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Google’s Marissa Mayer: Social search is the future
via VentureBeat by Doug Sherrets on January 31, 2008
At an event in August, Marissa Mayer, Google’s leading VP in search, said social search hasn’t shown much promise, but if it does, Google would be in a good position to incorporate it. I wrote about that here.Now, in an interview with VentureBeat (see Q&A below), she says she considers social search to be an essential part of the leading search engine in coming years.She hints Gmail may be...
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PicLens offers a new way to search YouTube
via VentureBeat by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble Oh, great, another way to waste time.Cooliris, a startup that’s been developing dynamic and immersive new ways to browse the web, continues rolling out new features for its PicLens browser plug-in. Most promising of the news features is the search capability for video site YouTube. When PicLens launched last June, we were already excited by its ability to create...
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Digg joins DataPortability: Opening up to other sites, looking to sell
via VentureBeat by MG Siegler on January 29, 2008
Today, social news site Digg announced it was joining the DataPortability Project, the latest in a string of big companies to join, including Facebook (our coverage), Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and others. The project is basically a workgroup, where engineers from these companies discuss ways to let a user on any of their respective sites export their own data, and share it with the other...
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Twitter is first on the scene for a major earthquake — but who cares about that, is it mainstream yet?
via VentureBeat by MG Siegler on May 12, 2008
Tonight, a lot of us who are regular users of the micro-messaging service Twitter witnessed something pretty amazing. A 7.8 magnitude struck China and the news unfolded before our eyes on Twitter. Before it was on CNN, before MSNBC, before the BBC, even before the USGS (The United States Geological Survey, which handles earthquake data) had the information, Twitter was on it. How? Its users.While...
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ShareThis, a button for sharing articles on other sites, says it is growing fast
via VentureBeat by Eric Eldon on January 23, 2008
ShareThis is a bookmarking service for social news sites and social networks that helps you easily share an item such as a blog post, on sites like Digg or Facebook.You click on the ShareThis button beneath a blog article, and the button gives you a pop-out window where you can choose which site to share the article with — a range of social news sites and social networks. You can also install...
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Mobile applications are either dead or ready to explode
via VentureBeat by MG Siegler on February 26, 2008
There’s a healthy debate going on right now about the direction mobile applications going forward. While the norm on mobile computing devices for a long time was native applications, the rise of Internet-enabled devices has brought with it access to web applications - and those web applications are increasing being specifically built for mobile usage.On one hand, former Palm executive Michael...
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Apple event on March 6th to reveal iPhone SDK
via VentureBeat by MG Siegler on February 27, 2008
Apple is holding an event on March 6th to unveil the iPhone software development kit (SDK). Invitations to the event at company headquarters starting going out this morning.The SDK is the platform which will allow 3rd party developers to create native applications on the iPhone.Apple has also promised to reveal details about some “exciting new enterprise features”, which CNET postulates could...
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So much for my time away from the computer — Google Reader for iPhone improves
via VentureBeat by MG Siegler on May 12, 2008
Two things about me: 1) I always have my nose buried in my iPhone. 2) I always have Google Reader open in my web browser at home. Putting those two together, you might have thought I was a heavy user of the Google Reader app for the iPhone, but I really wasn’t. I did like it a lot, but only in spurts. It simply never felt built for power usage. Today, that changes with a new beta version Google...
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HP acquires EDS to create a “super plumber” for data centers
via VentureBeat by Dean Takahashi on May 13, 2008
The services sector has proven to be one of the hottest in information technology. You need trained people to manage the ebb and flow of computing in a massive, air-conditioned data center that handles the life blood of a corporation such as its e-commerce transactions or internal business operations.IBM has been the primary beneficiary of the services boom, but now it will face more determined...
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CBS to buy CNET Networks for $1.8 billion
via VentureBeat by Dean Takahashi on May 15, 2008
In a marriage between old media and new, CBS has agreed to buy online news site CNET Networks for $1.8 billion in a deal that should end the recent struggle to control the board of CNET.The move comes after CNET’s management had come under attack by shareholders for not doing enough to increase its market value. CNET is one of the earliest movers to embrace an online only format, and is one of...
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