Archive for December, 2009

Obama praising Google, Twitter, Facebook, iPhone but not Xbox

Monday, December 14th, 2009

President Barack Obama’s words in his recent speech to the school children in the United States didn’t seemed to be controversial especially to the tech companies and/or products mentioned to the new generation. Perhaps, there are good things being said and indirectly quoting a gadget for bad side.

Quoting from his prepared speech, President Obama said ‘I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox.’ This gives negative impressions to Microsoft.

All other companies got praises as Obama quoted saying ‘Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.’

Obama also quoted for positive remarks for Apple’s iPhone ‘Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor – maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine.’

Looking on a brighter side, Microsoft should still be proud as Xbox will not be mentioned if it’s value is not marketable giving users the desire to buy for it.

Facebook to tag Friends on Status Updates like Twitter

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Another Twitter-like service is going to be rolled out on Facebook.

The continuing battle between Facebook and Twitter led the first to imitate another feature from the latter. This time, the use of the ‘@’ sign to tag member friends.

Although it has been an amazing feature for a social networking site to tag friends thus notifying them about an uploaded picture, video or note, the latest with Facebook allows its users to update their statuses at the same time tag their friends on it by using the ‘@’ sign.

Like any of the first tagging features of Facebook that sends notification to tagged friends, tagging individuals on their statuses through ‘@’ sign also sends notification to that particular person. You too can receive notifications once you were tagged on your friends’ updates using the same symbol.

According to Facebook, the immediate advantage of the new service will directly affect brands or businesses who are also engaged into their social networking page in Facebook.

This plan of tagging friends through their updates will be available in the coming weeks.