Facebook have now introduced music services which you can now listen with your friends. This feature allows to you listen along with any of your friends who are currently listening to music. You can also do this together in a group while one of your friends plays DJ.
The way you do this is by looking at the music note in the chat sidebar which indicates which of your friends are listening to music. To listen with a friend, you simply hover over their name and click the Listen With button.
Search plus Your World transforms Google into a search engine that understands people and relationships. It allows you to find information which is personal to you, including Google+ photos and posts, both your own and people who shared specifically with you. This information will only be available to you on your result page.
It also allows you to search profile of people who you are close to or might be interested in following. It finds their Google+ pages which could be related to a specific topic or an area of interest. Google also makes it easy to follow them in few clicks.
Mini mince pies, vanilla star shaped cookies, cranberry muffins and mince muffins wrapped with festive red gingham & ribbon and a gold dusted fir cone.
This is a lovely present from one of our client, thank you Karen.
You might be noticing that things look a little different across Google products. Well, this is because Google has been working on a project to bring new and improved Google experience.
One of these new products is Google+. It is to bring real life sharing over the web. Google+ brings a number of products including Circle, Sparks, Hangouts, Instant Upload and huddle. Circle for instance, allows you to make a circle, add your people and share what’s new to precisely the right folks. They are aimed to bring nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software. It is to better Google by introducing you, your relationships and your interests.
You can join Google+ by simply sign in with your Google account to start using the new products. To find out more about Google+ click here
Today Facebook have launched new functionality so you can now tag Facebook pages in your photos. This allows users to interact with businesses more. So you will see your freinds showing off by tagging their Rolex, their new car etc… this all opens up the promotion of items more virally, so you see some interesting advertising campaigns coming your way. No doubt there will be hundreds of photos tagged of musicians and bands as everyone will share there latest gigs. However this initial wave of page tagging will be from venues, clubs and pubs as this is where the majority of photos are taken from but this will eventually filter out to products.
Google recently added a new experiment to its Google labs called Google Fast Flip. This is an experience that combines the best aspects of print and online articles. It enables you to browse news quickly and sequentially through a lot of popular news, recent news, controversial news and headlines. You can also get RSS feeds from individual top publishers.
With Fast Flip, going through news is very fast and seamless and you can go through a lot of pages rapidly and flip forward to something interesting. To try out Google Fast Flip click here.
Google recently released its annual zeitgeist report showcasing the most popular searches of the year. This year they have released a video as well as interactive data visualisations for the top queries and events from general search, to sports, food, entertainment, people, map, translations and more.
With the interactive data you can easily see how people around the world have reacted to Haitian earthquake or the Gulf Oil Spill. Click here to see the interactive data visualisation.
Since we have always got a ear to the ground listening out for any Facebook moves and shakes, we have been alerted to the fact at that at the end of 2010 we will waive goodbye to Facebook Markup Language FBML.
Facebook has recommend us all to use iframes instead!! So you know all those really good Facebook corporate pages what have been built using FBML they could have been done a lot easier in iframes.
Whilst thinking about how this affects our current clients facebook pages we pay homage to some our FBML favorites:
For most people Facebook is a neat social networking site that they can catch up on all their friends gossip, maybe share a couple of pictures or maybe write some funny quips on a friends walls.
However for us tech’s we are as more likely to sign into Facebook for Developers than just our walls. Anyone and everyone has seen the social bookmarks on website which isn’t new, however Facebook have now taken this one step further with Facebook Like – With open graph support. So when you click on ‘Like’ now on someone 3rd party website this then makes the 3rd party website into a Facebook page automatically which is pretty neat.
So now when someone clicks on your ‘Like’ button, your page will be in your users Facebook Search and you can also target these people a lot easier with Facebook advertising
The guys over at Google have had a first crack at breaking Facebooks dominance in the Social Network world by setting up Google Buzz which a new social tool built directly into Gmail. Essentially you can post comments to your email list without the need to add friends… essentially its Facebook meets twitter. It has all the standard features of Facebook, photo, comments and video sharring but also allows you to aggregate your favorite RSS feeds which is something that Facebook lacks. Google Buzz was launched on 02/09/2010
