Yahoo For Good: You In?
Yahoo is running a new campaign online to encourage web users to indulge in acts of kindness.
This new project is named You In? And it is part of their Yahoo for Good section.
Yahoo is asking you to share your acts of kindness which are displayed on a public [...]

sobees is another alternative Twitter client
Most of you would already know about TweetDeck and Seesmic.
sobees is another player in this market providing free Twitter clients.
sobees has on offer three different clients. One is a web based one which is powered by Microsoft Silverlight technology.
Second one is a desktop edition for Windows users [...]

Microsoft to launch transliteration tools for Indian languages
Microsoft has announced that they would soon launch transliteration tools for Indian languages.
The initial goal is to support languages including Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada and Malayalam.
These tools would enable users to type content in English language which would be converted to other languages.
Google [...]

Google Gmail web based interface seems to be facing problems
Google Gmail seems to be facing problems right now. We cannot get the web edition to work. It just fails trying to load emails.
It is however working fine through IMAP.
Waiting for an update from Google.

Twitter users are also reporting similar issues.
Google Apps Status Dashboard does not [...]

WordPress.com blogs finally get email subscription feature
Automattic has announced that they have added a new feature to the blogs hosted on their WordPress.com service.
Bloggers can now enable email subscription feature on their blogs.
They can enable this functionality by adding a newly added widget from their blog’s back-end.
WordPress.com users can simply click [...]

Sony has an Auto-Tune app for status messages on Facebook
You can now leave an auto-tuned status update on your Facebook profile.
Sony has made available an application that allows you to type in a message and select from a variety of options.
It is then converted into an Auto-Tune audio sequence that can be [...]

HootSuite now has support for Twitter Lists, Facebook and LinkedIn
HootSuite has announced addition of some new features on their network.
The service now feature support for Twitter Lists, Facebook and even LinkedIn accounts.
Users can get access to their existing Twitter Lists. They can also create new ones from within HootSuite.
Users also get the [...]

American Express launches Twitter powered OPEN Forum Pulse
American Express has launched a new section on their Open Forum platform.
OPEN Forum Pulse is powered by Twitter and it delivers Twitter updates related to small businesses.
Here is what the product description states:
OPEN Forum Pulse is a tool that helps you find and follow [...]

Google Reader can now display favicon of subscribed sites
Google Reader team has announced that they are adding a new optional feature that would display favicons of the subscribed sites.
Google Reader developers said that this was one of the most demanded features from the users of the service.
They have made it an optional [...]

Twitter has gone past 6 billion tweets
The number of tweets on the Twitter network continues to grow at a phenomenal rate.
GigaTweet is reporting that the number has now crossed the 6 billion mark.
At the time of this blog post, it was around 6,005,364,271.
It would be interesting to see how soon Twitter crosses [...]