Two months ago he said: ‘I am currently trying to define what Twitter’s purpose is in the long term. We will be able to be more specific on that answer in the near future’. After two months of deliberation, Dick Costolo, the company’s chief executive, has revealed that the site is focused on connecting people for a purpose.
Keep taking the tablets
For the vast majority of people who just want to friend on Facebook, tittle-tattle on Twitter, surf, play games, read the news or books or watch movies, and on something bigger than a phone, the tablet pc’s are an attractive, lightweight option, and there is no shortage of new ones about to hit the market.
Apps, extensions and links for Chrome
Google are forever tweaking existing products or bringing out new ones and, to their credit, are not afraid to admit it when they get it wrong, which means we will never see them entering the political arena.
Amazing
After Apple acknowledged a problem with iPhone alarms, they announced it would automatically fix itself by Monday, January 3rd. However, on Monday morning the problem did not seem to have gone away and a lot of angry iPhone owners complained that they had missed flights, were late for work or had failed to drop their kids off for the first …
Facebook valued at $50 billion
According to the New York Times, Facebook has raised funds from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a deal valuing the social networking site at $50 billion.
Apple glitch
A new glitch on Apple’s iPhone, relating to non-repeating alarms set for January 1st or 2nd, stopped its built-in alarm clock going off, leaving many people oversleeping on the first two days of the New Year. Irate bloggers and tweeters complained that they had been late for work or had risked missing planes, boats or trains. Apple has acknowledged the …
Standard phone charger due in early 2011
And about time, too. There is not normally a lot you can do with all the old phone chargers and transfer cables when you change device or manufacturer. Except dump them….Standard phone charger due in early 2011
Tabs for good causes
Last week, Google invited Chrome’s users worldwide to “donate” their opened tabs in Chrome to drive a charitable gift of one million dollars. An interesting idea which ended up with 60 million tabs going towards good causes. You can see which good causes benefited here: 60 million tabs towards good causes
LastPass acquires Xmarks
Last Pass, a very good and popular password manager – only one master password to remember – has acquired the equally popular Xmarks, formerly known as Foxmarks, the world’s leading browser add-on for cross-browser bookmark syncronisation that has successfully grown to over 4.5 million users syncing more than 1 billion bookmarks across 5 million computers. see LastPass Acquires Xmarks for …
Top searches 2010
Every year, Google releases a list of the most searched-for terms in various categories and the latest list for 2010 shows Chatroulette, the controversial website that connects webcam users with other live webcam users across the world, was the fastest rising search term. In the ‘overall’ category, strange to see how many people ‘Google’ Google as it were and as …