The world is big and the world is diverse. In terms of socializing on the web, Facebook should know this better than anyone else. In fact, out of its over 1.5 billion users, less than half that number speaks English. So to speak, the rest consists of dozens of other languages.
Facebook's Like, Share and Follow button are seen as one of the most visible yet powerful philosophy that the company wants to spread. The familiar blue buttons that could be found in millions of web pages, are having a face lift.
The internet knows a lot about you. And as one of the most popular service on the web, Google collects a lot of information about its users. To make things easier for them, Google is looking to make it easier for users to control their data throughout its services and their various devices.
Google Maps is a gamechanger to many people in how they commute. Along with Earth, Google update the two apps to use a imagery from the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Landsat 8 satellite. While this update doesn't make Maps and Earth more useful, it indeed makes them more beautiful to see.
Twitter is changing in many parts. From eliminating its 140-character limit to make itself more useful, it's now showing its dedication to make its pictures more interesting to see.
When two people meet, they can often predict what will happen next. That's obvious. But observers can also predict what will happen: a handshake? A hug? Or a kiss? Humans are able to anticipate actions based on experience and also knowledge.
YouTube has been around since 2005, to be acquired by Google in 2006, and to quickly garner the internet's audience for streaming videos.
The smarter our smartphone gets, the more we can do with it. As for the usual, Facebook, YouTube and some others are just getting more and more attentions out there. Twitter that has been dragging its feet for a while now, wants to join those elites, and this time is by doing some changes to its video contents.