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Google is not done with killing off unneeded products. With new CEO Larry Page in charge, Google has started focusing on the big products that make the most difference. A lot of side projects, experimental ones, ones that not many people use have been shut down or merged into existing products.Google spends resources... |
15 October 2011
02:41 GMT |
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It's been a couple of weeks since Google+ launched and, despite the limited availability, it seems that it has already gotten millions of users, this while struggling to keep people out, for most of that time.
There's no official hard number yet, it may be too early anyway, but Google's former CEO E... |
11 July 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Google is still feeling the fallout from the failed Buzz launch. The privacy issues that arose after Buzz was pushed on Gmail users gave Google a lot of headaches, but it also got it a federal investigation. That investigation is now over as Google and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have reached an agreement.T... |
30 March 2011
12:10 GMT |
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If you're a Gmail user in the US, or use the English version of the email service, you've probably received a message from Google informing you on a Google Buzz settlement. The agreement had been reached a couple of months ago, but the company was required to inform all US users which were all part of the c... |
3 November 2010
05:00 GMT |
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Google Buzz hasn't proven the Facebook killer many were quick to label it before launch. But the company is sticking with it and it may be giving it even more screen space inside Gmail, in the right sidebar, as some testers have found.Google is apparently experimenting with integrating Google Buzz notifications ... |
3 October 2010
12:02 GMT |
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Google Buzz had already been integrated with Picasa, but now Google has added a small but important feature, the possibility to post private Picasa albums to Buzz. Google Buzz may have had a rough start, but Google is not giving up on it anytime soon. In fact, it has been working on making it better and integrating i... |
14 September 2010
06:15 GMT |
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We may never know how much Google Buzz's failed launch ended costing the company, in terms of potential revenue, but we known exactly what it took to settle a lawsuit filed against it on the matter, $8.5 million.The company has now ended a lawsuit surrounding the Google Buzz privacy fiasco. $8.5 million is nothi... |
4 September 2010
04:56 GMT |
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Twitter has been adding several ‘follow suggestion’ features and reactions have been mostly good. Google is now doing the same with suggestions for Buzz, enabling users to start following people who may be of interest to them. Appropriately, Google made the announcement on its Buzz Team feed. The feature ... |
18 August 2010
05:31 GMT |
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Google Buzz hasn’t proven the success Google would have liked, but poor initial response is not reason enough to give up. The company has been building on top of the service since it launched and has now opened up the full Google Buzz firehose for developers who will have complete access to all the content gene... |
20 July 2010
07:09 GMT |
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Android phone users out there have now another appealing software solution to enjoy, the 1.4 release of Seesmic for Android. Available for download from the Android Market, the new version of the mobile application comes with a series of interesting new features, including support for Google Buzz. This is one of the... |
15 July 2010
03:08 GMT |
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Google introduced Social Search earlier this year as a way of providing you with more relevant search results based on your social graph. Content from your friends or the people you follow show up in search results for various queries as an alternative to the search engine-ranked ones. Now Google is pulling in more s... |
30 June 2010
03:45 GMT |
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The big rumor over the weekend in the web world has been Google Me, a supposed revamp of Google Profiles which would turn the product into a Facebook competitor. Rumors are common in the web business world and they vary from the ludicrous to the rock solid, but most of them don’t come from the CEOs of high prof... |
28 June 2010
05:27 GMT |
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One of the nice things in Gmail is the integrated preview, which enables users to watch YouTube videos, view Flickr images, and so on. This small feature can end up saving them a lot of time, little by little. Gmail is now introducing a new preview tool, which enables one to view an address on Google Maps right insid... |
8 June 2010
04:09 GMT |
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Google Buzz for mobile, the solution brought into the wild back in February, is now available for a wider range of mobile phone users out there. Following the initial availability on handsets running under Google's Android 2.0 platform (or higher) and iPhone, the tool can now be accessed from additional devices... |
28 May 2010
01:23 GMT |
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Google Buzz certainly made a splash when it came out, but it wasn’t the kind of attention Google was looking for. The company’s latest crack at the social web proved to be a privacy nightmare and subsequent fixes and changes still haven’t erased those first memories. But Google is in it for the long... |
20 May 2010
10:57 GMT |
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Google has recently announced that Google Buzz has become available for the desktop version of Google Maps, after having received numerous user requests. This service was initially launched for mobile devices only, allowing people to add notes to a certain location displayed on Google Maps, with the sole purpose to p... |
23 April 2010
01:54 GMT |
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A credible report from content analytics network PostRank highlights that Internet bots are posting around 89% of all Google Buzz's content. The percentage is overwhelming, but more curious is how it falls around on categories.From all the content automatically posted in Google Buzz, Twitter amasses for 62.57%, ... |
21 April 2010
09:45 GMT |
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Google has been taking a lot of heat lately over its privacy practices, to be expected for a company its size. And it’s not about to get any easier for the giant tech company, privacy representatives from ten countries have now sent a joint letter to Google asking it to step up its privacy practices. The cases ... |
20 April 2010
11:56 GMT |
