Category Archives: search engines

Google Friend Connect

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Scott

Google Introduces Social Bar http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/02/12/google-introduces-social-bar Google Friend Connect http://www.google.com/friendconnect/ Blog example using Google Friend Connect http://blog.go2web20.net/ Xoopit adds Facebook data to Gmail http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02/hands-on-xoopit-pokes-gmail-adds-it-to-facebook.ars I’m not jumping on the bandwagon yet; however, I think Google Friend Connect shows good innovation. In … Continue reading →

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Location (Again)

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Scott

Did Google Just Kill All the Other Mobile Social Networks?http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/02/04/04readwriteweb-did_google_just_kill_all_the_other_mobile_social_.html Google Latitude: Ready to Tell Your Friends (and Google) Where You Are?http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/02/04/04readwriteweb-google_latitude_location_aware.html Google Maps Goes Socialhttp://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/02/04/google-maps-goes-social/?mod=rss_WSJBlog?mod= Tracking Friends the Google Wayhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB123371579418246547.html Privacy fears over Google trackerhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7872026.stm I still do plan … Continue reading →

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Internets: Division through location, langauge

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Scott

Japanese Social Media Prism http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/01/31/japanese-social-media-prism/ AP IMPACT: Fake 911 calls difficult to prevent http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100121162 Network Neutrality advocates promote the web as the largest source of free information and argue it must remain that way. Promoting network neutrality in 2007, now … Continue reading →

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Niche Net

Posted on December 19, 2008 by Scott

The BBC reported today on efforts to better search results by considering the demographics of the searcher. For example, if the searcher is of a certain ethnicity and searches for a keyword word, the results that other searchers of the … Continue reading →

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