Google: OpenSocial
How Facebook Enables The Google Social “Scraping” It’s Upset About
I wrote a very long examination of the issues that Facebook employed a PR firm to publicize, about how Facebook feels Google may be violating...
Examining Facebook’s “Smear Campaign” Concerns About Google Social Circles
I read the news today, oh boy. The Facebook army had just declared a war. Well, a smear campaign against Google. For the record, Facebook denies...
Angstro Buy, Shopping, Gaming Investments Point To Multi-Pronged Google Social Strategy
Last week Google acquired Angstro. The site has been described as a way to discover and organize information about individuals across various...
Hoping To Improve People Search, Google Launches “Profile Results”
Ever searched for yourself on Google and come away dissatisfied, especially if someone else you share a name with seems to dominate the results?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...