Buzz: Google ramps up social networking

 Buzz, Communications, Flickr, GIS, Google, microblogging, realtime search, social media, social networking, tools, youtube  No Responses »
Feb 102010
 
Google upped its social networking ante on Tuesday, with the launch of a new service.  Google Buzz is a microblogging engine, related to Facebook status update and Twitter.  But the differences are important, and possibly of moment to academia. Buzz lets Google users compose short messages, a la Twitter or instant messages’ “away” status.  Buzz users [...]

Living Stories: new journalism experiment

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Feb 102010
 
An experimental Web site offers an interesting approach to journalism. Living Stories, a collaboration between the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Google, consists of a series of major topics. Living Stories aggregates several news streams and information sources under each such header, including a slideshow, an introduction, curated articles, recent coverage, [...]

Blackberry leads smartphone market, while Apple and Google close in: new study

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Feb 102010
 
The Blackberry continues to lead the American smartphone market, while Apple’s iPhone continues to grow in second place, according to a new study.  comScore examined ownership from late 2009, and found the following market distribution: Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platform grew, while the Blackberry and Palm slipped. Americans’ leading use of smartphone was for text messaging: (via [...]

Facebook as new reader: a new player in journalism?

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Feb 052010
 
Could Facebook become a leading portal for news consumption?  One observer thinks it already is, and will grow in that role. Facebook is the web’s most popular subscription-enabled place to read news; be it from links shared by friends or by becoming a Fan of news organizations like Facebook is now encouraging. That doesn’t mean that [...]