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Twitter plans to cut the noise out of trending topics ... but how?

Download Squad  Nov 06 09

Filed under: Social Software, Microblogging

Have you ever actually clicked on any of Twitter's trending topics? I don't want to sound like the old guy telling whippersnappers to get off his lawn, but trying to read almost any Twitter trend gives me a headache. There's so much spam with popular hashtags attached that even people who care about the trends aren't getting a great user experience. Twitter realizes this, and they're going to do something to cut down the noise. The precise something that Twitter intends to do isn't really clear. Biz Stone's blog post is full of ambiguous language: "We're working to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful. Full story...

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Waste some time and toss the turtle

Download Squad  3 hours ago

Filed under: Games, Time-Wasters

No, no, really... I'm not suggesting you head to the supplies cupboard and actually toss the turtle! It's a game! NO! Not the kind of game you play with friends while drunk! A Flash game! Adobe Flash! In your browser! Toss The Turtle is the epitome -- the end of the line -- the ULTIMATE 'fire a canon ball as far as you can' game, a genre that you might remember from the (really) olden days.

Acrobat.com gets revamped and gets a mobile app

Download Squad  4 hours ago

Filed under: Office, Web services, Adobe, BlackBerry, iPhone, Mobile

Adobe's Acrobat.com service is getting a big update tonight, followed closely by a new mobile app for iPhone and BlackBerry.

Auslogics Disk Defrag buffs up, adds disk optimization in v3

Download Squad  4 hours ago

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Troubleshooting, Windows x64

Defragmentation (like backing up) is one of those chores I don't think about doing all that often.

Firefox Army clashes with IE in Central Europe, wins browser share crown

Download Squad  5 hours ago

Filed under: News, Mozilla, Browsers

The Firefox army is hundreds of millions of soldiers strong.

Finally, serious competition for iTunes...from Sony!

Download Squad  6 hours ago

Filed under: Audio, Video

They've been awfully quiet the last couple of years, except for the recent PS3 price reduction and slow drip-feed of good games.

Trillian brings impressive multi-network chat to the iPhone

Download Squad  7 hours ago

Filed under: Social Software, iPhone

Trillian, the excellent all-purpose chat app we've loved for years on the PC, just made the leap to the iPhone.

Fishbowl is a kick-ass Facebook client for Windows 7

Download Squad  8 hours ago

Filed under: Windows, Microsoft, Freeware, Social Software

When Microsoft introduced us to Silverlight 4 the other day, the demoed a slick Facebook application.

Proper web browsing on a console: Firefox coming to the Sony PS3?

Download Squad  9 hours ago

Filed under: Games, Mozilla, Browsers

It seems the age of humdrum, crippled browsers on consoles might finally be coming to an end! Though the details are very slim, with the only source being an unnamed insider very close to Sony, it is exciting news indeed if it turns out to true.

Ask DLS: Now that you've seen Chrome OS do you still care?

Download Squad  less than a day ago

Filed under: OS Updates, Google, Ask DLS

So Google finally let loose with a real glimpse at Chrome OS today, unveiling it at an event in Mountain View today.

Google introduces machine-generated captions for YouTube videos

Download Squad  less than a day ago

Filed under: Internet, Video, Google, Web

Google has given users the ability to caption their YouTube videos for a while now.



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