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Jolicloud Me Groups All Your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram Photos and Videos

Jolicloud has gone through several transformations, from cloud-based operating system to a cloud platform. But it isn't done yet, it is now debuting a new product dubbed Jolicloud Me.If still a cloud service, it would have to be given the company's name, but it's a different approach to its previous on...

19 March 2012
16:31 GMT

Bing Asks Users to Link Their Online Profiles Together

People may be critical of Google's move to add a social component to search and the company may be moving too aggressively and too narrowly, focusing on Google+ alone. But everyone recognizes that search engines need a social component. Microsoft may be screaming its lungs out over Google's latest moves, ...

23 February 2012
09:54 GMT

Google Wants Social Sites to Share Analytics Data with It

Google is finally getting serious about social. And, for once in the last six months, it's not about Google+. Google is announcing that it plans to launch much better social integration tools for Google Analytics, enabling websites to know more not only about their visitors, but also about people engaging with t...

8 December 2011
07:21 GMT

33 Percent of Google+'ers Are Women

There's been a lot of speculation on the gender distribution of Google+. For a long time, well as long as it gets since Google+ is only a little over two weeks old, it was thought as a boys-only club and there have been a couple of rather popular memes about this going around. But that's changing, and f...

16 July 2011
05:11 GMT

Google Starts Rolling Out the +1 Button Internationally

Google's +1 button roll out is moving according to plan, presumably, and Google is now launching it for some of its international outfits, Google UK, France and so on. The company has also partnered with more publishers and websites to carry the +1 button in the countries it's now becoming available in."Tod...

28 June 2011
08:11 GMT

Google Trademarks Photovine, Hinting at Photo-Centric Social Network

Google's ambitions with the social web are not much of a secret. The company has been working on 'something' for many months now, but so far only a few small things have popped up, the most important being the +1 button. But there are signs that it is still working on something bigger, signs like a rec...

20 June 2011
09:41 GMT

Twitter Debuts Two Ways of Seeing Other People's Streams

Over the weekend, some started noticing a new Twitter feature which enables users to see what others see in their feeds. It's a bit voyeuristic, but it's a good way of filling a curiosity and perhaps of also discovering new people to follow. Interestingly enough, it's not exactly a new feature, Twitter...

30 May 2011
08:00 GMT

Bing Integrates Facebook Like Data to Counter Google +1 Button

Microsoft is finally taking advantage of the privileged position it has with Facebook and is starting to use data from the social network to improve and enhance search results. The new integration brings Facebook Like button data to the search page and also taps into your social graph for personalized results."Today,...

17 May 2011
04:30 GMT

More Rumors About Google's Social Efforts Get Pulses Racing

Google's social ambitions are getting a lot of attention lately, so much so that the company is now trying more than ever to quell speculation. A report yesterday indicated that Google was just about to launch Circles, a full-blown social service that's been in the works at the company, at the SXSW conferen...

14 March 2011
04:17 GMT

Google Profile Pages Get a Spring Freshening Up

Google has revealed that Profile pages have been revamped and now sport a brand new design as well as introduce several changes and new features. The new design fits in well with the Google aesthetic, it's minimalistic but elegant. There's a greater emphasis on photos, simple editing and some new sections."...

3 March 2011
07:47 GMT

Google Reader Becomes a Recommendation Engine

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

Google's Last Chance in the Social Web War, Buzz for Gmail

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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