Posts Tagged ‘Buzz’
Google Wave Is Not Dead (Yet)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 14:59 No CommentsGoogle’s Wave was a project that garnered a huge amount of interest, only to see the buzz completely die within a year of the launch, even after Wave stopped being invite-only and opened to the public.This prompted… Read more
So-Called Facebook Alternative Diaspora Gets a Launch Date
Friday, August 27, 2010 21:32 No CommentsYou may recall that earlier this year, Facebook took a lot of heat over user privacy. While some may still not be satisfied, the company did release simplified privacy settings in response. Around that time, however, a project called Diaspora started generating a lot of hype as a potential, open alternative to Facebook as a [...]
Apple Turns Down Apps for Requiring Registration?
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:29 No CommentsAccording to the Next Web, Apple may be rejecting apps that require user registration first. The publication looks at an email a developer reportedly received from Apple saying: Thank you for submitting Read It Later Free & Read It Later to the App Store. We’ve reviewed your apps, but cannot post these versions to the [...]
T-Mobile Posts G2 Teaser Page
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 18:35 No CommentsRemember Google and T-Mobile’s G1? It was the first Android phone ever, and as such it generated an extraordinary amount of buzz. Now, T-Mobile hopes to attract some more of it with the phone’s successor, the T-Mobile G2. … Read more
Buzz Makes Move to Generate More User Interest
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 18:32 No CommentsTwitter recently launched some new features for suggesting users to follow. The more people of interest you have to follow, the more useful you’re bound to find the service. The same applies to Google Buzz, which is probably why Google decided to release a similar feature. A Buzz Post from the Google Buzz Team says: [...]
Share the Love: How Social Media and Love Cinema Light the Movie Buzz – Red Herring
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:37 No CommentsShare the Love: How Social Media and Love Cinema Light the Movie Buzz Red Herring With the average Hollywood studio spending $40 million to promote a film, mostly through billboard and print ads, the social media marketing company offers … Read more
Net Neutrality Protests Underway at Google HQ
Saturday, August 14, 2010 1:00 No CommentsThe protesting has begun outside of Google’s headquarters in Mountain View. This is in response to Google’s joint proposal with Verizon released earlier this week over net neutrality legislation. Mark Hachman posted the photo below to TwitPic. The subject has dominated the tech headlines all week, and has taken a lot of heat throughout the [...]
Google Adds Features to the Google Buzz API
Friday, August 13, 2010 16:59 No CommentsGoogle has released a "garden hose" for Google Buzz. This is a random sampling of public Google Buzz posts for developers who don’t have the required resources to support the traffic that comes with the firehose. The garden hose has a query rate under the free quote limit of Google App Engine, Google says. "As [...]
Google Looks at Why People Follow Brands on Facebook
Friday, August 13, 2010 0:33 No CommentsGoogle has shared some results from recent research it conducted on consumers becoming friends/fans of brands on Facebook. According to these findings, close to half of Facebook users actually do "friend" brands (the term is technically "like" now), with 55% friending/liking zero brands. Google says that the biggest reason consumers are friending brands is for [...]
Google Looks at Why People Follow Brands on Facebook
Thursday, August 12, 2010 16:30 No CommentsGoogle has shared some results from recent research it conducted on consumers becoming friends/fans of brands on Facebook. According to these findings, close to half of Facebook users actually do "friend" brands (the term is technically "like" now), with 55% friending/liking zero brands. Google says that the biggest reason consumers are friending brands is for [...]




