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This could be big. Google is introducing a new set of social networking tools to Gmail. From media sharing to status updates, Google Buzz let's you use your Gmail contact list as what is essentially a "friend list". This makes it compete with literally ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - February 09, 2010 - 1 comment

The San Francisco Chronicle published an interesting article on Monday about how " Yahoo Labs has bolstered its ranks of social scientists, adding highly credentialed cognitive psychologists , economists and ethnographers from top universities ...

Article - Jonathan Anderson - January 13, 2010 - 1 comment

Now this is pretty interesting. Microsoft has filed a patent for muscle-based control interface that essentially allows you to control computers or mobile devices using your muscles' electical activity. This video demo shows some pretty interest ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - January 03, 2010 - 0 comments

YouTube's latest features "namely annotations" bring a new level of interactivity to video online. The latest game is titled The Time Machine , and features an array of video clips which if viewed in the right order will complete the story. An earlie ...

Article - Constantinos Demetriadis - November 26, 2008 - 1 comment

Google has just announced the launch of themes for Gmail. Some are crazy fun, others offer an actual valid alternative to the current theme. Like the fact that some designs even change the Gmail logo. Takes a secure brand to allow that. ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - November 20, 2008 - 2 comments

Flash Player 10 is out on all platforms today. A pretty solid list of new features makes this one of the most anticipated versions to date. Article No:  393 ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - October 15, 2008 - 7 comments

As silicon valley’s first phone company, Ribbit, seems to have what it takes. By the words of the founders, they took the best of what the current phone companies have to offer, and merged it with the technology and knowledge we have on the Internet ...

Article - Constantinos Demetriadis - July 29, 2008 - 3 comments

Yahoo! is opening up its search engine with BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service). This means that anyone can now tap into its search technology with nearly no restriction. Hakia and Me.dium are two of the early adopters. Article ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - July 13, 2008 - 2 comments

Google moves into the virtual world market with Lively — looks promising. Article No:  350 Authors:  A ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - July 09, 2008 - 1 comment

Start-up Viewdle has developed a services that can recognize faces in video. Will be interesting to see how this type of technology gets integrated into mainstream video services over the years. Came across it while checking out Elevator Pitches — a ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - June 13, 2008 - 0 comments