developers at Mozilla Labs have introduced their new Application Programming Interface known as "Jetpack." Jetpack enables ordinary users who know basic web development languages, such as HTML, Javascript, and/or CSS, to write and distribute their own custom made Firefox add-ons using these languages.