Twingr News & Articles

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

• Embedded GMail Video is Deeper than you Think
• Reference Extract: Google, Except by Smart People
• Apple Building a Search Engine?
• Twingr— Make Your Own Twitter
• 30 Different Uses for RSS
  
  

Embedded GMail Video is Deeper than you Think

You may or may not have noticed a new feature in your GMail account: embedded video chat. It launched a couple of days ago to high acclaim. (Mashable came up with the best summation, calling it the “anti-Skype”).

It’s primarily noteworthy because there’s hardly any reason to leave GMail anymore for your communication needs. IM, email, and now video/audio can now all be accessed from the GMail interface. Which is quite remarkable, when you think that all this is being done from the browser. Imagine if we’d frozen Scoble a couple of years ago and thawed him out this week to see this— he’d fall over backwards. (Which would give us a good opportunity to throw him back into the deep-freeze for another decade or three.)