Microsoft wants in on the drive to speed up the web. The company plans to submit its proposal for a faster internet protocol to the standards body charged with creating HTTP 2.0. Not coincidentally, that standards body, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), is meeting this week to discuss the (read more…)
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Vringo’s app Facetones plays video slideshows of friends’ Facebook photos when you call or receive calls from them. Staying in touch once revolved around the phone call. Now many use social networks more than phone calls, and they increasingly see their devices as portals to social media sites. As Vringo (read more…)
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Google+ turns a month old tomorrow, July 28th, but it already claims up to 20 million members. And since the service went live, Google Inc. stock has gone up nearly 30 percent, raising the value of the company (the “market cap” in Wall Street jargon) by $45 billion. Response to (read more…)
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Since the launch of the new Google+ social network and it’s subsequent explosion in users (about 10 million to date to be exact), CenterNetworks is introducing a “Google+ Expert Course”. The “Google+ Expert Course” will be offered in 4 cities in 2011 – to be announced by CenterNetworks shortly. But (read more…)
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How to Move Your Facebook Photos to Google+ Google is making plans to retire Picasa and Blogger, renaming the two apps Google Photos and Google Blogs respectively, (in light of their integration with Google+). This timely news has made way for an application called Move2Picasa which lets you connect to (read more…)
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So everybody has been going on about this Google Chrome extension you can install that basically scrapes your Facebook friends data from Facebook and exports it to you in CSV format, however now Facebook has blocked the scraping techniques and the extension is useless, luckily there is a legal way (read more…)
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One of the questions we had when the news broke about the Facebook/Skype partnership: Would group video chat be part of the product, and if so would it be free? The answer is no, there’s no group chat. Facebook says that one on one video chat is far more (read more…)
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The Google Plus team is still plugging away at the creation of brand pages for companies, and the service is still being rolled out to consumers, but that doesn’t mean businesses can’t start taking advantage of it. Officially, you’re not supposed to set up a profile on Plus to represent (read more…)
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Google has launched a new tool, Google Sites Mobile that makes it easy for businesses to create mobile-friendly websites incredibly quickly with Google Sites. The new mobile templates for Google Sites is a follow-up to the mobile sites rollout the company introduced last week. Now in addition to automatically rendering (read more…)
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“Just tell me how I can get an invite to Google Plus?” Google VP Vic Gundotra officially announced yesterday that the company had shut down the invite-whomever-you’d-like system because of “insane demand.” Learn more. Google announced Tuesday, June 28th, the launch of a new social network, called Google +, or (read more…)
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