Facebook users were allowed to have a username for their pages since yesterday. The swarming number of users who registered a username for themselves was really alarming. Avid users desparately grabbed the desirable names for themselves and within three minutes around 2,00,000 names were registered.
Twitter’s integrated search is not that cool and many of you may agree with that. Twitter sorts the results by their date i.e. in a chronological order and not their relevancy. Though there are third party sites that let you search through Twitter and provide much better results than Twitter’s integrated search. But these too are not much remarkable and one would wish to have a perfect search engine like Google, Yahoo or Bing for microblogging sites like Twitter.
It was announced that Twitter is soon going to launch verified accounts. It has been launched and you can see a “Verified Account” badge in the Twitter pages of many popular Twitterers. Well, everyone cannot use this feature as it is limited only to celebrities, musicians, organizations and other public agencies. You can see the twitter pages of Ashton Kutcher, mashable etc.
Microsoft’s Bing is out for a while now. Many of us have already tested Bing and found it to be much faster and user friendly than Live search. Well developers get ready for the Bing API. Bing has a very good REST API.
Google Video search has added some advanced search options making it more easier to find videos. You must have noticed one of the latest features in Google Search, the “Show Options”. A similar “show options” can be found in Google video search now. You just do a search and you’ll see the “search options” at the top.
Google Chrome, the browser that is gaining much popularity today has built temptation for Linux and Mac users regarding the launch of Chrome for these platforms. Well now Linux and Mac users will be able to use Chrome, or to say a crash prone version of Chrome.
Microsoft is soon rolling out its new search engine, Bing. Formerly known as Kumo, Bing is the latest effort by Microsoft in the Search Engine scenario after live search. It is expected to be public from June 3, 2009. There are rumors saying that Microsoft will be spending $100 million for the official release of its search engine Bing.
Google announced Google Web Elements at the I/O developer conference. It lets you easily add gadgets to your site. Google Web Elements allows you to easily embed a Spreadsheet, Maps or News Results to your site. Although these features were already available from the respective sites, Google Web Elements comes with an initiative to let people easily embed a Google Powered Gadget into their sites.
“Animoto, the End of the Slideshows”-You must have heard this if you’ve ever used Animoto. It is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. You’ll just need to upload images and you’ll have a stunning video comprising of your images. You can also add music to your videos. There are some really cool transitional effects available and every time you get different result even for the same collection of photos. You can go try it by sign up and then start making videos from your pictures without doing any technical work.
Many of us have started using the facial recognition technology to search people offered by iPhoto or Google Picasa. But how would it be to look for your friends’ photos using the Facial Recognition technology? Sounds cool? Face.com is bringing this technology to facebook via a new application called the Photo Finder. Not only you’ll be able to search your friends’ photos in your network but also look for them in other photos where you’ll get suggestions for tagging them.
