The main idea behind the launch of this version is not to extend Joomla, rather to begin the transition to the new release cycle and provide core improvements in the Joomla package – something which Joomla developers were waiting for a long time now.

The major improvements include performance improvements, front-end content editing, composer integration, additional high-level security measures and around 700 bug fixes. With these features the front-end editing Joomla modules are now functioning in a much better manner. This feature gives site content editors’ access to perform content creation and editing without the need for back-end Admin access.

The other outstanding features of this version are:

De-couple weblinks from New Installs – This will give you a lighter Joomla core making it more user-friendly

Continued Microdata Implementation – Introduced in 3.2 version, the latest version also continues to implement this feature in Joomla’s core layouts

Composer Integration – With this you can manage the external dependencies in a better manner

No Captcha reCaptcha – Helps you control or rather spams. This way Joomla 3.4 gives an edge to legitimate users

UploadShiled Implementation

With these changes, Joomla experts and Joomla developers can now easily focus on the admin functions. While Joomla content professionals can spend more time on building proper pages, proofreading and creative writing.

With the improved performance of Joomla, now you can expect better performance leads as well as efficient SEO for Joomla-powered websites. The new version is geared towards reducing abandonment as well as engaging customers.

Today Joomla is one of the most sought after CMS, and with the launch of its 3.4 version it has turned into a more efficient and faster CMS – an area in which many CMS lag behind.

The Joomla team has many other improvements in its road map, namely Joomla’s admin interface with main focus on accessibility, mobility and performance enhancements, 508 requirements, streamlining core CMS and also enhancing Joomla SEO capabilities.

Thus if you are using any other CMS, then you surely are lagging behind and missing out on some very outstanding features which are readily available on Joomla.

SlickLogin’s product had a website create an almost inaudible tone when you tried to log in, you’d then hold up your phone to your computer’s speaker and it would verify that it had heard your tone and then send your credentials in. In theory, it would make remembering a password unnecessary, but it could also work well for two-factor authentications — instead of entering in a unique code from your phone, it could just communicate your identity directly.

Google already has a widely-used two-factor authentication app that’s used both for its own products and others, and it’s not crazy to think that something like SlickLogin could become a part of that.

SlickLogin believes “logging in should be easy instead of frustrating and authentication should be effective without getting in the way”.

Its founders are Or Zelig, a former data security expert with the Israeli Defense Forces, and two security researchers, Eran Galili and Ori Kabeli. A detail of how much Google has paid for this service has not yet been disclosed.

Distill was working on ways to help HR people recruit technical talent, a cool idea that combined video interviews with programming challenges reports Techcrunch’s Kim-Mai Cutler, who was the first to spy the acquisition news. Distil was in private beta with the service, testing it with companies like ClearSlide, Disney, Box, ModCloth and Fivestars.

The startup’s two founders, Deng-Kai Chen and Ken Maclnnis, came from Tapjoy, StumbleUpon and Google created Distil. It has been working to make the easy process of technical recruiting by developing a service that does video conferencing and has a text editor with the file uploading for the two parties to collaborate on coding.

Here is the Blog Post from Distill that announces that the service will be closed.

We are excited to share the news that the Distill team is off to start a new adventure! We are joining Yahoo. Prior to creating Distill, we were part of the original team behind the creation of Tapjoy, a mobile performance-based advertising platform that drove deep engagement and monetization opportunities for mobile app publishers. We’ll be drawing upon our expertise from the Tapjoy days to help build out Yahoo’s mobile advertising solutions.

As of today, we have stopped development of Distill Schedule and Distill Interview. You will still be able to schedule interviews through the end of February, and the Distill platform will remain available through Sunday, March 30, 2014. If you have any questions, concerns, or data requests, please contact us at support@distill.cc, or reach out to your account manager directly.

We want to express our sincere thanks and gratitude to everyone at the awesome companies we have been working with, as well as the candidates who have met their future employers through Distill. It’s been a fun ride for us, and we couldn’t have gotten this far without your help. Thank you!!

The Distil Team.

Starting today, click on the name next to a website’s link in your search results, you will get served a small window providing a little bit more information than what’s provided on the page. The panels are accessed through a small clickable link on the second line of applicable search results.

Starting as a small trial, Google will continue to expand the number of sites that bring search results with knowledge graph entries attached. The update is likely to enhance search for individuals, it could cause issues for website owners who appear in search results with the added information panels.

This feature will kick in whenever Google recognizes a website notable or when it can pull enough information worth showing.

