 | | Google launches Buzz, a social network in Gmail | | Google is determined not to be left behind by the social-media revolution. The company wants to take what it does best--organizing Web content by relevancy--and apply it to social media, perhaps the most disorganized segment of the Web. Google Buzz is its most ambitious attempt to do just that, marrying the Gmail Web interface with status updates and media-sharing technology in an attempt to convince the social media addicts of the world to spend more time on Google's sites than on competitors like Facebook or Twitter--generating valuable data in the process. Google is attempting to do this by taking Gmail, one of its more popular products, and integrating Buzz directly into the Gmail interface. Users can link their Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, and Google Reader accounts to their Buzz streams to see information produced by friends on those networks, as well as updates posted directly to the Buzz stream. Google thinks it can build a competitive advantage in social media by focusing on relevancy and ranking within a social network. But will it work?
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Posted by Tom Krazit
Yahoo hosted a search event at its headquarters this week that seemed designed mainly to remind the Silicon Valley press that it is still working on Internet search. A few new projects were shown off, such as an interesting mobile search feature called Sketch-a-search that lets you draw a circle around an area of a map to narrow search results. Read more |  | How CoverItLive failed users during iPad unveiling
Posted by Rafe Needleman
A Steve Jobs keynote is technology journalism's Super Bowl equivalent. And as with the Super Bowl, they're best enjoyed in real time. Thus the healthy growth of the live-blogging platform CoverItLive, which enables journalists to file live reports that are transmitted, as they type them, to their online readers. But CoverItLive fell apart during the January 27 iPad announcement. Read more | | Extensions return to Chrome for Mac
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google released a new version of Chrome for Mac OS X on Thursday that restores extensions, a key feature that had been missing for weeks. The new version also catches the Mac version up with Windows by adding support for bookmark synchronization and management interfaces for bookmarks, cookies, and tasks. Read more | | Divvyshot launches refreshingly simple photo sharing
Posted by Rafe Needleman
Divvyshot, a photo-sharing start-up I first heard about last March, has opened to the public. It's a clever and attractive site for photo sharing, with an emphasis on group events. It also has the world's cutest sharing feature for iPhone users. Read more | | Opera readies mini browser for iPhone
Posted by Lance Whitney
Norway-based Opera announced Wednesday that it will unveil its new Opera Mini 5 browser for the iPhone at next week's 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The developer of the desktop Opera Web browser is touting Opera Mini as faster than Apple's Safari, thanks to its use of compression. Opera said it compresses pages by up to 90 percent before they're sent to the mobile device. Read more | | |  | Browser news | | | Opera 10.5 lags in my speed tests
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Opera, which was bumped down to fifth place in browser usage after Google Chrome burst on the scene, has embraced a super-fast JavaScript engine as part of its bid to stay relevant. Unfortunately for Opera, my tests show more work is needed. Read more | | Mozilla plans to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Mozilla wants its Firefox browser to drop support for Mac OS X 10.4--the operating system also known as Tiger that was released in 2005--but the plan is running into some resistance. If support is indeed removed, then Firefox 3.6--the current version of the browser--would be the last one to support Mac OS X 10.4, although Mozilla would still issue updates for several months after the succeeding version of Firefox is released. Read more |
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