Unlike some of Twitter’s other services, the upcoming launch of Annotations doesn’t involve a product, but a rethinking of the way the social network functions. The changes involved could have a… Read more »
Google recently launched a new indexing system called Caffeine, which it says produces results that are up to 50 percent “fresher.” Why the pressure to improve? Because Google needs to respond… Read more »
The Icelandic volcano eruption that stranded hundreds of thousands of travellers on Friday showed no signs of letting up on the weekend. Many of those stranded took to Twitter and Facebook… Read more »
The biggest web-related news by far this week was a lovers’ quarrel. But it wasn’t two people fighting, it was a company and its developer community. The company was Twitter, and… Read more »
A recent survey of social media use by Liberty Mutual shows that men are more positive towards and use social networks more frequently than women, but this conclusion is the exact… Read more »
An Italian court found three Google executives guilty of privacy violations for a video uploaded to the company’s site, focusing attention on a key question: Is Google a service provider or… Read more »
As they did during the earthquake in Haiti and other natural disasters, social-media tools such as Twitter and various other web resources have become a key source of information on what… Read more »
Barack Obama is the first U.S. president to have Internet access at his desk, and uses it to read a wide range of “offbeat blogs and news stories,” according to several… Read more »