bing: Connecting people, places and things. This is the Title of the new Bing blog with the latest announcements. Microsoft has announced that it has further tweaked its search engine Bing. The new features include maps that are located at street level as in Google Maps. You can also move about in different directions to get a better view of the locality. To Access the Bing Maps Beta click here.
There will also be a Twitter feed available for you to find out the latest happenings on the are your searching.
Bing could gain market share once they complete their search and advertising deal with Yahoo. Which will power back-end searches on Yahoo pages.
Found on pcmag a cool new visual tour. Go there if you would like to see early visual of the new features.
They would however need to tweak the photo and Twitter integration to make it more meaningful. Bing continues to take the fight to Google.
One particularly clever app is Photosynth, a photo-management tool from Microsoft that stitches together digital images to create "synths"-- 3-D renderings of multiple photos of the same scene. Bing users can rotate and view the synths from many angles. The more photos supplied by Bing users, the better the 3D effect:
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Google's Friend Connect with Twitter Integration
Who will own the web's primary identity model. Facebook with it's 350 million members has made Facebook connect so popular, that Yahoo now has heavy facebook Connect integration and relies heavily on the platforms users to use this feature as a primary sign-in tool and share direct updates with all their friends.
Google has now signed up with Twitter to do something on the same lines. Google Friend connect with it's 9 million websites is now allowing users to signify with their Twitter users name and password. Once you join a new site you can directly tweet updates to your Twitter contacts.
Now that it's launched we will need to wait and see what users have to say about it.
Google has now signed up with Twitter to do something on the same lines. Google Friend connect with it's 9 million websites is now allowing users to signify with their Twitter users name and password. Once you join a new site you can directly tweet updates to your Twitter contacts.
Now that it's launched we will need to wait and see what users have to say about it.
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