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A recent change of Google Places make us think Google is reducing its effort to developing the product? Or it's attributed to its latest decision to remove users review snippets from other web sources on its Place pages. While browsing some of the accounts we set up, we have noticed that ... Continue Reading

Being a copycat in China, it's for sure you can make a lot of money. Baidu (百度) , Tencent, Dangdang are good examples. Now our western counterpart Google, unleashing its Google+ beta test on June 28th, decides to go for "copy and paste" from social media giant Facebook. During the last ... Continue Reading

China leading search engine Baidu (百度) agreed to power up its English search capability by collaborating with Microsoft's Bing. The news came on Monday through Baidu's email in which it said the deal aimed at directing English searches from Baidu to Microsoft's Bing, which would deliver the results back to Baidu's Web pages. It is said that the ... Continue Reading

Google changes its outfit in its homepage, allowing users to make their search page more personal and useful, a feature that is only available in iGoogle before. TG always gets the feeling that Google pays less attention on cosmetic makeover on designing its user interface - white background, blue and black text has ... Continue Reading

China Twitter Sina Weibo splashed out its data analytic tool yesterday. It provides Hong Kong and China social media marketers a tool to analyze Sina Weibo (新浪網微博) account performance. At its initial stage, the tool covers three major areas for evaluation: 1. Weibo Posts 2. Weibo Fans 3. Weibo Followed Account Sina makes it ... Continue Reading

Google just told us that her Google translate API stopped working and it would no longer function on December 1, 2011. It's not a good news to those who are running multiple-language sites. Google made the following announcement: The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. ... Continue Reading

Watch what has happened in social media industry ever since May 2011. The following are mainly extracted from FT.com. Reuters reports.. credits go to these guys. 1. Renren.com (人人网) , the "Chinese Facebook",  is currently valued at nearly 100 times last year’s net revenues of US$76.5m. It is now trading within the range of ... Continue Reading

Without taking up a lot of resources from our technical team, TG recently created news releases with a social media press release tool - Pressitt. The user-friendly tool is manageable and does not require users to write any code. Layout design is simple but clean enough to let users browse ... Continue Reading

Google today's  animated doodle is awesome! It depicts choreographer Martha Graham who is reputed for her fierce modern dance performance. She died on April 1, 1991. Today's doodle is to celebrate her 117th birthday. In 1998,  Time magazine listed her as the "Dancer of the Century" and as one of ... Continue Reading

Facebook adds a new Send button in its social plugin suite of products to allow users to share a message to a selected group of  Facebook friends. It becomes more private and easily manageable by users themselves. The message you send via Send button will include 1. Title 2. Link - url of ... Continue Reading