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4 Reasons Your Stuff Should Be In The Cloud - Posted 1 day, 18 hours ago
Cloud services are getting bigger and bigger, with media heavyweights like Amazon and Google throwing their versions into the competition. Although Google's entry isn't necessarily indicative of the next big thing -- Buzz, anyone? -- the cloud appears to be here to stay, mostly because of the safety it provides. "The cloud... [SocialTimes.com]

How YouTube, Google+ and Social Media Affected the Arab Spring [Video] - Posted 1 day, 21 hours ago
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a host and producer for the Huffington Post, talks about his experience with various social media feeds as he tried to cover the Arab Spring for the Huffington Post. What's notable about the video is that he identifies the new journalistic experience and it is remarkably fast and... [SocialTimes.com]

In Facebook IPO Probe, Morgan Stanley Subpoenaed | Google+ Photographers Conference | NY Weighs Anonymous Commenting Ban - Posted 2 days ago
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Four Reasons Why Google Doesn't Care If Facebook Wins The Social Media Wars - Posted 2 days, 21 hours ago
Facebook is winning the social media wars. But ... [AllFacebook]

Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook Take Home Webbys | Social Media and Elections | FaceTime for 3G? - Posted 3 days, 1 hour ago
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 2013 Salary: $1 - Posted 3 days, 15 hours ago
Facebook Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer ... [AllFacebook]

Expert Schema.org Panel Finalized for #SemTechBiz San Francisco Program - Posted 3 days, 18 hours ago
Q: What do Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Yandex, the New York Times, and The Walt Disney Company have in common? A: schema.org On June 2, 2011, schema.org was launched with little fanfare, but it quickly received a lot of attention. Now, almost exactly one year later, we have assembled a ... [semanticweb.com]

Expert Schema.org Panel Finalized for #SemTechBiz San Francisco Program - Posted 3 days, 18 hours ago
Q: What do Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Yandex, the New York Times, and The Walt Disney Company have in common? A: schema.org On June 2, 2011, schema.org was launched with little fanfare, but it quickly received a lot of attention. Now, almost exactly one year later, we have assembled a ... [AllTwitter]

20 Reasons to Switch to Google+ [Infographic] - Posted 3 days, 20 hours ago
Love it or hate it, or well, ignore it, but Google+ seems to be an important part of Google's strategy to connect with the web. The service has caught some traction with its Hangouts feature, but other than that there seems to be a few reports that attempt to explain... [SocialTimes.com]

Microsoft Launches Social Search Network - Posted 3 days, 23 hours ago
If Google+ had been around when Mark Zuckerberg was still at Harvard, the resulting network might have looked something like So.Cl, a project by the FUSE Labs in Microsoft Research that combines social networking with video chatrooms and search. Launched in beta in 2011, the site opened to the public over... [SocialTimes.com]

Surprise! Mark Zuckerberg Gets Married | Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Cartoon Contest | Microsoft Launches Academic Social Network - Posted 4 days, 1 hour ago
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Google Just Hi-jacked the Semantic Web Vocabulary - Posted May 18, 2012
[Editor's Note: This guest editorial is provided by Sean Golliher. He can be found on Twitter at @seangolliher] ... [AllTwitter]

Google Just Hi-jacked the Semantic Web Vocabulary - Posted May 18, 2012
[Editor's Note: This guest editorial is provided by Sean Golliher. He can be found on Twitter at @seangolliher] ... [semanticweb.com]

Google Knowledge Graph Interview - Posted May 18, 2012
Google's Knowledge Graph has been the subject of lots of attention over the past few days since the announcement. And the focus of a lot of que... [semanticweb.com]

Google's New Knowledge Graph Is More Informative Than Social - Posted May 17, 2012
When Google added a social layer to its search bar, it seemed that the company might have gone too far in using social media to enhance its other products. But the search engine's newest feature, the Knowledge Graph, will use the connections between particular people, places, and things - not friend... [AllFacebook]

