Technology Bites

Yahoo finance is still leader in Finance and Google Finance is trying hard to catch up. Google Finance recently got a facelift with a bunch of useful features. Today Google added a streaming news feature to Google Finance. The streaming news can be seen both on the main page (Market tab) and on the overall [...]

While browsing the web these days, you would rarely come across any website with just plain text on it. Flat text – nothing else. Well, that was Web 1.0 , we now live in the Web 2.0 age, surfing not only just text, but audio, video, presentations, files, movies and what not! If you have [...]

Today while scanning Techmeme for news i discovered a story of Guardian written in Sep 2008 is clustered with Google Chrome news. At any given time you won’t find news that is more than 2 days old in Techmeme clusters, this is a rare case, but this proves the point of Gabe Rivera that automated [...]

Feed Chronicle is a new service that allows users to have a kind of digital newspaper with their feeds, well actually you can’t add feeds right away (you can suggest) yet but you have to select from the predefined list of sources. The design looks like traditional newspaper site with ads thrown in here and [...]

I never thought that it is possible to display our blog posts on major media sites like Reuters until i saw this post on QOT. IIt is possible to put your blog posts on big media sites with blog syndication service BlogBurst.

Microsoft Live Search has improved its Live Search News. I do see the new page morning, but now it is not showing. The UI looks like something similar to techmeme.

In the last few days we have seen rumors about Ask.com working with Digg to create a white label Digg like site. The project is “BigNews” and is not a Digg clone but rather a Google News/Techmeme like news tracker.

DalilyMe is a personalized news service currently in private beta. DaliyMe is not another news aggregator, what separates it from the crowd is DailyMe licensed the content from publishers, so you will never have to leave the site to read that interesting piece of story. After creating an account with DailyMe, you can refine your [...]

Digg is introducing new features this year and today night they are releasing the first of these, new digg user profiles. Digg claims to be revamped the profiles from the ground up- making it easy to share your favorite stories and discover new interesting content by seeing what your friends are digging. The other important [...]

Google News launched a new image version, to see it in action go to Google News, currently it appears to me that it is only available in US. The new version adds a text link “Image Version” on the home page when you click this link you will see News Images as square thumbs. Mouse [...]

MySpace entered to China market, a beta verion of myspace china is released. Unlike other international myspace sites myspce china is managed with local partners. Texyt reported that discussion forums on sensitive topics like Politics and Religion are nowhere in chinese myspace. Discussion forums on subjects like religion and politics are nowhere to be found [...]