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Facebook overtakes Google in consumer’s loyalty

facebook logoFacebook users were found more loyal to the news offered through facebook than Google users on their respective websites.This was found by recent report by Web matrix group Hitwise. The report coincidentally matches with facebook beating Google in number of pageviews in USA.

This another setback for Google who has mushroomed on consumer loyalty over the years to expand into almost every field of play. It may also spider into the web advertising business where Google dominates the market. With Google almost finalized its exit from Chinese market where Microsoft … Continue Reading

FCC frowns over Apple’s latest anti competitive move to block Google Voice

 FCC frowns over Apple’s latest anti competitive move to block Google VoiceApple’s latest move to ban Google voice has not gone well with FCC and users. While users are hot happy with this ban, FCC sees this as an anti competitive move “conspired” by Apple and AT&T. The conspiracy theory doing rounds in the web community elaborates on how Google VOIP and telephony product collides with interest of Apple and AT&T, its mobile carrier.  Apple, who has long guarded the application business notified Google of application’s duplicating features, AT&T doesn’t perceived it positively either as it offers free SMS and cheap international … Continue Reading

We duly contacted twitter before publishing the hacked documents, claims TechCrunch

 We duly contacted twitter before publishing the hacked documents, claims TechCrunchIn the midst of claims and counterclaims, TechCrunch today claimed that they contacted twitter before publishing the controversial documents. Reportedly TechCrunch published excerpts from “leaked”  confidential documents which claimed to be of a twitter employee. The document is said to be hacked to Google doc account and sent to TechCrunch is a zip file. The report which was said to be more than 300 pages has many document for twitter “internal” consumption  as it include twitter expansion plans, interview schedules, financial forecast and  many other sensitive documents.

TechCrunch claims that … Continue Reading

YouTube would now allow you to publish your video’s Insight Stats

YouTube logo YouTube would now allow you to publish your videos Insight StatsNow you can publish your YouTube insight stats to public. As per the latest announcement on Wednesday, YouTube would now allow the uploader to publish there ” insight” stats to public. Insight which is a free in-built analytical tool for analysis of the traffic and various other data like popularity, geographic audience, and viewer demographics. But this information was only accessible to the uploader till date.

But now these information can be viewed by all viewers by clicking a simple toggle button at the right hand side of screen. … Continue Reading

Twitterfeed server down

Sorry Twitterfeed server downToday twitterfeed server went down for a while, coincidentally just after i posted my post about twitterfeed’s new “robust” and “reliable” system. And before the speculation starts, i just want to clarify that, it not because of this post. But it actually reminds the need for twitterfeed to ramp up its infrastructure quickly to meet the growing usage of its services.

Infact till i checked last time, it was still not accessible. We have been trying to contact twitterfeed but till now no official reason has been given by them … Continue Reading

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