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Google to Integrate Social Features with Current Services

Google Nexus One, the Superbowl ad, and now more news of a new service that covers social networking and integrates itself into Google's existing service. As of now, there's still no concrete details of what this new service will be. For all we know, it could be working with Twitter to integrate the social network into its Gmail or maybe even its Google Wave offering. Or, just maybe, the company is starting up its own social networking service to rival both Twitter and Facebook.

Google unveils sharing tool Google Buzz

Google launched Google Buzz, a new product that integrates with users' Gmail inboxes and lets them share web links, photos, videos, and more, and chat with people from their Gmail contacts list. Google is rolling out Buzz to all Gmail accounts over the next few days. It also plans to make Google Buzz available to businesses and schools using Google Apps, with added features for sharing within organisations. The Google Buzz version for mobiles brings a new feature to sharing information via internet-enabled PCs, namely geo-tagging. This enables users to select a place on Google Maps and attach it as location tag to posts, or read what others have posted about a specific place. The Buzz version for mobiles can be accessed at Buzz.google.com, using the Buzz layer on Google Maps for mobile, clicking the Buzz shortcut from Google.

What would Google do?

flood increasing exponentially, it makes good sense to reverse-engineer the company making the most money from this information overload. Google is riding the data wave with its automated search technology, and has spawned a host of products and services that include Google Images, Google Books, Google News, Google Videos, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Groups, Google Reader, orkut, Blogger, Google Sites, and YouTube.

Cloud Sherpas Featured on Google Apps Developer Blog

Cloud Sherpas on Google Apps developer blogCloud Sherpas was featured today on the Google Apps developer blog! We shared our experience building SherpaTools for Google Apps on the Google platform and detailed our use of Google Apps APIs, Google App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, and other Google technologies. Check it out — read “Building Applications on top of Google Apps.� Hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed putting together the technical details.

Google Buzz Vs. Outlook 2010 Social Connectors

Google jumped in to the deep end of social networking with the launch of Google Buzz. The concept of integrating social networking with the traditional e-mail messaging platform is not a unique Google innovation, though. Microsoft has its own approach to combining messaging and social networking with social connectors for the upcoming Outlook 2010.

Google Buzz vs. Outlook 2010 Social Connectors

Google jumped in to the deep end of social networking with the launch of Google Buzz. The concept of integrating social networking with the traditional e-mail messaging platform is not a unique Google innovation, though. Microsoft has its own approach to combining messaging and social networking with social connectors for the upcoming Outlook 2010.

Google Buzz vs. Outlook 2010 Social Connectors

Google jumped in to the deep end of social networking with the launch of Google Buzz. The concept of integrating social networking with the traditional e-mail messaging platform is not a unique Google innovation, though. Microsoft has its own approach to combining messaging and social networking with social connectors for the upcoming Outlook 2010.

Will Google Buzz Change the Social Media Game?

Google held a press event to announce the most "buzzed" topic of the week - Google Buzz. This is Google’s new product, which is being compared to social networks like Twitter and Facebook. It is integrated with Gmail and other Google products, and appears to be one of the missing links in tying Google together as a social network, a concept we’ve discussed repatedly.

Google Buzz and Outlook 2010 Social Connector: Competitors or partners?

Since the launch of Google Buzz last Tuesday, we've been hearing more analyses from professionals and bloggers warning of a possible showdown of sorts between Google and Microsoft in the social space. Buzz is Google's social connection with its Gmail; but Microsoft already announced last year its own social connection with its mail platform: the forthcoming Social Connector plug-in for Outlook 2010, due for release with the rest of Microsoft Office 2010 this June. The latest release candidate for Office 2010 was distributed to private testers earlier this month.

Google vs Green Google: Is There a Conflict?

There aren't many people with Internet access who don't use Google's search engine. If you enter "Google" into Google's search field, approximately two billion items come up within .17 seconds and the first bit says Google "Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images." This is Google's service in a nutshell. Of course, Google has grown beyond a simple search engine and is one of the most powerful corporations of the digital era. With annual revenues reaching over $20 billion, it has expanded into everything from smart phones to mapping software. Basically, if you use any part of the Internet, there is a good chance Google will find a way to be there.

ENHANCEMENT: Google introduces Google Buzz Widget for Android

Early February, Google launched its new Buzz service for mobile and desktop which is Google's way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. From the start, it was built right into Gmail as well as Google released new Google Maps Mobile clients with Buzz support. Google Buzz integrates photo, video and link-sharing and makes it easy to share it either publicly or privately. Now, Google has released a Buzz widget for Android phones that lets you post text and photos with a single tap, straight from the Android home screen. Like other mobile access points for Google Buzz, the widget lets you choose to tag your post with the location or place from which it was posted.

Google Buzz: The First Wave?

Google has announced that it is rolling out Google Buzz to everyone's GMail accounts over the next few days. At first glance, Google Buzz seems to be the first step by Google to introduce some if its Google Wave features into GMail. Other media outlets are also noting that Google Buzz is also Google's first step into the Facebook and Twitter realm of real-time status updates. Check out this video for a quick demo:

Google Buzz privacy settings: Will there be competition between Google buzz Facebook & Google Buzz Twitter

New York: Google Buzz privacy settings: Will there be competition between Google buzz Facebook & Google Buzz Twitter Soon after its release, Google Buzz has raised a few privacy concerns. Major news papers including Washington Post and New York Times, along with several other critics have aced their doubts about the privacy concerns of Google's new service Buzz.

