Nielsen Online: users waste more time on Facebook than Google
Here is an eye-opener. Nielsen Online has reported that as per their research, web users tend to spend much more time on Facebook social network.
The report claimed that users spent an average of 5 hours, 46 minutes on it last month. This is much [...]
Yahoo launches Flickr Galleries
Galleries is the latest new feature on the Flickr service powered by Yahoo.
The company said that this feature would enable their users to make their own galleries from photos uploaded by other members.
A gallery can contain 18 photos or videos. Users also get the ability to write descriptions for the [...]
Google Ejabat: Arabic version of Google Answers launched
Search engine giant Google has launched a new web service named Ejabat aimed at the Arabic language users on the web.
This service would enable the users to put on questions and answer others in the Arabic language.
One of the aims of the service is to boost [...]
Flickr now has an official app on the Apple App Store
Yahoo owned photo sharing service Flickr has finally launched their own mobile app on the Apple App Store.
This app works on both iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
It can be used to browse through photos hosted on the service. You can also use it [...]
Yahoo Meme is their answer to Twitter?
Twitter remains one of the most popular web services.
We have seen a couple of rival services emerging and then disappearing.
Jaiku and Pownce struggled to compete with the popularity of Twitter and are now practically history.
Yahoo however seems to be out with their own Twitter challenger named [...]
Yahoo Messenger 10 beta released
Yahoo has announced details on their upcoming updates to their core products.
The company also launched a beta version of their upcoming instant messaging product Yahoo Messenger 10.
Yahoo also talked about the upcoming changes to the Yahoo Mail webmail service.
Yahoo Mail would now feature new social networking features. Users would [...]
Gmail overtakes AOL Mail in USA
Google Gmail is now the third most popular webmail service in the US market.
It has just overtaken AOL Mail and now trails Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.
These results are from the latest figures released by comScore.
Gmail now has around 37 million monthly visitors in USA compared to 47 [...]
Yahoo to discontinue Term Extraction and Contextual Web Search services
Yahoo Developer Network has announced that they are going to close two of their services:
Term Extraction
Contextual Web Search
These services would no longer be available after the end of the current month.
A message on the Yahoo Group stated:
We now have an official closure date of [...]
Yahoo updates Delicious with new features
Yahoo has announced another updated feature on one of their services.
This comes just as the company has launched a new search engine on their Flickr photo sharing service.
Delicious has been updated with some new features which are aimed to more relevant in today’s times.
Yahoo has added updated [...]
Flickr Search now improved a lot!
Flickr is one of the largest photo hosting and sharing services in the world.
This Yahoo owned service is also a popular destination for professional photographers to showcase their stuff.
However, the service lacked decent searching features making it hard for you to find out what exactly you were looking for. [...]
