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- Microsoft's Odd MSN Groups Giveaway
- Jason Kincaid submits: We’ve received confirmation that Microsoft MSFT is handing over the reins to its MSN Groups property to the social network Multiply. Microsoft is planning to release a new service called Windows Live Groups in November, and apparently doesn’t want to compete with itself. Oddly enough, Microsoft...
- External links 2008-10-16
- Amazon's New WindowShop: Not Yet a Game Changer
- Jason Kincaid submits: Today Amazon AMZN has launched a new storefront called WindowShop, which presents some of the store’s newest and most popular movies, books, and video games in a way that makes browsing the online megastore actually fun. Each product is displayed as a tile on...
- External links 2008-10-27
- Google's Latest Search Expansion
- Jason Kincaid submits: Google has announced that it will now begin including scanned documents in its search results - a feat that requires an immense amount of processing power and advanced image recognition technology. Unlike standard text documents, scanned files don’t contain any text data that Google’s spiders can...
- External links 2008-10-30
- Microsoft: Live Search Cashback Ad Biz Growing
- Jason Kincaid submits: Microsoft MSFT has released the latest set of data for its controversial Live Search Cashback program, which offers users monetary incentives to click through and buy goods from the ads they’re shown. The results? Things seem to be looking good from a ROI perspective, as users...
- External links 2008-11-13
- Google Gets New Favicon
- Jason Kincaid submits: Generally when a site changes its favicon the tiny image that typically appears next to the URL in your browser nobody really notices or cares. Unless you’re Google GOOG. by Jason Kincaid
- External links 2009-01-11
- Are We Killing the Planet With Google Searches?
- Jason Kincaid submits: Right now the top stories on Techmeme revolve around a new piece in The Times of London that focuses on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches. In it, physicist Alex Wissner-Gross a star MIT graduate who is now at Harvard posits that a...
- External links 2009-01-12
- The Times Made Up That Stuff About Google and the Tea Kettles
- Jason Kincaid submits: Monday an article in The Times of London set the web abuzz over new findings that every Google GOOG search contributed 7 grams of CO2 to the atmosphere - half the amount produced when heating a tea kettle (heaven forbid!). I criticized the article...
- External links 2009-01-13
- Google Adds Transit Layer to Maps
- Jason Kincaid submits: Wednesday Google GOOG added a new feature to its extremely useful Maps service, allowing users to quickly view the layout of public transportation systems in more than 50 cities. While Google’s Transit site has offered automatic trip-planning for a number of areas for some time, the...
- External links 2009-01-14
- In the Wake of Layoffs, Google Axes Some Apps
- Jason Kincaid submits: At Google GOOG, when it rains, it pours. In the wake of announcing its first round of layoffs Wednesday afternoon, Google has released several blog posts detailing the upcoming shutdown of a number of services compiled here by Danny Sullivan. Included among the...
- External links 2009-01-15
- Welcome TweetNews, A Fusion of Yahoo News and Twitter
- Jason Kincaid submits: Vik Singh of Yahoo’s BOSS team has just launched a new search engine called TweetNews that mashes up Yahoo News stories with some of the hottest topics on Twitter. The result is a news engine that is significantly more timely than common news aggregators...
- External links 2009-01-16
- NYC Teams with Google to Create Visitor Web Portal
- Jason Kincaid submits: New York City has just launched a revamped webportal at NYCgo, which now offers an extensive database of events, restaurants, hotels, and other points of interest. All of these are tied into the Google GOOG Maps API, making it easier for visitors to quickly...
- External links 2009-01-21
- TicketMaster / LiveNation Merger: Smaller Forces Raising Funds to Counter the Giant
- Jason Kincaid submits: With the proposed $2.5 billion merger between TicketMaster TKTM and Live Nation LYV looming large, many venue owners and promoters are up in arms, deeming the deal anti-competitive and monopolistic (they may be right - the deal is being examined for possible anti-trust violations). Now...
- External links 2009-02-21
- Google: Upgraded App Engine Offers Pricing Beyond Quotas
- Jason Kincaid submits: Google GOOG has released a new upgrade for its popular App Engine service that allows developers to pay to extend their application’s resource quotas beyond those that have historically been offered by the free service. According to Google this has been the platform’s most...
- External links 2009-02-25
- MySpace Moves Toward Full-Fledged Webmail
- Jason Kincaid submits: Last month we reported that MySpace was planning to launch a webmail service - a move that could instantly make it one of the web’s largest Email providers provided a substantial portion of its users took advantage of the feature. Today we’ve received a...
- External links 2009-02-25
- Google Responds to ?Gfail? Outage with Apps Status Dashboard
- Jason Kincaid submits: In response to its extended Gmail outage Tuesday, Google GOOG has just launched the Google Apps Status Dashboard. The dashboard offers an at-a-glance look at the system health of most popular Google services, including Gmail, Google Calendar, and the company’s suite of web-based document editors. Google...
- External links 2009-02-26
- Google Health: Lets You Share Your Medical History
- Jason Kincaid submits: After months of rumors, Google Health finally launched last May, promising to store our medical records in a secure way that is more accessible, easier to understand, and useful than traditional paper records. Since then we haven’t heard too much about the service, which...
- External links 2009-03-05
- Careless in the Cloud: Google Accidentally Shares Some Docs
- Jason Kincaid submits: In a privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services, Google GOOG has sent a notice to a number of users of its Document and Spreadsheets products stating that it may have inadvertently shared some of their documents with contacts...
- External links 2009-03-08
- MySpace Music: Quiet, Gradual Upgrade Adds Up
- Jason Kincaid submits: Over the last few weeks MySpace Music has quietly rolled out a number of new features that should make the service significantly more appealing to consumers. While MySpace Music kicked off to an fairly impressive start when it launched last September, seeing a huge...
- External links 2009-03-12
- Google Reader: Launches New Feature Allowing 'Friends' to Discuss Stories
- Jason Kincaid submits: It looks like Facebook isn’t the only site to draw inspiration from FriendFeed. Google Reader has just launched a new feature that gives users the ability to comment on items that have been shared by their friends, allowing them to hold conversations focusing on...
- External links 2009-03-12
- MySpace Launches New 'Events' Page: Trying to Catch Up to Facebook
- Jason Kincaid submits: MySpace’s Events page hasn’t really seen a major upgrade for years - the site looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2005, and now lags behind Evite and the current leader Facebook by a wide margin. Today, it looks like that’s about to change....
- External links 2009-03-13
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