It seems as thought these additions really draw away from the fact that Pulse was a great way of finding quality independent news sources.

“We wanted to experiment with social news, photos and videos — hence, we picked these initial sources. All these services have really neat APIs, and it literally took Charles [new team member Charles Chen] two weeks to get this up and running,” says co-founder Akshay Kothari. “Many more to come — stay tuned!”

• Watch YouTube Playlists on iPad – November 27, 2011
• TeamViewer 6 Available for Android – November 28, 2010
• Who Wants an iPad when you can get an iPed? – May 29, 2010
• Introducing Streake: 5” Tablet from DELL – May 25, 2010
• Hitler is Less Than Impressed with the Apple iPad – January 30, 2010

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I’m pretty sure that there’s nothing similar in the web right now, and can help a lot of webmasters and bloggers to find if some images they’ve uploaded are being re-used by other people. Most certainly web and graphic designers can use it to protect their work.

TinEye has indexed almost 2 billion images from which they run the comparison every time we upload an image (this web app also can use the URL of the image as well).

TinEye is also available as a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

• Multiple Uploads to Hosting Sites with MirrorCreator – December 5, 2010
• Create a Screencast and Share it in Twitter – November 7, 2010
• Save your Photos, Videos and Documents in one Place with PhotoRem – November 7, 2010
• How to Create Online Courses within a Few Steps – October 31, 2010
• How to Add a Sidebar with Facebook, Twitter, Delicio.us and Digg – October 31, 2010

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While under the hood it packs the same hardware that a standard netbook would offer, it’s what you can do with it that makes this device so unique. Take for example the OS. The OS that comes packaged with this device is proprietary and completely customizable. Make it fit your mood, your style, or your event, no matter how you slice it, it’s the OS that can represent your needs. Now pair that with the fact that the screen goes beyond the 180-degree tilt and completely swivels back on itself to prop itself up.

The screen remains completely functional can can display data such as weather reports, Facebook feeds, photos from Flickr or Shutterfly, or just about anything that can run independenty while you and/or your audience can watch. If you’re looking to take your netbook to the next level and get something a bit more out of it, then I highly suggest the Litl and let us know what you think.

• Jolicloud Reaching Final Version this Week – July 13, 2010
• A Sneak Peak At New Netbook Operating System – January 23, 2009
• PDF to Microsoft Word Converter Facebook Edition – December 4, 2011
• Washington Post Facebook Social Reader News Application – November 26, 2011
• Dont Just Jump Ship to Apple So Easily – September 27, 2011

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At the minute, users have to upload their pictures to an independent printer of their choice. However, because they’ll be able to export whole albums, photo streams etc… at the click of a mouse I can certainly see this being a promising endeavour for SnapFish. However, they will have to give some of their profits back to Flickr obviously – but because they’re available in 22 countries they’ll definitely be turning a profit this year.

Yahoo!, who own Flickr, have come under fire in recent times due to their management of the brand and the controversial decision to include video on the photography site (this has led to several online groups against videos on Flickr being founded). However, they still have over 4 billion photographs on the site and it’s growing by 100 million each month, so SnapFish won’t be complaining.

• Derwent Open Social Media Based Hedge Fund in UK – May 19, 2011
• Yandex Opens Up Their Own Startup Investment Program – April 14, 2011
• JP Morgan Didnt Invest in Twitter – March 3, 2011
• Pulse Social News App Becomes Less Unique and More Mainstream – February 19, 2011
• Andreessen Horowitz Buy 2% of Twitter for $80 Million – February 10, 2011

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Now, Flicker must have read one of my five million angry e-mails and changed how your search results are displayed. Instead of having a long list of images with all the information about it to the side such as name, photographer, tags and a description, everything has been streamlined.

The updated search results show a load of small images right the way across and down the screen  with just the users name under it in small writing. This is a much better way of searching for images and way less stressful given the sheer amount of images on Flicker.

I am also very impressed with the quality of the thumb nails shown. With other services such as ‘Image Search’ on Yahoo! or Google the images are fuzzy and have tons of useless information surrounding them.

• Evernote: Updates, Success and Big Ideas – February 24, 2010
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• Huffington Post To Be Leading Independent Online News Source in UK – July 9, 2011

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Twitter

Now we have TwiPho.net . Upon seeing the URL, I assumed it was twitter on your phone and I didn’t really see the originality of it all. Then I jumped on in and discovered it was Twitter Photo. Basically, this is a platform whereby people can submit their photos (usually taken at events, news stories etc on mobile phones) and submit them to the service.

Then when a user goes on (such as me) and types in say … Michael Jackson, I’ll be shown the latest Photo Tweets like hundreds of people gathered around the Millennium Stadium in the UK holding candles. Developed by Mark Goddard, it’s still in the Beta phase and as such operates on a small scale in comparison to its older brother.

Where as in Twitter tweets come in on the second, tweets only come by on a specific subject such as Chuck Norris or Dog every few minutes (or even hours depending on how specific you search terms is).

I can’t see it catching on as photos don’t have the same simplicity adored by fans of Twitter. However, it’s a cool website with easy-to-use functions. It serves a purpose – the Flickr of Twitter.

• Twitter Photo Sharing Service is Growing Fast: Third Party Services are Struggling – November 10, 2011
• 10 Twitter Hashtags to Live a More Frugal and Sustainable Life – October 27, 2011
• Awesome New Twitter Follow Buttons & Icons – August 22, 2011
• Jack Dorsey Firing Key Product Executives at Twitter – July 21, 2011
• Microsoft Excel Template: Analytics for Twitter – June 13, 2011

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Some might say that MySites tries to be too much, but I think they execute their offerings very well. Let’s take a look at the Virtual Desktop aspect first.

MySites does a great job of storing up to 10GB of items, to include photos, movies, and music. While it can’t necessarily import files from Flickr, iTunes, or any other site, you can personally upload your own files. With 10GB of space available you can set up your virtual desktop with more than enough to keep it functional. The files are stored in folders that you have to double click to open, just like your real desktop. You have access to the full customization of MySites which makes it a great addition to the usual items you can place on there like calendars, emails, sites, etc.

The flipside of MySites is the Social Networking aspect. MySites fully intends for you to share your content with friends and across as many sites as possible. With the ability to add buddies and designate which files can be accessible, it’s sure to be a great place to gather to share all of your uploaded files. Seeking others with similar interests is also possible, and is encouraged to fully extend your network via MySites.

As of last week MySites could not connect to any currently existing social network site, but again the site is in beta. I was assured that future offerings would be made available as the site is built out.

• iLike – Soical Networking for Music Fans – August 19, 2009
• First Google+ TV Advertising: Sharing, but like real life – November 25, 2011
• Larry Pages Doesnt Even Use Google Plus – September 19, 2011
• Diglo: Social Network for File Sharing and Media Hosting – July 31, 2011
• Official Google Social Network: Google+: Facebook Competitor – June 29, 2011

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