Category Archives: Internet News

Facebook and Google Make Up 80% Of All Social Logins

As a regular internet user chances are that you’ve logged into a website or two using one of your social profiles. These days you can use Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIN, and a slew of other social profiles to login almost anywhere. However while it might be cool to offer your users the ability to login […]

Yandex Releases New Browser Version

Being based out of New York City here in the States it’s easy to overlook Yandex – Russia’s premier search giant. However the search giant is far from being forgotten as they announce the release of a new alpha version of its browser. Yes I know – They have a browser? Yep. Since 2012 Yandex has been […]

Bing Updates Homepage, Goes HD

Bing made a few significant visual improvements to their homepage over this weekend – and as someone who utilizes a 37″ Samsung HDTV as his at-home monitor – I love every single one of them. First up the images that most of us absolutely love about Bing will now be wide-screen and HD! You should see […]

Free SSL Certificates Coming Next Year?

As the interweb slowly moves over to HTTPS from the standard HTTP a new venture between Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Mozilla, Cisco, the University of Michigan and IdenTrust has formed Lets Encrypt – a new authority out to attempt to completely eliminate the headaches and costs associated with the switch. See switching your website over to SSL has […]

Yahoo Becomes the New Default Search Engine for Firefox

Google Chrome obviously defaults to their own Google search engine. Internet Explorer defaults to the Bing search engine. So it was only appropriate that Mozilla default to a search engine that wasn’t their direct competitor – i.e. Google. As of yesterday night Mozilla has made Yahoo the new default search engine for the Firefox browser. […]

NYC Looks to Replace Payphones With Wi-Fi Hotspots

While payphones aren’t nearly as popular as they once used to be – they’re still at strategic places all over New York City and the surrounding boroughs. Alas these days they rarely get much use – however a new project dubbed LinkNYC is looking to change that by converting New York City payphones into Wi-Fi […]

Google Removes Carousel From Local Listings

Back in June last year I had first mentioned the introduction of the carousel display for Google local listings which was loved by many business owners allowing alot more businesses to be on the first page for a search result. Sadly Google has officially dropped the black carousel user interface from their local listings. So now […]

Google Trends Now Shows Trending YouTube Videos

The Google Trends is a great little service that lets you easily keep up with all the popular news of the day. This used to be based solely on searches, however as of yesterday Google Trends will now also showcase trending Youtube videos which will surely have video marketers excited. If you click into Trending […]

Twitter Releases 827 Emojis For Everyone

Continuing on with the Twitter news today Twitter has decided to open source a huge library of it’s emojis. The library is available over on GitHub and it’s open for any developer who wants to implement the characters into their apps, sites and wherever else they may fit. There are 872 emojis in the bunch, […]

Google Upgrades Search On Google Developers Central

Being a search engine it only makes sense that Google upgrades their own internal search functions they use across their various properties. While the main Google search engine has had autocomplete and suggestions for a while now – this feature was just integrated into the search function on Google’s Developers Central (http://developers.google.com). The upgrade now […]

New gTLD Domains for November 2014

There are some awesome new domain name extensions coming out this month. As usual you can register these new domain names at either Namecheap, 1&1 or GoDaddy. November 5th: .market, .mortgage November 12th: .gifts, .restaurant November 19th: .engineer November 25th: .click, .hosting, .property, .help, .diet

Firefox Is Working On A Developers Browser

Chances are if you live in the webmaster space you’ve made use of one of the ever-popular webmaster/developer tools built into most modern browsers. Developer tools have been significantly gaining in popularity between webmasters and Mozilla is well aware of this. As such on November 10, Mozilla plans to introduce the new project that they’ve […]

Bing Finally Lets You Search For Animated Gifs

In an update over the weekend Microsoft has given Bing the ability to filter search results specifically for animated gifs. Now when you do an image search you can click on the Type filter below the search box and select Animated GIF. The page will refresh to show just animated GIFs. Hovering on any of the […]