Google's New Knowledge Graph Is More Informative Than Social - Posted May 17, 2012
When Google added a social layer to its search bar, it seemed that the company might have gone too far in using social media to enhance its other products. But the search engine's newest feature, the Knowledge Graph, will use the connections between particular people, places, and things - not friend... [SocialTimes.com]

Hang Out with Nick Kristof - Posted May 17, 2012
If you're not busy this afternoon, The New York Times' Nick Kristof is hosting a Google+ Hangout at 2:30. He'll chat with UN Ambassador Susan Rice about social medi... [FishbowlNY]

Google's Knowledge Graph Is No Ugly Duckling - Posted May 17, 2012
I'm a fan of the waterfowl model of semantic technology. Clever semantics -- as well as 'advanced' search boxes, arcane query syntax, and con... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook to Set Final IPO Price | Pinterest Raises $120 Million | States Weigh Social Media Gambling - Posted May 17, 2012
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Potential Post-IPO Issues For Facebook: Mobile Revenue, Overvaluation, Google AdSense - Posted May 16, 2012
The road ahead may be rough for Facebook, post-initial public offering. At least that is the specula... [AllFacebook]

Google Launches Knowledge Graph - Posted May 16, 2012
This morning Google announced the Knowledge Graph, which "enables you to search for things, people or places that ... [semanticweb.com]

Google Launches Knowledge Graph - Posted May 16, 2012
This morning Google announced the Knowledge Graph, which "enables you to search for things, people or places that ... [AllTwitter]

Roundtable: The Future of the App Economy - Posted May 16, 2012
NEW YORK - Sustainable revenue was on everyone's mind at the APPNATION NYC Mobile + TV 3.0 Summit in SoHo this morning. In a keynote roundtable moderated by APPNATION president and event chairman Drew Ianni, leading executives discussed the future of the mobile app economy. Panelists included Tim Chang, managing director of the... [SocialTimes.com]

Is Google+ Suffering from Weak Engagement? - Posted May 16, 2012
When talking about Google+, the number to quote is usually 100 million users. That's what was announced as part of Google's latest announcement and also seems to check out with web pundits based on the fact that Gmail has an estimated 60 million users and many of those are grandfathered... [SocialTimes.com]

Study: Google Ads More Effective Than Facebook | Social Media-Sex Connection? | Flickr Rolls Out New Photo Layout - Posted May 16, 2012
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Schema.org Now Supports External Lists - Posted May 14, 2012
The schema.org official blog has announced support for enumerated lists. Adding this support allows developers using schema.org to use selected externally maintained vocabularies in their schema.org markup.... [AllTwitter]

Schema.org Now Supports External Lists - Posted May 14, 2012
The schema.org official blog has announced support for enumerated lists. Adding this support allows developers using schema.org to use selected externally maintained vocabularies in their schema.org markup.... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook IPO Expected Friday | New Jersey City Bans Texting and Walking | Yahoo Interim CEO Oversaw Myspace Acquisition - Posted May 14, 2012
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Bing Goes Social | Facebook-Instagram Probe | Twitter Followers Stop Almost-Suicide - Posted May 11, 2012
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INFOGRAPHIC: Facebook IPO Vs. Other Tech IPOs - Posted May 10, 2012
Social media agency Banyan Branch compared the upcoming Faceb... [AllFacebook]

Conan O'Brien Does His First Google+ Hangout [Video] - Posted May 10, 2012
Conan O'Brien, the late night comedian with the shock of red hair, hosted his first Google+ Hangout on Monday, and apparently not everybody knows about it yet, as the recording only has 11,500 video views on YouTube. That said, Google hasn't published any other stats to let us know how... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ for iPhone Gets a Fresh Update - Posted May 10, 2012
The Google+ application for iPhone got an update yesterday, according to a Google+ blog post by Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President at Google. The new version of the application includes several user experience enhancements such as larger profile images, easier browsing of photos and videos and visual cues that make... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Starting to Hint at Its Semantic Search Future - Posted May 10, 2012
Sharif Sakr of Engadget reports that Google has started to peek-a-boo it's evolving semantic search capa... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook App Center Coming | Brain Surgery Live-Tweeted | iPhone App for Google+ Redesigned - Posted May 10, 2012
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Google+ Improves Email and Mobile Notifications - Posted May 9, 2012
When you find a good thread in Google+ and want to keep abreast of what people are saying, you need to have your email notifications set to "on". That way, whenever someone replies to the post, you'll get an email keeping you up to date on what people are saying... [SocialTimes.com]

