Tag Archives : social web
Facebook engineer purifies Search Plus Your World
Facebook engineer Blake Ross has led the creation a web tool which allows users to by-pass Google’s controversial Search Plus Your World feature.
The ‘focus on the user’ project which is compatible with Chrome, IE and Firefox replaces the Google+ inspired results with more prominent results from the social web.
The fix is made possible by a piece of code, or bookmarklet, called “don’t be evil” written by Ross and a team of engineers over the weekend.
Now, by dragging the bookmarklet into your bookmarks bar, you can update the Google+ social search results with [...]
Filed in: Web
Download 21 Free Social Bookmarking Icons Sets for Your Blog
I searched everywhere on Internet, and in the end I chose icons from Function, icons that I saw before on new design of PSDTUTS, which I liked a lot. The rest sets with collections of social bookmarking icons that I found, you can see below and I hope you will find your favorite to include them in your blog.
WPZOOM Social Networking Icon Set
Handycons
Socialize Icons
Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers
Social Web Buttons, (2 Set)
(max)Icone Blog – Set 1
(max)Icone Blog – Set 2
Social Bookmark Iconset
Social Bookmark Iconset: Part II
6 Social Icons
Social Icons from [...]
Filed in: Graphics
SXSWi 2010: Google’s Chris Messina talks Buzz and the social web
Following Chris Messina’s panel at South by South West Interactive, where the open web advocate talked about Activity Streams, our colleagues on .net magazine caught up with him to talk about Google Buzz and the social web.
Messina admits that Google has a lot to learn when it comes to the social web, but says that “Buzz is a really good first step in that direction, a very strong bold step.”
Messina says that Google is now going through a process of “rapid iteration” with Buzz, and says that Google has done “an exceptional job to listen to a lot of the feedback, [...]
Filed in: Tech News
Trendrr and Klout partner for advanced social media monitoring
Being able to monitor and measure social and digital media in real time is a vital component for brands looking to interact and be apart of the online conversations taking place everyday.
Today, social and digital media tracking platform Trendrr and social influencer measurement platform Klout agreed to share social data. The deal, first announced at the PluggedIn conference, will integrate Klout’s influencer data into Trendrr’s intelligence platform. Klout’s data tracks Twitter users and their content, how people interact with that content and the size and composition of their [...]
Filed in: Technology