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YouTube And Google
YouTube has always been known for its, shall we say, vocal community. But until now, the only way users had to respond...
Google Buzz API
Since Google Buzz was first released, there's been one major feature that's been noticeably missing: an API. Soon after...
Mobile Gmail & Buzz
Even though Google's Buzz has drawn criticism for privacy issues, and has been deemed an overall frustrating...
Microsoft & Html5
Did we mention that 2010 would be a big year for HTML5? Apple and Google are pushing it big time, and now so is...
Chrome & Firefox
It was only December when Google officially launched extensions for its Chrome browser. Almost immediately,...
Google Flash Apple
There's a very interesting rumor circulating around out there right now. Apparently, Google is about to announce...
Opera & Fastmail
The Norwegian software company has yet to make any announcements of its own, but Opera has acquired email...
Skype & Websites
When you put $10 into your Skype account for those SkypeOut calls to regular phones, you expect that money to be there...
FB's Titan Webmail
Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product...
Google Web Alerts
Google is making a few changes with web alerts this week. The search giant is retiring web alerts and replacing it...
Yahoo Updates
Yahoo will soon be changing the way they handle status updates and social aggregation to make it easier for users to...
Opera 10.50
Opera Software today released Opera 10.50, which it touts as "the fastest Web browser thus-far produced for...
Chrome For Mac & Linux
It was almost exactly one year ago that Google released the first dev build of Chrome for Mac and Linux. At the time, even...
Google News & FB
Google News is testing out a new design, as I reported earlier this month. It includes trending topics on the left...
Status Updates Yahoo
Despite a lot of attempts over the years, Yahoo's embrace of social feeds has been slow and painful. Yahoo doesn't want...
Real Time Twitter
Many believe the greatest potential of Twitter lies in its ability to perform real-time searches of various keywords...
Chrome OS & Flash
Earlier today, Adobe and Google announced a partnership that integrates Flash right into future builds of...
Chrome Os Progress
A report today on VentureBeat says that Acer will unveil the first Chrome OS devices in two weeks. While that...
Conformance Test
Back in June, Google launched Sputnik, a suite of tools that runs over 5,000 tests to check a web browser's JavaScript...
Zoho & Google
Zoho, a web-based productivity suite that was called a "fake Office" by a Microsoft VP, is announcing a significant...
Google Wave
Remember Google Wave? No, not Google Buzz - Wave, that other social information pump that Google launched last...
Flash Player & Chrome
The rumors were true: Adobe and Google are tightening their partnership, seemingly both warily eying Apple...
Google Latitude Api
Google Latitude has 3 million active users, but you wouldn't know it by the amount of buzz they get in the location...
Microsoft WebsiteSpark
Moments ago Microsoft launched WebsiteSpark, a new program to provide web developers and designers free copies...
Twitter & Nifty Features
Twitter appears to be on the verge of some big changes to its website if a tweet that Twitter engineer Alex Payne...
Apple Chrome Bugs
Sure, Apple and Google are at war, but that doesn't mean they can't help one another out from time to time. Especially...
CloudMade's WikiSurges
Many people describe CloudMade's OpenStreetMap project as "Wikipedia for maps," and they aren't far...
Opera Geolocation
Fresh off the heels of the release of Safari 5, Norwegian software company Opera is today launching version 10.60...
Future of Web Content
The recent introduction of the new Apple iPad has stirred the discussion over the future of web content and application...
Desktop Notifications
Google Chrome has been my primary browser for a few months now. And since it became fully stable, it's the only...
Twitter & Geolocation
When I wrote that location would be this year's Twitter at SXSW, I also meant that Twitter's geolocation would be this...
Chrome Frame Beta
Back in September of last year, Google unveiled an early look at an interesting (and rather hilarious) new project: Chrome...
Google Voice App
When Google acquired Gizmo5, a Skype competitor, in November Google Voice users rejoiced - presumably...
Google Expands Cloud
When you think of developer-focused web computing services, the first thing that probably comes to mind is...
Twitter Annotations
Twitter Annotations are the next big feature a lot of people are excited about. With them, both users and clients...
Yahoo Google Buzz
Google officially unveiled Buzz, their major step into social statuses through Gmail today at an event held at 10 AM...
Realtime Search
Realtime search has come a long way from just a year ago when the only option really was Twitter's own search...
Cloud Computing
Consumers have readily embraced the Cloud in the form of services like Facebook, YouTube and Gmail, but businesses...
Google Docs
Slowly but surely, Google keeps trying to chip away at Microsoft's core Office productivity suite with Google...
MS Social Connector
In November 2009, when Microsoft announced the release of the public beta of Microsoft Office 2010, the company...
