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Yahoo Advances Program on Open Source Computing, Launches M45
Yahoo’s take on open source is totally different from what Google previously launched. Instead of focusing on an opensocial movement focused on the alliance of...
Yahoo’s Social Network for College Grads, Kickstart Goes Live
Yahoo’s social network for college graduates called Kickstart is going live today. What’s Kickstart? Here’s the official statement from the Yahoo Kickstart site: Yahoo! Kickstart...
Microsoft’s Live Search Maps Out to Beat Google Maps?
Microsoft is really serious on gaining a good ground in the web search arena. New features after new features are being slowly carried out by...
Yahoo Launches Messenger Version 9.0
For those who have stopped using Yahoo Messenger for instant messaging purpose and have shifted to GTalk this post may not interest you. But for...
StumbleUpon Enhances SearchReviews on Search Engines
StumbleUpon finally made its SearchReviews feature official with some enhancements to boot. Launched sometime ago in major search engines, SearchReviews displays StumbleUpon star icons on...
Google News Goes to Facebook
Before you see Adsense in Facebook application sometime soon, you might as well like to enjoy first Google News as a new Facebook application was...
Top Search Queries in Google Webmaster Tools
Google’s Webmaster Tools’ top search queries just got better with the expansion of its time coverage, top query percentage and search data upload via CSV...
Google Updates Web Analytics, Relaunches Urchin
Google announced three new features of its web analytics service, site search reporting, event tracking and an updated version of the almost forgotten Urchin software....
Microsoft Live Launches Online Event Management Service
Microsoft Live adds an event management service to its suite of free web services. Though Live Events is not new on the web anymore, the...
Windows Live SkyDrive Soars Higher with New Features
Microsoft Windows online storage facility, Live SkyDrive (previously Live Drive) gets some useful improvements. Registered users of the Skydrive can now upload files of up...
Microsoft Unveils HealthVault, Online Health Info Storage
Looks like Microsoft has taken one step ahead of Google this time, when it officially unveiled the company’s latest online offering, the Microsoft HealthVault. The...
Google Presently Launches : Google’s Online Collaborative Apps is Now Complete
The much awaited application that would complete Google’s online collaborative suite is finally here as Google has launched Google presentation, an online tool for creating,...
Yahoo to Launch HackDays’ MapMixer
Yahoo is launching a new feature of its Local Maps which lets users interpolate a non-Yahoo maps into an existing Yahoo Maps to come out...
Introducing Google’s In-car Local Search
Google is following up its Google Maps Send to Car facility, which enables sending business listing to cars enabled with BMW Assist Service, with another...
Yahoo Pipes Part 4: Analyzing Sphinn
Sphinn is a brand new player in the social media space that many of you are already familiar. It’s still young, but the calling of...
Yahoo! Toolbar Teams Up With Home/Office Store for a Safer Web Browsing
CA Inc, leading information technology management company is teaming up with Yahoo! with the upcoming release of a CA/Yahoo toolbar that will be packaged with...
Picasa Web Albums Updates, New API Features
Google’s free web album, Picasa introduces some great new features which were the top requests of Picasa Web Album users. Google’s Data API blog enumerated...
Google Gives NonProfit Organizations More Free Apps
Perhaps in order to promote its committment to upholding its social responsibility, Google is extending premium tools of its online communication and collaboration tool, Google...
Introducing Google Mapplets, A Mashup of Mashups on Google Maps
I know that’s a lot of “maps” there in the title. It’s a bit of an exaggeration actually but that’s how I see this new...
New Google Maps Drag and Drop Feature
Google added last Thursday a nice little video to their YouTube account without mentioning anything significant to their blogs as they usually do for announcements...
Google Introduces Google Gadget Ventures
Ever wanted to develop your own useful and fully functional Google gadget but could not push through with your ideas due to time and financial...
Yahoo Pipes Social Bookmarks Search
Yahoo Pipes, to date, seems one of those unsung tools that could really be useful, especially to SEOs. However, when I scour the sixty plus...
Windows’ Live’s Virtual Earth 3D Beta
MSN Live Search is testing its 3D map facility called Virtual Earth 3D. Obviously a spin off of Google’s 3D mapping service, Google Earth. From...
Trellian Keyword Database Change
The popular keyword research tool from Trellian, called Keyword Discovery, changes their database to rely on their tool bar users only (like Alexa) instead of...
Google Local Business Center Address Verification II
Last December Google introduced the Local Business Center and allowed businesses to provide their address, phone numbers, website, offered services, business hours, accepted payment methods,...
Ranking Factors Simplified Quick Reference
Just for the sake of it did I create a simplified version of the much more detailed search engine ranking factors 2007 document, which was...
Yahoo! Partners with Ebay’s Paypal for Checkout Program
Yahoo! and Ebay’s Paypal has entered into a partnership that would allow Yahoo advertisers added visibility and value on Yahoo search results. With the Yahoo-Paypal...
Widgetized Google Talk?
Google updates its web IM application on Tuesday with the following cool new features to boot: Pop it out now – Google Talk can now...
Google Lets Users Customize Own Maps
Google is introducing its MyMaps which will let users create their own maps using Google Maps. Interestingly called myMaps, this free tool will allow Google...
Yahoo! Launches Widgets 4.0
Riding on newsweek statement that 2007 will be the year of Widgets, Yahoo! is relaunching its previously named Yahoo Widget Engine with a faster, lighter,...