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- Google Kicks Off Its Facebook Ground War
- Updated: Google on Monday outlined its Google Friend Connect, a service that promises to insert social features into any application and any site. Sound familiar? It is. MySpace has its friend connect service and Facebook has its version. Add it up and you have...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
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- Google Friend Connect, now more personalized
- (Cross-posted with the Social Web Blog ) On the subway, I bump elbows with a guy for 20 city blocks without exchanging a single word. Forty-five minutes later, I find the same guy at the local guitar shop, and we start to talk — turns out he plays...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Google Raises the Social Bar with New Friend Connect Feature
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Google GOOG is now making it easier for Websites to surface Friend Connect features with what it is calling the Social Bar. This is a toolbar that Websites can add to their homepage or any other page they wish, and then they can add...
- External links 2009-02-12
- It's Google vs. Facebook In Data-Portability Fight
- Amid the Facebook move to block Google’s Friend Connect, the search giant has responded. As expected, Google had a few issues with Facebook’s privacy assessment of Google Friend Connect. There’s a lot of debate on Techmeme about the issue and it’s a big one as all of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- To Serve Better Ads, Google's Social Platform Gets Nosier
- Facebook has been the winner when it comes to getting big publishers to adopt its social platform, Facebook Connect; most recently it inked a news and ad-sharing deal with HuffPo, but Facebook Connect has been serving as CNN’s go-to social platform for over a year now. That hasn’t stopped...
- External links 2009-11-04
- Google, MySpace and Facebook Make Internet Identity a Three-Horse Race
- Mark Hendrickson submits: Not an hour after Google announced the general availability of Friend Connect, Facebook is doing the same for its competing Facebook Connect service. Now any third party website that wants to pull personal data about visitors from Facebook - and send back activity reports to their...
- External links 2008-12-04
- Connect Brings JibJab 1.5 Million Facebook Users
- [Editor's note: This is a guest post by Gregg Spiridellis, CEO at JibJab Media. JibJab is a ten year-old company that offers customizable digital greeting cards and videos -- and it has been working hard to implement Facebook Connect, with some good results. Below, Spiridellis shares his perspective on his...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Google powers MySpaceID project
- Social networking giant MySpace is using Google’s Friend Connect platform to power a set of tools to promote its data portability project, henceforth known as MySpaceID. The project could allow the social network’s users to log-in to external sites using their MySpace identities, taking their friends lists and profile...
- Articles 2008-12-09
- Facebook Is No Friend of Power.com
- Power.com is a start-up based in Brazil that aims to be the portal through which people access all of their favorite social networking sites. Facebook would prefer that its members access it directly, thank you very much. On Wednesday, Facebook filed a complaint against Power.com in United States District Court...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Google Docs adds translation app to arsenal
- Google continues to move language translation into more and more of its products. On Thursday, it became a feature of Google Docs, letting anyone do an on-the-spot translation into one of 42 languages. The new feature, found in a settings menu, can automatically detect in which language the original document...
- News items 2009-08-28
- Facebook, Google and MySpace Compete for More Friends
- Michael Arrington submits: Monday’s the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story giving a broad overview of Connect as well as competing services from MySpace Data Availability and Google Friend Connect....
- External links 2008-12-01
- Congrats To 2008 Crunchies Winners!
- From TechCrunch: The second annual Crunchies are over, and 900 people are across the street at the after-party toasting the winners. For those of you who didn't attend or see it live on Ustream, the nominees, winners and runners up for each category are below. We'll have follow up coverage...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Previewing Google Friend Connect: Website Owners Can Make Any Site Social
- Easily insert social features to make "any app, any site, any friends" a reality
- Research articles 2008-05-12
- Which dots to connect?Police look for clues in the slaying of a controversial gay artist.(David Buller)(Brief Article)
- By all accounts, David Buller, a 50-year-old professor of Fine Arts at the University of Toronto since 1985, was a respected, well-liked individual. "He was a really, really nice guy, a real sweetheart. The most considerate, unassuming, un-egotistical guy you would ever meet," says Donald Lake,...
- Research articles 2001-02-19
- Which dots to connect?
- Police look for clues in the slaying of a controversial gay artist By all accounts, David Buller, a 50-year-old professor of Fine Arts at the University of Toronto since 1985, was a respected, well-liked individual. "He was a really, really nice guy, a real sweetheart....
- Research articles 2001-02-19
- iGoogle Gadgets Are Getting Social Smarts
- Erick Schonfeld submits: New social features are popping up in iGoogle gadgets, those apps you can add to your personalized Google GOOG homepage. For instance, the My Google Book Search Library gadget, which lets you search books and create a personal digital library, now asks people who...
- External links 2009-01-19
- Google Lost In Real-Time Space
- Here is a parable about Google that its executives seem to have forgotten: There once was a Web site so good that although all it ever did was send people away, they kept coming back, over and over and over again. Only to be sent away again. In fact,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Facebook + Friendfeed: Acquisition Of The Wrong Kind
- Facebook acquired Friendfeed today, lighting up the Twittersphere, where reactions ranged from giddiness to despair at the presumed loss of a favored service. The reasons for the acquisition are muddled (and short-sighted at best), making it a foolhardy acquisition for Facebook, destined to join Skype eBay, Blo.gs Yahoo and Friend...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Google Puts All of Your Personal Info in One Place
- Google has launched what it calls the Google Dashboard, which is a central place Google users can go to find their data for different Google products they use when signed into a Google account. It also provides direct links to control your personal settings."Over the past 11 years, Google has...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Facebook Chat may soon connect to iChat, GTalk, more...
- Well, with the latest Pew Internet and American Life Project finds gasp that people's use of cellphones and the internet, particularly social networks such as Facebook are actually good for helping them build wider social networks , it's clear that walled garden approaches to services...
- News items 2009-11-06
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