Pandora, an online music/radio streaming service that lets you personalize the Internet radio stations you listen to has just added a sharing toolbar to its service. And yes, you guess it right, this toolbar lets you share what music you are currently listening to with your Twitter and Facebook contacts and friends. [Read more…] about Pandora Opens Sharing Feature with Twitter and Facebook
Google launches “Similar Images” search
For some time, Google Labs has been testing search algorithms designed to find similar images, and yesterday announced that the feature is now a permanent fixture on Google Image Search.
As you’d expect, it’s a great way to narrow down images after searching for a broad topic, in much the same way as you’d do with text-based searches. It also helps when a word can have multiple meanings, such as “jaguar” or “keyboard”.
Unfortunately, I’ve only got Google’s word on this at present as I’m not seeing any “find similar images” links, even on the examples Google provided, but it certainly sounds like a really useful addition.
Yahoo Adds More Avatars and Audibles to YM
Yahoo continues its rebranding campaign dubbed “It Starts with Y!ou” by adding some more bling blings to the Yahoo Messenger client. Now with new audibles and avatars, YM extends Yahoo’s “Yodelling” campaign which started with the Yodel Studio. [Read more…] about Yahoo Adds More Avatars and Audibles to YM
Google Docs get liberated with mass download capability
As the data you store on Google’s servers is still yours, not theirs, it’s good to see the Internet giant taking seriously your right to easily move it around without being tied to using Google’s services forever once you’ve decided to start.
To that end, “data liberation” (as Google calls it) has extended to Google Docs.
You can now ZIP up and export multiple documents in multiple formats all at once instead of doing it one at a time.
There is a content limit of 500MB on each download, but that’s apparently around 20,000 files so it shouldn’t be an inconvenience.
File export options include (depending on original format) Microsoft Word and Excel, HTML, Open Document and Spreadsheet, PDF, Rich Text Format or plain text.
Mommy Users Find Other Uses of their iPhones
Results of the survey conducted by a research company shows that majority of moms who won an iPhone use it to entertain their kids – downloading games and educational materials. In addition, majority of them also use the iPhone as a a shopping tool – locating stores, jotting down to-buy lists and as a notepad. [Read more…] about Mommy Users Find Other Uses of their iPhones
Google Maps gets a visual update
Do you use Google Maps much? I use it a fair bit not only for finding local directions and landmarks but also because I like maps for their own sake.
So, I was pleased to see that Google has updated its Google Maps to make them even clearer to view and more useful.
Given that the range of information that’s represented on Google Maps has increased significantly over the almost five years it’s been around, it probably was due a facelift.
Colours have been optimised, roads are clearer to follow, and there’s more detail when zoomed in making it easier to use the maps for navigation.
Presumably, these changes will be echoed on mobile versions of Google Maps as well.
Check it out. What do you think?