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		<title>Yahoo on the Process of Integrating Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo is now integrating Twitter tools and connectivity links in their sites. It is quite like the following the trail left by Google as well as Microsoft. Yahoo has been planning to integrate Twitter to make their site look better and be connected to the greater Tweeting portal. The move is has been designed with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/social-features.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6467" title="Social Features" src="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/social-features.gif" alt="" width="175" height="175" /></a>Yahoo is now integrating Twitter tools and connectivity links in their sites. It is quite like the following the trail left by Google as well as Microsoft. <strong><a title="Yahoo" href="http://www.technologygear.net/category/internet/yahoo" target="_blank">Yahoo</a></strong> has been planning to integrate Twitter to make their site look better and be connected to the greater Tweeting portal. The move is has been designed with the popularity about micro blogging along with increasing the site’s attraction in the greatest ways possible.</p>
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<p>There are also similar deals that take place in terms of Yahoo’s relation with Facebook that gets to position better with <strong><a title="Social Networking" href="http://www.technologygear.net/tag/social-networking" target="_blank">social networking</a></strong> in a better way. The enormity of this integration is also used for easy access to these social networking portals like <strong><a title="Twitter" href="http://www.technologygear.net/category/internet/social-networks/twitter-category" target="_blank">Twitter</a></strong> and Facebook that are working in great leaps and bounds today. These are important for everybody and every business. So these are indeed bringing the world closer in varied ways.</p>
<p>These easy to access approaches are bringing in much similarly designed agreements and data that can be displayed through Yahoo’s search engine with the recent changes. The online social universe keeps getting more relevant and personal as people get to experience them more and more. So Yahoo’s help is really creating great new ways to bring in such important integration at perfect work with everybody.</p>
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		<title>Limited Rollout in Terms of Tweeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retweet Limited Rollout
There have been some active as well as definite features regarding retweeting within rather small and discriminate accounts when you are working with Twitter. This is how it works with Retweet buttons and bringing some of the greatest as well as easy turns to bring in the higher end of followers in Twitter.
This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Retweet Limited Rollout</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Retweet-Limited-Rollout.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5369" title="Retweet Limited Rollout" src="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Retweet-Limited-Rollout.gif" alt="Retweet Limited Rollout" width="175" height="175" /></a>There have been some active as well as definite features regarding retweeting within rather small and discriminate accounts when you are working with <strong><a title="Twitter.com – A Detailed Review" href="http://www.technologygear.net/twittercom-a-detailed-review.html" target="_blank">Twitter</a></strong>. This is how it works with <strong><a title="Retweet Limited Rollout" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.twitter.com/2009/11/retweet-limited-rollout.html" target="_blank">Retweet buttons</a></strong> and bringing some of the greatest as well as easy turns to bring in the higher end of followers in <strong><a title="Twitter" href="http://www.technologygear.net/category/internet/social-networks/twitter-category" target="_blank">Twitter</a></strong>.</p>
<p>This comes with limited option for sure but then it also spreads quickly in terms of newsworthy networking making things easily efficient for the limited measure of people working to know more about Twittering.</p>
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<p>Networking would have to be done in an easier and rapid fire process with the high sense of Twittering around in the most effective ways. There are always new and additional features working on Twitter every few days, making <strong><a title="Social Networking" href="http://www.technologygear.net/tag/social-networking" target="_blank">social networking</a></strong> via internet a process of great fun.</p>
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<p>The <strong><a title="Shared Mechanics of the Current Feature" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/project-retweet-phase-one.html" target="_blank">shared mechanics of the current feature</a></strong> would have developments working in for some of the greater <strong><a title="Twitter Applications" rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/downloads" target="_blank">Twitter applications</a></strong> working in place. The latest plans make small but effective releases with very little work to be done on your part.</p>
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		<title>Facebook on Hiring Frenzy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has increased company’s work force by hiring people like crazy. The recent increase in the number of employees has been about 50%. This significant number of employee increase has been through their strength of engineers as well as developers. There is still this venture flush finding working through Facebook which makes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4535" title="Facebook" src="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Facebook.jpg" alt="Facebook" width="175" height="175" /></a><a title="Facebook's hiring like crazy again" rel="nofollow" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10315886-36.html" target="_blank">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has increased company’s work force by hiring people like crazy</a>. The recent increase in the number of employees has been about 50%. This significant number of employee increase has been through their strength of engineers as well as developers. There is still this venture flush finding working through <strong><a title="Facebook" href="http://www.technologygear.net/category/internet/social-networks/facebook-category" target="_blank">Facebook</a></strong> which makes their revenue rise up beyond pale.</p>
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<p>Facebook hit the mark of recruiting 1,000 employees by end of 2008 but then as the market crashed they were on hold with their work force. Now they are all on the go again as the business rises again. They have been keeping on suppressing their employee force but then they just went on the heavy prowl to get their company to get bigger again. They had been maintaining their employee perks as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Hiring-Frenzy.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4536" title="Hiring Frenzy" src="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Hiring-Frenzy.jpg" alt="Hiring Frenzy" width="585" height="550" /></a></p>
<p>Zuckerberg explained that they are now ready to move onto bigger projects with new engineers on their call at the moment. They are likely to make it even bigger this time around.</p>
<p><em><strong>Source:</strong> <a title="news.cnet" rel="nofollow" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10315886-36.html" target="_blank">news.cnet</a></em></p>
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		<title>Twitter giving tough time to Google in providing real time info, Google boss says</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 12:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Google’s co-founder Larry Page, Google is falling behind to micro-blogging site in offering real time info for increasing web users’ demand.
However, Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO says that they are looking for becoming a partner of the micro-blogging site.
We know well what happens in the world of social networking whenever some new site emerges, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3948" title="Twitter" src="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/twitter2.jpg" alt="Twitter" width="175" height="175" />According to Google’s co-founder Larry Page, Google is falling behind to micro-blogging site in offering real time info for increasing web users’ demand.</p>
<p>However, Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO says that they are looking for becoming a partner of the micro-blogging site.</p>
<p>We know well what happens in the world of social networking whenever some new site emerges, as it’s not a skeleton in a closet that what <strong><a title="Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank">Facebook</a></strong> did with <strong><a title="MySpace" href="http://www.myspace.com/" target="_blank">MySpace</a></strong> and now what Twitter is going to do not only against Facebook or even many other bigwigs of the web seem somewhat dazed with its rapid success. There were rumors that aside from many other big players of the tech world, <strong><a title="Apple may acquire Twitter: Rumor or reality" href="http://www.technologygear.net/apple-may-acquire-twitter-rumor-or-reality.html" target="_blank">Apple also wanted to acquire the micro-blogging site</a></strong>, but up till now none seems to succeed in these efforts.</p>
<p>Why everyone wants to acquire the <strong><a title="Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/" target="_blank">Twitter</a></strong>, I think it’s not hard to find at all, as it has emerged as the third most visited social networking site in the United States in a very short span of time.</p>
<p><span id="more-3946"></span>It allows users to post their thoughts, news and actions instantly, but the real thing behind its staggering success is the way it was hyped and the way celebrity-charm power was used for its popularity especially Oprah played an important role in its current popularity.</p>
<p><a title="Google search engine" href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank"><strong>Google search engines</strong></a> takes considerable time to update, but it is quite understandable why it is so, as these search engines focus on the accuracy of the results rather than speed. But now, as the worldwide internet community seems to demand that they require faster information than ever before and <strong><a title="Twitter.com - A Detailed Review" href="http://www.technologygear.net/twittercom-a-detailed-review.html" target="_blank">Twitter</a></strong> seems to leave Google behind in this wake.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3949" title="real time info" src="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/real-time-info.jpg" alt="real time info" width="585" height="550" /></p>
<p>In his closing address at Google’s Zeitgiest conference, Page says: “ Now more and more looking to do things in real time and no doubt about it that Twitter is doing a great job in this connection, and I think we haven’t done something remarkable to create things that work on per second basis.</p>
<p>He also told the audience that he was asking his team to get even faster than ever before.</p>
<p>However, he admitted this fact that there is a vast different between ensuring the accuracy of the information and make them available instantly.</p>
<p>When asked about the buyout of Twitter, Schmidt declined to comment on the issue and just said that they are doing quite a good job right now.</p>
<p><em><strong>Source: <a title="guardian.co.uk" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/19/google-twitter-partnership" target="_blank">guardian.co.uk</a></strong></em></p>
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		<title>Apple comes out with 2008&#8217;s Top10 App downloads for iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 2008  almost on the way of ending and close to 10,000 applications with them, Apple has come out with a series of lists, which outlines the application scoring the  most number of downloads since App Store was launched in  July.
