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Trendsmap: Twitter Trends in Real-time

Trendsmap is a web service which provides you with real-time mapping of Twitter trends from across the world. It lets you see what are the current trending topics in any region of the world like a tag cloud. Upon clicking any of the topics, you can see real-time tweets posted by users on that ... Read More →

4 Handy Web Based Tools to Optimize your CSS Code

Optimizing CSS code is not just about reducing the file size but making the code effective, well organized and clean. Non-valid CSS files might be messy and can result in errors. So, following are some handy web based tools to help you optimize and organize your CSS code in quick and easy steps. ... Read More →

Make Phone Calls to Twitter Followers with @call

JAJAJH, the web based phone service launched today a new service over twitter - Jajah@call, that allows twitter users to call each other over phone. This is a nice feature on top of twitter to call your followers to say Hello, but is it effective?. The service only allows 2 minute calls, that ... Read More →

Microsoft Office Web Apps Technical Preview Started Today

We already know that Microsoft Office 2010 will have web based apps for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, today finally Microsoft announced and started the technical preview program for MS Office Web Apps. The private beta saw a huge demand and immediately closed for now, but you can add your ... Read More →

Read News (Really) Fast with Google Fast Flip

Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets you quickly read and flip through bundles of news articles. Its interface combines the best qualities of both print and web media. It gives you the ability to flip through news articles online quickly, just like you do with a print magazine. It enables ... Read More →

Voice Chat Coming to Facebook

Bored of chatting on Facebook using the default chat and want to spend more time in chatting with your buddies by voice?, Vivox is bringing voice chat to Facebook. Vivox provides integrated voice for online games and visual worlds like Second Life, it is bringing the technology to Facebook. ... Read More →

Facebook Prototypes: Experimental Apps

Facebook is launching Prototypes, a list of experimental apps built by Facebook Engineers. Facebook Prototypes is similar to Google Labs from Google where experimental features are first being tested before launching for the public. ... Read More →

Flickr Galleries

Flickr introduced a new feature today called Galleries. Galleries are different from sets and collections you use in Flickr. While sets and collections belongs to your photos with Galleries you can display your friends photos or any Flickr members photos as a set called a Gallery. ... Read More →

Bing Launches Visual Search

Microsoft’s search engine Bing added a visual search feature. This is not a general feature available for all the search queries that goes through bing, but a feature that is more useful while finding products such as cameras, cars, people or books etc. ... Read More →