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FriendFeed: Ex-Googlers Create Social Network Experience Using Feeds
via ReadWriteWeb by Sean Ammirati on February 08, 2008
On the most recent episode of ReadWriteTalk, I sat down with Bret Taylor and Paul Buchheit of FriendFeed. Both have been successful 'intrapreneurs' inside of Google. Buchheit created GMail; while Taylor created Google Maps along with another one of the 4 FriendFeed founders, and then led the Google developer tools program. After leaving Google separately, they eventually started...
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Google Confirms Friend Connect
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 12, 2008
As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms:Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s...
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An Online Collection of Visualized Networks
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on February 26, 2008
VisualComplexity.com is a site that intends to be a unified resource space for the visualization of complex networks. Their main goal is to better understand the different types of visualization methods used across several different disciplines, including social networks and the World Wide Web.Why Visualizations?The VisualComplexity web site was created by Manuel Lima, an interaction designer,...
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Too Many Choices, Too Much Content
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 14, 2008
Sometimes it's just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers. Take a day off and you're behind. Take an hour off and you just missed 300 more blog posts. In addition to the everyday struggles of information...
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Google starts linking social networks
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on February 01, 2008
Let’s see. I’m on Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, Upcoming, Pownce, Plaxo, Yelp, MySpace, Flickr, Dopplr, and a few others.The problem? They don’t know about each other.Google, today, with its new Social Graph API, is trying to hook all of those together. Another problem? If you’re a developer and build a “foograph” your new application doesn’t have anyone on it. There’s nothing...
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Google Releases Social Graph API
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on February 01, 2008
Google today announced the release of a new API for graphing social net connections on the web at large. The Social Graph API is a way for developers of social applications to let users easily find data on their social connections across the open web. The information the API returns can be useful in helping users locate and add their friends when starting up at a new social application.It was...
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Yahoo’s oneConnect: One Mobile App to Rule Them All
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on February 12, 2008
Today at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, Yahoo announced a mobile app called oneConnect that will be available in the second quarter as part of the upcoming release of Yahoo Go 3.0. I have not seen a demo of this myself, but it sounds like a much-needed integration of messaging and social apps. OneConnect will pull together contacts from your mobile phone, Yahoo address book, and social...
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OpenSocial or OpenGadget?
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on January 31, 2008
Steve O'Hear (who edits our digital lifestyle blog last100) has an interesting post on his ZDNet blog that questions whether Google's OpenSocial initiative is at all about data portability, or if in fact it really just about widget standardization. O'Hear quotes heavily from a recent article by Marc Canter, who is a strong advocate for open standards and data portability, that ran on...
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Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 09, 2008
I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots). Please add your own tips and approaches in the comments.Niniane Wang, Google: «I like the time-honored tradition of responding to emails or archiving them as soon as I...
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