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With 40 percent market share of the smartphone market, BlackBerry yields a lot of influence, which is why there are now numerous location applications popping up for the platform. From GPS location trackers and location aware Twitter clients to apps that provide local recommendations for places to hang out and eat, to apps that will [...]

Doug Bowman, creative director at Twitter, posted a screenshot of new Twitter design yesterday. While little is revealed, there are some things that will significantly change the user experience. Below is a summary of the few changes that have leaked out via this new screenshot.

Flickr just reported that they are launching HTML5 video playback for all videos they store. Officially iPad arrives on Saturday and, as it doesn’t support Flash, playing videos will be a huge issue. Flickr was using Flash for displaying videos as well, but they have worked to solve this problem and with HTML5 video, you will be able to enjoy all Flickr content without any problems.

They claim that visitors using iPad will be automatically switched to HTML5 player when stumbling on a video. Visitors will be able to enjoy HD content as well.

Apple says iPad will provide ultimate browsing experience and Flash powered content is huge part of the Internet today. Without having Flash support Apple cuts off great deal of content out there. Mayor players like YouTube and now Flickr have found solution for their video content, no doubt that other sites will be forced to adopt as well.

SXSW was the excellent event to see how people adopt and use geolocation apps, predicted to be new trend this year. As you can see form visualization provided by SimpleGeo people really like theses apps and in Austin they was widely used.

Data for the visualization was taken from eight different sources – FourSquare, Gowalla, Twitter, Flickr, Bump, Brightkite, BlockChalk, and Fwix. Information used in video was previously shown as a live datastream during the festival at http://austin.vicarious.ly/. As we all expected, Foursquare and Gowalla was most popular apps for “checking-in”, sending geo-tagged messages or pictures. Currently these two are fighting for the market and this war, I think, is forcing innovation in this field at higher rate, which of course is good for us – users.

SimpleGeo tweeted that they will also provide numbers for geolocation app usage at SXSW.

Recent studies shows that people who become fans (Facebook) or follow (Twitter) different brands tend to buy, or recommend to others, their products.

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Google (founded in 1998) has gone long way to accumulate spectacular global search market share of 85.78% and of course massive advertising revenue. Search is main product of Google, but there are many other awesome services built around them such as Gmail, Analytics, Docs and more. You can love it or hate it but Google have done much for the web as we see it now.

Here is great infographic form Pingdom showing Google from every angle.

Twitter is growing like crazy! Yea, we all know this. Twitter today reached amazing 50 million tweets per day – wow, that’s truly amazing. Retweet this post and give it a little push to the next milestone.

Congratulations Twitter team!

Here is what they are saying:

Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day – that’s an average of 600 tweets per second.

After Google launched Buzz just a few days ago there are already big speculations would it be next big thing – will see. But what I’m sure – if it grows massive you (blogger) would not like to miss it.

Big tech blogs like Mashable and TechCrunch have already added Google Buzz buttons to their articles for people to share their content. If you also want to have such feature on your blog download Google Buzz plugin here. With just a few click you will be able to setup the button and place in custom location on your blog.

Download The Plugin

Plugin is the easiest way to add Buzz button, but if you want to customize it more and build your own here is explained how to add button manually.

And if you like this article Buzz it!

Facebook with more than 400 million users is largest social network out there and with Facebook Chat, also one of the main players in IM market. Many people don’s see a reason why use other instant messengers while all their friends and colleagues are over at Facebook.

Although Facebook Chat is very popular, web interface lacks many features you would like to see on your IM client, that’s why we provide you with best and full function Facebook Chat desktop clients for Windows and Mac platforms.

Digsby

Digsby is very powerful client that knows the “language” of many popular social networks and email services. I will name just largest platforms: Facebook Chat, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Talk, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, Gmail, Yahoo mail, AOL/AIM Mail and others. It can really become your only software to update all your networks, check email and chat with buddies. Digsby is available for Windows – Mac and Linux versions coming soon (Thanks Mihnea!).

Check out this video to see main features and how it all works:

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If you are located in some country outside US typing in Google.com you will be redirected to local Google domain. Google does it because local country domains are made to provide more relevant results to local country users, but it can be very annoying if you want to search some topic unrelated to country.  I just find out that there are very simple solution to this problem.

There are alternative address for Google.com domain which you can use to always get to Google.com without redirecting to local Google domains.

Use this address: http://www.google.com/ncr (nrc – no country redirect)

If you use Google as your browser start page (as I do) you may want to type in this address insted of Google.com if you want to get rid of redirects.