 | | Twitter gets close to home with 'local trends' | | This week Twitter added a new feature that can make the service more relevant. In the right-hand navigation bar, under "Trending," you can now select a geographic region to see what's hot on Twitter in one of a few cities. Only 15 U.S. cities and five non-U.S. countries are on the locality list, although it's very likely that Twitter will add more locations shortly. Twitter last year rolled out a geolocation API, which lets posts from Twitter apps--but not the Twitter.com site--tag each tweet with the location where it was made. Presumably, Twitter posts from the site itself inherit their users' static location from their profile page...
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Webware.com |  | | New on Webware | | | Google Voice finally on iPhone--in the browser
Posted by Tom Krazit
Owners of the iPhone and Palm's WebOS devices can now get in on the mobile Google Voice experience with the Web app, which will run in the browsers of iPhones with the 3.0 software installed and all Palm WebOS devices. We've got a hands-on here. Read more |  | Mozilla takes on YouTube video choice
Posted by Stephen Shankland
A disagreement between Google and Mozilla is making a once-obscure debate into a real issue for those who watch Web video or host it on their own sites. Read more | | Sorry, Facebook friends: Our brains can't keep up
Posted by Don Reisinger
Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Oxford University, developed a theory in the 1990s dubbed Dunbar's Number. The theory contends that the human brain is only capable of managing relationships--staying in contact at least once per year and knowing how friends relate to others--with about 150 people. Until recently, it was believed that that only pertained to "offline" relationships. Dunbar has now decided to shift focus to see whether Facebook has changed the number. It hasn't. Read more | | Yahoo grounds the 'hover' on its home page
Posted by Tom Krazit
Yahoo is making a major change to the major home page redesign it rolled out last fall: it's dumping the automatic hover. CEO Carol Bartz announced the change during the company's fourth-quarter earnings conference call, responding to a question from a financial analyst about how the new home page has helped Yahoo increase traffic. Traffic has gone up, she said, but so has the blood pressure of Yahoo users and advertisers. Read more | | Google Social Search out of Labs, into beta
Posted by Tom Krazit
First announced back at the Web 2.0 conference, Social Search allows Google searchers to link their Google Profile with the various profiles they have on social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Google launched it as a Google Labs project, but it's now going to be available to the wider Google user base. Read more | | | | Notable product updates | | | FeedDemon update takes cues from Google
Posted by Seth Rosenblatt
When FeedDemon updated to version 3, it stepped in a snarling nest of controversy because the popular RSS and Atom feed catcher was abandoning its online synchronization Web site in favor of Google Reader. The new FeedDemon 3.1 is a good effort to move beyond that, introducing multiple new features that mostly bring it into parity with Google Reader. Read more | | Justin.tv makes it easier to start streaming
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
It's not spring yet, but Justin.tv is cleaning house. This week, the video host rolled out a new version of its broadcasting tool that makes it easier to get a live video stream going. According to the company, a simple change has led to a 700 percent increase in the number of people who make it from clicking the "broadcast" button on Justin.tv's front page to actually beginning a live stream. Read more |
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