Gmail Chat gets Google+ Hangouts

It was way back in 2008 when Google introduced Gmail video chat option. And we all loved it! Especially when it was providing options to millions to stay in touch wherever they may be in terms of their geographical locations. Apparently that's what Google says it found out and thus wanted to improve on that. What they did? They bring for us the Google+ Hangouts that will replace the normal video chat option that we are so used to currently. Doesn't come as surprise? Know why? Read on... Since the introduction of its social network, the search...

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Google Calculator Goes Scientific

The search giant doesn't stop mesmerizing its users with sometimes out of the world things and sometimes some small updates that gets so useful for a day to day life. Like this one where Google gets to you faster with the math calculations that you would think. Google' calculator has gone scientific and right on the search results page. Interesting? Yes. Useful? Much!! The 34 button calculator appears right above the search results as you perform...

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A Professional Facebook?

Facebook is a social media giant, we refer to them by that name; so its obvious that we do not doubt the fact that they are. Not at least in our minds! Yes we do agree that Google, the search giant, are on their way to do a catch up, but that should be a while before we start thinking of someone else. Arguable? Yes, and we agree. But its not the social aspect of the site that we are to discuss today. Its more on the professional way. Yes you heard...

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Jelly Bean Comes To Nexus S

We mentioned Jelly Bean enough in the last few months (including the Google I/O day 1 coverage) that the anticipation of it coming to someone' Nexus was building day by day especially after the announcement that we received of Jelly Bean OTA starting up. And we finally have it on our Nexus(es) and so we bring to you the much awaited hands on experience as we tried it out on our android devices. The OTA started around a week back with the official...

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Cafe4tune: Social Network with 3D touch and Karaoke Options

Till now in our journey we have covered both social and professional networks so this shouldn't be any different or is it? Cafe4tune is a social network which like others is free to join, but that's obviously is not why we are covering this one. What makes it different from others is the features that they offer to their users. Read on and you will know why and what! Cafe4tune, founded in 2011 offers its users larger than life ways of interacting...

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Blogger : Custom Permalinks For Posts

W covered the news when earlier this year Google made some SEO specific updates to its blogging service, Blogger. The changes included : the Meta description option a custom 404 page the custom robots.txt a way to include alt and title tags to your post images  a way to mark a link as nofollow to name a few. That made things simple for bloggers or otherwise they were producing pages that weren't that much on the SEO compliance level and also...

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Divorced LinkedIn Gets a Facelift

A couple of weeks before Twitter cut out the partnering source line that allowed users to sync updates from one site to another. Thus ending the near 3yr association between the two. Although LinkedIn users will still be able to post and share their contents on their Twitter accounts by the click of a button, the reverse will no longer be possible. The announcement came via an official blog post from their head of product content, Ryan Roslansky....

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ApnaCircle Revamps Skills and Connection Requests Section

In the last couple of days, ApnaCircle and Viadeo have been busy revamping certain sections of the site and in the process giving a face uplift to the whole header and footer section. Besides the changes to header and footer there have been a nice one click recommendation confirmation feature and revamping with features on the connection response flow. And, there has been a nice little Google plus stream like feature that could be handy, we will...

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ApnaCircle Brand Ambassador Competition

ApnaCircle, India' leading Business and Career Networking portal, has started up with an initiative to create the networking and career awareness in the youth of India. The initiative called the Brand Ambassador competition will help the youth create an identity for themselves and groom as part of the campaign. This will be a chance for the participants to promote themselves on a bigger level. So if you are a college goer this could turn out to...

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Personal and Professional Google+ Profiles Merge Now Possible

If you are a Google user who uses both the normal Google+ profile and also one that is linked to your Google Apps account, you will be happy to know that Google now has option to link or rather merge the two profiles. The merge is possible by a tool called Google Takeout. This is a new tool introduced by Google a few days back as part of the search giant' data portability initiative. The tool helps one to transfer their Google+ Circles and other...

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Google Launches MyTrack 2.0 Android App

Initially launched in 2009, MyTrack Android App has got a makeover in the Google Play Store a couple of days back. MyTrack is an Android app that is capable of visualizing your location over time for sharing in Google Maps as well as Google Earth. This is achieved as the app uses the GPS capabilities of your phone. The initial version was used by the Google team to track HTC team Columbia during the Tour de France. A year later Google released...

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Digg Sold Out: Reasons & Path Ahead

Earlier this year when Washington Post Company hired some 15 engineers from the site for some of its own social product development, it was only a matter of time till we heard Digg getting acquired. The news finally came out that Betaworks, better known for its services like bit.ly and news.me, has acquired Digg.com and the rumor was that the deal was closed for an eyebrow raising amount of $500K. Although as Digg' current CEO Matt Williams told...

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