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How To: Search for People on Twitter

Twitter is all about making conversations happen. Its now being surrounded by a plethora of applications, clients and web services mashing the data on Twitter. There are sites to available to check out the latest and trending topics on Twitter.  And, know more about the topics including ... Read More →

Web Services to Get The Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags

One of the interesting features on Twitter is #hashtags. Hashtags are used to identify conversations and tweets based on a topic. For instance, a hashtag #Google on Twitter which return all the latest tweets which contained the hashtag #Google. Hashtags were developed as a means to create ... Read More →

Bing Launches Visual Search

Microsoft’s search engine Bing added a visual search feature. This is not a general feature available for all the search queries that goes through bing, but a feature that is more useful while finding products such as cameras, cars, people or books etc. ... Read More →

Technorati inviting bloggers to write content for them

Technorati, the blog search engine that everyone forgot is refocusing on creating original content to stay in the business. Once a popular search engine for blogs, Technorati shifted from blogs to social media in general once and went back to blogs later. Now it is preparing to focus itself as an ... Read More →

Wikipedia Color Coding Untrustworthy Text

Wikipedia is a rich source of information on any topic but it is some times not trustworthy, due to the free editing of the articles some people add random crap into articles. If you think this problem is the main reason to not to trust Wikipedia information, Wikipedia adding a trustworthiness to ... Read More →

BloggyBits: Flash Widget to Easily Showcase Your Latest Activity

How active are you on the social web? Here is an easy to use widget to spotlight your  latest  activity on social sites. BloggyBits is a flash widget that helps you showcase your latest activity at your favorite social sites right on your blog or website. Currently, it supports Twitter, Digg, ... Read More →

Doodle 4 Google Contest for School Children in India

Google announced a Doodle 4 Google contest for school children in India. School children in between 1st and 10th standards can participate in the contest, these children have to design a doodle for Google which Google will put on it’s home page on Children’s day (Nov 14th). ... Read More →

5 Best Websites to Create and Find Avatars

As you might have noticed on most of the blogs, in comments and discussion forums, avatars are small pictures representing your online identity. It's always crucial to have an elegant avatar as its the foremost thing people notice on your profile. Here are some cool websites to find and create ... Read More →

Futz.me Is Your Command Line On The Address Bar

Futz.me is a simple tool that lets you email notes, pictures, links, files to yourself for later viewing, in a command line fashion. The best part about Futz is its simplicity. Once you signup, there is no more logging in or messing with anything required later. ... Read More →