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- Supernova: Navigating the personal infosphere
- One of this morning's opening sessions at Supernova started with a workshop on the "personal infosphere," which has something to do managing information overload. I wrote about the overload of social networking services yesterday--a lot of horsepower is being applied to solving the problem of dealing with filtering out noise...
- Blog posts 2006-06-21
- LinkedIn vs. Plaxo: Is LinkedIn winning?
- Are you using LinkedIn, Plaxo, Orkut, or one of the umpteen contact management or Six-Degrees of Kevin Bacon-like business card exchanges? If there's someone you need an introduction to through someone else you know, chances are pretty good that you know the right people to make that introduction happen. Provided...
- Blog posts 2005-09-06
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- Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud
- On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?
- Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?Comcast buys PlaxoI canceled my account.RE: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?Comcast is entirely out of touch with what it's customers want. For instance, a 1 year discount on an overpriced service doesn't attract anyone who's been paying cable...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?
- Comcast has acquired Plaxo in a move that aims to make the cable giant's interactive portfolio more social and potentially bring a little Web 2.0 to your set-top box. Financial terms weren't disclosed, but TechCrunch puts the deal at about $150 million to $170 million. Comcast has...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move
- In a move that surprises few people, Plaxo is being acquired. The surprise - at least for some - is that it is Comcast and not one of the usual suspects of Facebook or Google. Comcast is Plaxo's biggest partner and provides hosting for all Comcast email subscriber address books....
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!
- Pursuing a career in Information Technology comes with certain responsibilities and baggage -- among these are having to act as a personal, unpaid member of the Geek Squad whenever a friends and family computer is ill. Yesterday I got a phone call...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Google launches Friend Connect with mixed reviews
- Google announced last night that it will be launching Friend Connect -- a tool that website owners can use to give their site a more social feel. Don't worry if you have a website but you are not comfortable integrating with advanced APIs, integrating couldn't be easier. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- 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
- Official: Google's 'Friend Connect' brings social networking to the Long Tail
- In case you didn't think Google wanted to be a big player on the Social Web -- Orkut, Google Talk and shared items in Google Reader aside -- the search giant revealed an ambitious new strategy today: 'Friend Connect' is a platform designed to help the 'long tail' of sites...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Google is about to let you sync with your Outlook
- Google is about to let you sync with your OutlookThunderbird CompatibilityIf they have it for Mozilla also it will be good. Before I used to have a Calendar synchronization tool that cost $29, glad Google has got this fixed now.RE: Google is about to let you sync with your OutlookEsa...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- iPhone hardware wishlist
- iPhone hardware wishlistIf you copy comments..The first one, real GPS not the fake one like in N95, as far as I know (I've got one), it's got real GPS, like it contains a GPS chip etc. That the implementation is somewhat strange telephone needs to be open is all together...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Did Google buy Plaxo?
- Did Google buy Plaxo?Good FitI think it is brilliant. Plaxo has been around for some time and I am a user for keeping business contacts upto date. I dhave not been thrilled with the "me-too-ism" of adopting or being adopted a "social-network" idea - although I can see...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Did Google buy Plaxo?
- Rumor has it that Google agreed to purchase Plaxo for just under $200 million -- honestly though, I don't know why. If the deal actually happened, some people think it was probably to keep Plaxo assets from finding a new home at Facebook. I don't think that would...
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Google unleashes Social Graph API--indexes people connections
- Following on its OpenSocial APIs for building cross-social network applications, Google has created a Social Graph API that searches the Web for explicit public statements of connections between people. The Web crawler looks for XFN XHTML Friends Network and FOAF Friend of a Friend, which are standard formats used to...
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"
- As it stands, the Google-led OpenSocial has very little, if anything, to do with data portability. That's the view of Marc Canter, a long time advocate of open standards and data portability, and one in which I'm inclined to agree. It seems that almost everybody got a little carried away...
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Six Apart adds activity streams to its blog platform
- In the new age of open social networks, Six Apart is doing its part to create a hub that embraces the world of feeds outside its own servers. The company is shipping Action Streams, a free plug-in for Movable Type 4.1 that lets users aggregate, control, and share their...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Ribbit debuts Amphibian 'voiceware'
- At Demo 08 Ribbit will take the wraps off its consumer 'voiceware' platform, code-named Amphibian. The new service turns any physical phone into a virtual phone, creating a platform for a wide variety of voice-enabled applications. Currently in private beta and generally available in the second quarter...
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Business execs snub Facebook
- Business execs snub FacebookIf my kids use it....My kids use facebook so how serious can it be as business tool, not much as far as I'm concerned. I'm on linkedin and have about 170 connections. But I've yet to find it a useful tool either. All I see is a...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
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