Two in three Google+ users are men
According to figures from Website-Monitoring.com, two-thirds of Google+ users are men, which stands in contrast to Facebook, where a majority of users are women, including 55% in the US.
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Google abandons clunky drop-down menu
Google has begun replacing the chunky, black drop-down menu of services it launched in November as part of an effort to integrate Google+ across its whole platform.
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Facebook photo viewer now mimics Google+ counterpart
Facebook has tweaked its photo viewer interface, making it look a lot like its counterpart on Google+. The new widescreen photo viewer is now live for most Facebook users, who don’t have scroll down anymore to see the comments for a certain photo.
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Google kills Picnik, Needlebase, Urchin and other services
Google is continuing to weed out its services and on Friday announced it will shut down Picnik, Google Message Continuity and Needlebase and make changes to some other services.
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Chrome edges Firefox for second place in browser market
Google’s Chrome Web browser has leapfrogged Firefox to claim the number two slot in the browser battle, according to Web analytics firm StatCounter.
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Google adds Flash-to-HTML5 conversion extension to Adobe Flash Pro
Google is enabling developers who use the Adobe Flash Professional interactive design tool to convert their animations to HTML5 via an extension based on Google's Swiffy conversion technology.
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A sneak peek at Gmail's new design
Google is busy at work on a dramatic makeover of Gmail's drab, utilitarian interface, and that's a good thing.
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Google launches paid premium version of Analytics
Google has developed a paid version of its Analytics website usage monitoring service that offers better performance, more sophisticated features and broader technical support than the free product.
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Google Maps now offers 3D flythroughs
Google Maps now includes a cool new feature that lets you preview a route with a 3D birds-eye animation, whether you're driving, walking, biking or using mass transit.
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Interview: Freddie Mercury 65th birthday Google Doodle creator Jennifer Hom
For what would have been the 65th birthday of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Google created a fluid animated Doodle, which sat for a day on Google’s homepages.
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Mozilla issues do-not-track guide for site creators and owners
Mozilla issued a Do Not Track Field Guide to encourage advertisers and publishers to implement do-not-track (DNT) functionality.
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Facebook hits back at Google+ chat feature with iPhone app
Facebook has launched Messenger for Mobile, a new group chat app for the iPhone, along with some other Android and BlackBerry phones.
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OK Go and Google make HTML5 music video to promote Chrome
The band OK Go, sometimes celebrated more for its creative music videos than for its music, has now teamed with Google to produce an HTML 5-based video optimised for viewing on in the Google Chrome browser.
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Book store apps capitulate to Apple, remove webs links
Several prominent book reading and purchase apps received updates on Monday that removed one small, but important feature: To comply with Apple's latest policies on selling app content outside of the standard in-app purchasing API.
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Google to shut down Labs site
Google has decided to close its Labs initiative as part of the company's efforts to streamline its product portfolio and focus its development efforts.
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Developers increasingly prefer iOS over Android
The number of projects being developed for iOS devices has jumped this year, while Android's share of the market has dropped, according to analysts.
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Google 'dealing with privacy bugs in Google+'
Google's new social networking site Google+, built to beat Facebook primarily on privacy features, has several privacy bugs the company is working to fix.
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Google+: first impressions
Google recently launched Google+, the company's latest attempt to get social networking right after its social disaster, Google Buzz. After trying out Google's new social network for several hours, I think Google may have finally figured out how to do social.
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Google releases Swiffy tool to convert Flash to HTML5
Google has released Swiffy, a free tool for designers and developers to convert some Flash files (.SWFs) into HTML5 code. The upshot? It's now easier than ever to get Flash content visible on platforms that don't support Adobe's Flash Player -- like the iPhone and iPad.
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Google launches Google+ social network to rival Facebook
After months of speculation, Google has launched Google+, a social network to rival Facebook.