The lists  have been separated by whether applications are free or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/apple-logo.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1273" title="apple-logo" src="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/apple-logo.jpg" alt="" width="175" height="175" /></a>With 2008  almost on the way of ending and close to 10,000 applications with them, <a href="http://www.technologygear.net/category/apple">Apple</a> has come out with a series of lists, which outlines the application scoring the  most number of downloads since App Store was launched in  July.</p>
<p>The lists  have been separated by whether applications are free or paid. Then, they are  separated on the basis of overall look and then by every main application  category (entertainment, <a href="http://www.technologygear.net/category/games">games</a>, utilities, <a href="http://www.technologygear.net/category/music">music</a> and social networking). While  overall top applications shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise to anyone, who has taken  occasional glance at built-in top download pages of <a href="http://www.technologygear.net/category/iphone">iPhone</a>, there are certain  remarkable names concealed in the data that are separated  categorically.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Top Paid Apps  (Overall):</strong></span></p>
<p>Koi  Pond, Texas  Hold&#8217;em, Moto Chaser, Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart 3d, Super Monkey Ball, Cro-Mag  zally, Enigmo,  Pocket Guitar, Recorder, iBeer</p>
<p>Of the names  that are there on this list, the only surprising fact is the rank of Super  Monkey Ball, which could have been higher. When App store was launched, it  seemed to everyone that Super Monkey became the face of gaming on iPhone. What  might have hindered its chances for a higher rank is that the game was expensive  at the time of launch. However, it was a great show for Pangea Software. They  secured two positions on the list with Cro-Mag Rally (6) and Enigmo (7).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/apple-iphone-itouch.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1274" title="apple-iphone-itouch" src="http://www.technologygear.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/apple-iphone-itouch.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="470" /></a></p>
<p>Top 10 Free  Downloads (Overall) are Pandora  Radio, Facebook, Tap Tap Revenge, Shazam, Labyrinth Lite Edition, Remote, Google  Earth, Lightsaber Unleashed, AIM, Urbanspoon.</p>
<p>What was  interesting in this list was the entry of Google Earth. The application was  launched in App Stores only couple of months back for iPhone and it cracked into  the Top 10 for free downloads.</p>
<p>Top Paid  Games are Texas Hold&#8217;em, Moto Chaser, Crash Bandicoot : Nitro Kart 3d, Super  Monkey Ball, Cro-Mag Rally, Enigmo, Air Hockey, Bejeweled 2, Flick Bowling, Line  Rider iRide.</p>
<p>Top Free  Games are Tap Tap Revenge, Labyrinth Lite Edition, Sol Free Solitaire, iBowl,  Pac-Man Lite, Touch Hockey:FS5, Cannon Challenge, Audi A4 Driving Challenge,  Sudoku, reMovem. Although some doubted its top position in this list, Tap Tap  Revenge had fairly constant buzz surrounding it and deserved its top position.  However, the surprising element was the position of Sudoku, which went way down  to number 9.</p>
<p>Top Paid  Entertainment are Koi Pond, iBeer, iChalky, Face Melter, iFish, TouchScan,  What&#8217;s on TV, Pocket Piano, Sketches, OneTap Movies. A surprising  entry in the list at #6 is &#8216;TouchScan&#8217;. It is a 99-cent application, which scans  minds of 2 people at the same time and compares the recorded brain waves. They  do it by way of a fake on-screen fingerprint scanner.</p>
<p>Top Free  Entertainment are  Remote, Lightsaber Unleashed, i.TV, BubbleWrap, Movies,  iDoodle 2 lite, Showtimes, Now Playing, Scribble, Crazy Pumpkin. Presence of  &#8216;Crazy Pumpkin&#8217; in the list proves that how much impact holiday-themed  applications can have with users. It puts faces of Jack-o-lantern on the screen  of your iPhone. It managed to get adequate swing from coverage around Halloween  for getting barely into the top 10.</p>
<p>Top Paid  Utilities are Units (crossroad solutions), A Level, Air Mouse, Fake Calls, Voice  Record, Clinometer, Spell Check, Speed Dial, FileMagnet, iNetwork Speed Test.  Top Free Utilities are Flashlight, myLite Flashlight, Say Who &#8211; Dialer, Units  (TheMacBox), Compass Free, Alarm Free, A Free Level, Molecules, Speed Test,  myLighter.</p>
<p>Presence of  &#8216;Units&#8217;, in both free and paid utilities is good, although they are two  dissimilar applications, TheMacBox &amp; Crossroad Solutions. Top Paid Social Networking are MobileChat,  BeejiveIM,  Quip, Rooms &#8211; Your Mobile Chat Client, Twitterrific  Premium, Flutter, Twittelator Pro, mBoxMail, Secrets, hiCard &#8211;  Suite.</p>
<p>What is  impressive in this list is the presence of BeeJiveIM. The application not only  made its way into Top 10 paid social networking, but landed at a remarkable #2.  I&#8217;m not shocked with this result, as the quality of this application is quite  good. However, its price of $16 was too high. In a market, where number of users  complains with 99-cent applications to be too expensive, performance of BeeJive  is actually shocking.</p>
<p>Top Free  Social Networking are Facebook, AIM, Myspace Mobile, IM+ Lite, Loopt, Fring,  Palringo IM, Earthscape, Twitterrific, Avatar. Facebook getting one up on  Myspace isn&#8217;t an unexpected thing, as the former has been performing brilliantly  in the field of social networking recently.</p>
<p>Top Paid  Music are PocketGuitar, Drum Kit, Ocarina, Pianist, Band, Tuner Internet Radio,  Beat Maker,  Guitar Toolkit, Harmonica, Guitarist. Top Free Music are Pandora  Radio, Shazam, AOL Radio, Midomi, Mini Piano, iheart Radio, MixMeister Scratch,  FlyCast Mobile Radio, Last.FM, DigiDrummer Lite.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s one interesting  thing to note in both this lists, although this one will hardly make any sense.  Majority (9 of 10) in the paid applications were for making music, whereas  majority (7 of 10) in free apps is targeted at listening to  music</p>
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