SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: OpenSocial
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 15, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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 and creative thinking about how […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 13, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 9, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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 writing about open as the new black, with Google showing its […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 5, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google’s Android Arrives: Not Gphone But An Open Source Mobile Phone Platform
After literally years of anticipation, rumor, and increasingly aggressive speculation about a Google Phone, Google has formally announced that the Gphone cometh — sort of. Today, the company has gone public with news of an open source mobile operating system called "Android," named after the company Google acquired in 2005. Backing Android is the Open […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 2, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 1, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Rumors of Impending Facebook Music
Facebook already has taken on LinkedIn, as the past-college crowd has started using it for professional networking, and starting next week, Facebook may take on MySpace’s hold on the music scene. Rumors abound that Facebook Music will be announced at ad:tech in NY next week. Word is that Facebook is in discussions with major music […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 31, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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, Linked In, Friendster, and others, will […]