Gmail launches new compose and reply experience for users

You can now write messages in a cleaner, simpler experience that puts the focus on your message itself, not all the features around it. Here are some of the highlights:

• Fast: Compose messages right from your inbox.
• Simple: Redesigned with a clean, streamlined look.
• Powerful: Check emails as you're typing, minimize drafts for later, and even compose two messages at once.

Try it out! Click Here to know more 

Click Flash n Tweet ! New Photo Upload Service from Twitter

With the recently launched photo upload service from Twitter, now we have a way to fit more than a thousand words in just one single message! 

On Wednesday last, Twitter officially made public for all users their new “photo sharing” feature, announced earlier this year, allowing users to upload their photos on the site itself instead of using third-party applications like Twitpic, Instagram, and so on!

Users of this micro blogging site were greeted with a message (see below) upon opening the site, saying: "Share an image on Twitter. Now you can upload and share messages, right from Twitter!"

To upload an image along with a tweet, all users would need to do is click the camera icon located below the "Compose Tweet" text-box next to the compass icon (meant to specify the location of the user) and select the image they want to upload.

After making their selection, a thumbnail of the photo would appear below the box. For those using older browser versions, the filename instead of the thumbnail of the photo will be shown.

According to Twitter, the limit to the file size, users could upload using the “photo sharing” feature is only 3MB, and will be scaled down "to fit into the display pane on the right side of your timeline."

Some might say this to be a coincidence that just last week, Twitter forced all of its users to migrate into the ‘new layout’, launched earlier this year.  Presumably, it was a step that’s well-calculated in advance to pave the way for this new add-on!

Here’s all you can learn about using this new “photo sharing” feature from twitter. Click http://goo.gl/wjia7

The Beauty of +1’s

Last week a friend of mine, who's an artist by profession, asked me if I can give him some details on Gagosian Gallery. Now, I'm not that informed about galleries and this one surely sounded Greek! I Google'd and there it was! Pages of information on Gagosian Gallery from Google's Search Engine Result Page (SERP) listings. I clicked on the Wikipedia link and found what I was looking for. A second link directed me to an art review published in the New York Times, not too long ago, helped me gain extensive knowledge about contemporary art galleries in the US. While the Official site offered information on the gallery locations, gallery pictures, the ongoing exhibitions, and so on. The result, a smile of satisfaction on my friend's face and a feeling of contentment inside!

You might say "Whats so special about it?"

Well, you're right, that's how we all do it! Isn't it? I mean, we Google to find the desired information on people, places, products, events, news, and what not!

But, from now on things wouldn't be the same as before! And the change is surely for the better.

It's the newest addition from Google Labs +1 button for websites!

Now we already had +1 button in March, earlier this year, which aimed at helping us find the most relevant results as quickly as possible! The basic concept was to enable users share recommendations with the world right from Google's SERP listings. All that we had to do was click +1 tab on a search result, we found useful. These +1's then start appearing on our contact's search results who in turn would +1 their respective recommendations. So, the next time we Google something, say a recipe or a popular tourist place, we would find +1's on our Google results that some friend of ours have recommended as "this is pretty cool". Thus, it makes our selection much easier!

But even that's an Old Story now! On June 1st, Google Labs rolled out +1 buttons for websites as well! Now we'll start seeing +1's on websites, large and small, across the Internet! Google has partnered with - The Washington Post, Rotten Tomatoes, TechCrunch, Mashable, Bloomberg, Reuters, Nordstrom, The Huffington Post, O'Reilly, Best Buy, and AddThis to help users +1 their favorite links! However, to see +1 recommendations from your friends and contacts in Google search, make sure you're signed in to your Google Account.

Is Blekko The Potential Google Killer?

If you are well versed with the Google Story, this is something new that might surprise you at the first go. Predicted to be a potential “Google killer” it is a new search engine which is all set to spread its wings on the cyber horizon. It's a new search portal called Blekko - the brainchild of Rich Skrenta, a former AOL man. The brand new search engine is fueled by the technological expertise of Tom Annau, a former Google Engineer, with equally efficient marketing acumen of Michael Markson, and with proficient skills of chief architects Greg Lindahl and Keith Peters. Funded by Silicon valley based U.S investor firm USVP and CMEA Capital, Blekko promises to be a techno hub for the future.

With all these insider information, you might ask what’s new with Blekko that’s making all the news. You may even nullify these for being another media infused gimmick. However, there is one point to clarify regarding the launch of Blekko and it concerns the basic search parameters that Blekko is sure to introduce in the coming days.

Blekko is designed on a core foundation of expertise from people who headed leading positions in such reputed organizations as Google, AOL, and Netscape. This is further proof of the edge that this new search engine is going to have over other big shots in the coming days. An industry insider from the cyber fraternity expects that Blekko will surely bite into Goggle’s popularity just after its launch, later this month.

With Blekko search engine ready to launch, the average internet user will get an exotic taste of search features and enjoy superlative experience of net surfing in a few days time.

Microsoft Puts iPad Users Under Scanner

Top IT companies conduct different kinds of researches in their labs to develop innovative solutions for their global clientele. Apple's iPad being the hottest gadget around, companies all over the world are naturally showing interest in what the users are currently thinking about this wonder gadget.  On top of the list is none other than Microsoft! Recently Microsoft is showing an 'extra' interest on iPad users for obvious reasons!

As reported recently, Apple’s arch rival is calling all iPad owners to make a visit to their Redmond campus in the third week of July, to interact with them and share their 'iPad experience' so far. Even those who think it to be a wastage of time should give it a second thought before dumping the idea.

Microsoft’s User Research Group is trying hard to make this seemingly impossible task of conglomerating iPad users from the world over to speak the “big truth” about their iPad experience in public. A two hour meet has been finalized for the fixture as per latest information from the company.

However, industry insiders are calling this survey to be just another “big show” from Microsoft to woo the huge number of iPad users, a majority of them being teens or youth students who find this gadget ultra stylish. Whatever be the outcome of this “open study session”, one thing is sure, that Microsoft is gung ho on poaching Apple fan boys from iPad fan base in a short time.