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The layout is clean and uncluttered; the daily image is rotated to provide an attractive background and landing page. Bing is aesthetically successful, but is it anywhere near perfect semantic search engine? The competition in this area is fierce especially after the Microsoft-Yahoo partnership has been approved. Regardless, Google is still the dominant player in [...]

Facebook has announced a new service for the friends and family of dead people. “When someone leaves us, they don’t leave our memories or our social network,” Facebook says. “To reflect that reality, we created the idea of ‘memorialized’ profiles as a place where people can save and share their memories of those who’ve passed.” [...]

Google continues to deliver spectacular web services that dominate the web. Businesses are relying on Google in all aspects of online communication and productivity. Then Google comes up with Google Wave, a real-time communication platform that will probably redefine Email and Web Communication; it combines mail, web chat, IM, and project management software. Google Wave [...]

Facebook is constantly evolving, adding features to its 300 million users worldwide on a regular basis. Wall, Status, Pokes and Photos were the main features of the site. Later a News Feed was announced just to be followed by the instant messaging application called Chat. Overtime Facebook significantly changed its user interface to create a [...]

The heart and soul of social networking sites are user’s profiles. It’s like their own Internet sanctuary, a place where they can express their thoughts and feelings, post photographs and show off their network of friends. Such sites are becoming astonishingly popular, introducing new forms of addictions, creating all sorts of addicts such as Facebook [...]

Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. Twitter, a perfect example of microblogging, has seen a lot of growth since it launched in October, 2006. A user can updates her post by describing her [...]