When it comes to figuring out which search result you want to click on, chances are, you gravitate toward the first three links. These days, however, Google and Microsoft are also adding more social signals to their search results pages to give their searchers a better idea of what their friends may have liked. Today,…
Google announced its new social network Google+ earlier this morning. Given that the company now has two competing social networks – Google+ and Google Buzz (or three, if you count Orkut as well) – it’s hard not to wonder what will happen to Buzz in the long run. Google launched Buzz with a lot of…
It’s easy to feel a bit cynical when Google announces a new social networking project and my first thoughts when I heard about Google+ were probably similar to those of many others: “Haven’t we seen this (fail) before?” There more I look into Google+, though, the more I wonder if the company isn’t finally on…
Google just launched a new tool that makes it easy to convert basic Flash animations into HTML5. Swiffy, as this new tool is called, is now available in Google Labs. While Google doesn’t specifically mention Apple or iOS in its announcement, it’s clear that this tool is geared towards bringing existing Flash content to these…
Opera has long been the underdog in the desktop browser wars, but it’s easy to forget that a lot of the browser design and features we take for granted today were actually pioneered by the Norwegian company. Opera 11.50, which launched for Windows, OS X, FreeBSD and Linux today, offers a few interesting new features,…
We can only write so many stories here every day, but we read (or at least skim) through a few hundred throughout the course of any given day. Here is a selection of some of the most interesting and thought-provoking stories we saw today.