Yahoo is “supercharging” its web mail services by launching more useful apps coming from third party providers. Starting today, all U.S.-based Yahoo! Mail users who have the option to add web apps and tools such as PayPal, Zumo Drive, Picnik, OtherInbox and Photobucket. This is in addition to the previous apps introduced earlier this year – XoopIt, Flickr, and Flixster. [Read more…] about Yahoo! Mail Now Has More Useful 3rd-Party Apps
Some Social Networking Stats to Ponder On
Nielsen is running some nice analysis of April 2009 stats collated by the firm about top social networking sites. Particularly, these stats point to the total minutes that users spent on top social networking sites, time spent on video streams, and the more specific unique visitors composition index for MySpace and Facebook. [Read more…] about Some Social Networking Stats to Ponder On
Google Docs Now Supports Microsoft Word, Excel 2007 Files
One of Google’s web products that I use most often is Google Docs. This Document processing tool allows me to work/write articles “in the cloud”. For those of you who are hesitant to use Google Docs since its didn’t support uploading of your Excel or Word 97 files, well you would be glad to know that Google Docs has started to do so now. [Read more…] about Google Docs Now Supports Microsoft Word, Excel 2007 Files
Microsoft Brings Bing to Web Search, as Google Creates a Wave
It’s interesting how major Internet players will try to out buzz each other with their respective announcements. When it was announced earlier this week that Microsoft is set to launch its new search engine Kumo, now officially called Bing, we didn’t hear anything about Google’s Wave Project. And so instead of taking the limelight, Microsoft’s announcement of Bing was over shadowed by the Google Wave. Putting aside the competition issue, what exactly does Bing and Wave has to offer? [Read more…] about Microsoft Brings Bing to Web Search, as Google Creates a Wave
FeedStats is TweetStats for FriendFeed
If you’re more of a FriendFeed rather than a Twitter user, you might find FeedStats an intersting analytics tool for your FriendFeed account activities. Twitter users would immediately notice that FeedStats is similar to the Twitter visualization tool TweetStats. [Read more…] about FeedStats is TweetStats for FriendFeed
Nokia Ovi App Store is Now Ready to Battle iPhone App Store
Finally, after several months of testing, Nokia has finally opened its Ovi Store. And we don’t have to tell you that this online app store is a direct competitor to the very successful iPhone Apps Store. The question is, does it have what it takes to beat Apple’s iPhone apps store? [Read more…] about Nokia Ovi App Store is Now Ready to Battle iPhone App Store