Trends Show Mobile Gaining Momentum

The mobile web has taken a prominent role in the development of many applications and innovations for users on the go. The increase use of SmartPhones such as the Apple iPhone and the Blackberry make the mobile market competitive and ready for fresh ideas. And while the mobile web is more widely used, it still [...]

Google Docs Desktop Gadget Brings Convenience

Google’s emailing service, Gmail, has taken over as one of the most widely used emailing services. Its innovations have let people simplify the way in which they email, create events in calendars, instant message and keep track of important documents. In fact, keeping track of documents through Google Docs has helped users (who might not [...]

Facebook Shows Great Growth

Social networking giant, Facebook.com, has become a phenomenon among users as well as those looking to promote their business, brand and/or product. According to recent reports, Facebook’s growth has reached 140 million active users. More important to note is the statistic that shows Facebook’s growth rate at 600,000 users per day. Furthermore, the statistics show [...]

New Yahoo Toolbar Emphasizes User Needs

Yahoo’s goal of creating an easier, more user-friendly experience for its audience looks more promising with the revelation of its new toolbar. The toolbar’s strategy focuses on making the Yahoo web browser more open to third parties in addition to its users.  Yahoo’s emphasis on convenience could be the edge they need to compete with [...]

Browzmi Makes Browsing More Social

Social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon have revolutionized the way in which users save and share their favorite websites.  A new tool, Browzmi, also aims to make web browsing easier to share. Browzmi’s first appearances showed promise in its browser-within-a-browser element.  Complete with chat and collaborate web browsing, Browzmi allows users to surf [...]

Zentact Keeps Users in Touch

Zentact is a new tool which helps users stay in touch with their contacts. Zentact works by optimizing one’s contact list. First, users upload their contact lists (from email providers such as Gmail) onto Zentact. Users can then organize their contacts with tags. These tags sync with sites that users will visit, and Zentact will [...]

Google AdWords Goes Mobile

Google’s announcement to bring AdWords to the mobile web brings many opportunities for advertising.  AdWords advertisers will be able to display desktop text as well as image ads on the iPhone, T-Mobile’s G1 and other mobiles with full HTML Internet browsers.  Some of the advantages to this include mobile-specific calls-to-action.  According to Google, using Google [...]

Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect

The innovation of an OpenID has different companies racing to provide the most widely used form for users. One might wonder what the differences between these options are. Two of the Internet industry’s largest figures—Facebook and Google—have created OpenID programs. Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect are widely anticipated as catalysts of the OpenID trend. [...]

Video comes to Myspace Mobile

The Mobile web has taken off and companies are looking at ways to capitalize on its instant access to users. Such is the same case for social networking. Social network giant Myspace has taken advantage of this by introducing streaming video to mobile. Of course, this feature is only available to certain phones. Some phones [...]

Facebook Connect Brings Many Opportunities

Facebook Connect is the up and coming innovation brought on by the social networking giant to help streamline the web, bringing people closer with greater ease.  Facebook Connect also hopes to monetize Facebook, something the company has struggled with doing.  Nevertheless, the introduction of Facebook Connect has the potential to revolutionize the way in which [...]