Google To Challenge Facebook Again

Hugh Pickens writes "Google is set to make a fresh attempt to gain a foothold in the booming social networking business, seeking to counter the growing threat that Facebook poses to some of its core services. USA Today reports that the search giant is upgrading Gmail to add social-media tools similar to those found on Facebook, including photo and video sharing within the Gmail application, along with a new tool for status updates. According to reports, Google is planning to give Gmail users a way to aggregate the updates of their various contacts on the service, creating a stream of notifications that would echo the similar real-time streams from Facebook and Twitter. Google's decision to exploit the heavily-used Gmail service as the basis for its latest assault on the social networking business partly reflects the failure of Google's pr

Google faces competition probe in EU

The European Commission has launched an investigation into competition concerns at Google following complaints from three companies. The complaints from UK price comparison site Foundem, a French legal search engine called ejustice.fr and Microsoft's Ciao! from Bing centre on their rankings in Google's search engine. According to Google, which confirmed the notification from the EC, the Foundem complaint argues that Google's algorithms demote the site in search results because it's a vertical search engine and so a direct competitor to Google. Ejustice.fr's complaint seems to echo these concerns, Google said. On the third complaint, Google said that after Microsoft acquired Ciao! in 2008 (renaming it Ciao! from Bing) Google started receiving complaints about its standard terms and conditions.

In Hindsight: Google, Apple, Cisco and another week at Internet speed

Mountain View online advertising juggernaut Google is in a class by itself in the Internet industry. Even so, as Google's ambitions grow, so does the number of the company's rivals. "We compete against a number of alternatives, including traditional search engines, e-commerce and specialty search sites, social networks and other forms of online and offline advertising," Google explained Monday, according to a Merc report. Earlier, in Google's yearly 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it identified 10 competitors by name — including Redmond, Wash., software mega-behemoth Microsoft and Sunnyvale Internet content powerhouse Yahoo, which already had been described as rivals by Google in its 10-K a year earlier. This year, Google added eight more: social-networking upstarts Facebook, Twitter and Yelp; e-commerce powerho

In Hindsight: Google, Apple, Cisco and another week at Internet speed

Mountain View online advertising juggernaut Google is in a class by itself in the Internet industry. Even so, as Google's ambitions grow, so does the number of the company's rivals. "We compete against a number of alternatives, including traditional search engines, e-commerce and specialty search sites, social networks and other forms of online and offline advertising," Google explained Monday, according to a Merc report. Earlier, in Google's yearly 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it identified 10 competitors by name — including Redmond, Wash., software mega-behemoth Microsoft and Sunnyvale Internet content powerhouse Yahoo, which already had been described as rivals by Google in its 10-K a year earlier. This year, Google added eight more: social-networking upstarts Facebook, Twitter and Yelp; e-commerce powerho

Google Chrome Beta Adds Translation, Privacy Features

Google added two new features to the Windows version of Google Chrome beta including integrated translation and enhanced privacy features that allow for better browser cookie managment. The new additions were fed to the Chrome beta channel as a preview of Google Chrome version 5, according to the Google Chrome Releases blog.

Google Chrome Beta Adds Translation, Privacy Features

Google added two new features to the Windows version of Google Chrome beta including integrated translation and enhanced privacy features that allow for better browser cookie managment. The new additions were fed to the Chrome beta channel as a preview of Google Chrome version 5, according to the Google Chrome Releases blog.

Google Chrome Beta Browser Adds Translation, Privacy Features

Google added two new features to the Windows version of Google Chrome beta including integrated translation and enhanced privacy features that allow for better browser cookie managment. The new additions were fed to the Chrome beta channel as a preview of Google Chrome version 5, according to the Google Chrome Releases blog.

Google Maps Labs with an array of features rolled out

Google offers to give users a passport to a whole new world of interesting Google Maps features. That’s right! The official Google Lat Long blog shares the introduction of Maps Labs which are a set of opt-in attributes. With these features, users can choose to add useful functionality to Google Maps.

Google's going social and mobile

Google is certainly into searching -- searching for what the company wants to be in two years.

In the last four months, the Internet giant has made major announcements in the cellphone, broadband and social-media arenas.

These recent moves have pitted Google against some formidable adversaries, including Apple, Facebook, AT&T, Comcast -- and, yes, even some Seventh Avenue firms.

"Google is going through a second golden age," says technology entrepreneur Jason Calacanis. "Their massive war chest is allowing them to do big, audacious things. Last year, I was using Safari [Web browser] and an iPhone, now I'm using Google Chrome and a Nexus One [Google's own branded and built cellphone]."

With $8.5 billion in free cash flow last year, the Mountain View, Calif.

Google Maps Labs: A Fun New Google Tool

Google introduced Maps Labs Friday, a cool new set of innovative add-ons to its popular map service that offers a multitude of new ways to explore places near and far. Google Maps Labs is an incubator to test features for the Google Maps service, in the same spirit as Gmail Labs. When you go to Google Maps, click on the green flask icon at the top, where eight new test features await.

Google's poor social score

Just after Google (GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin and his team unveiled Google Buzz, the company’s new Gmail feature that brings in Twitter-like social updates, a discerning audience member asked Brin why Google’s social efforts to date have failed. Brin denied this, and then hedged, explaining, “Past services have focused on friends and entertainment.� This one, he explained, also enhances productivity.

Yes, Google Will Even Delete Its Own Employees' Sites From Google Index If They Screw Up

Over the years, we've seen plenty of people get mad and sue Google over getting either dropped from Google's index, or simply ranked really low on certain searches. And, of course, for some there are always totally unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about Google purposely "punishing" a company or individual it doesn't like. To date, however, there's been no evidence at all that Google acts in such a capricious manner when it comes to rankings. If the company did so, and it ever came out, the hit to Google's reputation would be something fierce. It's even more ridiculous when you consider that all of the accusations of such personal attacks seem to come from tiny companies -- hardly any kind of threat to Google, anyway.

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