Google+ has added a new Trends feature like Twitter Trending Topic. The Google+ Trends got Most recent and Best of options – A "best of" option is also available to let users see some of the top posts related to the given topic.

Where can be seen the Google+ Trends? it is located at the right side see picture above.

Now when Google+ users input a search, the results page's right sidebar displays the top 10 most-popular topics on the social network. Upon clicking one of the trending topics, users will be brought to a page showing all the most recent user updates on the topic.

Google Buzz was announced on February 9, 2010 (19 months ago), in a press conference at the company's Mountain View headquarters and launched on the same day, at 11 a.m. PT for the first set of users.

The feature, available from the Gmail inbox, was rolled out to Gmail accounts in the following weeks. A mobile version of the site optimized for Android phones and Apple's iPhone was also launched,  while a version for businesses and schools that use Google Apps is planned. Within 56 hours of its release, 9 million posts were made on Google Buzz — approximately 160,000 posts and comments per hour.

On October 14, 2011, Google announced that Google Buzz would be shut down together with the Buzz API, in order to focus on Google+ instead.

YouTube is a unit of Google, Inc.

“Our investments in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia in general are long-term initiatives. We believe in the Philippines and we believe in Southeast Asia,” Mr. Persaud added.
Adam Smith, Google’s director of product management, noted how popular the site is in the Philippines.

“Filipinos account for a lot of views in the Southeast Asia with tens of millions of views in a day,” Mr. Smith said.

Yesterday’s launch was YouTube’s 34th localized service and the first in Southeast Asia, Mr. Smith said.

“With our launch here, we will improve the experience for Filipinos to highlight what is relevant [to them],” he added.

Mr. Smith noted how over three billion videos are viewed globally in a day and about 48 hours of videos are uploaded every minute.

“YouTube’s platform is for everyone and for anything ... By being an open platform, it is able to connect the world together, even allowing for the government to connect to its citizens,” he said.

The localized service will allow for monetization of video views in the Philippines, said Gautam Anand, Google’s director of content partnerships in the Asia-Pacific.

“Content providers have always been able to monetize views ... but with the [localized service launched] we could start monetizing views originating from the Philippines,” Mr. Anand said. source: bworldonline

Here’s a look at the changes to the News Feed that the social network already rolled out that have lots of users talking:

10: To customise your News Feed even more, you can use the Lists option. It is on the left hand menu. Add people to different Lists that already exist such as Close Friends or Family or create your own ones by selecting “More”. Then by clicking the List name, you’ll generate updates in your News Feed only from the people in that list.

9: If you’ve hidden posts, friends or other updates from your News Feed, you can call them back again by editing it. Click the pencil icon next to the words ‘News Feed’ in your left hand menu and then select Edit.

8: Top News and Most Recent are now combined as two separate elements in one News Feed. You simply scroll down to see the recent ones rather than clicking a button to make these appear in their own feed.

7: If you don’t want details of how you are using Apps to show up in the Ticker, go to Application Settings and click Only Me under the Customise menu.

6: Album Layout Last but not least, Facebook has made album design a bit more aesthetic. Albums that appear in your newsfeed stack three photos for a more creative viewing experience.

5:Ticker / Chat If you expand your chat sidebar (whether or not you're online), the ticker attaches to the top. That way, any page you navigate away from the home feed will still display real-time updates. Adjust chat/ticker proportions by hovering over the gray bar between chat and the ticker.

4:Hide Posts In the drop-down tab on the upper right of every post, you still have the option to hide posts (whether to delete the individual story or to hide that person's updates altogether). In the new version, you also have the option to mark a post as a top story, thus increasing the likelihood that that type of post or friend will appear in your Top Stories feed.

3:Recent Stories However, the new post notification bar doesn't refresh as often, but instead automatically expands new stories much like the older version.

2: New Posts Above your top stories you'll find the option to expand more recent posts, much like Twitter's "47 new tweets" real-time notification bar.

1:Top Stories Facebook's new design highlights posts that you'll likely find important, and prioritizes them at the top of your feed when you log in. The top stories are designated by a blue tag in the upper left corner of the post. From what we can see, however, top stories don't regenerate much throughout the day -- especially if you keep Facebook open in your browser like your Twitter ticker.

Smart-phones, like today’s iPhone, are as much a computer as they are a communication device. Besides having a great multi-touch interface and fast CPU, they contain sensors like cameras, gyros, accelerometers, GPS and compasses. They allow us to calculate and communicate anytime, anywhere.

The deployment of today’s cell towers is a slow, deliberate and costly affair. In the future, deployment will be faster and more organic. Wireless providers will likely credit homeowners’ monthly bills for having devices like AT&T’s 3G MicroCell at home. With enough of these devices in place, even remote neighborhoods and towns will enjoy solid wireless access to the cloud.

Social networking as it exists today on Facebook and Twitter requires users to do extra work to extract value. We must diligently manage our community of friends and followers, and weed through all the tweets and posts for those that pique our interest. In the future, the management of our network will be dynamic and automated; the system will make and break connections to ensure maximum value.

Kinect (originally known by the code name Project Natal), is a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console. Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, it enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller, through a natural user interface using gestures and spoken commands.