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Social NetworksAugust 6, 2010
Friday, August 06, 2010 1:53 PM/EST
Celebrating Google Wave, Other Past Google FailuresDespite the failure of Wave and other Web services, Google's success in search and now Android, which is shipping on some 200,000 phones today, is providing a nice one-two search-ad-and-mobile-ad punch to keep Google in the black for years. July 28, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 1:06 PM/EST
Google Piling Up Social Network Arsenal to Challenge FacebookThe Wall Street Journal reports that Google is in "talks with several makers of popular online games as it seeks to develop a broader social networking service that could compete with Facebook." What are Google's odds for success? July 14, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 1:23 PM/EST
Google Is for Pandas, Facebook Is for LobstersGoogle, with its search and other task specific, goal-oriented applications, fosters grazing of information. Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter and Quora are the lobster traps that catch millions of consumers and make them stay. Can Google succeed in social as a panda haven? March 17, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:46 PM/EST
Facebook Joins Google, Bing, Yahoo with Auto-Suggest SearchFacebook, which recently racked up a 10 percent month-over-month gain in searches for February, is rolling out an auto-suggest feature to its improving search engine. July 28, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:22 AM/EST
Yahoo Video Dumbs Down Home Page Innovation for Non-GeeksYahoos explain how they separated metadata from markup and used machine-learned models and the like to retool the page. I wish Google would create some of these interesting videos. People would have a field day with commercials involving programmers, some of whom are celebrities in the high-tech world. July 1, 2009
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:57 PM/EST
ClackPoint Enables Chat via Google Friend ConnectThe 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. June 25, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:29 PM/EST
Google Friend Connect Helps Friends Follow Your Digital FootprintsA 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? June 19, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009 6:48 PM/EST
Would You Opt In to Let Google and Facebook Shadow You Online?If the House does in fact pass legislation requiring Google, Facebook and others to plug these opt-in Easy Buttons into their end-user pages, would you opt in, allowing providers to keep tabs on you? Yes, no or maybe? Why? June 17, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:28 PM/EST
Is Opera Unite a Good Idea Done Badly for Google to Do Better with Wave?Open-source fan Chris Messina blasts Opera's new Unite platform, giving Google props for Google Wave. But we haven't seen Wave tested in the field, so it's unclear what we're going to get for a real-time collaboration platform. April 3, 2009
Friday, April 03, 2009 10:35 AM/EST
Twitter and Google in Ad DealThere actually is a deal in place between Google and Twitter, but it's not an acquisition (contrary to a report by Techcrunch). Google is selling marketers a service that streams their five most recent Tweets across the AdSense network. Intuit,... |
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