Greplin is getting a facelift and a new name, Cue, a moniker reflecting its new shift away from personal data search toward personal data organization. Rather than merely searching your linked accounts, Cue is now proactively organizing that data into an intelligent snapshot of your day. Read more »
Facebook chief technology officer Bret Taylor is going to leave the company later this year, he announced via his Facebook Timeline today. He is leaving Facebook to start a new company, he said on his timeline. Read more »
Facebook’s approach to data is that of a one way street. Use any of its products — Connect, Comments, Likes — and you keep sending data into the giant Facebook brain. When you want to take something out of the Facebook borg — well, tough luck! Read more »
Facebook last week named Bret Taylor its CTO, marking his ascension internally as its big-picture technical thinker. We took a trip down to Palo Alto last week to talk to Taylor about his plans for the role, as well as all the other timely Facebook topics. Read more »
Our bandwidth and the speeds at which we access the web will grow fivefold over the next few years thanks to advances in wired and wireless technology. Not only are we connecting faster, but we’re also doing it from more places thanks to mobile broadband. These […] Read more »
FriendFeed rolled out a new file-sharing feature on its site this afternoon in hopes of encouraging more organizations to use FriendFeed as a collaboration tool. On its blog, FriendFeed explained: This has been an especially popular request from organizations and companies that collaborate using FriendFeed groups. […] Read more »