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Hot Potato Facebook has accquired Hot Potato, a New York-based startup that specializes in social activity updates for an undisclosed amount according to an  announcement made by Hot Potato . The company will be shutting down operations within a month and delete all existing members data. “This wasn’t an easy decision, especially since we’ve built up a base of dedicated users. If Hot Potato [...]

Twitter Twitter has launched a browser based tweet button that lets Twitter users  a simple way to click and share the web page they’re viewing with their Twitter followers. This is not a novel feature,  third-party applications and clients have offered bookmarklets for faster sharing for years now . Tweet button  is convenient for those  who prefer to use Twitter.com rather than an external [...]

Blackberry App World BlackBerry maker Research In Motion(RIM) announced  that BlackBerry App World is now available for all BlackBerry owners and is no longer in beta version. Blackberry app developers could offer apps for $0.99 and $1.99, the payment options are either credit card or  carrier billing. User’s BlackBerry ID can be used to manage account information across multiple devices, [...]

Facebook Facebook Places is in the news since it launch yesterday, its popularity has rubbed off on Foursquare , who have yesterday seen a highest number of signups, thanks to Foursquare and its ilk, location based services have been around for quite some time now, even Yelp.com has joined the fray, nevertheless, this feature has now got tremendous exposure with Facebook’s 500 million user [...]

Foursquare Launch of Facebook Places in US has all the features of a Facebook feature launch – huge publicity in media, indepth discussions on blogosphere, scrutiny by privacy advocates and of course, large number of users trying it out. One unexpected  but, positive consequence is that Foursquare is experiencing record interest in the wake of the launch of Facebook Places. On Thursday, the [...]

Google Chrome Google’s  annual developer conference held in May bought news of  an all new web apps store for its Chrome web browser. Chrome Web Store is designed to be a central location for buying and selling HTML5-based web apps.  In that direction, Google has launched the first developer preview, developers can access the developer preview of the Chrome Web Store through Google Code Labs. Information [...]

More than 100 million people a month are now using Google Maps wrote Vic Gundotra, Google’s Vice President of Engineering,  Gundotra blogged about the evolution of Google Maps over the past five years, which has become immensely more valuable with the rise of mobile apps and GPS-enabled smartphones. It does help that the now top selling Android based phones comes pre-loaded with Google Maps. Gundotra [...]

YouTube YouTube has started  featuring its top videos in a new section called YouTube Charts which  tells users top videos across categories. Think of it as the Billboard Hot 100 for the world of web video. The “most subscribed” option of YouTube Charts gives  insight into what YouTube channels are gaining popularity at any given moment. YouTube Charts ranks videos by various criteria: videos [...]

Facebook Facebook has  announced Places yesterday, the much expected  feature that brings location based functionality to the popular social network  site. Location-based services are the next big thing  at this moment with Foursquare and Gowalla leading the pack. This service will be initially available on the latest version of the Facebook App for iPhone . Facebook places will let users [...]

Propota Essential Summer Bundle Proporta.co.uk, which has been designing terrific gadgets and devices accessories, including cases, screen protectors and power solutions for mobile devices, Digital Cameras and Netbooks has unveiled new range of products which sporkings.com readers could get at a 10% discount. Read on to find out more. The new range includes Essential TomTom Kit (£27.95), Essential [...]