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Google Analytics to offer Opt Out for end users

Do you use Google Analytics a lot? Do you find yourself relying heavily on it? This news article brings a worrying announcement for site owners, be it of small or large scale. Amy Chang, Group Product Manager of Google Analytics, posted a very concise announcement on the service's blog, informing everyone how Google Analytics is about to change for all those who use it.

Twitter offering Local Trends as a new service to users

Twitter began offering trends on its front page and users’ sidebar as a way of identifying the most popular conversations taking place in real-time.

Top 3 Reasons To Use Twitter

Top 3 Reasons To Use Twitter

When you first start using twitter you may not know what to expect Keep in mind some of the most influential people and brightest minds in the world are using twitter It may take some time to get the hang of twitter and find all the people you would like to follow 3

How To: Micro-Blogging on Twitter

So what's a micro-blog And moreover, what's Twitter And yes, you can have a blog and a Twitter page There's an easy application to add your blog feed to Twitter, it takes just minutes to do You can twitter from anywhere, even your phone Why on Earth Would you Want to Twitter?

Twitter Retweet feature available for everyone

Not long after Twitter's initial beta release to a small percentage of the Twitter community, they have now rolled out the feature to everyone. Once a message has been retweeted, it will show under the original tweet a notification indicating the users who have retweeted that message.

Google Reveals Important Details of Upcoming Chrome OS

Not a lot of details were available at the time, and assumptions were made based on existing knowledge of Google’s Internet browser, Chrome Key features of Chrome OS: Chrome OS according to Google is both the browser and the operating system.

Twitter offering limited Retweet Rollout feature to its users

Twitter is constantly providing new features to its users, with the newest addition being the Retweet (also known as RT). Essentially a Retweet is a message created by one user, then repeated by another while giving credit to them.

Twitter offering MMS services to Orange UK users

Twitter has taken its service one step further by offering MMS to its UK Twitter users. According to Kevin Thau of Twitter, Orange UK carrier users can send picture messages (MMS) to 86444 without being charged through Twitter; only carriers standard messaging rates apply.

Google developing faster Internet performance using SPDY protocol

Google from the first moment of its existence has been focused on enhancing customer experience across different platforms, and now it's focusing on developing and releasing an Operating System (see my previous post). At the same time however, employees in a different department are focused on developing a new protocol that will be able to handle data transfer from websites at a faster rate, using less bandwidth, resulting in a faster and more responsive Internet.