Google To Drop Millions On Investment In Machinima - Posted May 8, 2012
Machinima is in the process of raising a new found of funding and Peter Kafka of All Things D reports that Google will be one of the investors. YouTube has been giving out millions of dollars to profess... [AllFacebook]

Google To Drop Millions On Investment In Machinima - Posted May 8, 2012
Machinima is in the process of raising a new round of funding and Peter Kafka of All Things D reports that Google will be one of the investors. YouTube has been giving out millions of dollars to profess... [SocialTimes.com]

Google News Remodel to Include Google+ Conversations - Posted May 8, 2012
Google reports that the company's news service, Google News "is undergoing a makeover and will now include content from the firm's new social network. Google News, which has only gone live in the U.S. to date, will see ... [semanticweb.com]

Feds Urge Social Media Wills | Facebook's Next Stop: Boston | 'Hangouts on Air' Rolling Out - Posted May 8, 2012
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Wavii At Work: CEO Adrian Aoun Explains How Service Conceptually Organizes The Web Around Events - Posted May 7, 2012
Wavii made waves when it launched its automated, algorithm-driven news aggregation service in April, which has been billed as making Facebook out of Google. But what makes Wavii work? When The Semantic Web Blog found a picture in Wavii.com's Flickr photostream featuring the word "predicates" on a white board, it... [AllTwitter]

Wavii At Work: CEO Adrian Aoun Explains How Service Conceptually Organizes The Web Around Events - Posted May 7, 2012
Wavii made waves when it launched its automated, algorithm-driven news aggregation service in April, which has been billed as making Facebook out of Google. But what makes Wavii work? When The Semantic Web Blog found a picture in Wavii.com's Flickr photostream featuring the word "predicates" on a white board, it... [semanticweb.com]

Google+ Expands Hangouts on Air to Everyone [Video] - Posted May 7, 2012
The Google+ Hangout feature is one of the main selling points for the burgeoning social network. By easily allowing people to start a multi-person video chat from any thread within Google+, users are able to finally realize a convenient way to quickly get on a chat with a certain group... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook IPO Video | FBI Social Surveillance | Supermoon Goes Viral - Posted May 7, 2012
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LinkedIn to Acquire SlideShare | Facebook Sets IPO Range | Future Bright for Social Media Ads - Posted May 4, 2012
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Facebook, Google Caught Up In Indian Courts - Posted May 3, 2012
A criminal case in India involving Facebook and Google is tangled up in that country's court syst... [AllFacebook]

Facebook IPO Nears | Tumblr Offers Advertising | Social Game Connecting Georgia Communities - Posted May 3, 2012
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Video Chat with a Venture Capitalist at Google+ VC Office Hours - Posted May 2, 2012
Google+ has introduced a new series called VC Office Hours, where prominent venture capitalists and angel investors will participate in live Google+ Hangouts and answer questions about starting new businesses and arranging investments. It's still a small program,... [SocialTimes.com]

Twitter's New Discover Tab | NYC Teacher Social Media Policy | Flickr-Pinterest Integration - Posted May 2, 2012
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Have You Tried the New Google Maps Cube Game? - Posted May 1, 2012
Remember that old game, labyrinth, where you guided a marble through a wooden maze by tilting the game itself? How about the old Marble Madness Nintendo game? I was a big fan of both, and that's why it's a treat to see Google releasing a cool new web game... [SocialTimes.com]

How Does Social Media Affect Website Search Rankings? [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted April 30, 2012
If you run a website, you know how important search engine rankings can be. Getting your site on the first page of Google can bring in advertising dollars, an influx of new customers, or widespread awareness of your cause. However, there is much more to ranking high on Google than just optimizing... [SocialTimes.com]

