Archive : Web

YouTube has started a two day trial of its new streaming platform, which enables broadcasters to stream live video directly into YouTube channels.   YouTube has brought in four content partners, namely Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood. YouTube says that live streaming is “a natural evolution to online video that adds an extra level of engagement”, but this is also [...]

Mozilla released two new editions of Mozilla Firefox browser – Firefox 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12 with an aim to fix critical security vulnerabilities in each and to help Web site operators block  clickjacking. Its becoming crucial for Web browsers to constantly watch for new attack possibilities as they become more powerful and independent of the Operating Systems. The 10 critical vulnerabilities [...]

Google’s just announced Google Instant service, through which you can see details about its immediate result delivery. Basically, the search function no longer waits for you to hit enter while searching and starts updating its results page instantly as you type. “We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical [...]

// According to a study carried out by  Net Applications last month, iOS (devices running iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) is the third most popular platform on the Internet – Microsoft Windows and Apple’s OS X occupy the top two positions –   with a 1.13% market share, way ahead of  Android’s 0.20% market share and Linux’s  0.85% user share. “It’s something to take [...]

Twitter will be enabling Push Notifications service soon for iPhone and iPad. Twitter’s official iPad app, which launched a couple of days ago to and was embraced positively. Twitter’a app  for iPhone,  formerly known as Tweetie,  has been around for the past  few  months, it has the crown for for  the most-used Twitter interfaces with  8% of all users of Twitter accessing the app [...]

Facebook has reportedly pulled the plug on using the ‘Facebook Connect’ on iTunes Ping by turning off Apple’s access to its Facebook Connect API, as  an agreement between Apple and Facebook couldn’t be reached,  prompting Facebook to cut off access.  Apple subsequently removed the feature from its service. Ideally, Facebook’s  API is open to any application developer, [...]

If you  log into your Facebook at a public computer, but forget to log out when you leave,  now, you don’t have to worry about people accessing your sensitive personal information and possibly wreaking  havoc by posing as you, thanks to the launch of a new feature that gives users the ability to see their overall account activity and remotely log out of active sessions. Remote Logout [...]

Twitter is temporarily disabling the new “Who to Follow” feature. Twitter launched  “Who to Follow” few weeks ago as a way to give Twitter users suggestions for other users to follow. Among other factors suggestions are based on things like, the people you follow, the people they follow and other factors. “We’ve temporarily turned off the “Who To Follow” feature and will [...]

Twitter has announced a new beta service called Site Streams a new feature on the Streaming API. The new functionality allows mobile push services  to immediately display new tweets, mentions and other data as soon as they come in without having to deal with Twitter’s REST API rate limits. “The initial version delivers events created by, or directed to, users that have shared their OAuth [...]

MySpace MySpace had few weeks ago revamped itself and looked more like Facebook, it is now further sucking up to its once bitter rival by allowing  MySpace users to sync their posts to Facebook, which means  that users on Facebook can see their friends’ MySpace items without leaving Facebook. Apart from updates, users can share their links, photos, videos, music and application installations [...]