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 [...]
Google Map Buddy: Access Google Maps offline!
Google Map Buddy is a free application that does one thing easily.
It enables you to save imagery from Google Maps offline that can come handy at times when there is no internet connectivity available.
You can download them for viewing or printing. The software does all the [...]
Google Maps Navigation launched for Android 1.6
Google has announced the launch of Google Maps Navigation for Android 1.6 platform.
Google Maps Navigation is already available for Android 2.0.
It was launched along with the Motorola Droid smartphone which became the first in the market to be powered by Android 2.0 edition.
Google spoke about [...]
Twitter: Selling is not an option. IPO is.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has said it again. They have no plans to sell the company to any of the web biggies like Google or Microsoft.
The company is here to stay and might opt for an IPO in the coming years.
Stone did say that they are closing [...]
Seesmic for Windows updated
Seesmic developers have released an updated edition of their Seesmic for Windows client.
It is a bug fix edition and no major feature has been added.
Seesmic for Windows is a native Twitter client for Windows.
Checkout: Seesmic for Windows
Facebook went down for some users. Is back up now.
Facebook is the most popular social network on the web and it is currently facing downtime problems.
It is up for us now. But a lot of users on Twitter have reported similar problems.
Facebook has confirmed that they are facing problems and they are [...]
Facebook to allow updates to status messages through e-mail
Social networking service Facebook is currently testing a new feature with limited number of users which allows them to respond to status messages through email.
Currently, the service sends you an email with an alert. You have to click on the link to access the message [...]
Yahoo Go shutting down next year
Yahoo has announced that they would shut down their Yahoo GO service next year.
This mobile service was launched by the internet media giant way back in 2006.
Yahoo has not updated it in months now and it would now shut down on January 12, 2010.
Yahoo Go has [...]
