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Apple Drops the “Most Powerful Mapping Service Ever” Claim
— Apple's CEO Tim Cook has honestly admitted that Apple Maps isn't as good as competing mapping services but the Apple website made a slightly contradictory claim. It said: … Apple Maps may be beautiful for some regions …
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This is the New YouTube Player with Storyboards
— The next version of YouTube video player will have one very useful feature - you can hover your mouse to any point in the video, without actually moving the playhead, and the YouTube player will show you an image thumbnail of the video frame at the position.
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Google Begins Indexing Facebook Comments
— Third-party commenting engines like Disqus, Facebook Comments or Intense Debate make it easy for you to enable commenting on any website /blog but there's one downside - some of these commenting engines are implemented in JavaScript and hence search engines …
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A Trillion Pageviews for Facebook
— Google today released an updated list of the most-visited sites on the web and it should not come as any surprise that Facebook takes the top spot with 870 million uniques. YouTube and Yahoo are next with 790 M and 590 M uniques respectively.
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A Cleaner Layout for Google Search
— Google is testing a fresh and cleaner layout for web search and other search properties. — The new Google design uses a single column layout while the old sidebar options appear between the search box and the search results.
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How People Share Content Online and With Whom?
— A recent study done by AOL and Neilsen offers interesting insights into how people share content on the web and what kind of content do they prefer sharing. — Email is still the most preferred mode for sharing content with friends and family …
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Twitter Introduces Text Ads
— Twitter is experimenting with sponsored text-ads on their website that show-up just after the “trends” section. The first round of text-ads mainly promoted Twitter apps and other services built around the Twitter ecosystem but that is no longer the case.
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PayPal in India is ‘Close to Dead’
— If you are based in India and have been using the PayPal service to receive payment from foreign clients and advertisers, here's some disheartening news for you. — Starting March 1st, you'll not be allowed to receive payments that exceed $500 per transaction.
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The New Inner Circle of Steve Jobs
— Apple's marketing strategy for a new product (like the iPad) works something like this: — Phase 1 - Steve Jobs will announce the product in an “invite-only” event weeks before the product is actually due for shipping.
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Pop-up Reminders in Google Calendar
— Google Calendar now supports pop-up reminders just like your favorite desktop email client. … This is a Labs feature so you'll have to add it manually to your Google Calendar account through the Labs tab under Calendar Settings.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.