Volume, Emotion, Sponsorship: What Brands Have An Edge on Social Media Strategies? - Posted April 30, 2012
Market Strategies International recently released the first edition of what it says will be an annual Social Media Brand Index, a measure for brands both of consumer-generated soci... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook Video Views Drop 8 Percent In March - Posted April 27, 2012
Fewer people now log time watching videos on Facebook compared with this time last y... [AllFacebook]

Semantic Commerce: Structuring Your Retail Website for the Next Generation Web - Posted April 27, 2012
Are you wondering why your product pages don't stand out in search results like those from Amazon (shown below) or other competing e-commerce websites? These expanded results are commonly known as Rich Snippets (as named by Google) and are the result of having your HTML structured correctly with semantic markup.... [semanticweb.com]

Google's Sebastian Thrun Uses Google Glasses on Charlie Rose [Video] - Posted April 27, 2012
Sebastian Thrun, founder and head of Google X, uses the connected Google Glasses while talking with Charlie Rose. It's pretty impressive to see him use the glasses, take a photo of Charlie Rose, then nod to upload the photo to "G Plus" as he calls Google+. That must be... [SocialTimes.com]

Leverage Yourself As An Expert by Using Social Media [Infographic] - Posted April 26, 2012
Things are moving fast in the world of social networks. Someone has opened the flood gates and users are streaming in. With each passing week the character and demographic of each network changes. That said, it can be really difficult for someone who wants to make their voice... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Releases the Orange Google+ Share Button - Posted April 25, 2012
It was only a matter of time before Google+ improved their current share button offering. While the company did make the +1 button available for use, there was not an easy, stylish way to include a Google+ share button on your blog. Google has fixed that as they announced... [SocialTimes.com]

HTC Facebook Smartphone Rumors Return - Posted April 25, 2012
Here come the Facebook smartphone rumors again, with the lat... [AllFacebook]

Catching Up With Yandex: What Russia's Leading Search Engine Has To Say About Schema.org - Posted April 25, 2012
Update: Yandex today (April 26th) reported that net income in the first three months of 2012 rose 53 percent from the same period last year to 1.26 billion rubles ($43 million) as text-based advertising revenue rose, according to ... [semanticweb.com]

Catching Up With Yandex: What Russia's Leading Search Engine Has To Say About Schema.org - Posted April 25, 2012
In November Russian search engine Yandex joined Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo! to collaborate on schema.org. The Semantic Web Blog recently caught up by email with Alexander Shubin, Yandex product... [AllTwitter]

Google Drive Unveiled | Facebook May Delay IPO | Groupon Seeks Directors - Posted April 25, 2012
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Facebook and Microsoft's AOL Patents | YouTube and Twitter's New Ads - Posted April 24, 2012
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Facebook's IPv6 Preparation | Skype For Xbox | YouTube's Copyright Case - Posted April 23, 2012
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Are You Protecting Your Privacy on Google+? [Infographic] - Posted April 20, 2012
Google has made an effort to be more transparent with its privacy policy, first by condensing the policy into one page, and then by putting ads in public places like trains to make sure people know how to use their privacy controls. A new infographic from Backgroundcheck.org shows how... [AllFacebook]

Facebook Surpasses All Google Properties In Brazil - Posted April 17, 2012
Facebook overtook Orkut to became Brazil's top social network in January, but has only overtaken all of Google's properties in that nation just this month. Experian Hitwise data shows that Brazil's web traffic to headed to Facebook has dramatically increased over the past year, while t... [AllFacebook]

The Mixed Bag of Recent Google Media Coverage - Posted April 17, 2012
We were looking around the Internet a little bit today and noticed a gaggle o... [PRNewser]

Google Announces Updates to Rich Snippets - Posted April 17, 2012
Google has announced two updates to rich snippets, the enhanced format that they announced in 2009 for displaying content in search resul... [semanticweb.com]

The Semantic Link with Guest, Daniel Tunkelang - April, 2012 - Posted April 16, 2012
On Friday, April 13, a group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Mi... [semanticweb.com]

The Semantic Link with Guest, Daniel Tunkelang - April, 2012 - Posted April 16, 2012
On Friday, April 13, a group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Mi... [AllTwitter]

