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 [...]
YouTube just announced that it will soon support 4k video – the next-generation HD format with a resolution of 4096×3072 pixels. At almost four times the size of 1080p, the highest resolution HD format currently available in the mainstream market, YouTube’s resolution for 4K videos goes far beyond what most people will be able to watch on their TVs and computers for quite a while to come.
A summary of today’s Google news, because even though I do my best to keep up with the daily flow of tech news, these days, I come across so much news about Google that it’s hard to keep up:
Google just announced that YouTube now serves 2 billion views per day.
It’s been a long time coming, but now that Chrome sports thousands of extensions, Google is finally taking steps to give the Extensions Gallery a much-needed makeover. Good Start, but Just the Beginning Sadly, it’s still rather hard to just browser Chrome extensions, but at least Google now features separate sections for featured blogging, web [...]
Google’s director of product management, Ari Paparo, just announced some of Google’s plans for offerings its advertising partners better methods for tracking the results of their display advertising campaigns. new measurement products designed to gauge the impact of ads on brand awareness or on user interest in the product being advertised campaign measurement will take [...]
Not much of a news story, but I just noticed a different favicon for Google in my browser. Is this new?
Google has decided to jump into the Web Traffic comparison business by releasing a new layer to Google Trends names Google Trends for Websites. Very few people these days take the data from publicly available website traffic comparison tools like Alexa and Compete too seriously. At best, both can be used to analyze trends, as [...]
TechCrunch has been teasing us all afternoon with the announcement of a ‘Labs’ tab in Gmail that was supposed to go live around 6pm PST, but seemed to be running a bit late. By now, it seems most Gmail users should have access to it (Settings –> Labs). As Mathew Ingram writes, this is a [...]
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 [...]
Facebook just launched its long-awaited question and answer product dubbed Facebook Answers. You can now ask your social network any question you feel like and get answers from your extended network
In an unprecedented move, Apple is now inviting a select number of media representatives for a press conference on Friday, July 16th. According to The Unofficial Apple blog and The Loop, Apple did not specify the exact reason for the meeting, besides noting that it will focus on iPhone 4. We can only assume that [...]
