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Facebook’s App Centre comes to UK

Facebook’s App Centre comes to UK

If you have been eagerly pinning for Facebook App Centre which was launched almost a month ago in the US, your prayers are now answered. Facebook has now launched it over in the UK. Facebook App Centre  makes it easier for its members  to find games, music services and media content. It had more than 600 apps available from day one – including Instagram, Spotify Pinterest and Draw Something. The [...]
December 2010 Apps to look out for [Video]

December 2010 Apps to look out for [Video]

Below is a playlist of a few new (web)apps that look amazing. The apps are: Instagr.am Miso Super Marmite Garmz.com Nuji.com 3D Face reproduction sytem ( through that one in cos it looks awesome!) Related articles Some 16 Startups are selected to compete at LeWeb (eu.techcrunch.com)
W3C Says HTML5 Isn’t Ready for the Web

W3C Says HTML5 Isn’t Ready for the Web

Image via Wikipedia HTML5 is in the limelight since the day Apple opted for it and rejected Flash, everyone from mobile developers to  Google to  Microsofthave backed the standard as the future. Everyone, that is, except for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the official standards organization of the Web. “There is already a lot of excitement for HTML5, but it’s a little too early [...]
Yahoo Revamps its Search Engine

Yahoo Revamps its Search Engine

Yahoo has rolled out refreshed search engine favoring news and entertainment related searches for Yahoo U.S. domain.  When you visit search.yahoo.com and search for entertainment or news-related topics, you ll get to see a box with vertical text tabs for different options – Videos, Images and Twitter. Yahoo is indeed trying to keep up in the search engine competition.  ” These are [...]
71%  of Tweets generates zero replies or retweets

71% of Tweets generates zero replies or retweets

For all the people who thought that you are getting heard and noticed by your twitter followers have got this wrong. Findings from a research from social-analytics company Sysomos reveals that  tweets have fleeting value over the course of a day. After analyzing over 1.2 billion tweets, the Sysomos team found that only 29% of tweets actually produce a reaction – a reply or a retweet. According [...]
Gmail to introduce non-threaded, chronologically ordered emails

Gmail to introduce non-threaded, chronologically ordered emails

I loved Gmail and everything about it, except the disability to view each individual message in chronological order, reportedly that is going to change.  Google is set to  announce the functionality to disable Gmail’s conversation view e-mail threading feature, conversation view has been one of its most hotly debated features since Gmail’s launch. Google is apparently trying to woo corporate [...]
Kindle for the Web

Kindle for the Web

Amazon has announced ‘Kindle for the Web’ beta, which allows book samples and snippets to be read directly from a web browser without any Kindle software. Customers simply click the “Read first chapter FREE” button on a book product page on Amazon or on other websites, and the first chapter will open within the web page. Customers can change the font size and line spacing, [...]
Facebook releases Page Browser to help with recommendations

Facebook releases Page Browser to help with recommendations

Facebook has officially launched a new feature for helping users discover Facebook Pages, the tool is called “Page Browser,”and  was briefly available to users earlier this month. Page Browser suggestions are tailored based on pages users previously ‘Liked’, and following a new Page simply entails clicking on its icon. Users can search for the pages based on “Country” or famous tags [...]
‘Facebook Isnt Working’ Twitter goes berserk

‘Facebook Isnt Working’ Twitter goes berserk

Facebook is down and Twitter users went into frenzy with people tweeting and re-tweeting, with “RETWEET IF YOUR FACEBOOK ISNT WORKING” leading the pack. There were the usual sarcastic, funny, insulting, philosophical, thought-provoking, angry tweets doing the rounds for ‘Facebook Isnt Working’. We bring you some of the gems! KourtneyJessica Facebook isnt working. What would [...]
Facebook is down (again)

Facebook is down (again)

Facebook is currently inaccessible, this makes it second time in two days that the social networking site went down, after issues at a third-party networking provider Facebook was down for some users yesterday. Here is what Facebook has to say “We are currently experiencing latency issues with the API, and we are actively investigating. We will provide an update when either the issue is resolved [...]
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