Browsers It's Here! Fennec for Android Fennec (aka Firefox Mobile) is now available for phones running Google's Android OS. This highly-anticipated web browser is a mobile-ready port of its desktop cousin, Mozilla Firefox. Like its predecessor, Fennec offers tabbed browsing and add-ons. It also offers an optional add-on called "Weave" which allows you to sync your Fennec history… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Google Google Adds Similar Page Suggestions to Search Results In its continued effort to custom tailor search results and suggest that what you're searching for might actually be something else, Google has brought its similar page results onto the front page of your search results. You've likely seen the feature we're talking about before, but never clicked on it and now you won't have to, as it will be… Mike Melanson View comments
New Media Ask.com Co-Founder Joins Allvoices David Warthen, co-founder of search engine Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) has joined citizen journalism site Allvoices as its Chief Technology Officer. Warthen was co-founder, and CTO for, Ask Jeeves. As Ask.com it remains the fourth most consulted search engine. It was sold to Barry Diller's InterActive Corp for $1,85 billion in 2005. After… Curt Hopkins View comments
Location POLL: Which Location-Based Mobile App Do You Use Now? Prior to SXSW, we polled you on what location-based mobile app you would use during the festival. Brightkite and Foursquare were the most popular picks, with Gowalla third. We also polled you a year ago about this class of app and at that time Brightkite was a clear favorite. As an attendee at SXSW, it seemed like Foursquare and Gowalla were the… Mobile Richard MacManus View comments
NYT Infochimps Release Twitter Data, "Trst.Me" App and API for Ranking Twitter Users Austin-based data aggregation service Infochimps released several major sets of data extracted from the Twitter API today, as well as Infochimp's first application and API based on one of these datasets. Updating the "Twitter census" data it released in November 2009, the datasets and histograms Infochimps made available today include ones that… Social Audrey Watters View comments