Facebook is trying everything to ensure you have all the features found across every social network on its platform. Even if they are stupid and absolutely pointless. The feature subjected here is the subscribe to a user, which the social network has started to test across some users.
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Google to me means big, improving your Web experience and of course including some concerns of putting too much trust on one service. But it has definitely evolved our experience with services like the Search, and more importantly, Gmail. The free email service continues to make emailing better. Today Google is taking a step further by helping you keep an eye on emails that are or should be your top priority.
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It has happened several times with me when I typed an email and sent it only to realize I shouldn’t have done so. Google did provide us a precious 5 seconds to cancel sending an email via Gmail, 5 seconds, err…
However the good news is that the time duration has been extended to around half a minute. That gives you a good 30 seconds to undo sending an email. Just don’t confuse that you can undo messages that have been sent already. What Gmail does is keep an email on hold for the given duration before forwarding it to the recipient.
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How do you keep users glued to your service or tool? Give them features that they find impossible to resist and are highly in demand. Firefox has kept a tab on such user needs, evolving continually, the release of the Firefox 4 has something similar to offer; Tab Candy.
That would also be called the Firefox Panorama, and has been in tests for quite some but previous tries had been wobbly. The current version is more stable and lets you place all those messy tabs in a more organized manner. The idea is to give you a neater summary of what pages you are browsing, letting you zoom in with the Panorama button or simply view a more compactly organized tabs. I recall something similar on some other OS.. Expose on the Macs?
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Lost an important document you had on Google Docs? Ever experienced how hectic that is and how you wish finding it was slick? Well I have and it is for the same reason I love this new update from Gmail. Google has made sure that the new Labs feature makes life easier by introducing App Search on your email account.
The App Search can be enabled in the Gmail Labs Settings and with this enabled the Search Mail button will be replaced by Search Mail and Docs. This isn’t just confined to searching documents, rather spreads your query to include files, presentations and documents in your Mail as well as Docs. The search results will include any matching email messages and documents.
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![image thumb26 Google Integrates ‘Visited’ And ‘Not Yet Visited’ Options In Search [Rumor?]](http://startupmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/image_thumb26.png "google search features")
I am not sure if all of you have already seen this on Google, but I was tipped by my dear friend Mohammad Ali Yaqub [@calyps] on a few features he noticed on Google Search. The picture shows interesting options to enhance your search experience.
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Good news for all us Gmail users first Google announced the ability to access multiple accounts on Gmail and today the email service eased downloading attachments. It was a nightmare at first, taking ages to click on the link, press OK to download or select a folder with numerous clicks. All that changes today as Gmail enabled drag and drop attachments in your email, though this is only available on the Chrome browser.
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So what we talked about earlier regarding Google testing new feature for Gmail, which include phone call and the ability to login via multiple account sign-in. Today, the email service added support for this to let multiple account holders access each.
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![image thumb44 Facebook Introduces Safety Features : “Hey We Are Trying To Make Facebook More Secure” [#Update]](http://startupmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image_thumb44.png "image")
With Privacy being the most gnawing issue when it comes to Facebook, so much that users are actually using Google on How to Delete their Accounts the social network has released new features for security. The new feature might just be the beginning of a lot more to follow. I can bet that Facebook wouldn’t have done much had the governments not taken the issue very seriously as well, one reason why it also hired Tim Muris, the former FTC chairman.
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There has been quite a brouhaha over the location features coming to Facebook and we have had talked about how marketers are already eyeing in to utilize that feature [McDonalds for instance]. The idea isn’t new, as names like Gowalla and Foursquare have already made names with Foursquare recently hitting past 40 million check-ins. So why should Facebook stay away?
The social network has more than 400 million users and that makes introducing more features such as these ever more needful and logical to implement. Of course there are concerns associated to privacy and I bet many of the users would play down its implementation, I mean who would want to share their location as well [perhaps the last thing they own. However the social network has kept these issues in mind and will be providing this as as opt out option.
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