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Google’s new Social Product: “Google Buzz”
Today, Google unleashed its latest step towards the Social Web- Google Buzz.
Launched earlier today, Buzz is essentially Twitter/Friendfeed Google Style. Those who use Google Reader and Google’s Real-Time Search often will easily find their way around it. Users can publish Status Updates, Pictures, Videos, and links real time to followers. Contacts that you email and More >
See what people are Tweeting about a page on Chrome with Twitter Reactions
Everyday, the web grows more and more connected. We post millions of links of Facebook and Twitter to our friends and followers everyday. Twitter Reactions, a Google Chrome extension, allows us to see what OTHERS are tweeting about whatever webpage you’re on. I’ve found that it comes in handy. Try it out!
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Google to unveil Social Features tomorrow
Google is set to become a lot more social.
In an event scheduled for 10 AM (Pacific time) tomorrow, Google will be unveiling new social features, either in the form of additions to current Google products or a new product altogether.
According to the Wall Street Journal, as well as other Tech blogs, Google is expected to More >
Google Books updates UI
When I logged into Google Books today, my jaw dropped.
I was quite surprised. Gone was Google Books’ outdated homepage. This is newer, more social, more usable, and much more relevant than the UI of yesterday.
As you know, Google Books is great for reading books online for free. Many books now are becoming more and more More >
Zaang Beta- Bringing Forums to Web 2.0
Zaang (beta) is a brand new service which brings discussion to the next level.
Released as a private beta earlier last week, this service reboots our perception of discussion to web 2.0. I received an invite code to preview the site last week. (Note: at the bottom of the post, we’ll be giving away free invite codes)
Basically, More >
10 Facebook Themes, How to Install Them, And is it Safe?
Ever want your Facebook page to look different after staring at the blue and white page for five days in a row? Well, there’s not an app for that, but you can install your own theme! (Instructions on how to install at bottom) Here are ten themes that we found quite interesting right away (lower). More >
WebCasting Software Reviews
As SimFlecks LIVE starts, I’ve been hit with the task of finding web casting software for the live broadcast. The ones I looked at and tested were WireCast, CamTwist, Quicktime Broadcaster, and Ustream. Now all of these had the one mandatory feature. The ability to broadcast live video strait to other peoples computers. But they are More >
Google to add Q&A service- “Guru” spotted
Updates below
Today, browsing the Google Services page, I discovered this gem:
“Guru.”
Even though the page it leads to is blank, this is huge. Google is (possibly) finally entering the Q&A industry.
This follows the relatively underreported news that Google has offered to buy Aarvark, an excellent and popular social Q&A web service, for ~$30 million.
Aardvark is a More >
Google loses this battle…
Bing has recently declared partnership with facebook and twitter pulls Bing to the top for real-time searches. Google has responded by quickly rolling out their own update to their search engine with their own real-time search, for a real-time web. This should be rolling out in the next few days.
Real-time searches “Begin indexing much of More >
Apple Officially Buys Lala’s Music Service
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Last Friday, December 4th, Apple confirmed to Reuters that they have purchased the popular music service.
Lala makes it possible to buy songs for 10 cents each, store them online, and then listen to the tunes as many times as they like through a browser on their Windows PC or Mac. The first More >
