Monday, May 9, 2011

UberMedia Might Be Considering To Develop Its Own Twitter Alternative in Competition


Twitter seems to be taking a bold step while it lens towards encouraging the developers to back off from creating Twitter clients, maybe they haven’t considered yet the odds of those developers agonizing enough to build their own alternative service to Twitter iteslf. CNN reports that UberMedia, the same company behind all the UberSocial, Echofon and Twidroyd, has been seriously considering to develop its own competitor similar to Twitter. CNN has allegedly contacted three people who have led them to this belief, which are not actually authorized to speak on the matter. It has been a constant buzz about Twitter not moving from its message length restrictions.

Surveys Say That Friday Is the Best Time to Interact With Most Internet Audience on Social Media Websites


According to two distinctly conducted set of researches, it has been found that after all the weekdays, normally users are much more tended to user internet, especially social media website, by the end of the week. It has been found that this time is more or less the best time to actually give a look on your friend and family’s status updates and tweets.
Sampling of almost 200 of its Facebook page subscribers in the time period interval of two weeks, Buddy Media discovered that users interact most of all on Thursdays and Fridays. This ratio is comparatively 18% elevated in relation to the rest the days in the week, and focusing even more closely we realize that this interaction is even more on Thursday than on Friday. Secondly, while being at the stage at the Ad Age Digital conference earlier this week, Adam Bain, who is the Twitter Chief Revenue Officer, quoted that even as massive service as Twitter has also seen more user tweets on Fridays.

Huffington says blogger suit 'without merit'


A lawsuit has been filed against the famous news and blogging website, The Huffington Post, but the co-founder of the website, Arianna Huffington, has tagged this lawsuits filing to be "utterly without merit." The website is being sued for not paying for the blogposts of the bloggers, and now the lawsuit demands huge sum of money in return of the six years of non-payment to the private bloggers.
Co-Founder of Huffington Post, Arianna
It was only few months before when Huffington actually sold her famous website, The Huffington Post, to AOL for the purchase price of total $315 million. She has a stance claiming that innumerable bloggers themselves willingly provide their news and opinions voluntarily to be put on the website with full consent. Whereas the website gladly just accepts the job and allows this access for free hence giving the writers full-scale direct exposure using their platform.

The New Feature of Kinect Allows the Netflix Movies to Be Maneuvered Using Hand Gestures or Even Voice Detection


The experience of watching movies over your Xbox 360 with Netflix has now become easier than ever before as Kinect now offers controlling your movie with gesture and voice control. These new features are recently released by Kinect, in the form of free software update which is downloadable from the Xbox 360 Video Marketplace. Kinect will respond to your gestures or voice both while you watch a movie using Netflix.
The functions which will be controllable unavoidably include the play, fast-forward, rewind and pausing feature for any kind of movie, TV shows or any kind of video. Either you can use the hand gestures, which will be best detected on the bottom left of the users screen and responded accordingly, or else the user might just want to speak commands like saying "Xbox, Play," would simply play the movie.
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