Windows Live Mobile Search 2.0 Out July 14, 2007

Microsoft released the second version of its Windows Live Mobile Search application on Friday, including some new features for both the standalone and Web-based versions of the client.
Versions of the software are available for Windows Mobile, J2ME, and in beta for BlackBerry devices. Unsupported phones will be able to access the new Web-based version. The [...]

FeedBurner premium news feed now free July 8, 2007

RSS provider FeedBurner is to make its premium news feed management services available to publishers at no extra charge, just one month after being acquired by Google.
FeedBurner’s Stats PRO and MyBrand services were previously available for an additional monthly fee of $5.
Stats PRO includes tools to allow users to more effectively track stats on feeds, [...]

Xcavator, Photo Comparison Search June 26, 2007

Xcavator.net is an interesting stock photo search engine. Instead of just searching for tags, you can also select a color, or upload your own photo to get best matches returned. Results are already OK, and would probably be even better with a larger image database in the back-end (so that you would find more precise [...]

Plaxo 3 Beta Review June 26, 2007

Robert Scoble broke the news on Sunday night first as far as I can tell. The address book, calendar and task management and synchronization platform Plaxo opened their new version 3.0 beta to the public.
As a user and fan of Plaxo, did I go and tested it out right away of course. I had a [...]

Fauxto Online Photo Editor June 25, 2007

Fauxto*, released in late 2006, is a Photoshop-like online image editor that’s constantly growing its list of features. Once you edited a photo with brushes, layers, fill tools, eraser and so on, you can save it online – no need to go back to your hard disk (though you can do that, too).
This tool works [...]

translate Words with Google’s Bilingual Dictionaries June 23, 2007

Google has a powerful translation tool that lets you translate a web page or a text, but that’s not very useful if you only need to translate a word or an expression. Without entering a context, Google shows the most plausible translation, but a word can have multiple translations.
To overcome this problem, Google launched a [...]

Xerox tool analyzes text to improve search results June 21, 2007

Xerox researchers have developed a search tool that tries to understand documents, rather than looking for keywords, in order to provide better results.

The tool, FactSpotter, analyzes the underlying grammar of a text in order [...]

Track Every Click with Crazy Egg’s “Confetti” June 19, 2007

Optimizing your website can be tough business since you can’t “see” your customers online. Analytics packages like Google analytics do a good job letting you see how many visitors are coming and going on your site by tracking every page request. However, another breed of analytics focuses on optimizing how they’re using it, by tracking [...]

Google Takes YouTube Global June 19, 2007

YouTube launched nine localized versions of its popular social video site on Tuesday, which will at first only place navigation and functionality in the country’s native language.
Eventually, the site plans to offer localized content as well, with the featured pages targeted towards the individual tastes of consumers in each market. This would include ratings specific [...]

Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move June 17, 2007

So, you don’t mind being followed and tracked? You don’t care if your friends can see what websites you’ve been to lately, what software you’ve been running, or even what music you’ve been listening to? Then you’ll love the web’s trend towards extreme openness: sharing everything you do on your computer. Sometimes referred to as [...]

Chime.TV: A Prettier Way to Watch YouTube June 15, 2007

Chime.Tv’s video player has got the kind of flash and style Ruby developers would envy, especially since it’s programmed in PHP and AJAX. The player, which dishes out 22 themed channels of viral video content, with a bunch of added utilities.The full page player is similar to Joost and Babelgum, but in your browser. Like [...]

EMI and YouTube shake hands and hips June 2, 2007

EMI has signed an agreement with Google’s video-sharing website YouTube to allow its users to view “authorised” videos and recordings from the music firm’s roster of artists.
It’s the last of the Big Four to do so, with Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner having already jumped on the bandwagon in an attempt to claw back control [...]

Google Maps hits the streets June 2, 2007

Google yesterday announced the immediate availability of “Street View” – ground-level, photographic panoramas of Denver, Las Vegas, Miami and New York which allow Google Maps surfers to “navigate around a city, ‘virtually’ walking the streets, checking out restaurants and landmarks and even zoom in on bus stops or street signs to make travel plans”:

As well [...]

Contacting Google May 30, 2007

Colin C. in the forum says, “One of the things that bugs us all about Google is how to contact them about new features, bugs, help, downtime, etc.”, and wrote a nice overview of how to contact Google. I put the HTML’ified version below. Also see the previous post on how to contact Google.

Google Help [...]

Suggestions for Google Services May 30, 2007

Most Google services have feedback forms where you can suggest new features or improvements, but some of them even list frequent suggestions and let you vote your favorites. The lists also give you hints about the future updates.

Gmail
Picasa
Picasa Web Albums
Google Talk
Google Calendar
Google Apps
Google Groups
Google Pack
Google Desktop

The writer:  Google System

How Google translates without understanding May 24, 2007

Column After just a couple years of practice, Google can claim to produce the best computer-generated language translations in the world – in languages their boffin creators don’t even understand.
Last summer, Google took top honors at a bake-off competition sponsored by the American agency NIST between machine-translation engines, besting IBM in English-Arabic and English-Chinese. The [...]

Google launches universal search May 18, 2007

Google announced yesterday that users searching the web with its site will be treated to a veritable bounty of results from now on. No longer just the useful links you were after, but an array of video, pictures, and news will all be returned by a single search query.
Google has dubbed the idea “universal search”, [...]

The online scanner May 13, 2007

Do you have a virus or a spyware in your PC, or you want to be sure that your PC is clean? then you don’t have to install another antivirus or do format “like some friends I know the only answer for all the problems they have is the format ” any way [...]

Use IM with out installation May 13, 2007

What is Web messengers, how it’s useful?
It’s an instant messaging service without the need to download and install a separate application.
The change allows people working for companies and some Universities which stop staff downloading and installing applications to use the service. It will also make the service usable for people in internet cafes that don’t [...]

Windows Live Folders, Online Storage Service May 13, 2007

LiveSide found a new service from Microsoft called Windows Live Folders, Redmond’s version of the long-awaited GDrive.
Windows Live Folders, which was briefly available at http://folders.live.com, will offer 500 MB of storage and 50 MB as the maximum file size. There are three built-in folders for documents, music and pictures. The permissions are at the folder [...]

Want to Broadcast Yourself Live On The Web? May 12, 2007

Bored of youtube! try to Broadcaste your self live
If you are looking to broadcast live to the world using your web-cam, there are now a number of options available to you. Furthermore, several services offer you the opportunity to enhance your direct-to-camera performance with the inclusion of extra features, such as the ability to add [...]