Today: Google's Take Action Initiative Hosts a Google+ Hangout - Posted April 16, 2012
Google's "Take Action" site is a fledgling activist empowerment site that helps people connect with one another to support or start movements. Specifically, the Take Action site asks users to "start something" by telling the story of how the Internet empowers you to achieve your goals. The site doesn't... [SocialTimes.com]

Google's Stephanie Tilenius Outlines the Future of Mobile Payments - Posted April 16, 2012
CAMBRIDGE, MA - Roughly 75 MIT students, alumni, and other technology professionals gathered at the inaugural MIT Sloan Hi-Tech conference on Friday to discuss emerging trends in mobile technology. In an afternoon keynote, Google VP of commerce and payments Stephanie Tilenius said that her company will be changi... [SocialTimes.com]

How to Compete with Google Search - Posted April 13, 2012
Paul Miller recently discussed why many semantic search startups are failing to compet... [semanticweb.com]

Downloading Facebook Info | Tumblr's Business Savvy | Stumbling Gets Social - Posted April 13, 2012
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Facebook Ads Have 35 Times The Reach Of Google - Posted April 12, 2012
Every Franklin spent on Facebook advertising has 35 times the reach of comparable spending on Google. Social media guru Brian Carter fleshes this out in a cool infographic we've reproduced below. Readers, what do you think of these numbers? ... [AllFacebook]

The Biggest Loser In Facebook Versus Google Is You - Posted April 12, 2012
Google is strong-arming users by forcing them to have a social search experience built around one service provider, Google. Not only is this anti-competitive, but it goes against users' best interest. T... [AllFacebook]

TechRaking 2012: Three Questions To Ask Before Building A News App - Posted April 12, 2012
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. -- Today at the Googleplex, a group of roughly 200 journalists and technologists are talking about how to create a more perfect union between muckrakers and technologists at CIR's TechRaking conference. The Chicago Tribune's Brian Boyer gave a seven-minute ignite talk directed toward "the pe... [10,000 Words]

TechRaking 2012: Three Questions To Ask Before Building A News App - Posted April 12, 2012
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. -- Today at the Googleplex, a group of roughly 200 journalists and technologists are talking about how to create a more perfect union between muckrakers and technologists at CIR's TechRaking conference. The Chicago Tribune's Brian Boyer gave a seven-minute ignite talk directed toward "the pe... [TVSpy]

The Google+ Redesign is Simple, Functional and Very Social [Video] - Posted April 11, 2012
Google+ has undergone a makeover, and it's cleaner, more functional and the best competitor to Facebook the web has ever seen. There are some awesome new integrations with other Google services like YouTube and they've better emphasized photos and video Hangouts. I've been a long time fan of Google+... [SocialTimes.com]

While Google Graphs in 3D, WolframAlpha Takes Shakespeare to Heart - Posted April 11, 2012
Last week speculation reigned about whether Google had set its sites on computational knowledge engine WolframAlpha, with the announcement that the search engine now is using WebGL technology for enhancing users' ability to interact with complex, compound math functions. The search giant in December added 2-D graphing to its delivery... [semanticweb.com]

While Google Graphs in 3D, WolframAlpha Takes Shakespeare to Heart - Posted April 11, 2012
Last week speculation reigned about whether Google had set its sites on computational knowledge engine WolframAlpha, with the announcement that the search engine now is using WebGL technology for enhancing users' ability to interact with complex, compound math functions. The search giant in December added 2-D graphing to its delivery... [AllTwitter]

Adapting SEO for a Semantic Search Future - Posted April 11, 2012
Ryan DeShazer of Search Insider recently shared his insights on how SEO needs to adapt or in order to stay current with Google's planned ... [semanticweb.com]

Today: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Hosts a Google+ Hangout - Posted April 10, 2012
At 3:30pm EST on Tuesday, six people will participate in a Google+ Hangout with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Google has been actively recruiting celebrities and Presidents to use Google Hangouts to connect with people, and they are definitely a great way of getting the word out about Google+. The event will... [SocialTimes.com]

