Facebook Currency soon to be launched
Social networking is becoming monopolised, literally. If you are a regular user of the most popular social networking site Facebook you may well be interested to learn that it has recently been confirmed that they are to partner with a Malaysian company to deliver virtual currency for Facebook across Asia. This move has been fronted by tycoon Vincent Tan and is available in around 50,000 retail outlets across Asia. This move could lead it to becoming the default online currency, rivalling leaders such as PayPal.
Continue reading...Google invests into Zynga to develop Google games
Google has put in $100-200 million in web-based games developer Zynga, to help bring out the Google Games. TechCrunch reports that this supposedly is a small part of a month-old deal between Google and Zynga. This step will enable the game developer develop the Google Games platform.
Continue reading...Google Alerts Updates from Web Types to Everything Types
With the web reeling from the most recent Google Caffeine Infrastructure update, Google has revealed yet another step forward in how they process Google Alerts and Universal Search. Blended search is here to stay and as an indicator of the power of diversity, Google has decided to update the “web” type alerts to “everything” type alerts, which means you may receive video, news, images and / or other types of relevant media attached to your alert / query. Continue reading
Continue reading...Google vs Pac Man
We all know and love Google’s almost daily logo change on the default search screen. Well Google has gone one step further we believe and has just launched a new Pac Man interactive Google logo game. As you can see in the screen grab below the logo is clearly the Google logo with colours and spelling but wait just a few seconds and you will see the famous Pac Man figure come to life and start munching on the little dots. To take it one step further though the game is even controll
Continue reading...Make your own Google search story
During the superbowl Google ran a 60 second advert which simply illustrated a few Google searches and some music to show a comical video snippet. It was well received around the globe. So much so Google have now created a very nifty tool to create your own videos. It’s not exactly Spielberg busting stuff but it is definitely quite fun to do. This simple video creation tool can be used by anyone and once your done you can even upload it to YouTube. All you need to do is type in s
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