YouTube RealTime adds social element to YouTube
Google owned video sharing service YouTube has launched a new feature named RealTime which adds a social element to service.
RealTime is currently an invite only system and each new user gets 25 new invites to add his friends and relatives.
YouTube RealTime works as a toolbar at the bottom [...]
Warner Music Group to use Cisco EOS social platform
Networking industry giant Cisco has just launched their Eos platform which is basically a set of online tools which can be added to an existing website to make it more social.
Warner Music Group is one of the first companies to announce their plans to use this platform [...]
Yahoo Mail to become more social with an opened up platform
Yahoo has announced that they are now making their webmail service Yahoo Mail more social.
It would get integration with various third party services to make it more useful for the users.
The users would also get the option to set up their accounts to show mails [...]
In case you do not like the new iGoogle!
Google recently updated their iGoogle service which features a space consuming sidebar.
A lot of users of this service do not like the new feature.
They do however have a temporary solution.
Google has a link working which still enables the user to checkout the older format [...]
Delicious is five years old!
It’s hard to believe that social bookmarking is that old, but Delicious has just turned five.
The service is now owned by Yahoo and it recently went a major update.
Del.icio.us was renamed Delicious.com.
The company was acquired by Yahoo in December 2005.
Market sources say that the service is used by as [...]
Twine is now open to public
Twine is a web based service created by Radar Networks. It was announced last year in October and had been in limited beta testing since that time.
The developers have now opened the service for public usage.
Twine is designed to collect data in the form of forums, wikis, online databases and newsgroups. The developers [...]
Clearspring Technologies acquires AddThis
Clearspring Technologies has announced their decision to acquire AddThis.
Clearspring excels in providing web enabled widgets while AddThis enables social sharing of links.
Market analysts claim that AddThis is more popular than Del.icio.us and ShareThis.com. Del.icio.us is owned by Yahoo.
The two companies did not reveal the financial aspects of this acquisition deal.
Clearspring Chief Executive [...]
Magnolia goes open source
Social-bookmarking service Magnolia has announced that they are now making available their technology to open source community.
This means that anyone who wants to run a similar service can download it and install it on a web server.
This is similar to how blogging service WordPress works. User has the choice to blog on [...]
Digg to launch recommendation engine for users
Digg has announced that they would soon be adding a new interesting feature for their users.
This new feature has been named recommendation engine and it would display stories from similar users on the service.
It would enable the users to find submitted content which matches their past submitted/dugg stories on [...]
Microsoft Messenger TV service launched in 20 countries
Software giant Microsoft has announced the launch of their Messenger TV service in as many as 20 countries.
The service allows the users of their Live Messenger application to watch video clips together with their friends.
Messenger TV would offer video clips from MSN Video from sources like MTV and [...]
