Archive : Web

Amazon “Send to Kindle” feature which are currently available as plug-ins for Google Chome and Mozilla Firefox browsers is now going to be available for websites. The functionality will compete other apps like Instapaper and Pocket. “The Send to Kindle Button lets readers save your content to read later on their Kindle, at their convenience. Adding this button to your website opens it up [...]

Google has had Chat feature since the launch of Gmail, the newer services too got the chat feature limited to the application, for instance – If you are working on a Google Doc on your corporate GDrive account, your colleague will not be able to text chat with you from Gtalk/Gchat. This is repordely going to change. Google reportedly plans to re-brand and unify its various chat services, like [...]

Pinterest, the third social network, announced some slight changes to the design of the site and some new features. Pinterest  has been testing the new look since January. Pinterest still has the big photos in a grid, just a bit bigger now,along the top of the homescreen is a new navigation bar. A new button in the top left, next to the search bar, gives out  a list of categories, including Animals, [...]

Dropbox is buying the Mailbox mobile app and Gmail client for the iPhone. The details of the deals weren’t disclosed. Mailbox would remain a separate app as the entire team joins Dropbox. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston told the WSJ that his company felt it “could help Mailbox reach a much different audience much faster.” “Like many of you, when we discovered Mailbox we fell in love—it was simple, [...]

Google has announced that Google is retiring it’s RSS application Google Reader on July 1. Google Reader was developed in 2005 for users to curate and discover online content. The news came today in a “Spring Cleaning” blog post from Google, where the company said: We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. [...]

Pinterest launched a  web analytics tool for Bloggers and website administrators to see how much traffic Pinterest has referred to their websites including how frequently users are clicking on their photos. The  Pinterest Web Analytics can be accessed from here. Businesses  are keen to know what content is popular on Pinterest, since it gives them a window into customers ever changing preferences. [...]

Facebook on Friday announced new ways for developers to tap into Open Graph with verbs:  run, walk, bike, rate, quote, want to read and want to watch. Facebook made the announcement in a Blog post. New actions for lifestyle apps The Open Graph supports a variety of popular activities, like watching videos, and we’re adding the following new common actions: Fitness: run, walk, bike Books: read, [...]

Twitter rolled out a new version of its iOS and Android app, search feature gets improvements including additional topic and user suggestions when searching. Twitter has removed video uploading support for Mobypicture, Posterous, and Vodpod. This will make TwitVid and YFrog the exclusive video uploading services via Twitter’s iOS app. “We recently introduced the ability to see older Tweets [...]

YouTube will be reportedly launching a subscription music service to take on the likes of Spotify and the rumoured Apple iTunes subscription service according to Fortune. Ryan Bradley and Jessi Hempel, writing for Fortune: The two new services are defined by their respective places in the Google empire: Google Play for Android is a digital locker for music – users buy, store, and sort a collection [...]

Google’s plan to take on Amazon and Ebay were earlier reported by  The Wall Street Journal, Google is now reportedly preparing the launch of a same-day delivery service, Google Shopping Express according toTechCrunch. TechCrunch’s report says that the Google’s service would cost between $10 to $15 less than Amazon Prime’s service of free two-day shipping for $79 per year. Google’s [...]