Tag: NEW FEATURE

Twitter has just started rolling out location-based trending topics, but for now only to about 1% of their users. The new feature will be called Local Trends, and will use your location information to present trending topics that are happening near you. Twitter is remaining fairly tight-lipped on the new functionality for now, preferring to wait until it rolls out to a wider audience before ...

Facebook just launched a new feature called People You May Know, which suggests -- get ready for the surprise -- people that you may now. Wow. It finds these people based on "your existing connections", but we don't know how it decides the order of the list. Our guess: the more people you both know, the higher on the list the person gets placed. We didn't recognize any of our first four ...

Google today released 5 new features for Gmail, ranging from simple UI improvements to handy "embarrassment-reducing" conversation upgrades (though since they're counting the recently released Gmail app for your phone, it's really 4 new features today). First up is a new Reply button at the top of messages, allowing you to give a shout back without having to scroll endlessly through long messages ...