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May. 12, 2008 at 10:03am by Greg Sterling
Google Friend Connect Introduces Social Widgets For Site Owners
Contrary to some earlier reports, Google's new Friend Connect, launching today, is not focused on data portability or a direct answer to MySpace "Data Availability" or the new Facebook Connect. While there's a data portability dimension, it's focused on the flip side of the equation: site owners who want to...
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Feb. 1, 2008 at 2:29pm by Danny Sullivan
Mine The Web's Socially-Tagged Links: Google Social Graph API Launched
Did you know there's a way to tag links on pages to indicate social connections? I'd heard about this vaguely, but you can bet there's going to be much more public awareness and potential use, thanks to Google launching its new Google Social Graph API. Now available, the API...
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Jan. 31, 2008 at 12:13pm by Danny Sullivan
Google's Marissa Mayer On Social Search / Search 4.0
VentureBeat has a nice Q&A with Google's Marissa Mayer on how the search engine is considering using social data to improve its search results -- what I've described as "Search 4.0" as a generational jump in my Search 3.0 article from earlier this year. Some highlights below:...
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Dec. 30, 2007 at 10:46am by Danny Sullivan
Google The Stealth Social Network?
Google's plan to socialize its various applications continues. Google Operating System has spotted code in Gmail that may lead to a Facebook-style news feed of status updates from your Gmail contacts. More about this and Google's continued "stealth social network" moves below....
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Dec. 17, 2007 at 1:02pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Reader Gets Social With Friends Shared Items
Google's made a significant move toward trying to have a Facebook-like news feed and beef up its social networking aspirations by integrating Google Talk / Gmail contacts with Google Reader. I'd seen the discussion earlier, but after now experiencing it first-hand, it's kind of scary that it isn't more opt-in...
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Dec. 17, 2007 at 9:40am by Greg Sterling
Google Unifying And Putting More Emphasis On "Profiles"
Google Operating System discusses the integration of Google Profiles into most Google services and products and the unification of disparate profiles into a single master profile. Whether and how this might ultimately be integrated with Google's newly reinvigorated social network, Orkut, is unclear. Although they are much less extensive, Profiles...
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Dec. 12, 2007 at 1:53pm by Greg Sterling
Facebook Opens Platform, Bebo Adopts It
TechCrunch reports that social network Bebo launched its new Open Application Platform this morning in San Francisco. But the platform is an exact duplicate of Facebook's platform, based on Facebook opening up the code to third-party developers. (Here's the Bebo press release.) Bebo is part of OpenSocial, the competing Google...
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Nov. 14, 2007 at 9:23am by Greg Sterling
Inbox 2.0: Vision And Perhaps Confusion At Google And Yahoo
A much discussed blog posting this morning comes from Saul Hansell at the New York Times, who spoke to both Google and Yahoo about their plans to turn their email products into social networks, in a manner of speaking: "Inbox 2.0." The plans discussed in the post suggest some clever...
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Nov. 6, 2007 at 10:24am by Danny Sullivan
Google: As Open As It Wants To Be (i.e., When It's Convenient)
In two weeks, we've had two "open" initiatives from Google: OpenSocial, to free social networking data from behind the Facebook walled garden and the Open Handset Alliance, to free cell phones from a myriad of complicated mobile OS platforms and carriers who want to restrict features. I've seen some people...
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Nov. 1, 2007 at 4:42pm by Greg Sterling
MySpace, Others Join Google-Led OpenSocial
First reported by Silicon Alley Insider and then confirmed with additional detail by TechCrunch, Google has added more high-profile partners to its OpenSocial initiative. They are MySpace, Bebo, and SixApart, which now join LinkedIn, Plaxo, and Friendster, among several others, in the alliance or coalition....
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Oct. 31, 2007 at 12:33am by Danny Sullivan
OpenSocial: Led By Google, Social Networks Band To Take On Facebook
As expected, the much-discussed Google social play turns out to be an alliance with other companies to "open up" social networks and their data to developers. TechCrunch and the New York Times both have early news of an expected announcement tomorrow on how Google, along with partners like Ning,...
