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Twitter Launches Location-Based Trending Topics

Twitter has begun rolling out location-based trending topics. The product is officially called Local Trends. In a statement to us, Twitter said the following: “We’re rolling out local trends to 1 percent of users today, but we’ll share more information when it reaches a larger audience hopefully sometime next week. We’ll keep you posted when [...]

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Top 10 Most Popular Topics on Twitter This Week

What did people buzz about the most this week? Who was the singer that people tweeted the most about? What issue caught the world’s collective attention? Social media is not only a great medium for conversation, but it’s also an effective way to discover and analyze the popular topics of the day. By aggregating and picking [...]

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What the ####: Google’s Nexus One Censors Your Curse Words

t appears that the Nexus One’s speech-to-text function performs the digital equivalent of washing your mouth out with soap. Reuters discovered that the innovative voice recognition feature converts swear words into a string of # symbols when rendered into text. Why the censorship? A spokesperson from Google says the “feature” is less about sanitizing users’ speech and [...]

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Creative’s Live! Range of Webcams Announced

The Creative Live! Range of webcams which includes Live! Cam Sync, Live! Cam Chat IM, Live! Cam Socialize, Live! Cam Socialize HD, and Live! Cam Optia AF has been released. These Creative range of Webcams come with VGA 300k Pixels, 800 x 600 video and photo, and a USB Video Class. In addition to the basic [...]

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Google Wave Opens Up to 1 Million Users

When Google asked what you liked and disliked about their new real-time communication application, you unquestionably said that you wanted more invites to share with friends and family. Problem solved. Today, Google decided to play Santa with Wave invites. It has just doled out significantly more invites to existing users. In conjunction with the invite rollout, [...]

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Google Launches Chrome for Mac

The day has finally come. As we were expecting, Google has just released Chrome for Mac, which can now be downloaded by Mac OS X 10.5 or later users. If you’re anything like us, you’ve been anxiously awaiting the chance to get your hands on the new browser since last year’s release of the Windows version. Of [...]

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Yahoo Expands Integration With Facebook

Yahoo Inc will let users of its email, photo-sharing and other online products link their content and activities directly into Facebook, the world’s No. 1 Internet social network. Yahoo’s support of the Facebook Connect service, which it said it expects to begin in the first half of 2010, represents an important move inYahoo ’s efforts to [...]

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The Top 10 Bing Searches of 2009

It isn’t even December over yet, but Microsoft’s Bing search engine is already announcing its top ten most searched topics of 2009, as well as the two celebrities that were binged more than actress Megan Fox. The new Microsoft “decision engine” has only been in service since June, but Bing has apparently analyzed billions of search [...]

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Translation Tools Debuts on Google

Google’s introduced a new “Translated search” tool in the Search Options panel that makes finding and reading content written in other languages easier. Translated search helps users find information from sites written in other languages. This feature was present in Google Translate for a while, but has now been integrated fully into Google search, making it [...]

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Kindle Breaks Sales Record in November

Cyber Monday, typically a great day for gadget sales – Amazon has announced that it was the best sales month ever for Kindle. We can’t say how much of this can be attributed to the recent international launch of Kindle, but it definitely helped – along with the price cuts. Despite the competition, Kindle is certainly [...]

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