Posts Tagged with ‘msn’

For all my harping on cellular providers' ho-hum attempts to deliver quality mobile social content, I like to think I'm holding out for the real goods.  From what I can tell, Fring might just be the at the head of the mobile social platform pack. 
Fring is a free mobile platform that allows users to access social communities like Skype, MSN Messenger, GTalk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM on the go via cellular devices.  For most of those [...]

The more that I've been following the development of Web operating systems, the more I've come to realize that the concept shouldn't really be that difficult. For a Web OS to be successful, there are only a few simple things it really needs to have. It needs to have a slick and attractive interface, especially for those of us spoiled by Mac OS X. It needs to be able to store all types of files. It needs to have a [...]

Microsoft just announced that they will try to acquire Fast Search & Transfer, which is a Norwegian enterprise search solution. The deal is reportedly in excess of $1 billion and is dependent on FS&T shareholder approval. The big three in search, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have been locked in this search battle for some time with Google taking the lion's share of the users.
As many have predicted, Microsoft was destined to make some move to close the gap between [...]

PipeBytes, as it states, is a revolutionary way to transfer files to friends and coworkers across the miles, almost free.
As an avid connoisseur of transferring or exchanging files across the miles, I am always looking for a more rapid and reliable method of doing so with as little costs to me and defiantly no costs to the recipient. Gone are the days of Rogers high-speed cable service with its minuet flaw that with a little of a little proggie [...]

Today, StumbleUpon, the company whose claim to fame is a nifty shuffle-like technology that provides Web browsers (people, not software programs) with the option to discover new facets (a.k.a.: sites) of the Internet quickly and easily, announced an addendum to its product/service. The new addition will allow for it to venture out of the toolbar and into webpages themselves.
Well, those of search engines, at least. StumbleUpon has unveiled SearchReviews, a feature that, aside the ranking of links on engines like [...]

My good friend Dr. Riza Berkan just clued me in to a new comparative feature at hakia where users can test hakia against various search engines side-by-side. This feature has been on the hakia site for a little while but Riza and hakia have not publicized it and I thought our readers would be interested. Hakia has been under the radar fora little while now, so I was really glad to get a note from Riza and some cool news [...]

Are you unsatisfied with the results that a Google search turns up? Are too many of the links irrelevant or not at all useful? Well, if so, there is a new social search engine aiming to provide you with a new way to search. Sure there are Mahalo and Aftervote, but now there is iRazoo, which goes one step further… with prizes.
This new social search engine, developed by four Houston entrepreneurs and launched today, is claiming to be the ?world?s [...]

In an effort to make itself known as the most thorough of privacy protectors in the realm of search today, Ask.com, generally thought to be the fourth in line to the industry throne (behind Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL), has announced a feature to be launched later this year which will allow users to perform “anonymous searches.”
The feature, dubbed "AskEraser", will be possible for the portal’s users to easily turn on as a barrier disallowing Ask from retaining any information regarding [...]

My old favorite YouTube seems to be chugging along according to the news today. According to statistics from a Hitwise, Inc traffic data, from January to May the market share of visits to YouTube rose 70 percent even in light of the site's legal woes. The next closest site was News Corp's MySpace Video according to the survey with about 16 percent of the market.
YouTube Then the Others
Google's YouTube as of May, 2007 controls over 60 percent of the [...]