Earlier this week it was discovered that some Facebook applications were inadvertently sharing User ID information (UID) to third parties. In response to this, engineers working for Facebook are proposing that these UIDs become encrypted. The new proposal will make it so only the actual application will be able to read UIDs, making accidental [...]
As Twitter’s ad-based business model seems to improve on itself almost daily, the company is revealing plans for a new target that’s may be music to your ears: small businesses. Twitter’s CEO has indicated that they have intentions to offer a self-serve tool for local businesses to buy Twitter ads. Twitter is currently working [...]
GOOG-411 has been the leading way for users with feature phones (smartphones too) to look up and contact businesses for the past three and a half years. This service made it easy for users, as they just had to dial 1-800-GOOG-411, give a company’s name and city, and be connected. As of November 11th, users [...]
Yahoo is introducing a new search experience today with web searches made more streamlined and visual. Mobile searches have also been improved and a list of “hot search topics” has been added to Yahoo’s front page. When users search for news-related topics or entertainment, results are presented in a box with vertical tabs that [...]
Google News has been receiving the rankings of top news items from Newsknife for years. Since Google News started adding bylines to its search results, Newsknife has also started collecting informations regarding the journalists whose articles appears in these search results. These results are pulled from the 22 English Language Google News sites. Results were [...]
