Mar 25
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Google, MySpace and Yahoo Agree to Form OpenSocial Foundation

Today Google, Yahoo and MySpace announced an agreement to form the OpenSocial Foundation to help make sure that OpenSocial is an “open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web.” The OpenSocial Foundation is an independent non-profit organization, and is formed to provide guidelines around documentation, intellectual property, technology and other types […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Feb 25
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Google Provides a Little Insight on Why They are Successful

Hal Varian, Chief Economist, posted today on Google’s blog a little information on why Google has been so successful. The reason for this post is because of a question he read from a reader at the Freakonomics blog on one of his quest posts. The question read:
“How can we explain the fairly […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Feb 04
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ManagedQ.com: New Search Engine Application with Slick User Interface

Today ManagedQ opened up their search engine application, which features a nice user interface (UI) with snapshots, instead of the usual text based search engines, to show your search results. With every search you will also get executive summaries, which will include information from your results on the most popular people, places and things.
According […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Feb 04
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Google’s Statement on Microsoft-Yahoo! Acquisition was Quickly Followed by Microsoft

Yesterday Google finally responded to Microsoft’s proposal for Yahoo!, saying that they believe this acquisition would not be good for the future of the internet. The statement, which was posted on Google’s blog by Senior Vice President David Drummond, said this:
The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible. […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Feb 01
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Google Launches Social Graph API to Show Connections Between People

The internet is full of linked pages that consist of not only documents, but also people. What if instead of searching the web for connections between documents, you wanted to see what connections you have with other people on the web? Well, that is what Google’s new Social Graph API is designed to […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Jan 25
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YouTube Adds New Features to Mobile Phones

According to Google owned YouTube, mobile users can now benefit from their largest offering of available videos, and will also be able to personalize their experience with new features.  Right now the YouTube for Mobile, http://m.youtube.com, service offers users over ten million videos, but does require that the user’s phone has 3G access and must […]

Author: Jonathon Walden