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Yahoo Enters in Content Sharing Partnership with Twitter
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on February 24th, 2010
Yahoo has announced a partnership with Twitter that will provide them a bigger window onto the social networking scene while pushing the exposure of the Twitter micro-blogging service.
The Twitter partnership will transform Yahoo into a highly customisable social experience that enables both Yahoo and Twitter users to enjoy integrated content without ever having to travel between the two platforms.
Google Acquires Aardvark Web Service for $50 Million
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on February 12th, 2010
Google Inc. has bought Aardvark, a free question-and-answer Web service for $50 million.
Aardvark was formed in 2007 by Horowitz and three others - two of whom are former Google employees. It lets users ask questions online that are routed to friends and friends of friends. The goal is to get relevant answers on any topic as quickly as possible.
Twitter Disables Feature on Site Due to Security Flaw
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on January 23rd, 2010
Twitter has temporarily disabled one of the features on its website after a security researcher warned of a programming flaw that left the login credentials of its users vulnerable to hackers.
The company had temporarily cut off access to a feature that lets users display Twitter updates on their websites by using Flash technology.
Vdopia Introduces Talk2Me Feature on iVdopia
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on January 20th, 2010
Video advertising network Vdopia has introduced a new feature, called Talk2Me, on its iPhone 3G advertising platform iVdopia.
The Talk2Me ad feature allows users to replay the video advertisements; share the ads through Twitter or Facebook; and respond to advertisers by calling, sending an SMS text, emailing or filling out a short form.
Microsoft To Start Xbox Live for Windows Mobile
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on January 1st, 2010
Xbox LIVE service is soon coming for Windows Mobile phones. Microsoft is extending Xbox LIVE service beyond the console platform.
Apart from bringing Xbox LIVE platform to Windows Mobile, Microsoft is mostly interested in adding Xbox LIVE experience to Windows Mobile based smartphones.
Twitter Buys GeoAPI Creators Mixer Labs - Location Tracker Startup
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on December 24th, 2009
Micro blogging platform Twitter has bought Mixer Labs, who are the creators of GeoAPI, a comprehensive service for helping developers build geolocation-aware applications.
The Mixer Labs crew has been working on harnessing the power of local information for a couple of years and recently launched GeoAPI.
Ellerdale - Real Time Updates on Trending Topics
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 21st, 2009
Ellerdale.com is a service that uses semantic search technology to improve the web by indexing web pages using topics instead of keyword strings.
What is Semantic Search Technology?
Semantic search technology enables accurate retrieval of information via concept or meaning match. It deals with looking beyond simple links that make up the web to understand a deeper meaning and context behind that content.
Ellerdale.com’s Search Sources
Ellerdale has created a comprehensive catalog of the most important topics in the real world from Wikipedia, Freebase, Twitter, RSS, and by crawling the web. It has analyzed and indexed this data to identify topics in text.
Using this information, it show you the latest tweets, RSS articles and trending URLs which are all organized by topic.
Display Trending Topics
The site also analyzes trends in Tweets and feeds to display trending topics and topic clusters organized by categories e.g. trending people, trending films, trending companies, trending sports, etc.
Emote.in - A Microblogging Service That Lets You Share Your Emotions with Your Friends
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Latest Startups, startups on December 10th, 2009
Emote is a new microblogging service that lets you share messages within your network and public. It seems to accommodate all the features that you might find in their role model site Twitter.com.
The website looks pretty neat, but lacks attractiveness. It needs to be worked upon from design perspective.
One of the features that interested us was the Groups feature, which though replicates Lists in Twitter, but is certainly a feature that can help people share thoughts on similar things.
CommunityMatrimony.com Members Can Now Display Twitter Updates on Their Profile
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on December 8th, 2009
CommunityMatrimony.com, a part of Consim Info Pvt. Ltd, has just tied the knot with Twitter. Members of CommunityMatrimony.com can now add their Twitter updates to their matrimony profile.
Tying up with Twitter will facilitate communication between singles based on affinity and mutual interests in the hope that they would be able to make better choices for a fulfilling marriage.
Microsoft Launches MSN Juku - Twitter Like Service in China
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on December 2nd, 2009
Microsoft has launched MSN Juku, a twitter-like service in China powered by Windows Live Messenger.
The new service, presently in beta, lets users post 140-character messages to an update screen that slowly scrolls old messages to the right.
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