Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Google Propeller – a social news app for Android Honeycomb tablets as well as the iPad
Saturday, September 17, 2011 13:21 1 CommentGoogle is hard at work creating a new way for you to view and share the latest goings-on in current events. Reportedly called Google Propeller, the new digital news platform is being developed for Android Honeycomb tablets as well as the iPad. It will revolutionize the way users interact with the daily news. At least that’s what Google wants to believe. A report on Allthingsd.com called it a “Flipboard killer,” referring to the social news platform that launched last year. Flipboard has been downloaded 3.5 million times and has received more than $60 million in venture capital from some of the top players in the industry. The app allows users to “flip
Google+ now has 25 million users
Thursday, August 4, 2011 2:36 No CommentsGoogle is trying to be the industry leader in every Internet service. It looks like it’s working, they’re getting people to use their social networking services at Google+ at a fast pace. According to Reuters, Google+ has gained 25 million users. That makes it the fastest growing website to garner an audience of such a formidable size, says ComScore. Google+ launched in late June and managed to attract some 25 million visitors by July 24. It’s expanding at a rate of almost one million users per day. In contrast, it took Facebook nearly three years to get 25 million visitors, while it took Twitter a little over 30 months. Right now the numbers indicate Google’s social networking s
Google toolbar is no more for Firefox 5
Sunday, July 24, 2011 0:29 No CommentsFirefox fans who’ve updated to the latest version and are waiting patiently for Google Toolbar compatibility, we’ve got some bad news – Google isn’t playing ball. First of all, we’d like to thank all of our loyal users of Google Toolbar for Firefox. We deeply appreciate all of the feedback over the years that helped to make the product so useful. As we all know, over the past few years, there has been a tremendous amount of innovation in the browser space. For Firefox users, many features that were once offered by Google Toolbar for Firefox are now already built right into the browswer. Therefore, while Google Toolbar for Firefox works on versions up to and in
Apple finally Approve Google+ App For iPhone Available Now!
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 23:11 No CommentsGoogle+ for mobile makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler. Huddle lets you send super-fast messages to the people you care about most. And no matter where you are, the stream lets you stay in the loop about what your friends are sharing and where they’re checking in. Features: Circles let you share the right things with just the right people. Stream is where you can get updates from your circles or see what people are saying about things nearby. Huddle is super-fast group messaging for everyone in your circles. Google+ is only available for users 13 and older. App Link : http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id447119634?mt=8
Twitter now delivers 350 billion tweets each day
Sunday, July 17, 2011 2:13 1 CommentTwitter now delivers an astonishing 350 billion tweets each day, the company said on Friday. ”Delivering 350 billion Tweets a day is a terribly fun engineering challenge. But, it doesn’t capture how passionate our users are,” the company said from its official Twitter Engineering account. Coincidentally we’re sure, the news comes just one day after Google bragged that it had amassed 10 million Google+ users in just two weeks, and that these users collectively share 1 billion items each day. Google+ has quite a way to go before it is anywhere near as popular as Twitter, of course, but it’s certainly doing well for a 2-week-old product. Read



