After a few days of brooding, I finally post: Mahalo & Community-centric Search Thoughts
On 11/01 I noticed that the JetSet Show had changed their name to Epic-Fu. I also noticed that Mahalo, a people driven search site, now has it’s own daily web show.
Why mention both? Well besides obsessively patrolling the web all day and browsing through random web show archives, I remembered that the host of Mahalo [...]
Links To Read LATER Tonight: Google’s Scramble to Pwn Social Networking Apps
Google Seeks Bigger Role
In Social Networking – wall street journal
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Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka”-techcrunch
Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. They’ll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Google’s personalized home page), and expand from there to include Gmail, Google Talk [...]
Who will Devour Spock First: Google or Microsoft?
Yesterday I received my Beta invite for Spock, a new personal search site that claims to offer a smarter alternative to searching for people than through regular search engines like Google.
Tim O’Reilly recently posted a very comprehensive blog entry, “Why I’m so Excited about Spock”, marveling at the ability to gather information on people from [...]
Belgian courts: Anti finding out the haps in Belgium through Google News?
Via Pronet Advertizing -
“A Belgian court ruled yesterday that it was illegal for Google to reproduce extracts from various Belgian newspapers on its Google News website. As worrisome as the decision may be for Google, it could potentially have far reaching implications for socially driven media in general. “
… I don’t really see this as [...]
