Technology Bites

One of the interesting features on Twitter is #hashtags. Hashtags are used to identify conversations and tweets based on a topic. For instance, a hashtag #Google on Twitter which return all the latest tweets which contained the hashtag #Google. Hashtags were developed as a means to create ‘groupings’ on Twitter, without having to change the [...]

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.

Technorati, the blog search engine that everyone forgot is refocusing on creating original content to stay in the business. Once a popular search engine for blogs, Technorati shifted from blogs to social media in general once and went back to blogs later. Now it is preparing to focus itself as an original content network. Technorati [...]

Wikipedia is a rich source of information on any topic but it is some times not trustworthy, due to the free editing of the articles some people add random crap into articles. If you think this problem is the main reason to not to trust Wikipedia information, Wikipedia adding a trustworthiness to the article text [...]

As you might have noticed on most of the blogs, in comments and discussion forums, avatars are small pictures representing your online identity. It’s always crucial to have an elegant avatar as its the foremost thing people notice on your profile. Here are some cool websites to find and create elegant avatars easily.

Futz.me is a simple tool that lets you email notes, pictures, links, files to yourself for later viewing, in a command line fashion. The best part about Futz is its simplicity. Once you signup, there is no more logging in or messing with anything required later.

Spotify is a music streaming application that debuted few months back, it is not yet widely available except in some European countries. It is one of the best music streaming applications out there, Spotify is has two versions of the app, one ad-supported free version and another premium version. Spotify has developed an iPhone app [...]

Opera has created lot of buzz with their “Reinventing The Web” message recently, today they released the reinvention called Opera Unite. The service turns every computer into a web server, this is a cool idea although i didn’t get the reinvention of the web.

Facebook is preparing to launch Vanity URLs for Facebook profiles and pages, according to Facebook Blog starting this weekend users can have the Vanity URLs (user names) for their profiles. The usernames will be assigned on first come first served basis, so grab your favorite URL immediately as they are available.

Microsoft Bing search engine got a lot of buzz, and as i mentioned in my Bing review post it is better than Live search, in fact it looks like a tweaked version of Live search. Anyway like Google and Yahoo Bing also allows you to do special searches for quickly finding things.