POLL: Twitter Is The Least Popular Tech Brand, After Google, Apple And Facebook - Posted April 10, 2012
We love Twitter here at AllTwitter. We'd do a pretty poor job of writing about it all day if we didn't. But it looks like we're not among the majority when it comes to our obsession with 140 character soundbites - according to a new po... [AllTwitter]

OpenMenu Serves Up Structured Data Standards For the Restaurant Industry - Posted April 9, 2012
What's on the markup menu for the restaurant industry? Among the schema.org tags for marking up web pages is one for restaurants, which includes item properties for priceRange, servesCuisine, place, and menu, among others. Restaurants that use the markup language to structure their data are promi... [AllTwitter]

OpenMenu Serves Up Structured Data Standards For the Restaurant Industry - Posted April 9, 2012
What's on the markup menu for the restaurant industry? Among the schema.org tags for marking up web pages is one for restaurants, which includes item properties for priceRange, servesCuisine, place, and menu, among others. Restaurants that use the markup language to structure their data are promi... [semanticweb.com]

Google's Project Glass Unveiled | Reality Tech TV | Introducing Aviary - Posted April 5, 2012
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Should You Use Google+ Or 3D Technology In Your Campaign? - Posted April 4, 2012
Timothy Jordan's keynote to start yesterday's day two of the PRSA Digital Impact Conference was basically a pitch to the room, explaining why Google+ is a must-have for any campaign that wants to interact with people. ... [AgencySpy]

Should You Use Google+ Or 3D Technology In Your Campaign? - Posted April 4, 2012
Timothy Jordan's keynote to start yesterday's day two of the PRSA Digital Impact Conference was basically a pitch to the room, explaining why Google+ is a must-have for any campaign that wants to interact with people. ... [PRNewser]

Facebook Versus Yahoo | Instagram for Android | Twitter's European Jobs - Posted April 4, 2012
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Welcome to the Morning Social Media Newsfeed! Here, we... [SocialTimes.com]

Will Facebook Search Improvements Turn The Tables, Disrupt Relationships? - Posted April 3, 2012
Late last week Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Facebook is working on an improved search engine with 20 developers under the direction of former Google engineer Lars Rasmussen, who joined the socia... [semanticweb.com]

How To Make Your Own YouTube Slam Video Duels - Posted April 2, 2012
At the end of last year, YouTube announced YouTube Slam--a video discovery experiment that pins videos head-to-head and asks viewers to vote on which they like best. YouTube Slam offers contests on a variety of ... [SocialTimes.com]

10 Awesome April Fools' Day 2012 Videos, In Case You Missed Them - Posted April 2, 2012
It's a bummer when April Fools' Day falls on the weekend because if you haven't been online then you missed out on all the fun pranks. That's why this morning we are bringing you ten of the funniest April Fools' 2012 prank videos. Check them all out below and... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Search | From Reddit to Wedding | TweetDeck Back to Normal - Posted April 2, 2012
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Welcome to the Morning Social Media Newsfeed! Here, we... [SocialTimes.com]

Generation Y: Brands Must Be Honest, Engaging - Posted March 30, 2012
Anyone struggling to understand Generation Y, a.k.a. the millennials, and their relationship to brands has a lot of work ahead of him. This generation is not defined by technology; it is very open, but distrustful; and it is at the center of a cultural shift. That info is among the findings in... [PRNewser]

Facebook May Challenge Google+ with Enhancements to Search - Posted March 30, 2012
Competition between Facebook and Google+ is heating up. According to Bloomberg Businessweek's sources, Facebook has hired a former Google engineer named Lars Rasmussen to lead a team of two dozen engineers in an effort to improve Facebook's search functionality. The company is not allowed to discuss the details during... [SocialTimes.com]

Wikidata: Funding and a Three Phase Plan - Posted March 30, 2012
Wikimedia Deutschland's latest project, Wikidata, has made some exciting announcements regarding funding and the project's planned development. According to ... [semanticweb.com]

