Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

How convenient it will be if one could get real time updates on a particular topic that interests a person across the web’s social sphere, be it news, products, company and even yourself (if you are a part of news maker,a.k.a blogger). It will be of great help like many others in my area of work; the idea to enter a keyword, hit search and stay updated with the minute to minute development in the social sphere.

Socialmention is your way to getting instant updates on the topic you search for. The search can be customized the way a user would want to. That is one can search through blogs, microblogs, images, news etc or expand their search to every category. The sources for this include, Google Blog search, Twitter, Digg and the likes. What it does is pull all the news from these services and display every news in a single flow of news.

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Royal Pingdom has come out reporting about Google and the number of its products that, despite spending too much time out there remain in beta. So does that mean Google’s major releases that include, Gmail, Docs etc still remain un-finished products?

The reports were put forward based on analysis that Pingdom came up after finding that almost 45% of Google’s products remained in Beta. Given Google’s reputation and the success it has had over time, one wonders as to what could the reason be behind keeping their pretty successful products tagged in beta?

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Alerts.com a service that lets you track relevant information via email notifications and alert messages has recently signed a number of technology partnerships after its successful DEMO launch. The company has collaborated with 4INFO, Phone.com and Message Systems Inc. to further enhance and expand its service. Alerts.com can be used as a nifty reminder tool to avoid procrastination and help users organize their overwhelmed routines.

Alerts.com told startupmeme that the partnership will help it to deliver its alerts across the world. The company would be able to handle millions of messages in a real time as each partner is offering its complementary technology to produce the bet results.

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T-Mobile has decided to take off its 1GB data usage limit proposed earlier for G1 Android phone, allowing users to experience the full data capabilities of the device and its 3G network. The company distributed a statement which said that it has removed the 1GB “soft cap” which was planned to be imposed on the data usage of G1 owners, after next month’s launch. The plan was to provide data connection speed at 50Kbps for whoever exceeded the 1GB data usage quota.

The statement is as follows: “Our goal, when the T-Mobile G1 becomes available in October, is to provide affordable, high-speed data service allowing customers to experience the full data capabilities of the device and our 3G network.

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Mozilla has released the new version(0.9) of its standalone calendar application, Sunbird. A lot of changes are noted in the Sunbird 0.9 that includes the incorporation of various nifty features that makes it user friendly and visually appealing along with the changes in technical areas to boost its fidelity and to further enhance the productivity of the application. The features are also added in the Lightening calendar extension for the Thunderbird email client.

Some of the major upgrades are as follow:

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New York based social networking provider, KickApps, has released the latest update. According to the new update, KickApps now contain the built in support for foreign languages. Now the web publishers and brands can translate their websites powered by KickApps in several different languages such as French, Spanish, German, Italian, etc.

Following is the press release by the company:

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With MySpace Music coming up, we have got news that the plan of streaming live music is only confined to the boundaries of the U.S. Meaning the obvious that users outside the United States won’t have the honor to enjoy the new service as they had been anticipating.

This disables MySpace outsiders from creating their custom playlist, listening to streaming music, or even get hands on playlist of friends who reside in the U.S and themselves enjoy the new deal. Sounds discouraging and more importantly dividing the MySpace crowd so openly.

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It’s difficult to keep track of every photo since there are so many photo sharing sites out there, and we have like albums on almost every other site. LifeSnapz is a site that allows you to manage photos from multiple sources. LifeSnapz allows a different method of storage display, which is just great for the memory.

After you’re done with uploading photos, they’re arranged by date and location data; this is then used to create an interactive timeline. The timeline helps to browse through previously uploaded photos. On each event you get a profile page, where you can enter details and comment. So the site can be used as a hosting service for current events as well as a place for sharing photos with friends and family. The timeline is the only feature that sets it apart from other services, offering similar features, I guess it should work on more catchy features to grab the attention of users, away from Flickr and Photobucket, etc.

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It is always a good thing to attend conferences about the launch of new products, presentations about some new technology ready to make an appearance all the way to some prominent figure addressing something important. However the entire thing blows off in the Q&A session when almost every hurls all sorts of questions and almost all of them don’t get answered. Time is key and it’s important that one way or the other the number of questions be scaled down in relevance to the topic.

Well an element of making the noise quite down a bit has been introduced by Google’s App Engine and its called the Google Moderator. The purpose of it is to scale down the questions in a way that only the most relevant of them are asked.

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Skyfire’s free mobile browser, after months of private beta, is now available for public. The browser is capable of supporting Flash, AJAX, and other ad-ons that are generally for PC browsers. Skyfire has also inducted a browser for Windows Mobile, that has enough features to keep you busy. Though the service is still for US residents only, it was stated by the company that they would allow users outside of the states in a few weeks time.

Skyfire’s list of features include a Super Bar, their own version of the standard address bar (taking the idea from Opera and Chrome), a content sharing way through SMS. Skyfire’s browser also supports Silverlight, Quicktime, and Windows Media; enough to leave an impression. The current browser version is available for Windows Mobile only, and will shortly be available for others as well.

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