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Bing has been out on the wild (internet) for some few weeks and the search engine has managed to gain some users who experts say is a normal occurrence when it comes to new stuff on the net. More time is indeed needed to determine the abilities of the software but one Google Inc. executive seems to be more interested this time round due to some allure the search engine may have that he sees as a possible threat to their own product. The company has yet to manifest great an alarm over the release of the replacement for Microsoft’s Live Search, saying search engines come and go and they have been doing so for the past few years. (more…)

The process can give you some abilities to expand on the ones already built-into the loved multimedia player, and news that the iPod Touch can be turned into a phone as well is quite anticipated. The manufacturer, Apple had a WiFi Chip built-into the said device for a purpose and this might be it, but maybe set back because of more research and study. They may also have a program (real one and not hacked) in the works that can expand on the capabilities of the said media player that looks almost the same as the iPhone except it’s not a phone and it doesn’t have a camera to match. (more…)

The much loved Twitter has been abuzz with the so-called “Twitpocalypse”, a state at which software clients that uses the company’s API are to suddenly cease working. In what many are seeing as the
apocalypse of Twitter, the 32-bit signed binary number is a set limit at which the API can continue to work and function, reaching of which might result in a total system shutdown. The popularity of the said
micro-blogging site may have this as a major oversight due to it’s release on the 32-bit platform a few years back. Too many users posting too many posts, too quick for the system to handle that is causing
quite a stir with effects similar to the coming of the year 2000 when all hell was expected to break loose (nothing really happened). (more…)

The amazing iPhone has continued to amaze and disappoint people the world over, and now in it’s third generation, people, who are creatures of never-ending curiosity have learned more about its abilities
that those who have been briefed to sell them out of the box in the many Apple Stores. People have a knack of learning more than they should about innovative products, like the hidden WiFi transmitter chip within it that wouldn’t have been known if some crazy gadget lover hadn’t taken apart their newly store bought iPod. (more…)

If you have various instant messaging accounts and have a hard time using them all at the same time, a simple website allows you to log into the most popular instant messaging clients all at the same time, all within a single window.

Enter Meebo, a revolutionary way to chat in different platforms all at the same time without having to open each program one by one. You can log-in to your Yahoo Messenger, AIM, MSN and MySpace chats all at the same time without downloading a thing. And the best part is that it’s one hundred percent free. Meebo also has it’s own online community - you need to sign up and register to be a part of it - where fellow Meebo users interact and communicate with one another.

The many mail applications out there should be looking out for Google’s Gmail for they have just allowed the inclusion of inline pictures and not just as mere attachments. Microsoft Outlook has been under threat from Google when it announced Google apps, their cloud-based office look alike which rivaled the more commercial Microsoft Office product line. Google has been a major player in the open-source development of the cloud. Along with Apple’s Appstore, with the thousands of apps available, they are continuing to improve their products that are managing to rival the many commercially developed software on the internet. Seems the Open-source workplace has been hard trying to oust the monopoly of commercial developers with Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s FireFox in the freeware arena, Web applications are going to be a part of the world for many years to come as the social web takes the control of their environemtn and changes the web forever.

If Santa Clause was making a list online of all the good children (and adults) out there, then he maybe using jjot. It’s a note-taking application that allows you to save the info online and sharable to anyone else you want:

Jjot is a lightning fast sticky note web application filled with smart features like archiving, search, and sharing. Jjot is very easy to use and understand (which is nice when you’re tackling any new web application), but what really stands out about Jjot is its speed. Everything you do on Jjot is satisfyingly snappy, which is so refreshing in an age of bloated web apps. Granted, Jjot’s speed might not be enough to make it stand out in the already overcrowded online note-taking and todo applications, but it’s on my good list.

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FriendFeed has recently released its newest feature to date. It hopes to provide its members an option to get updates a number of social networks as they happen. This is possible through standard instant messaging procedures. The individual IM will have a few characters of the post , it also has a tiny permalink that will lead you to it. It is like live feed which can track easily and be able to answer back immediately. They also have the option to limit the influx of activities coming from so many users in the internet to a small number of friends. You can monitor newly posted articles and stuff from the the available feeds. It is very useful for desktop users as well as for mobile ohone users. With FriendFeed, you can monitor on a lot of things without even while relaxing.

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Headup is a new Mozilla Firefox extension, a simple tool for connecting everything that you see in your browser at a certain time and in your social networks. It is something that you will have to explore when you get the chance to download this amazing add on. The program Headsup gives you a little background story on people or places and of things that are in your browser. Without being intrusive. Headup was created by its CEO, Tal Keinan of a TelAviv based company SemantiNet. Tal got $3.4 million in September from Series A funding. The company is an eraly adopter of numerous services. It uses Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. It provides you with two types of informations. Whats going on inside major social networks and what people think of those networks. The apllication is not a search engine as others might think, its more of an inference engine that compiles relevant connections with the topics in your social network.

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One of the winners in best web applications in 2007 is “Twitter”. Twitter is an online web service that lets you send short messages to your friends . It has a feature that lets you specify which Twitter users you want to follow, so you can read their messages in one place. Twitter also works on mobile phones giving you the edge of mobility. It works perfectly well on a computer. It has an interface similar to that of a mobile phone, wherein you are limited to 140 characters. It can be sent as an SMS alert. Its part of Twitters charm. Many features were developed to create their own specialized applications. Thats how Twitter got its tools and services that sets it apart from any other APIs. Or even something bigger.