http://blog.theunical.com TheUnical Technologies Official Blog Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:39:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Blogger’s more than 10 years, we’ve learned that blogging is a powerful way for people to express themselves. More than 350,000 words are written on Blogger every minute of every day and over the years we’ve added a bunch of features to ensure that writing those words is as ... http://blog.theunical.com/google-api/new-blogger-template-designer-blogspot/ When the first ball of this year’s Indian Premier League cricket season is bowled, fans across the planet will have a front row seat in the world’s biggest online sports stadium. Tonight the Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders will face off in Mumbai at 8pm IST, and the YouTube ... http://blog.theunical.com/featured/indian-premier-league-cricket-season-is-bowled-on-you-tube/ Finally Twitter Launched the new Location feature in USA last night. Every day, millions of tweets are created. These little bursts of information are about anything and everything—they make Twitter a hub for discovering what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world. A recent burst of interest in location sharing applications, ... http://blog.theunical.com/twitter/twitter-starts-the-new-location-feature-launched-of-us-users/ Following up on the Android release of Opera Mobile 4 just over a year ago, Opera has just launched Opera Mini 5 for Android into public beta. The jump from version 4 to version 5 is pretty huge, introducing a handful of features that Opera says “makes your mobile browsing experience ... http://blog.theunical.com/featured/opera-mini-5-beta-available-for-android/ As mobile gaming takes off, developers will need in-depth analysis to determine consumer behavior with their games and adjust their games accordingly. Motally, which provides user-action tracking services for the mobile web and apps, is expanding its product base today offering a targeted analytics service aimed towards mobile games on ... http://blog.theunical.com/featured/mobile-analytics-for-iphone-android-and-blackberry-platforms-devices-from-motally/ Motorola, stalwart of freedom, will work with Chinese carriers to add Bing to Chinese Android-based phones, ousting Google Search and Maps from the scene. Now this isn't meanness on Motorola's part although Reuters notes that this move could have something to do with that whole Great Chinese Google Hacking Incident ... http://blog.theunical.com/featured/motorola-to-replaces-google-search-with-bing-on-chinese-android-phones/ With Microsoft becoming increasingly marginalized in areas like mobile media, DirectX is becoming less of a must-use toolset and more of a gaming-specific one. The other side of the coin is, of course, the increasing relevance of standards like OpenGL, OpenAL, and OpenCL: powerful cross-platform systems for graphics, audio, and ... http://blog.theunical.com/featured/opengl-4-0-comes-out/ The Google Apps team here in New York City is a hotbed of movie fanatics. But while planning a recent movie night, we realized we spend too much time organizing our events and not enough time discussing, debating and watching movies. To take the hard work out of planning, we turned ... http://blog.theunical.com/google-api/apps-scripts-for-google-docs/ Google has Google Trends, Twitter has trending topics, and now so does Wikipedia. Pete Skomoroch at Data Wrangling built a trending topics page for Wikipedia. The homepage ranks the top-25 Wikipedia articles with the most pageviews over the past 30 days, as well as the fastest rising articles in the ... http://blog.theunical.com/twitter/trending-topics-on-wikipedia/ I use Google Reader a lot — not only to stay on top of the news, but also to find interesting blog posts and articles. I’m always telling my friends about Google Reader, and while some of them love it, others don’t want to take the time to set it ... http://blog.theunical.com/featured/find-out-awesome-stuff-online-with-google-reader-play/