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August 12, 2009

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 3:14 PM/EST

iGoogle Social Gadgets Now Live in the U.S.

Social gadgets just became available to the millions of U.S. iGoogle home page users, allowing people to play games with each other and share news content and to-do lists from their iGoogle Web pages.

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August 7, 2009

Friday, August 07, 2009 10:48 AM/EST

New iGoogle Gadgets Leverage OpenSocial to Rival Facebook

Google Aug. 6 launched social gadgets that let users share information, play games and collaborate with friends. If Google can get some of these searchers, Gmail users and other Google Apps users to stick around longer by helping them connect with each other through the social iGoogle gadgets, it broadens the window of opportunity to show these folks ads.

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July 1, 2009

Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:57 PM/EST

ClackPoint Enables Chat via Google Friend Connect

The ClackPoint gadget enables Website owners to offer text chat, conference calling and document sharing through a gadget for Friend Connect. Google's and Facebook's programming teams will tell you that fostering the socialization of the Web -- not making money -- is the point of their activities. But this may come into play when the teams are asked what value they're bringing to their companies.

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June 25, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:29 PM/EST

Google Friend Connect Helps Friends Follow Your Digital Footprints

A new Google Friend Connect gadget aims to clue Website owners in to who's visiting their sites and when. Will site visitors have to erase their footprints for every Google Friend Connect site they visit, or is it a one-time opt-out?

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January 30, 2009

Friday, January 30, 2009 12:13 PM/EST

Google, Plaxo Blend OpenID, OAuth For Secure Federated ID

Google and Plaxo detailed the next step in their federated identity plans with "Hybrid Protocol," combining OpenID federated log-in with OAuth access authorization and the Google Contacts API for secure import of the user's address book. Of course, we're still in that uncomfortable spot of diverging efforts, with Google and Plaxo seemingly pitted against Facebook.

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January 12, 2009

Monday, January 12, 2009 3:16 PM/EST

Google Paper Proves Social Web Has Become a Science

Google programmers in a white paper point out three areas where social networking sites compromise user privacy. Service providers can save themselves headaches by granting users greater control over their data online without enabling them to compromise their personal data. That's a fine line to walk ideologically and technically, but it needs to be worked out.

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December 29, 2008

Monday, December 29, 2008 12:00 PM/EST

If Google Buys Facebook, I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle

Facebook, which is not fooled by Google's wolf in woolly open-source clothing, is healthily wary of Google. But Facebook comes armed with a killer social network of over 130 million users and an apps platform, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants his baby to carve its own path and see where it leads without Google.

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