Google Plus Local With Zagat

Remember Google Places? If your answer is no (in the slightest of chances), don't bother to Google it as Google itself gave you a reason to forget it. On Wednesday, Google announced that it's replacing Google Places with another product that seems aimed at a tight integration with its social network Google Plus and is being speculated yet another effort of the search engine giant to make sure its social network gets to each person on browsing the...

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Twitter Gets Performance Dose

Back in 2010 Twitter made a huge revamp both in the front end UI and the architecture that they used previous to the update. The architecture adapted broke a new path and opened a few others for the micro-blogging site to use new features and functionality that came across as a result. But that also meant that while the front end JS was able to interact with the Twitter REST APIs directly (just like the mobile clients), it presented a few optimization...

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Viadeo Company Pages and LinkedIn Member Growth

And the tussle continues!! Good for everyone out there as the user base grows on using the professional portals for their career path. If you are still confused on which one is better, keep thinking(at least for now) as I will be discussing more on the latest updates on these two platforms and not (as far as possible) do a comparison. But yes, only because we can't do away from it I will tell you to go on and create your account on both the sites,...

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A Google a Day !

An apple a day turned to an app a day (with the smartphones turning up) and now we have another one, its called A Google a Day. Don't go on the order or similarity, its just the phrase kind of thing. This is from the Official Google Search blog: A Google a Day is a trivia game where searching for the answer on Google is not only allowed but encouraged.  A Google a Day is a search trivia game that was launched around April last year. Since...

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Facebook Camera, Instagram Clone?

It was around a month and a half back that we covered Facebook' deal about Instagram and now a couple of days back Facebook released a camera app for iOS which looks and functions pretty much like Instagram. The app is available in the App Store. [Image Credit: Francesco] The app is available for free in the store for Apple users and improves upon the features provided by the native camera app offered by the social media giant. While the native...

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New Google+ for Android

At 10.09MB we got an update to possibly the most famous of the apps that I might be using on my Android device. It was a few days back that we reported an update of the same app as it got a makeover on iPhone, and this was a few hours back: New Google+ for Android Its a complete 'New Google+ for Android', sitting at version 2.6 in the Google Play Store. The look is pretty much photo centric and sports a ribbon like menu which you will be familiar...

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Share-It Widgets

While we keep seeing the share widgets and apps across the hundreds of pages we visit each day, not always do we bother paying attention on the usage criteria of these widgets. Not unless you are an user and gets upsets over the time and number of clicks that it takes to share a piece of article that you found interesting enough to share with your friends.  While if you are a site or blog owner who pt ta share widget on her pages (or...

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Viadeo Student Challenge

Viadeo the Paris based ApnaCircle parent & Professional Social Network (PSN) and the company that challenges LinkedIn is holding a Student Challenge event, which seems to be an annual custom(from last year). They did this last year as per the info on their blog it seems it was a good success. You may read more details on their blog here. Since the first edition of the event was a success, the have decided to renew the operation and...

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ApnaCircle Revamps Settings Pages

India's answer to LinkedIn and French based Viadeo's Group company ApnaCircle.com gave their site' setting pages a new look. The new look was pushed live somewhere mid last week. The changes, detailed later in this post, will help members making changes to their privacy and account settings a bit more easy as compared to the previous look/flow that the company had. Its yet another change on the professional portal that is striving to make the members...

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Google May Prefer Multi Makers For Jelly Bean

Nexus One on HTC, Nexus S with Samsung and so was Galaxy Nexus. But this time, as reports from WSJ suggests, Google is pretty much on way to put another Google phone in to smartphone competition but with multiple mobile device makers.   Google May Prefer Multi Makers For Jelly Bean The new phone will, easily guessed, be running on Android's new version(possibly 5.0), codenamed Jelly Bean and it seems the search giant has plans to make...

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Gmail Search & Circle Integration

Google just seems to be going all out with the feature roll-outs and integration in between its products. We have been trying to cover all of the news from the search giant and in process may have missed a couple for sure ;). Google is Google after all! OK, so this time what they bring-in is cute and little but a handy feature when it comes to users interacting with their network on Gmail. The new features will have new way of presenting you the...

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Facebook App Center Launched

In its effort to be what no one can chase, Facebook is becoming more of a platform rather than a product it was some years before when it first came in to picture. Facebook has now launched its own application center which is on the same lines as that of Apple and Google. Facebook App Center Facebook users will be able to add apps to their Timeline with ease now. You may download apps that are available both as free and paid modes....

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Bing Search Going Social

Microsoft revamped its search engine Bing with a major redesign calling it to be around the Search Goes Social theme. The redesign came into existence last Thursday when Bing sent out the following tweet and thus making the multiple alliances with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Quora and FourSquare official: Bing Search Going Social Analysts suggest the move from Microsoft to be a very good and impressive one. They are hailing the new design...

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Apple's iCloud Photo Sharing Features

At a time when deals of companies buying the photo sharing app (read Facebook buys Instagram) is doing the rounds, the idea in the market is pretty much clear. Photo sharing apps are here to stay and smartphone usage in the arena is nowhere but in your hands playing with your fingers. Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2012 is a few weeks ago, and the news circling around is that Apple' iCloud Photo Sharing Features are only to get better...

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