Tumblr Launches “Submissions” for Community-Driven Blogs

Tumblr, another one of the many free hosted blogging platforms available on the web, announced this week the addition of a fun new feature to their blogs that will certainly interest anyone running a community-driven blog.  The new feature, called "Submissions",  will allow your readers to submit posts to the blog. … [Read more...]

Tumblr, another one of the many free hosted blogging platforms available on the web, announced this week the addition of a fun new feature to their blogs that will certainly interest anyone running a community-driven blog.  The new feature, called “Submissions”,  will allow your readers to submit posts to the blog.

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Google Launches My Location for Google Maps

If you’ve ever used Google Maps on your iPhone or other mobile device, you’re probably familiar with My Location already.  For those that aren’t, when you click a button your exact location is shown on the map denoted by a blue circle.  Now, that nifty little feature is coming to your desktop and laptop computers. [...]

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Unified Search: Featured FireFox Addon for Search

Unified search is a cool new FireFox addon that lets you easily combine and compare side-by-side search results from a number of search engines. The tool works as follows: Search base service – i.e. Google See Bing search engines appear on the same page; Notice buttons in the right top corner; Click on any button [...]

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Google Image Search Now Features License Filter

Google has just launched a new feature of Image Search which is aimed at helping users find images that are free to use based on their usage licenses, such as Creative Commons, GNU free documentation and other intellectual property agreement. This feature includes searching for images that are free to use, edit and share.

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Bing is Now the 13th Most Visited Website

So while we are all recovering from Google’s announcement of the Chrome OS, let’s get back to one of hottest pre-Google Chrome OS  items – Bing. What has now become of Bing – Google Search’s rival?  For the past few days, Bing camp’s has been pretty quiet lately. Mashable is reporting that the latest June [...]

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Semanti: Enhanced Social Search Experience

Semanti is your new search assistant and enhancer. It connects your social life and your browser-based collection of information (bookmarks) to search as well as helps personalize your search experience. Install the tool by connecting it to your Facebook account and installing FireFox addon:

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Link Building: A Balancing Act

“You think you’ve got a hold of it all You haven’t got a hold at all When you reach the top, get ready to drop Prepare yourself for the fall, you’re gonna fall It’s almost predictable” Get The Balance Right : Depeche Mode, 1983 No rest for the weary! How many people have decided to [...]

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Gmail & Other Google Apps Finally Out of Beta

Finally, Google has noticed that its Gmail service has been lingering on the beta mode and finally decided to declare them as out of beta – meaning a full blown web application/service. If you got excited about this news, it only goes to show that you are addicted to Google’s web applications. In addition to [...]

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Google Chrome OS Powered Netbooks

Last night Google announced that the company is taking a new direction with its Chrome project, and expanding Chrome beyond just being an optimized web browser, and into an entire operating system, Google Chrome Operating System. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this [...]

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Oh Snap! Google Launching Chrome OS, Lookout Microsoft Windows

By now you must have read about today’s biggest news – Google Chrome OS. The Official Google Blog just broke the news, Google Chrome is about to give birth to a full blown Operating System By virtue of its name – Google Chrome OS  will be built on the Chrome architecture. It’s just like running [...]

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