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The micro-blogging giant is said to be experimenting with new live events platform, “DVR Mode” for using Twitter with TV, hinted by Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo during a moderated panel this morning at the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings. The plan also includes an address to cyberbullying and better ways by which to filter the “signal from the noise” during live events. Twitter has to do a better job on the “Connect” stream to clean up the abusive, repeat and trolling while for on the cyberbullying subject, Costolo...

Google today unveiled a new Google+ Photos app for the Chromebook Pixel which will allow users to take the backup, browse and share your Google+ photos easily. Pixel owners can download the app here: chromebook.com/pixel/owners. The app will let Google+ Photos lets users plug an SD card into your Pixel, the app will back up your new photos to Google+ and the time when you are offline, you can still view most of your recent photos. The new app will let share individual photos, set of photos or an entire album in just a few seconds. The...

Google today announced that it is retiring the older version of Google Groups and bringing the revamped version for its users. The new version includes improved options for managing your groups along with adding ability to create an inbox which will allows you to collaboratively share distribute and track responsibilities with others. The update lets members of the group to work together which can manage email, assign items to each other and mark items resolved. Along with these additions, the new Google Groups bring new moderation tools...

The micro-blogging giant Twitter has expanded an alerts to notify users as soon as when someone faves a tweet you have mentioned in. Not much a bigger update but despite it’s an add-on to Twitter’s current notification system giving users an understanding on what’s happening beyond the connections. In short, the update means as soon as when a user mentions another users in a tweet, that tweet gets “favorited” you will be notified. Just received from Twitter “a new type of Email notification which you get when someone favorites...

A report from the Wall Street Journal suggests that the social giant Facebook is working on to develop a reader of its own. The Journal cites unnamed sources inside the company revealed that a Flipboard-like social reader is being under development which will allow users to aggregate and read news stories from multiple sources. The project has been in development for over a year with reportedly a designer formerly with Apple and Nest, Michael Matas is said to be heading the product and has developed under the close gaze of CEO Mark Zuckerberg...

Facebook today announced that a security bug has compromised the personal account information of about six million of its users. The social giant’s White Team explained that the site users to deliver friend recommendations were “inadvertently stored with people’s contact information as part of their account on Facebook.” The company even result of fixing the breach has temporarily disabled the DYI tool. The company also added that as of now there is “no evidence” which confirms that the bug was for malicious intents...

A report suggest that Google is preparing to unveil a new service dubbed as Google Mine. The service will get integrated with Google+ and allows user to keep track of belongings of their own or to have and share some within their circles. The service currently is in testing mode internally at Google. “Google Mine lets you share your belongings with your friends and keep up to date with what your friends are sharing. It enables you to control which of your Google+ Circles you share an item with. It also lets you rate and review...

AdAge citing two people briefed on the product is reporting that Twitter reportedly planning on to launch location-based advertisements later this year. The move means the company allow brands to show their promoted tweets to people location wise. The report suggests that the location-based ad format will make its debut in about the fourth quarter. As per now, the micro-blogging giant only allows ads to be targeted to specific locations while it does not yet working towards as per zip codes as its competitor Facebook doing since 2011....

Highlights: Facebook unveiled video service for Instagram A user can record a video of up to 15 seconds The new app will include 13 filters at par to start with and created with the help of video artist Allows you to select you own thumbnail for a video Instagram video also works to improve the quality of video Worked with video scientists to bring on a feature called “cinema” Available for both iOS and Android users respectively Instagram Big Numbers: 16 billion photos shared on Instagram 1 billion likes every day 130 million...

As expected, Facebook today announced video service for Instagram, aiming on making video to be as easy as to create as well as share as possible. The user can record a video of up to 15 seconds. The service will become available for both iOS and Android users respectively. The new app will include 13 filters at par to start with and created with the help of video artist. The app also allows you to select you own thumbnail for a video. “It’s an Instagram touch,” Instagram founder and CEO Kevin Systrom said. “It...