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Four Best Desktop Applications for Your Facebook Needs

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If you’re an avid Facebook user (alright, who isn’t anyway?), you’re probably tired of refreshing Facebook.com just to see the latest updates from your Facebook friends and contacts. For busy people, that could get pretty annoying at times. The good news is, there are several desktop applications available which allow you to receive Facebook updates in real-time without you going to Facebook.com. [Read more…] about Four Best Desktop Applications for Your Facebook Needs

Dictionary.com Comes as a Free iPhone App

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What else could probably come as an iPhone application? It’s a gaming platform, an e-book reader, a flashlight, a virtual beer, and now the iPhone has just become a free dictionary as well with the release of Dictionary.com’s iPhone app.  So , now you have a handy dictionary minus the bulky form of a pocket dictionary that we use to know. [Read more…] about Dictionary.com Comes as a Free iPhone App

7 New Features of 6 Google Products and Services

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Google has been pretty busy this week, despite the recently announced layoffs of around 200 Googlers. For those who are not affected by Google’s labor downsizing, life goes on at Google and its products and services. This week, we’ve discovered 7 new features of six Google major products and services.  All seven of these new features aim to enhance user experience and activity while using those six products and service. So, here 7 new features of 6 Google products and services. [Read more…] about 7 New Features of 6 Google Products and Services

White House to Use Google Products for Online Town Hall Meeting

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Well, Google has something to be proud of again as the White House is about to hold its first online town hall meeting using YouTube, Google App Engine and Google Moderator.  Although this not the first time the Obama administration will be making use of online social tools for its activities, this online town hall meeting would certainly give YouTube a huge amount of site traffic. In addition, this would also give a not so famous Google product, the Google Moderator a much need attention. [Read more…] about White House to Use Google Products for Online Town Hall Meeting

New York Times Feels the Effect of the Economic Crisis

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Among the top online news dailies I really like New York Times for one simple reason – it’s free. While others offer the online editions of their newspapers on a subscription basis which is tied up to print subscriptions, the New York Times managed to provide free source of relevant news. But this might start to change, as Bloomberg reports that NYT is seriously revisiting the charging fees of some its content. [Read more…] about New York Times Feels the Effect of the Economic Crisis

Twitter vs. Facebook, Round One Fight!

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Don’t look now folks, but it seems there is a new war brewing up in the social sphere (or has it already begun or might have been in existence before?). If you’ve been regularly checking Techmeme (like me), you’ll notice that both Twitter and Facebook have been receiving quite a number of coverage from various tech sites. It’s either a new Twitter app being developed that’s turning the microblogging service into a social networking site, or Facebook introducing a new feature in response to Twitter’s own features. One thing is clear – a war has begun between these two popular social web tools.

Here are some examples of the articles that reference to a Twitter vs. Facebook framework:

and this is my favorite:

To think that those articles are supposed to talk about the new Facebook feature which turns the Facebook profile pages into something more like the usual Facebook member pages, and the rolling out of the new Facebook home page. But I couldn’t blame tech writers for comparing Twitter and Facebook. After all the two are the most popular social sites today. The monthly site metrics produced by various online research companies would prove this.

And in terms of site traffic and membership base, both sites are continuously growing on a daily basis. The funny thing is, while Twitter is trying to become more like a full-featured social networking site, Facebook on the other hand is trying to focus on its micro services.

Amidst all these new features and changes in their features, one can’t help but wonder whether the user’s wants and preferences were actually considered. Personally, I would rather have Facebook maintain its social networking stature rather down going towards being a microblogging service. As for Twitter, it was best when it was just a simple microblogging site and when there were fewer third-party apps that you can use to enhance its capabilities.

But then, it all boils down to one thing – beating the threats imposed by your competitors even if you belong into different niches.