Facebook has just launched a new feature that allow users to embed videos, pictures and other external content in comments by just including a URL.

Facebook’s video chatting platform does not support group calling and is not available on smartphones. Hence, developers on Facebook came up with an app called Social Hangouts that allows you to video chat with 20 users at a time. That’s 10 more than Google+’s Hangout feature.

Apple’s Mac OS X 10.7, codenamed “Lion” is officially released and is available for purchase at the Mac App Store for $29.99. Apple showcased the new version of OS X at WWDC 2011 in San Fransisco, last month.

Few days back, one of the most inane and violent scam – Brother Rapes and Kills His Sister was spreading on Facebook. A similar Facebook scam is now underway that promises to show a video of a girl being raped by her teacher. The Facebook scam titled – “OMFG: A girl raped by her teacher in the classroom…” with a “explicit content” warning message as its description.

Well, it is quite hard to define or probably explain the newly launched social networking site, Google+. Considering the facts mentioned in this post, here’s how I define it – Google has taken the best of Google Wave, removed some unworthy features from Google Buzz, added few bits and pieces from Orkut, integrated Facebook’s UI, allowed Twitter like functioning and embellished it with photo sharing and video chatting to make it look more like a blog. In short, Google+ == Facebook + Twitter + Blog + Some of Google’s unsuccessful services.

Google+ is currently under a limited field test. 24 hours after the launch of Google+, the invite feature was taken down due to high demand of Google+ Invites. Since it’s announcement, Google+ has seen tremendous growth. On July 10, Google+ had over 7.3 million users registered with a growth rate of 365 percent in just six days.

Gold Safe is a game show that is aired on Indian television channels NDTV Imagine and Zee TV. The game show titled “Guess the Celebrity”, awards you cash prize if you guess the celebrity’s name right. The show follows a simple rule. Viewers are asked to identify the celebrity, who’s face is partially shown. If the viewer gives the answer correct, he/she is awarded cash prizes ranging from Rs. 20,000 to one lac.

Dreams of owning the Apple iPad 2 may come true only if you are willing to shed some money, but creating a replica of it from scratch is priceless! This insane Chinese geek, presumed to be a hacker, spent almost 15 days in building an incredible replica of the iPad. He calls it the “iPad 3

Do you want to win an Apple iPad 2? Then drink Taiwanese tea. Yup, you heard that right! A Taiwan-based tea company has released a commercial featuring Steve Jobs impersonator, launching not the iPad 2, but a Taiwanese tea product.

In a recent study carried out by a SEO Platform provider – BrightEdge, revealed that 4.5 percent of the sites it analyzed had adopted the Google +1 button, while the “tweet” button had a usage of 3.4 percent combining Twitter Share (2.1 percent) and Twitter Instant Follow (1.3 percent). However, Facebook’s “Like” button, remained on the top with 10.8 percent dominating the social share buttons.

Recently, there’s a new and unique scam that has been spreading across Facebook. The scam message titled – Get Your Free Facebook Shoes, Register Now with a link to a Google Blog. On clicking the link, you will be taken to the Blogspot page which has a fake Facebook page design. The user is asked to go through a number of steps before he/she can claim their “Facebook Shoes”.

In a quick succession, several Google+ users were bombarded with multiple email notifications spamming their inbox due to a coding error after which the service that kept track of Google+ notification system ran out of disk space.

Since the case of Casey Anthony received national media attention in the US with media calling it “the biggest rating draw in recent memory”, scammers on Facebook have taken full advantage of it by publishing a scam post on Facebook about Casey Anthony confessions and a link to download the video chat app.

Time-lapse photography is shooting a sequence of photos of the same subject with certain time interval between each shot. The interval may vary from less than a second to an hour or even more than a day. These pictures are then clubbed together into one video that plays back in a shorter amount of time.

Powered by Google’s Android, millions of smartphones have been sold until now. That makes Andorid the number one smartphone OS in the world and Google aims to generate $1.3 billion via mobile advertising revenue by 2012. Although Google is generating big bucks and Android is marking a huge successes in the smartphone industry, several actions taken by Oracle and Microsoft for patent infringements could damage the OS’s appeal.