There is no doubt that the era we live in consists of many social components that help us make up our online identity. This makes the Web 2.0 keep moving, altering and evolving. Over the last few days we have noticed many changes in the area of Web 2.0 and social networking. First there was facebook with its Lite version, then Twitter starting up the Project: Retweet and finally Google trying to get Reader more social.

Well, this time Google tries to get Picasa Web Albums more social. If you watch carefully the next time you browse some album photos you will notice a new bar under the photo’s caption with “I like this” option at the bottom left and the number of “Views” at the bottom right.

Picasa Web Albums have tried a few changes in the last year in order to compete, but no change could boost Picasa that much to overtake its main rival

Last night Android Network Awards announced the results of their polls. According to them, more than 43.000 people voted.
So, here are the results:

Best Security App: Mobile Defense
Best Camera App: Snap Photo Pro
Best Home Replacement App: Panda Home
Best Streaming Music App: imeem Mobile
Best GPS Navigation App: CoPilot Live
Best Twitter App: Twidroid
Best Weather App: WeatherBug
Best Communication App: chompSMS
Best Widget: Weather Widget
Best Puzzle Game: Jewellust
Best Arcade Game: Robo Defense
Best Casual Game: Bonsai Blast
Best Shopping App:ShopSavvy
Best Fitness App: SportyPal
Best System Utility App: TasKiller
Best Tool App: ASTRO File Manager
Best Location Based App: Sherpa
Best Sports App: SportsTap
Best Organization / Productivity App: Astrid
Best Wow Factor App: Shazam
Best Reference App: WikiMobile
Best News App: USA Today
Best Finance App: PayPal
Best Social Networking App: Babbler for Facebook
Best Entertainment App: Shazam
Best Media Player App: TuneWiki

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There seems to be a very slight change in the User Interface of Google Docs this morning. At the left, inside the navigation menu and under the folder “My folders”, the small folder icons have changed. They changed towards a more simple and clean design. So simple and clean that they tend to stand out from the current UI design.

I have to say I really like them. However they look so different compared to the icon at the left of “My Folders”. Thinking ahead to a possible redesign of some other UI elements of Google Docs makes me smile.

I can’t wait to see what’s next. :)

Android Network Awards is a community-based award to find the best Android apps. Android users are able to vote for the best application in various categories such as “Best Widget”, “Best Social Networking App”, “Best Twitter App” and many more. In a day or so from now Android Network Awards polls will close. You still have time to vote! Hurry up! :)

I am curious about the number of people that voted.

One of the Co-founders of Twitter published a post yesterday at Twitter’s official blog stating that Project Retweet is now on phase one.

To be more specific, Project Retweet will enhance one major (if not the most important) feature of Twitter. It will actually make Twitter even more social by enabling more information to flow amongst users’ streams. At the moment all we know is that the API is still under serious construction.
Retweeting has significantly changed part of Twitter’s original philosophy. Since its foundation back in 2006 Twitter has evolved from a personal life stream to a social mainstream monster.

I wonder when the first launch of this feature will be. I bet it wont take more than 3 months. What do you think?

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At last! Qik for iPhone 3GS is now available for free. Moreover this version is slightly different. It allows you to pull videos right from your iPhone 3GS Camera Roll and upload them to your Qik account. Qik is the only iPhone 3GS app to let you share videos from your camera roll straight to your blog, website, Facebook, YouTube, and all the other networks Qik integrates with.

So what are you waiting for? Qikly go get it! :)

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Microsoft announced Outlook for Mac included in the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac. This Web Services Edition, as they call it, will be providing performance and reliability improvements and enabling users to sync Tasks, Notes and Categories.
Obviously Outlook for Mac will replace Entourage for Mac. Some of the highlights include:

• Built on Cocoa environment which means improved performance and integration with Mac OS
• A new high-speed file-based database with support for backing up files with Time Machine and Spotlight searching
• Information Rights Management that will help you prevent sensitive information from being distributed to or read by people who do not have permission to access the content

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This is amazing news for twitter addicts.

Twidroid developers zimmermann & marban announced twidroid PRO coming to the android platform.

Twidroid PRO will include some very useful features like:

• multi-account support
• video posting
• desktop widget
• bit.ly support
• follower listings
• interface themes

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