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Nintendo 3DS promises 3D without glasses

By , Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Nintendo announced that its next generation handheld console, called Nintendo 3DS, will offer a 3D gaming experience without the need of 3D glasses.

After leading the transition to motion controlled games with the Wii, Nintendo is going to change the rules of the game again in terms of human-machine interfaces for h...

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Nestlé’s Facebook Fail

By , Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

If you take a look at Nestlé’s Facebook Fan Page you’d be surprised at the amount of activity and messages from angry fans talking about boycotting the company’s products and showing off altered Kit Kat logos, while Nestlé’s fan page administrators hide their heads in the sand.

It all started with a Greenp...

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What is Chatroulette?

By , Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Wikipedia would define Chatroulette as a website where you can have text and video chats with random strangers: Connect your webcam, click on “New game” and if you don’t like what you see, just click on “Next” to instantly connect to another player.

But if a picture is worth a thousand words (and that’s ...

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Facebook overtakes Google as most visited US website

By , Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Last week Facebook.com was the number one most visited site in the US, surpassing Google.com. The same happened during the first weekend of March and last year’s Christmas holiday season, but the chart published by Hitwise doesn’t take other Google properties, like Gmail and Google News, into account when measuring ...

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Facebook Ad Conversion Tracking features Post-Impression data

By , Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Facebook published a Conversion Tracking Tutorial to explain how to create conversion tracking tags for activity on your website resulting from clicks and views of Facebook ads.

Generating tracking tags is fairly easy and the interface lets you associate a Tag Name, a Category (to distinguish between sales, registra...

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Facebook Credits: Virtual Currency in Social Gaming

By , Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Facebook Credits are going to play a major role in Facebook’s monetization strategy as the cross-application virtual currency system comes out of the beta testing phase and becomes the preferred users’ solution for purchasing virtual goods in social media games.

App developers like Crowdstar (Happy Island), Playdom ...

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Google Buzz stands on the shoulders of Gmail

By , Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Some Gmail users can already play with Google’s new product, Google Buzz, a social networking feature built right into Gmail that allows users to share messages, links, photos, videos and also updates from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr and Google Reader.

You will automatically follow the Gmail contacts you interact with...

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How to make Facebook your News Reader in 4 Easy Steps

By , Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Update: Facebook’s new homepage design is gradually being rolled out to users (roughly 80 million users a day). This short Tutorial will show screenshots for both versions of Facebook’s home page.

In this short guide you will learn to use Facebook to read news from your favorite online newspapers and magazines, sepa...

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How Google understands synonyms

By , Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Google software engineer Steven Baker wrote a blog post on how Google handles synonyms. Understanding natural language is a challenge for all search engines and Google found that 70% of user searches are affected by synonyms.

Feedback from users and quality raters on search result page mistakes isn’t used to manuall...

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New Suggested Users lists and Local Trends on Twitter

By , Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

New Twitter features make it easier to discover new users to follow and trending topics in your area. In March Twitter introduced the Suggested Users list to help new users find interesting people to follow and get started on Twitter. Apparently some new users would abandon Twitter because they didn’t have anyone to...

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