Well it’s no new thing AOL – getting rid of its ICQ, AOL was looking for a buyer for ICQ, and now it found one Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies (DST). ICQ is an Instant Messaging from AOL, first developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis. Then AOL acquired it in June 1998 for US$407 [...]
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LinkedIn, a professional social network, has recently introduced a new platform with link sharing features. It has enhanced a lot in its sharing and privacy options for users outside of the network. LinkedIn has launched an official URL shortener, Lnkd.in. LinkedIn has made significant enhancements to its sharing features. On status updates you can customize [...]
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The Search Giant Google has released two fascinating new features for its real-time search, one enabling users to access data from all Twitter archives, and the other, a fairly typical tool that lets you Find People to Follow. According to a blog post, Google explains that this could be used to “explore any topic that [...]
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Twitter’s @Anywhere is now live and ready. Twitter announced the release of the @anywhere framework, a service that enables the integration of Twitter functionalities in websites. The platform was introduced at SXSW last month. Now Twitter can easily be integrated on websites. @Anywhere platform support ranges from simple Follow buttons and auto-linkification of @usernames (by [...]
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Recent sources are indicating that Google is set to open up the VP8 codec, the latest video codec released by On2, a company acquired by Google for $133 million. According to a report at NewTeeVee, inside sources have confirmed that Google will be open-sourcing the VP8 codec next month at the Google I/O conference. Google [...]
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Opera Mini 5 has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store. Opera recently announced that their popular Mini mobile browser is now finally available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With more than 50 million users using Opera Mini on other devices, the creators are hoping for more of the same [...]
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Twitter uses the RSS, “river Of News” format to present feed as timeline. The most recent tweets are at the top and get pushed down when new tweets are entered. However, as you follow a large number of people on Twitter, you can sometimes miss important news. “Twitter is a real-time information network powered by [...]
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Official Ubuntu 10.04 countdown banners are now available. As we know Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) is releasing on 29 April 2010 and to all die-hard fans of Ubuntu, it has released its new countdown timer to keep on your web space. The 3 designs, created by John Baer, Immanuel Peratoner & Amanda Warzecha respectively, are [...]
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AOL, AOL Inc. is actively trying to rid itself of Bebo, the social-networking site just after two years of its purchase at 850 million US Dollars. According to news reports, AOL admitted that it couldn’t afford the ‘significant investment’ Bebo needs to take on rivals like Facebook and Twitter and may soon shut down or [...]
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Ping.fm, a free social networking and micro-blogging web service, gets updated with a new feature that enables users to post an RSS feed to all your social networks. It’s a real time feed powered by Superfeedr, a service that transforms a wide variety of feeds into normalized XMPP or PubSubHubbub format. “A blog post can [...]
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