According to re/code, the partnership with Stripe will allow Twitter to accept credit-card payments from its users. Twitter has already dabbled in tweet-commerce through alliances with Starbucks and American Express, but has never fully embraced a single system that could be used to enable fluid on-the-fly commerce.

The move could also open a whole new market for m-commerce, where smartphone-toting shoppers could buy products they spot on the high street.

It’s not clear how exactly on-Twitter purchases will work or whether physical or digital products will be the primary focus.

Andy Rubin will be in charge of quite the budget, it seems although Google didn’t disclose numbers, as Larry Page himself took the Google+ to congratulate the ex-Android chief for his future strokes of genius on the way to creating our robotic overloads. It’s not clear what kind of robots the group will build, but several of the companies involved previously built humanoid robotic arms and it seems like Rubin is suggesting that Google’s creation might be able to move, reach and grab things like a person.

In an interview with the New York Times, Rubin said that he had convinced Google founder Sergey Brin and Larry Page that now was the time to make a move into robotics, even though such a plan might not deliver results in short term. “Like any moonshot, you have to think of time as a factor we need enough runway and a 10-year vision” Rubin told the paper.

The robotics efforts will not be aimed at consumers, but rather industrial applications with Rubin pointing to opportunities in manufacturing and logistics, highlighting frustrations with the complexity of the consumer electronics industry, which is dominated by labor-intensive assembly.

With Rubin at the helm, it looks like Google’s robotics hobby is going to turn into a full-fledged business. After tackling search, advertising, e-mail, mapping, browsers, video, social networks, internet access, mobile phones and laptops, perhaps robotics looks to be next big business for Google.

With the new system Google says the comments “you care about” move to the top. Google knows what you care about. Got it?

When leaving a comment on YouTube, it’s now possible to choose if it post the message on Google+ as well and whom to share with it. Further, YouTube now offers the possibility to use rich text, by adding tags such as bold, italics and you’ll add some style to the comments.

Adding URL’s is possible as well. Outside links will appear as such, while YouTube video URL’s will show as a link using the title of the video. Comments can be edited or deleted completely, while now it’s also possible to disable reshares and replies. Video owners are provided with tolls to review comments before they’re posted and can block certain words, they can also auto-approve comments from certain fans. There are plenty of people, including those providing with videos that aren’t pleased with Google’s move.

This is Google’s effort to trim out the useless comments, the trolls and to force some quality on to the YouTube comments.

Google’s new Android app will let business owners update their information such as hours, address, content details and description. You’ll also be able to add posts and photos to your Google+ Local pages, respond to comments and +1’s , and so on.

Another convenient feature of this app is the ability to view statistics of the traffic being sent to your Google Places listing. Just like on your computer, the app can tell you how many impressions your business has had and how many actions were taken on your listing. This allows business owners to gauge the performance of their most recent advertising campaigns.

The app however has some limitations, aside from being available in the U.S only the app won’t let you respond to customer’s reviews nor does it allow you to create new listings. Additionally, Google doesn’t have a timeframe for releasing an iOS version. Depending upon on the devices your team uses, this app might be convenient for only a handful of people.

If you already use page identity in the Google+ app you might be wondering why you should download another very similar app. The answer to that is that the page identity feature enables you to view your business pages and use social feature, but you can’t use it to update your business information.

Event parrot works much like the @magicrecs account that recommends tweets and Twitter accounts to its followers through the direct messages.

It says “Follow me to receive the direct messages that help you keep up what’s happening in the world.” Users who follow the account have received direct messages about international and national news, repackaging tweets from news outlets.

13,500 users have trusted that so far, and that number is growing fast. It’s impossible to know for sure if Twitter is actually behind the account, but it seems to be a real possibility–though @eventparrot has yet to be verified like @magicrecs.

Assuming @eventparrot is a Twitter experiment, it shows the company is hard at work developing ways to increase and retain its user base as Twitter’s initial public offering looms.

He says “ Geo-location is not a spam “, as long as “you’re showing, if someone’s coming from a French IP address, let’s redirect them to the French version of my page or the French domain for my business that’s totally fine”. The thing that I would do is make sure that you don’t treat search engines any differently than a regular user.

Hence if Google bot comes in, you check the IP address, imagine that we’re coming from the United States, just redirect Google Bot to the United States version of your page or the .com-whatever that you would serve to regular United States Users.

The last part of the question he says, is cloaking and is something he would be “very careful about”. The point is, just treat Google bot like every other user and you should be fine