WordPress.com gets Enhanced Feeds
If you are a WordPress.com blogger, then you have many reasons to rejoice this festive season, and the feeds on WordPress.com have received a major upgrade. And Ofcourse that latest addition from Automattic is Enhanced Feeds that has for long been associated with Feedburner. Read on to find out what these Enhanced Feeds really are,
Digg to Launch Image Section Later Today
Digg is about to Launch the most awaited Images Section later tonight. In conjunction with the release of the image section, Kevin Rose also decided to bump a few things up, and add a couple of new features here and there. Most of the new stuff is related to Images Anyways : Well here is what Kevin Rose has to say about the new stuff on Digg : New Universal TaxonomyNow you can submit news, images, or videos to any category on Digg! Categories will be consistent across the board,... Read The Rest →
Google Gives us a Triple Treat
This week has been a pretty busy week for Googlers, as a lot of Google Services and Products have received considerable upgrades. The latest in line are Google Reader and Blogger. Google Reader has added a couple of handy features in Drag and Drop Support and Feed Recommendations, While Blogger has added support for OpenID in the comments.
Firefox 3 to get Beautiful Tab Switching
Mozilla continues to innovate with the Firefox browser. I believe that the upcoming version of Firefox will be the best ever release we will see from the Firefox team over at Mozilla. A Lot of new features and enhancements have been added to the core of Firefox 3. One of them happens to be Tab Switching that is gorgeous to look at and it kinda mimics the Alt -Tab feature in Windows. The only question is weather this piece of innovation will make it into the Firefox core.
Google Analytics Announces Exciting New Features
The Google Analytics blog today made some important announcements today for which we have been waiting for a quite a while now. In addition to the new features that will be rolled out soon, Urchin Stats which provides the backend for Google Analytics which Google had acquired back in 2006 will be released with a new version 6 that will bring Urchin on par with Google Analytics. Urchin Stats is a standalone package that you can install on your website without depending on Google Analytics. Being a corporate stats package,... Read The Rest →
Orkut Gets New Languages
About 10 days back I made a post regarding the introduction of new languages in Orkut. I Made a screencast thinking that it will be easier for Orkut users to change their Language. Apparently the Screencast didn’t come out as well as I expected it to come, so a lot of users had trouble in getting their language changed. So I have made another screencast where things are definitely cleaner and are easily visible unlike the previous demo. Trying out the new Languages on Orkut is really simple and here... Read The Rest →
Orkut Adds More New Features
Orkut finally is moving in the right direction in the social network scene. Right now Orkut has traction only in India and Brazil but things are likely to change in the future. Only last week orkut redesigned its interface, which has received a lot of positive feedback from its users. The latest entry to Orkut is similar to what Facebook already provides. Orkut now displays notification from your friends when they make changes to their profile, adds photos to the album, videos, testimonials etc…
Firefox's Password Manager Gets Smarter
Firefox as you all know has a built in password manager. At times using the Password manager can be a nightmare. Say if you mistype your Username or Password and Firefox saves the Username and Password. Now you enter the correct details and it still saves it. Next time you try to logon it gives you an option to choose from both the correct and the incorrect details. This can be quite irritating and you have to delete the incorrect credentials before it stops that drop down menu from appearing.... Read The Rest →
Orkut Now Available in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil and Telugu
Yes Yes Orkut is now available in 5 Indian Languages. Orkut has taken the next step forward in its goal of being the most popular social network in India. Orkut also recently won the MTV Youth Icon Award. Orkut has been busy offlate rolling out a new design for its users. And now they have done it again by making Orkut available in Over 5 Indian Languages that will surely bridge the divide that exists between Technology and Communication. Here is a brief rundown into what the Orkut Team posted... Read The Rest →
Windows Vienna and IE8 Features Leaked
While browsing the MSDN Forums today I found a strange looking thread that actually had the features that will make it into Windows Vienna and IE8. If you are wondering why I was at the MSDN forums, it is because Microsoft has been taking me for a ride in the Student Rockstar Contest and I constantly monitor the MSDN Network for any news. Unfortunately Microsoft has locked the thread and deleted all the contents of it. But I somehow managed to read the contents of it and here are the... Read The Rest →
