Android Market Makes It A Lot Easier To Find Good Apps (GOOG, AAPL)

Android developers often complain that it's too hard for users to find their apps in the Android Market compared with iTunes.

Today, Google took some steps to resolve that.

Here's what's new:

• New top apps lists. Google is FINALLY adding "top free," "top paid" and "top grossing" lists like iTunes. There will also be a trending list that shows which apps are hot right now. The lists will be refreshed more often and will be country-specific.

• Editors' choice. This new page will consist entirely of apps chosen by the Android Market staff, similar to iTunes' staff choices.

• More related apps. Each app listing will have two lists of related apps: other apps that are browsed by people who use this app, and other apps that are downloaded alongside this app.

• Top developer icons. A nice perk for developers -- if Google likes your apps, it will put a little "top developer" icon next to them. It's starting with 150 developers today.

The improvements are in the Web-based Android Market today and coming to phones and tablets in the next few weeks.

 

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Facebook Mobile Makes It Easier To Track And Block Annoying Apps

Facebook appears to be taking privacy complaints more seriously: today it announced new privacy controls for the mobile version of the Facebook Web site.

Mobile users could already control what happened to information they posted on Facebook--for example, whether pictures could be shared only with friends, or friends of friends as well.

The new privacy controls extend to third-party applications. You can see how many you're using, see what information they're accessing, and then control what information you want them to have and how they can use it--for example, if they can post an update to all your friends every time you finish a game.You can also remove apps that you no longer want.

Mobile use is becoming an increasingly important part of the Facebook equation--for instance, social game developer Zynga, which distributes its games largely through Facebook, recently announced that 10 million people per month are accessing its games on mobile phones.

The privacy controls in the dedicated Facebook iPhone app still suck, though. Instead of offering an easy touch menu to control privacy settings like the mobile site, the Facebook app still kicks users out to the standard version of the Web site, where they have to hunt and peck through tiny menus to make these kinds of changes. If Facebook is really serious about mobile privacy, it should add the same kind of easy controls to the Facebook mobile apps--not just the mobile Web site.

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Gmail Labs Adds ‘Smart Mute’ and Easier Ways to Unmute Features

Gmail made some changes to its "muting" feature that help you keep you inbox empty from the mailing lists:

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Event Management made easier with Eventzilla

A recent and a more general web surfing activity of mine lead me into encountering a unique, quick & simple, and a very inexpensive online start-up firm named Eventzilla. I say unique, because it is a service that was never before thought of and one which could help event management firms save a lot of time. I say, quick & simple because unlike other online services, this website enables event organizers to take very little lead time and complications in availing event management solutions. I say, very inexpensive because there are very few or no online services existing that cost as reasonable as Eventzilla.

Event Management made easier with Eventzilla

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Google Lat Long Blog: Getting from A to B just got a little easier

Over the past year, the Google Maps Directions team has been hard at work developing a variety of design improvements to make getting and following directions much easier.



It’s now simpler than ever to switch transport modes, change the time/date of your trip, get a high-level overview comparing different routes, and view details of a single trip at-a-glance.

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Google Makes It Easier For Users to See and Modify Their Location Settings

Mountain View, California-based Google Inc. announced today on The Official Google Blog that they're making it much easier for users to control their Location settings on the search results page. Google Associate Product Manager Mack Lu explains tha

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