Judging from a number of tweets this afternoon, Google is currently bucket testing a redesigned search results page with added whitespace for a cleaner look. These new pages, which are apparently being tested quite widely, only appear for a subset of users who are logged in to their Google accounts
Barack Obama
More than any other recent news event, the news of the death of Osama bin Laden showed the power of Twitter. A single tweet by Donald Rumsfeld’s former Chief of Staff Keith Urbahn managed to set the Internet on fire long before the news was made official almost two
When it comes to social search and social recommendations, there is a lot of hype around the concept, but given that a user’s social graph is – almost by default – limited, there are major gaps in both accuracy and coverage when it comes to putting this concept into reality. While
adobe
Do you ever find yourself in a situation where you want to edit a PDF document but don’t have the tool to convert it into an editable format like Microsoft Word? Adobe just launched a new online tool for converting PDF documents to Word. ExportPDF costs $19.99 per
business photos
During her keynote at the Social Loco conference today, Google’s Marissa Mayer announced a new addition to Places: Google Business Photos. This new feature essentially brings Street View indoors and will give users a view of the inside of select stores. There are a few caveats here, though: this
3d
Google today launched a major update of Google Earth for Android tablets and phones. This new version, which requires Android 2.1 for phones and Android 3.0 for tablets, is highly optimized for tablets. For Android phone users, there isn’t too much new here, but tablet users will
Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal today launched the WSJ SafeHouse, a new site that allows potential whistleblowers to safely submit documents to the Journal. It’s hard not to assume that this effort was not inspired by WikiLeaks and the success other papers have had with reporting about these leaked documents.
check-in
Silicon Valley often falls in love with ideas that work great for geeks, early adopters and Robert Scoble. These ideas, however, often leave mainstream users cold. Check-in-based location sharing services like Foursquare, Gowalla and Co. are one of the most recent examples of this. The good folks behind the Social-Loco
database
Apple just released an update to its iOS operating system for iPads and iPhones. After the “scandal” around the discover of a location database on the iPhone 4 and 3G-enabled iPads, Apple promised to quickly fix this “bug” quickly. Here are the changes according to Apple: This update contains changes
death of rss
Every month or so, somebody will proclaim the death of RSS and feed readers at the hands of Twitter and Facebook. Indeed, there can be little doubt that interest in feed readers like Google Reader, NetNewsWire and FeedDemon has declined rapidly over the last few years as users switched to
google voice
Google just announced that its integration with Sprint’s wireless service is now live. Sprint users now have two options: turn your Sprint number into a Google Voice number so that your Sprint number will ring all your other phones, too, when somebody calls – or turn your Google Voice number
browsers
Blame Chrome. Ever since Google started releasing self-updating developer versions of its browser, other browser developers have been following suit. Mozilla now uses the same concept for releasing early (and potentially unstable) versions of Firefox. Starting today, Opera will use the same concept to give early adopters a sneak peek