This past summer, Facebook moved past Orkut in India and now it appears poised to kill off the last bit of life in Google social network. According to Technolicious, Facebook has started offering users the ability to integrate and link their accounts with Orkut. Read More »
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Google has made some changes to the features at Orkut, the company’s lackluster social network, that suggest the direction it is going with its overall social efforts and attemps to compete with Facebook. The changes are aimed at allowing users to target updates to specific friends. Read More »
The Internet is abuzz over Google’s release of the open-source version of its Chrome OS, and for good reason. It’s free, which will save hardware manufacturers licensing fees, and it appears ideally suited for the netbooks that have become such a hot item for the… Read More »
Just how big a threat is the real-time web to Google? As Om has pointed out, real-time content marks a still-amorphous but important new phase of evolution in the web, allowing for the instantaneous discovery of newly added information. And Twitter and Facebook are
New data shows that Facebook is growing really fast in key overseas markets. That doesn’t necessarily mean more dollars for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company or end of MySpace, though it seems bad news for its smaller, middle of the road rivals. Continue Reading Read More »
Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment in Larry Chiang’s series on “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School.” (He’s turning it into a book.) What could founders do with “Man-Charm,” you ask? Answers Larry: “Founders can use man-to-man… Read More »
Following on the Open Social support of the MySpace Developer Platform, Google has launched services for programmers planning to use Open Social to build applications for its Orkut social network, including a hackathon scheduled for Feb. 14-15 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.,… Read More »
Google (GOOG) is acquiring certain assets and technology of Zingku, a mobile social network startup that helps users organize their social life via the web and text messaging. Zingku wrote about the deal on its site, and a Google spokesperson confirmed the plans.… Read More »
