Technology Archive | Page 90

Living in a technologically-advanced world, many people nowadays flock to dating sites rather than the traditionally way of finding romance using match-making companies. Some even head to popular social networking platforms such as Facebook and MySpace to look for their perfect match online. This has been further encouraged by the launch of IamFreeTonight.com, a Facebook application that allows users to potentially meet people online who they are interested in dating. With the exponential growth of Twitter, many developers are racking their brains to create Twitter applications to attract more users to use them. Most of the applications are pretty beneficial whereas some of them are just odd and useless." title="Twitter to Become a Dating Site For Some Users?" />

The Vacationeers, a four person comedic film group based in Los Angeles, have struck viral and comedy gold with Google. They have been hired by the Internet giant to write and produce a series of short videos, the first of which launches today at youtube.com/thevacationeers. The Vacationeers, comprised of Todd Berger, Blaise Miller, Jeff Grace and Kevin M. Brennan made over 30 short films between 2006 and 2008 including one that poked fun of the paranoia surrounding the "street view" feature of Google Maps. This short, aptly called "Google Maps," received millions of views, coverage on CNN, and garnered the guys a revenue sharing deal with YouTube." title="Google Hires The Vacationeers to Start ‘Googling’ Themselves Again" />

Twitpic is currently the most popular photo sharing application of micro-blogging platform Twitter. Few days ago, it has crossed its 1 million users mark with around 2.3 million unique visitors according to website tracking company Compete. There are many developers out there trying to create applications, especially when Twitter is now experiencing massive growth of around 131% as compared to 1 month ago, based on ComScore's research. Similar to Twitpic, TwitnGo is a newly-launched web application which aims to help users share their interesting photos with their friends on the social networking website in a very fast way. Created by Vivek Puri, you can make quick photo updates to Twitter within a minute or so. Simply select a photo from your computer hard disk, punch in your message to accompany the picture and of course your Twitter credentials are required. Alternatively, you can login via Twitter by connecting the application with your account. The maximum file size is 2MB and it only supports JPEG and PNG extension." title="TwitnGo Lets You Share Photos On Twitter More Quickly Than Twitpic" />