Google Maps just keeps getting more interesting. Today, two fresh features came to light, and together, they’ll make it a lot easier for users to get their bearings in unfamiliar territory and plan multiple-stop outings wherever they may be.
Twitter Upgrades Follower/Following Relationship Maintenance
Twitter is in the process of rolling out "a major performance enhancement" to its system, which deals with how users’ following and follower relationships are maintained.
Yahoo Upgrades BOSS, Asks For Pennies In Return
The idea behind Yahoo BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is to let developers combine Yahoo’s search index with their own applications. Now, a few tweaks should improve the process, and Yahoo has also made it more "professional" by moving away from the idea of offering everything for free.
LinkedIn Upgrades Search Interface
LinkedIn puts its current user base at about 33 million, and as such, it’s easy to believe that the odds of finding professionals with even remotely common names are beyond slim. The site’s trying to keep this from happening, though, with some interesting new search upgrades.
Google Upgrades Apps APIs
Yesterday Google guaranteed 99.9% reliability for Google Apps like Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Talk. This stemmed from a similar guarantee the company made for Gmail.
Google Street View Gets Another Set Of Upgrades
Street View launched on May 29, 2007, and for some reason, Google is choosing to celebrate its first birthday today. Don’t complain, though, because the celebration involves putting 37 places on display for the first time.
Flickr’s Major Upgrades
Flickr launched their widely rumored video service today. Videos are limited to 90 seconds in length and 150 MB in size. Only Pro members can upload videos. The video above is one of the first videos on the service from Heather Champ’s photostream. More information from the Flickr Blog here.
comScore Upgrades Search Measurement
comScore, a company that “measures the digital world”, has upgraded the way they define searches.
Truveo Shows Video Search Upgrades
Firefox Really Wants To See Upgrades Happen
It’s time to stop clinging to Firefox version 1.5 and move on up to 2.0, as the end of life period has not only arrived, but has been extended a little for late movers.
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