Archive : Web

Google have just launched a set of new features on Gmail which changes the way users interact with labels. So what’s new: Labels are now on the left hand side, according to Googles blog above the chat box, however I have the right hand side chat enabled so it’s above my documents box now. Hiding less used labels is something you have control over now, which is great, I usually underscore my most [...]

Web startup 12seconds caused a bit of a stir last year when they launched a cool (but gimmicky) video service. The idea was that people record 12 second video clips directly on their site (via Flash). There 12second clips could then be commented on by other people, and submitted like an RSS feed to Twitter, your blog and all the usual social media links. Now 12seconds are taking a fresh twist on things. [...]

We just received two brand spanking new screenshots of Microsoft’s new search engine. Not yet launched, the Microsoft Live Search replacement will go by the name of Bing. Although we find landscape pictures of London’s Tower Bridge and the Dover Cliffs very nice to look at, we’re not sure that huge backgrounds are a good idea for a search engine page. Maybe Microsoft should take a [...]

Straight from the “Say What?!” department, this is one of those stories that makes you double back and re-read, in the thought that you must have read it wrong the first time. Twitter are to be launching their own TV program. That’s right, social-networkings / micro-blogging website Twitter have been in talks with Reveille productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and it [...]

Sporkings have been trialling WordPress 2.8 beta recently and we have to say we Love it! One of the best things to come out of this release is the editor for themes and plugins, see screenshot, this is what an editor should look like! 2.8 when officially released offers a plethora of new features: User Features New Theme Installer routines Use “Custom Header” for menu text and revise [...]

Any other news site you’ll read tonight will be talking about how Wolfram is the new ‘Google killer’. We fail to see how this is so. If anything, Wolfram is in competition with Wikipedia. The service works with what they call “computational knowledge engine”, or what we call “providing answers yo questions”. Ask yourself what would you get if you spliced Google [...]

Google have launched their first television advertising campaign ever. To be shown only in the US, their ad is promoting Chrome. Chrome being Google’s Internet browser that caused much hype in 2008, grabbing 1.4% of the market. This may not sound a lot, but for the browser market that’s huge. Any company that can take a chunk of Microsoft’s monopoly definitely has something to brag [...]

Who’s not on Twitter these days? Apparently Google wasn’t, they launched on Thursday with their first tweet: “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010” which is binary for “I’m feeling lucky” classic! You can follow Google here There’s speculation around the [...]