Archive for July 29th, 2010

Now it Rains and Snows in Google Earth

Jul 29, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Google Earth now features local news-style weather animations for snow and rain drops.

To see this, open up the latest version of Google Earth, enable the weather layer and head for a place where it is currently raining or snowing.

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TweetDeck Goes Real Time – And It’s a Whole New Way of Using Twitter

Jul 29, 2010 1 Comment by Frederic Lardinois

Yesterday, TweetDeck’s Richard Barley announced a new beta version of the popular Twitter (and Buzz, LinkedIn and Facebook) client. In this new version, TweetDeck uses Twitter’s new streaming API to display tweets in real time. Until now, clients had to poll Twitter’s servers at regular intervals to update your searches and lists. Now, Twitter just [...]

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Who is Watching You?

Jul 29, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Thoughts about online privacy aren’t keeping most Internet users awake, but here are some eye-popping stats in the form of a very cool infographic.

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