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Now that the Google Buzz hype and controversy have died down, it’s probably the best time to find out if it has what it takes to become a popular social web product. It would be Google’s first if it did. Any social web service, especially one focused on sharing as much as Buzz, needs to make it easy for s... |
14 April 2010
04:57 GMT |
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Google offers quite a solid experience on the mobile front, at least when it comes to email. Gmail for mobile makes ample use of HTML5 to provide one with the best email experience on such a small screen. The mobile site was recently adapted for the Apple iPad and now it's getting a new feature, which regular Gm... |
7 April 2010
09:17 GMT |
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Google launched Buzz with a good helping of hype, hope and good faith, but what followed wasn't exactly what the company had in mind. A couple of rushed decisions made Google Buzz a privacy nightmare and most of the harm had been done by the time developers scrambled to fix the issues and make the necessary chan... |
6 April 2010
10:37 GMT |
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One of the latest services Google has released for the users of an Android-based mobile phone is Google Buzz for mobile, a solution announced officially in early February, and which has just been enhanced through the release of a Google Buzz widget for Android. According to the development team, the new release is t... |
19 March 2010
07:04 GMT |
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Google has been in damage-control mode ever since Buzz was launched and, especially the first week was hell for the developers. Things have quieted down a bit, but there are plenty to be fixed in Google Buzz, something they admit to themselves, so, now, we have a new wave of updates that should calm some of the remai... |
15 March 2010
06:33 GMT |
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Google Buzz's launch is mostly viewed as a failure, despite the service apparently having several million users, largely due to the Gmail integration. But Google is putting it behind and is still working on fixing the flaws the rushed launch exposed. At the same time, it's also working on expanding the serv... |
9 March 2010
06:11 GMT |
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Google released a few weeks ago a new solution for users of iPhone and Android-based mobile phones, namely Google Buzz for mobile, and now the company has delivered a series of tips for the owners of such devices so as to offer them the possibility to get the most out of the Google Buzz web app. According to the com... |
4 March 2010
06:11 GMT |
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The social web is thriving and stabilizing, becoming a powerful force online. But, at this stage, even though there are plenty of social components, sites and services, everything is pretty fragmented with the conversations walled off in various places. Stuff on Facebook stays on Facebook, stuff on Twitter stays on T... |
2 March 2010
10:16 GMT |
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Google Buzz has been making the headlines for the past couple of weeks but it's certainly not what Google had in mind. There was a lot of focus on the privacy issues that were exposed, and rightfully so, but less on the actual product. Which, even though half-baked when released as it was soon apparent, does hav... |
22 February 2010
09:04 GMT |
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Google made a big social move with Buzz last week, though it probably could have gone a little smoother, but it's not focusing all of its efforts on just one product. It has been trying to stitch on all manners of social features to its existing products, with varying degrees of success, and now Google Reader is... |
19 February 2010
06:57 GMT |
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Google Buzz has certainly stood in the center of attention since it launched less than a week ago and most of the time, not for the best of reasons. Still, Google has managed to keep things under control thanks, in part, to an ad-hoc "war room" created to handle the issues and problems that have become clear now tha... |
16 February 2010
06:12 GMT |
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Google Buzz hasn't seen the smoothest of launches, but the company isn't leaving anything to chance and has now made some significant changes to the service for the second time in four days. The changes address some of the biggest problems people had with Buzz, the privacy concerns and better control over ... |
15 February 2010
03:22 GMT |
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People are definitely buzzing about Google Buzz though it's probably not what Google had in mind when it introduced its latest social product. Even as the service gets more and more users, driven by curiosity and likely by the fact that it shows up in their Gmail accounts, its flaws are becoming increasingly app... |
13 February 2010
04:44 GMT |
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Google Buzz has been out just a couple of days now and it's off to a good start clearly helped by its integration with Gmail. The company says millions of people have checked out Buzz already and have created over 9 million posts or comments. But there have been some privacy concerns too, rightly so it would se... |
12 February 2010
03:45 GMT |
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Google definitely generated some buzz with Buzz though most people are optimistic but cautious about the company's latest social product. Worse yet, some of the buzz is downright negative, but considering who it's coming from, it's not much of a surprise. Not long after Google announced its latest soc... |
10 February 2010
10:10 GMT |
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One of the latest novelties in the smartphone applications space is represented by the latest flavor of Google Maps for mobile, which reached version 4.0 now. It seems that not only users of an Android-based handset can enjoy the new iteration of the application, but iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile users can enjo... |
10 February 2010
04:13 GMT |
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Google has recently announced a new solution available now for smartphone users out there, which sports integration with Gmail inbox and offers users the possibility to easily start rich conversations on things of interest, called Google Buzz. According to the company, the new product is aimed at enabling users to s... |
10 February 2010
02:44 GMT |
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Google hasn't had much luck with the social web. Somehow, its approach so far has failed to provide any meaningful products. But social is the future, at least that's how it looks right now, and, with Facebook becoming stronger every day, Google is worried. After so many misses, it now hopes to score a hit,... |
9 February 2010
15:08 GMT |
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