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Google Hotpot: Local Recommendations from Friends

Google launched a new service called Hotpot that promises to improve local search results using recommendations from your friends. “With Hotpot, we’re making local search results for places on Google more personal, relevant and trustworthy,” explains G… Continua a leggere

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Google and the Value of Social Networking (Part 2)

New York Times has another article about Google’s efforts to create successful social services. A former Google employee confirms what Aaron Iba and Peter Norvig have previously said: Google didn’t understand the value of social networking.There is som… Continua a leggere

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Google Me: a Social Upgrade, Not a New Service

Eric Schmidt said at the Google Zeitgeist conference that Google will add social features to the existing services, but it won’t launch a standalone product to compete with Facebook.”We’re trying to take Google’s core products and add a social componen… Continua a leggere

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Google Buys SocialDeck

Google acquired yet another social gaming company: SocialDeck. The start-up had an interesting idea: creating a platform for playing games on any device. “SocialDeck was founded in 2008 with the vision of enabling ‘anywhere, anytime, anyone’ gaming. Th… Continua a leggere

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Google Buzz API adds Track and some improvements

Let’s say you’re really interested in coffee and tea and would like to know every time someone talks about them. You’ve been able to do that for the web with Google Alerts. Now you will be able to do the same thing for Google Buzz with our latest fea… Continua a leggere

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Google Buzz API adds Track and some improvements

Let’s say you’re really interested in coffee and tea and would like to know every time someone talks about them. You’ve been able to do that for the web with Google Alerts. Now you will be able to do the same thing for Google Buzz with our latest fea… Continua a leggere

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Orkut Lets You Communicate with Groups of Friends

Orkut, Google’s social network that has a lot of users in Brazil and India, has received a major update. Groups of friends are more visible and you can send messages to the members of a group directly from Orkut’s homepage. Orkut also updated search re… Continua a leggere

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New Google Buzz API features, including a garden hose

It’s been less than a month since our last launch, but we couldn’t sit still so today we’re announcing three new features. We think these will help developers create deeper, more engaging user experiences.First, we wanted to make the firehose exp… Continua a leggere

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