Start-up company Vizify acquired by Yahoo

Vizify-a social media data visualiser start-up has been acquired by Yahoo. Vizify lets people create interative visualizations based on data involving what they share online.

As reported by Cnet,Vizify will be shutting down as, its team shall join Yahoo. The start-up has already started showing its sky-blue logo turned to Yahoo's purple.

It becomes Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's 37th acquisition. The buyout amount is however undisclosed.

Source: DNA

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No more Log-ins from Google, Facebook ID's in Yahoo

  

According to the report by the Reuters, Yahoo to soon discard the options for users to sign in with Google or Facebook ID's. This gradual roll out will affect services like Flickr and Fantasy Sports. 

Although Yahoo did not comment on this, but clicking on the "sign in with Google" option this morning produced a message stating "The Google ID you entered is not associated with a Yahoo account. To continue, you now need to create a Yahoo account." Yahoo offered users the chance to grab their 'dream' Yahoo ID they have always wanted. Like if your desired username is not available, you can pay $1.99 to monitor up to 5 usernames for a period of 3 years.

Yahoo recently tried to boost interest in its services from rebuilding Yahoo Mail and Flickr to presenting a well-received weather app. But regardless of this Yahoo misses the 'cool' factor, a Gmail account encompasses, which becomes a struggle point for it.

Google has all its services - YouTube, Gmail, Google+, Google Drive, etc. linked into one Google Account that can be used across the web. But an ID from another service cannot be used to sign-in to Google, which locks one into the Google's ecosystem. Yahoo is also now on the same track, that may be the reason behind its move to discard Google and Facebook log-ins.

Source: PCMag

Posted by Editorial Team on 9:44 PM in Social Media

Now a 'mobile app-look' for twitter!

Twitter updated its website to appear more like Android and iOS mobile apps. According to the sources, twitter will be introducing a total new look soon, which includes a white navigation bar, inspired by the site's mobile apps.

As stated on CNET, the very new look will have a left-hand side bar, exhibiting a user's header photo in the upper left-hand corner, along with ' Who to Follow' and ' Trends ' sections below.Adding of accent color to their profile will be possible now with this latest design.

Twitter reported that 76 percent of its users access the website from their mobile handsets,  this indicated that the mobile interface has become a familiar and preferred option of its more than 230 million strong user base.

Posted by Editorial Team on 8:50 PM in Social Media

Facebook deals with India based Little Eye Labs!

Global social networking giant, none other than Facebook, today took over a Bangalore (India) based Little Eye Labs company. This is the first take over by Facebook in India. This firm basically deals with building performance analysis and monitoring tools for mobile app developers.

The deal size has not been disclosed, however according to some reports it is pretended to be at the range of between USD 10-15 million.

The firm stated on its website that, "Today, we are very excited to announce that Facebook is acquiring our company. With this acquisition, Little Eye Labs will join forces with Facebook to take its mobile development to the next level. And this is Facebook's first acquisition of an Indian company and Little Eye is happy to become part of such an incredible team."

On the other hand, Facebook Engineering Manager Subbu Subramanian commented on this by saying, "I'm excited to announce that we're acquiring Little Eye Labs, a company that produces world-class technology to help developers build more efficient products with Android. This is an opportunity to welcome some of the industry's most talented engineers to our team in Menlo Park, California."

He also added that, "At Facebook, the focus continues to be on producing useful and engaging mobile apps, he added." Little Eye Labs technology will help us continue to improve Facebook's Android codebase to make more efficient, higher-performing apps."

Little Eye Labs was found about a year ago by four Bangalore-based technology professionals - Satyam Kandula, Kumar Rangarajan, Giridhar Murthy and Lakshman Kakkirala. The company is backed by GSF and VenturEast Tenet Fund.

According to the sources, the entire Little Eye Labs team shall be moving to Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, so as to grip Facebook's infrastructure and help improve performance of their apps.

Recently, Facebook attempted to buy instant messaging firm Snapchat, which reportedly turned down its USD 3 billion offer.

Source: DeccanChronicle

Posted by Editorial Team on 9:55 PM in Social Media

Now embed Google Maps to your websites and blogs!

Global Search giant Google has redesigned Google Maps with an embed feature which offers easy integration with blogs and websites. Now embed a simple map, driving directions or local search into a blog or website.

Embedded maps will function same as the full website and will remember users's recent searches and display ads accordingly.  Google also stated the rolling out of ads feature, based on the users's recent searches and interests and displayed them in different color. However, the existing embeds will still display the old maps style, as reported by Ken Hoetmer, Product Manager, Google Maps API via the official Google Geo Developers blog.

Hoetmer described, “This new on-map design will allow relevant local businesses to connect with your users, similar to the ads you currently see in the new Google Maps and Google Maps for Mobile.” Also with this release, Google also updated the Google Maps/Earth APIs Terms of Service so as to empower it in launching the new APIs with advertising.

Here's the procedure for embedding Google Maps:

- You must make sure how the map you want to embed appears in the current map      display.

- Click on the bottom of the left panel.

- Copy the HTML under 'Paste HTML to embed in website and paste it to the source code of your blog and website.

Customization and previewing of the map, before copying of HTML is allowed to users. However users will not be able to embed Traffic maps and some other Maps features yet.

The Search giant renovated its design and launched the redesigned Google Maps in May this year.  Initially this app was launched in beta and was capable of doing only basic searching and browsing. After that Google added lots of features and easy shortcuts that were unavailable in beta.

Source: Thinkdigit

Posted by Editorial Team on 7:55 PM in Social Media

Now Twitter Timelines are all upto you!

Twitter this week announced changes to its timeline feature, that means a feature that would allow users to create custom data streams within TweetDeck.

The motive behind the custom timelines is to help users to organize their stream of tweets centered around specific people, events, hashtags or any sort of information a user feels noteworthy. The timelines are public, making it easier for any individual user or organization to create, collect and share tweets in real time.

For instance twitter is also opening up Application Programming Interface (API) that will allow developers to build tools or programming around the custom timeline feature.
Within next couple of days this feature shall be rolled out. To get started, users can look for the "custom timeline" column to appear in the TweetDeck and simply hit the "+" icon or the "A" keyboard shortcut.

With creation of a custom timeline users can merge hashtags and search into a single timeline. Also, timeline from TweekDeck can be embedded to user websites. 
It becomes another advantage for Twitter in its competition with the most happening place online i.e Facebook. This introduction of custom timelines feature will let users publicly display collections of tweets on any topic they choose.

Custom timelines will increase that perception of twitter being much more dynamic network.

Source: TechNewsWorld

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