Facebook Lite… Your Twitter Replacement?
Jill Krumsick
In an attempt to increase monitoring and encourage engagement, Facebook continues twitterifying by adding tagging capabilities and “Facebook Lite,” a slimmer, trimmer version of the original.
Bing Introduces Visual Search
Brian Kress
Imagine a search engine that served up results in images instead of text and had easily-recognizable pictures which you could narrow down until you found what you were looking for. That dude, with the hair, in that movie? Done. That phone with the big ol’ screen? Found. That guy that usurped the mic at that awards show? Binged.
Google Introduces Fast Flip
Jeff Whang
In a counterpoint to Bing’s new Visual Search, Google launches Fast Flip, a new online reading experience that makes reading news online a bit more like print, but with the aggregation of content from lots of different sources. Currently lauded in the business community as a step in the right direction and blasted by the tech community for its usability issues and slow page turning. Curious? Check it out for yourself.
Facebook Fans for Sale
Michele McDonough
uSocial.net, a company founded on the idea of taking advantage of flaws in the systems of social bookmarking sites like Digg, Yahoo! Buzz, StumbleUpon and AOL’s Propeller, announces that you can now purchase Facebook fans or friends directly from them. Will Facebook be able to stop them?
No Comments | Trackback | Categories: The Buzz | Email This Post
Leave a Reply