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Technorati launched it’s new versio...
Written by firstrank on October 15, 2009
Technorati's new feature that lets author can post their content directly to the site.
Another significant change to Technorati is to its Top 100 Blogs. "Until today, the top 100 blogs were determined based on unique links from other blogs during the previous six months," explains well-known blogger Michael Arrington. "The top list was fairly static. Now they are focusing much more on recent data within the last month and giving blogs an authority rank between 1 – 1,000. Scoring factors include posting frequency, context, linking behavior and “other inputs.” The result, says the company,is a lot more volatility in the ...
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Facebook Launches New Create Applicat...
Written by firstrank on October 15, 2009
It is easier for users to integrate facebook on their website and widgets.
"Many websites are looking for ways to integrate Facebook Connect, such as commenting using Facebook identity or showing visitors their Facebook friends' recent activity," says Facebook software engineer Vishu Gupta. "Companies like DISQUS offer widgets to such websites, providing off-the-shelf Facebook integration with just a few clicks."
"Every website that wants to integrate with Facebook needs an API key. The Create Application API allows widget providers to programmatically generate this API key and other necessary settings," says Gupta. "For example, a fourth party comment system like DISQUS can ...
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Twitter Partners With India’s L...
Written by firstrank on October 15, 2009
Big Day for twitter
Today Twitter has announced a partnership with Bharti Airtel Indias Largest telecom company.
Biz Stone explained on the Twitter Blog, "Our partnership with Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India, means a huge population of people can now send tweets at standard rates and receive tweets for free. Bharti Airtel is offering people in every city, every village, every remote taluk and even the smallest panchayat the opportunity to connect to Twitter and enjoy the open exchange of information with no added fees.
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Twitter is not about technology, it's about people. We worked quickly to establish full SMS ...
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Twitter to introduce real-time video ...
Written by firstrank on October 13, 2009
Amy Willis wrote, “Twitter users may soon be posting real-time video tweets in addition to text tweets under plans to modernise the site. The upgrade, which is being discussed by Twitter's founders, will enable Twitter users to upload brief video snippets to their profiles directly from mobile phones, laptops and other devices.”
Source : Telegraph.co.uk ...
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Digg Introduced It’s New “Content...
Written by firstrank on October 12, 2009
Digg has launched new ad called “Digg content ads”.
“Digg Content Ads are basically widgets that contain previous Digg homepage stories that are relevant to the industry or company that is advertising on Digg. For example, Symantec is testing the model with banners that pull in popular security-technology stories from the Digg archive”.
"At Digg, we think ads will feel more relevant (and thus work better for brands) if they feature the kind of content we look for online," saysDigg's Chas Edwards. "One way to do this – one that’s very native to the Digg experience – is to encourage advertisers to re-aggregate ...
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Facebook’s Social Market Share ...
Written by firstrank on October 12, 2009
According to Experian Hitwise :
U.S. visits to social networking sites have increased 62 percent year over year;
visits from 55 and older age group have increased 77 percent
Tagged received 2.38 percent of visits in September 2009, the third-largest amount. Twitter had the largest percentage gain in market share of visits among the top five visited Web sites, increasing 1170 percent compared with September 2008. U.S. visits to social networking Web sites increased 62 percent in September 2009 versus September 2008 among the custom category of 155 of the leading social networking sites.
Source: Experian Hitwise ...
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Scribd Launches Branded Document Read...
Written by firstrank on October 12, 2009
Scribd has launched a free version of document reader for select media companies and blogs.
The new Scribd reader includes a Scribd watermark and allows media companies to embed source materials such as court filings and memos in articles. Scribd says its reader will increase people's time on a site and extend brands across the Internet. More than five million Scribd readers have been embedded online.
"The concept of news and journalism is quickly evolving," said Trip Adler, CEO and co-founder of Scribd.
"With this launch, Scribd is giving news organizations a way to present their source material as an important part of ...
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PDF Usability Increases in Google Sea...
Written by firstrank on October 12, 2009
This is based on the similar technology that is used by Google Docs and Gmail. Google says they've actually been rolling out the feature in search results since July, and now they have more than half of the PDFs in their index available this way.
"In the past, the only way to view these documents was to download them and open them in a separate viewer application," says Google. "To provide an alternative, we made it possible to quickly and easily view these files as HTML right in a web browser by clicking 'View as HTML.' This was an improvement, but ...
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Gets Image, Feed, and Template Featur...
Written by firstrank on October 12, 2009
Now user can upload directly to picasa web albums from within Google sites. It is also easier for your friends and family to follow updates from Google sites.
"Feeds are also available for site comments (add "comments.xml") and site activity (add "activity.xml")," says Google Sites Senior Product Manager Scott Johnson. "Announcement and comment feeds follow the permission of the site and require authentication for private sites. This means online feed readers which don't support authenticated feeds won't be able to subscribe to private site feeds or site activity."
Frederic Lardinois with ReadWriteWeb makes an interesting connection in that the insert dialog ...
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Paid Listings in Yahoo Filtered Searc...
Written by firstrank on October 12, 2009
Yahoo has given more opportunities to Advertisers the facility to have their ads shown in the yahoo filtered search results. All ads will be relevant to the topic.
"On our new search page, if a searcher types in a phrase such as 'buy pink floyd', he can further refine his search results by clicking on links on the left-hand side of the page, which include sites that users often find useful. If the user clicks on one of the suggested sites, he’ll get a smaller set of results from that domain only," explains Yahoo's Jeff Hecox. "Now, if the user selects ...
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