Youtube recently made it easy for users to add annotations to the videos. Annotations were introduced on the website in June 2008. They basically are little grey pop ups in which one can include the regular text boxes, speech bubbles or links to any other video. The facility is generally useful but when overdone, it can become really irritating. Read the rest of this entry »

Google recently announced that it would be providing users with the tools necessary to find out if the Internet Service Providers are creating any hindrances in their broadband connections, or stifling any apps. Read the rest of this entry »

It looks like MySoace has started to block third party gadgets once again. Recently they placed a restriction on installed music gadgets from the popular ‘Project Playlist’. Project Playlist was an application that was growing at quite a rapid pace. MySpace has removed applications before like ‘iMeem’ and ‘Photobucket’ in 2006 and 2007. However, its removal of the Project Playlist application was carried out due to different reasons. The removal of Project Playlist was because of a lawsuit notice from big well known music companies. Read the rest of this entry »

uberVU, which is based in London, is all set to release a product to track down discussions and to pull in all comments, Twitters, comments from FriendFeed, trackbacks as well as any other discussion or data regarding any URL such as a post put up on a blog online. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft’s Live.com portal has undergone significant changes. It will no longer be a simple search engine with a few add-ons. It has now become a social networking website that is capable of bringing activity information and content from the web. There are a few more services that would be launched such as the Windows Live People and Windows Live Photos. Read the rest of this entry »

The Elevator Pitch on TechCrunch this Saturday presented Scour.com as the latest ‘meta social search engine’. Scour.com is a new start up that has been deemed good enough for the Elevator Pitch to discuss.

Scour combines search results from Google, Yahoo and Live Search all at the same time and presents information found from all these three sites to the person searching for results. Read the rest of this entry »

The new University of California research concludes that the web surfing and searching triggers certain key brain centers that largely control complex reasoning and decision making.  Read the rest of this entry »

Former CBS & Yahoo Media executive David Katz is all set to unveil SportsFanLive, a new community website. It is aimed at ‘super-passionate’ sports fans. The online platform will attempt to blend elements of sports news and social networking.

David Katz helped build successful business for Yahoo Sports before leaving the firm in late 2006. As he states, the website has been set up for fans that care more about keeping track of their favorite teams and don’t mind trashing the teams they tend to hate. They are different than general passive sports enthusiasts. Read the rest of this entry »

According to some latest reports from Googleplex, the search database of Google has finally hit a significant mark. It has tipped over the one trillion URL (files/web pages) mark. Two software engineers from Google, Nissan Hajaj and Jesse Alpert from the team of web search infrastructure made this unexpected discovery.

In one of posts at Google’s official blog, the engineers said that they always knew the internet was very big but were quite surprised to see the size of unique URL’s indexed by Google. The systems that process links on the websites to find content had hit a milestone of 1000000000000 URL’s on the website at once. Read the rest of this entry »