Google's Printer Support
Google's Chrome OS is due to come out some time this year, and there are still plenty of questions about how people...
Technologies & 2010
Now that the aughts are behind us, we can start the new decade with a bang. So many new technologies are ready to make a big...
Plug-In For Skype
ViVu, an online video conferencing platform, has launched an easy to use plug-in that enables multi-user video...
YouTube & HTML5
Up until now, talk around HTML5 has largely focused on its promise, without many major sites actually implementing...
Google App Engine
Our live coverage of the Google App Engine launch event is here (Update: we've built and launched a test...
Twitter Ad Platform
Earlier this evening, we broke the news that Twitter was about to launch its new ad platform. The news has just been...
Google & Apple Webkit
Today, the blog Chromium Notes, which is written by a developer who works on the open source project (that Google Chrome...
Googleapps & Microsoft
There's no question that Google is setting its sights on taking some of Microsoft's marketshare in the productivity suite...
Twitter Ecosystem
The Realtime Web is a hard thing to measure because it doesn't exist only on traditional Web pages. It also exists in...
Open Database Places
With last week's declaration by Twitter that it intends to start identifying places based on the coordinates...
Silverlight & Web
Today at Mix07 Microsoft made a number of major announcements, mostly around the recently-released Silverlight...
Google Calendar Down
Google wants us to move all of our data to the cloud. And yet, they keep having issues where a service that many people...
Google Kills
Last night, Google decided to temporarily abandon the principles behind its famously spartan homepage in favor...
Chrome Mac Bookmarks
For the past several weeks I've only used one web browser: Google Chrome for Mac. Sure, it's still in beta, but...
Youtube Live Stream
YouTube has been dabbling with its own live streams for almost two years now. It's live streamed presidential...
Google Latitude
There are a lot of people actively using Google Latitude - 3 million, in fact. But maybe "active" isn't really a good...
Google Buzz Tweets
Yesterday, I moderated a panel at TiEcon featuring the heads of product for Google, Twitter, and Facebook...
Google & IE6
This has not been the greatest start to the year for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. Days after...
Google Background
few days ago Google got slightly more Bing-ified when it started allowing users to customize their backgrounds...
Hotmail DitchesTaglines
When Hotmail launched in 1996 it grew fast. Very fast. It was one of the first free webmail providers, and they had...
TweetyMail
To be an interesting third-party Twitter client these days you have to do something that really sets yourself apart. After...
Google Analytics
Some people don't like the idea of Google having any data about them. Unfortunately, if you visit a site tracked...
Twitter 2 Avoid TweetUp
Twitter just put up a blog post talking up its platform approach and long-term strategy. In that same post, however, the...
Zoho & Facebook
Online productivity suite Zoho has been open to allowing users to use their Google, Google Apps and Yahoo accounts...
Aol Armstrong Hustling
AOL had a rough quarter. Total revenues dropped 23 percent, and even the advertising part (you know, AOL's future) was...
Garden Hosts Drupal
Open source content management system Drupal is increasingly being used by organizations,...
Google Reader
Google launched a new service today in from its Labs called Google Reader Play. It is a more visual way to browse...
Advertising Publishers
Last year, Yahoo still dominated display advertising on the Web in terms of sheer number of ad impressions on its...
Web Content
At the end of last May, Yahoo released an experimental version of Placemaker, a "geo-enrichment"...
Facebook Apps
Big changes are coming to Facebook Platform. Today, Facebook is granting developers on Platform the ability to...
Google Buzz Rebuzz
No matter the social service, a common key feature is the ability to reshare something. Facebook has "Share,"...
Twitter Featuredusers
Well, this is interesting. As you probably know, Twitter yesterday made some changes to its Terms & Conditions, effectively...
Chrome & Extensions
PC users, rejoice, for Google has just announced that there's a fresh, stable release of Google Chrome for Windows,...
Foursquare Buttons
One surefire way to know that a service is doing well is when you see their buttons start appearing all over the web. We've...
Google Calendar
Google Calendar may not be the sexiest product Google offers, but, as with Gmail, there are plenty of people who use it...
Foursquare Places
As we reported over the weekend, Facebook is gearing up to launch a new "Places" tab on (at least) the mobile version...
Checkin
Back in March, I wrote about the problem of check-in fatigue. That is, with so many location-based check-in...
MS Spindex Review
Earlier this week during a keynote presentation at Web 2.0, Lili Cheng, head of Microsoft's Future Social...
Google & Facebook
Google has just announced via tweet that it's integrating Facebook Page updates into its real-time search...
Yahoo Semantic Web
Yahoo's embrace of all things open continues today - expect an announcement in an hour or so that...
