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Google Wave Gets Another Push With Extensions Gallery

info@ebrandz.com (Abhijeet Kashyap ) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:55:25 +0000

Mountain View, California -- Google Wave did not fared well when it came out of the Mountain View terminal, but today, Google has launched an “extensions” gallery for their real-time communications product, Google Wave, the still-conceiving browser-based app that crossbreeds email with IM and document sharing. First introduced at a Google developer conference last May, Wave offers APIs for developing extensions to the platform and embedding its conversations in websites and blogs. Interestingly, this initial version is still has a little rough around the edges in terms of functionality. But, one of the exceptional prospects of Google Wave has been the ability to develop embeddable widgets enabling users to extend the functionality and add the features that they need to a wave. The new extensions gallery -- announced today -- appears as a link in the navigation panel that runs down the left-hand side of the Wave UI.

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Facebook Ousts Google As Most Engaged Website In The U.S

info@ebrandz.com (Nisha Gandhi) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:51:28 +0000

San Francisco -- Facebook is speedily taking over the world -- Google bumped after three years at the top. Facebook the most popular social-networking venue has now ranked as the most engaged website in the U.S., according to analytics firm Hitwise. As the week ended March 13, 2010, Facebook has surpassed the previous most popular site, Google, in terms of overall traffic for the week, and this is the first time Google has not attained the top spot since 2007. According to internet tracking firm Hitwise, Facebook accounted for 7.07 per cent of web visits, compared to Google's 7.03 per cent. Facebook claimed 7.07% for all U.S. web traffic, whereas Google was at 7.03%. However, that was sufficient to knock Google out of the top spot for the first time since the week ending Sept. 15, 2007.

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Yahoo's Sales Chief “Joanne Bradford” Leaving To Join Startup Demand Media

info@ebrandz.com (Arpana Roy) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:50:07 +0000

Sunnyvale, California -- A big catch for Demand Media caught Sunnyvale, Internet portal by surprise. Yahoo Inc.'s senior vice president and head of North American sales and market development chief “Joanne Bradford”, is leaving the company to join private online content start-up Demand Media Inc., becoming the latest executive to depart the Web giant's ranks. The departure of Bradford, a former executive at Microsoft Corp, comes as a surprise to Yahoo executives, as the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet powerhouse is in the midst of a reorientation effort led by Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz. The news was confirmed in a statement hours after it was first reported by Kara Swisher at AllThingsDigital. “Joanne Bradford has decided to leave Yahoo to pursue a new undertaking. Joanne will be working with the team over the coming weeks to enable a smooth transition.”

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YouTube Switches On Mobile Advertising Now Serving Banner Ads

info@ebrandz.com (Hemant Patel ) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:51:55 +0000

San Francisco -- With the ever increasing traffic over Google owned video-sharing venue, YouTube mobile site, it is not surprising that the Mountain View web giant last week officially embarked on a broad rollout of advertising to its mobile YouTube site (m.youtube.com) in the US and Japan, following 18 months of testing in a bid to raise funds from the popular, but financially-floundering site. The Google-owned video venue is not, however, precisely breaking the mold for mobile ads. After performing ad tests on the site around the summer of 2008, Google has settled on banner ads for the platform. It is displaying static banners at the top of its m.youtube.com homepage, browsing pages and search results pages.

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Twitter Joins Location-Sharing Bandwagon, Makes The Feature Live

info@ebrandz.com (Arpana Sen ) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:53:47 +0000

Los Angeles -- Twitter knows where you are -- at least in the U.S. The microblogging site, and its battalion of outside developers have discovered ways to maximize the content you can pack into the 140-character limit assigned to every tweet. Last week Twitter rolled out a new tool that empowers users to share their location information when they send tweets. The new feature, which is off by default, is only available to U.S. users right now, but should be rolled out in other countries fairly soon, according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. Twitter users can now insert their current location information in their tweets. The micro-blogging service has switched on an optional new attribute that appends geographical information to your posts. Users' simply have to follow these steps, assuming you have a Twitter account, is go to “settings”, scroll down, and click on “Add a location to your tweets.”

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