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How Would You Like Google To Describe You? Vote Today
Yesterday Google made a major change to the search results page that appears when you search for a person's name. Google Profiles, for people who have set them up, now appear on those pages. Today Google opened a discussion about Google Profiles and called for voting on ideas about what they include. Profile options are already being changed in response to popular requests; a new section of contact information that you can expose [+]3deep Makes Your Smartphone a Personal Assistant
As a technology news writer, you get pretty good at sizing up the potential of a new project or product pretty quickly. You think in terms of how the thing your looking at is a little like two other things you've seen before combined together. Or perhaps inspired by something, but with its own unique twist. And it is easy to get a little jaded, quickly cubby-holing something new just because it acts like something [+]Susan Boyle Videos To Exceed 100 Million Views
The Susan Boyle phenomenon shows no signs of abating - in fact, one video tracking firm claims that momentum is growing behind the Scottish singer. While the official YouTube video of the performance reports over 32 million views, tracking company Visible Measures is monitoring the statistics for all versions of the clip, plus fan responses and interviews. Their Viral Reach Database tracks views across 150+ video sharing destinations, including YouTube. On Friday, [+]Twitter Experiments with New Status Notification, Faster Response
It appears Twitter is experimenting with some additional tweaks that may make status updates easier and faster for its users and could help decrease the back end load on its servers. A semi transparent notification bar (see screenshot below), slides down from the top of the screen when you update your status via the Web. While in itself, the feature may not appear earth shattering, the fact that updating now feels extremely fluid and is [+]Cartoon: @sense_of_perspective
Twitter delivered a valuable new feature late last month. And my friends delivered twin girls on Friday evening. Some people would say that puts it all in perspective. Me, I figure it just makes it easier to find responses to your live-tweeting of the birth. Sponsor (And congratulations to the proud parents of Alpha and Beta. I wanted them named Lorem and Ipsum, but apparently I don't get a vote.) More Noise to Signal Follow ReadWriteWeb on Twitter Discuss [+]Sprout Adds Social Platform Support
Sprout, developer of a unique drag-and-drop widget creation service, announced today that its development platform now supports the Facebook Platform, Facebook Connect, and OpenSocial. According to the press release, this will "enable brands and agencies to focus their time on the creative campaign development and still reap the rewards that social networking applications offer.." Which means, if you are using Sprout for your ad campaigns already, you now instantly have access to three more social [+]Loudcrowd: Discover New Music While Playing Games in a Virtual World
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Conduit Labs Quick Pitch: Loudcrowd combines streaming music with real-time, online game playing with friends: think Guitar Hero meets Last.fm meets Facebook games. Genius Idea: What Loudcrowd does extremely well is pair interactive game play [+]AOL: People Like It Now More Than Ever
AOL, one of the largest national internet service providers and a global web services company, announced today that market research firm Forrester has rated it highest in "overall customer experience" in an independent study. Forrester conducted interviews with almost 4,600 people nationwide and found that AOL rated very high if not highest in categories such as usefulness and ease-of-use. When all the categories are combined, AOL was at the top with a 71% approval rating. Sponsor For [+]
