Entries Tagged as 'Online Communications'

Black Friday Looms; Get Your Shop On

Spoiler alert! BlackFriday@GottaDeal.com is a website that for 6 years running shows off most major retail stores Black Friday sales a few weeks in advance. Why is this important? Well it gives you time to do some comparison shopping.

Google Enables Video Chat Inside Gmail

If you find switching from email to chat using Gmail helpful and convenient, you might be even more glad to know that Google has just enabled voice and video on Gmail’s chat facility. Yes, you read it right, Gmail Chat has become a Skype-like service with pseudo-VOIP features. The new video and voice chat facility [...]

Inspire Change…Just Like Barack Obama

The 2008 presidential election helped shape the apathy dust off of many U.S. citizens.  In record numbers, people became interested in the political process and its outcome.  It remains to be seen how many folks will revert back to their ‘innocent bystander’ ways.  For those who want to carry the torch of ‘change’ a step [...]

Gmail Gets More Mobile and Fun with Emoticons

There are two not-so-big news coming from Google’s popular Gmail client recently. One has something to do with version 2.0 of Google Mail Mobile while the other one was about a new feature of Gmail. This new feature, hold your breath now are those cutesy little icons we use to use in online forums and [...]

Meebo Gets More Partners

Instant Messaging and online communications client Meebo has some great news to spread. Hot on the heels of reaching around 72.9 million users, with around 26.2 million of which are US based, as reported by comScore, Meebo is also announcing that they have reached partnership agreement with more web-based services.

Google’s Mail Goggles Helps in Preventing You from Sending Late Night Emails

Google’s email client, Gmail is a powerful web-based email client. Although it still hasn’t achieved the unlimited storage feature like Yahoo mail, Gmail’s storage capacity keeps on growing everyday. With its simple and clean interface, Gmail has become the top choice for a web mail account by many. To make it even more useful and [...]

Send Media-Rich Messages

Here’s a riddle: What’s more personal than e-mail and more powerful than voicemail? The founders of a relatively new company hopes you answered ‘Goldmail,’ a solution that allows users to send media-rich messages that include images and audio.

It Was Nice Knowing You, Jott

Back in April I expressed my love for Jott, the voice transcription service that allows you to send yourself reminders.
However, as the weeks have gone by, I have noticed a serious change in the service’s accuracy and quality.  Assuming that my speech hasn’t dramatically changed without me noticing, I don’t know how to account for [...]

Google Tackles the Web Browser (and Microsoft)

Years of Internet rumors have panned out as Google sets to launch the initial version on Chrome, their very own shiny Web browser.
Available in more than 100 countries (Windows only), Google promises innovation and a satisfactory user experience, all within a clean and simple interface.

How to Sell Out Friends and Make Enemies on Twitter

I love the fact that every Joe Blow can make a buck on the Web.
I hate the fact that every Joe Blow can make a buck on the Web.
Whenever there’s a good idea on the Internet, the money-making angle trails directly behind.  Such is the case with TwittAd, a Web site that allows you to [...]

All Your Email In One Inbox

Do you suffer from habitual e-mail checking?  Fear not!  You are not alone. In fact, each day, thousands of Americans succumb to the dreadful disease.  What makes the epidemic particularly frightening is the fact that the average computer user maintains more than three e-mail accounts.
That’s a whole lotta wasted time remembering passwords and staring at [...]

Top 5 Emerging Social Networks Revisited

When we say emerging, we don’t mean new social networks that are making an entry into the social networking scene. But we’re referring to the top 5 social network following Facebook and MySpace in the recent comScore data release on the WorldWide Growth Among Selected Social Networking Sites covering the month of June. And these [...]