Semantics at the Core - Interview with Sanjiva Nath - Posted March 29, 2012
Eric Knorr recently interviewed Sanjiva Nath about the rise of semantic technology. Knorr writes, "In an interview with the... [semanticweb.com]

How 3 Small Businesses Succeeded on Google+ - Posted March 29, 2012
Whether Google+ is right for most businesses has yet to be seen. A former Googler has even questioned Google's focus on making Google+ a success. Nevertheless, some businesses have made outstanding progress using Google+, and here we present three small businesses who've done themselves well on the network. Learn what... [SocialTimes.com]

Twitter's Unfollowing Bug | Tumblr's 20 Billion | Gingrich on Pinterest - Posted March 29, 2012
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Why Google Should Keep Looking Over Its Shoulder - Posted March 28, 2012
Brad Reed of PCWorld recently shared his insight into why Google is wise to integrate more semantics into their search algorithm. Reed writes, "Google is still master of the search domain, bu... [semanticweb.com]

Google Will Roll Out Social Media Reports - Posted March 21, 2012
Google will attempt to answer a question on every marketer's mind: How much is is social media helping my sales? Google announced at the SES C... [PRNewser]

Google Analytics Now Captures Social Media - Posted March 21, 2012
Google has released a new set of Social reports within Google Analytics that help a publisher measure the value of social media traffic. The tool focuses on measuring whether visitors that come to a given site actually engage in a specific action -- it's not just about measuring whether people... [SocialTimes.com]

Linked Data: Moving Towards Consumption - Posted March 21, 2012
Earlier this month 16 out of 42 papers were accepted for the upcoming Linked Data on the Web (LDOW) 2012 Workshop in Lyon, France in April. What might be discerned from the tenor of the submissions is something of a shift in focus in the Linked Data space, according to workshop chair... [semanticweb.com]

Social vs Search: The Showdown [Infographic] - Posted March 20, 2012
Two of the ascendant methods of driving traffic to your business are social media and search marketing. While search was once the clear winner, social media has come a long way and is just about as big as search, and that's why it's apt that MDGadvertising has created an infographic... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Bans "Reddit is Fun" Android App for Sexually Explicit Content - Posted March 20, 2012
The cool Reddit is Fun Android app, which we covered recently, was banned from the Google Play store today due to a "violatio... [SocialTimes.com]

Google's Spam-Fighting Algorithm: Then and Now [Infographic] - Posted March 19, 2012
Google is making changes to its algorithm that will penalize websites for "over optimization." It's not the first time that Google has tried to cut through the spammers and content farms to bring better content to the top of the search results. This infographic has the details. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Tech RoundUp: New iPads Sell Like Crazy, Stringfly Offers Rewards - Posted March 19, 2012
Apple has tons of cash. That's the big takeaway from these stories, which go into detail about the co... [PRNewser]

Time to Get On With Schema.Org? - Posted March 19, 2012
Need another reason for bringing semantic smarts to your web site? Maybe you can find it in a post at Search Engine Land, which includes a piece of a podcast from an SXSW session, and a transcription of it, featuring Google's head of webspam team Matt Cutts (over ... [semanticweb.com]

How Google's Semantic Search Will Affect the Web - Posted March 19, 2012
Jon Mitchell recently looked into the implications of Google's decision to start incorporating semantic search int... [AllTwitter]

How Google's Semantic Search Will Affect the Web - Posted March 19, 2012
Jon Mitchell recently looked into the implications of Google's decision to start incorporating semantic search int... [semanticweb.com]

Google Plans to Incorporate Semantic Search - Posted March 15, 2012
The Wall Street Journal reports on Google's incorporation of semantic search into its keyword-search system. The article states, "Google Inc. is giving its tried-and-true Web-search formula a makeov... [semanticweb.com]

Create A New YouTube Channel With Your Google+ Profile - Posted March 15, 2012
If you like to keep your social persona consistent with the same user names a profile pictures across the board, YouTube and Google have just made things a whole lot easier for you. Yesterday they added a new YouTube feature that allows users to sign up for a new YouTube... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Adds Features to Photo Albums - Posted March 15, 2012
Google+ Photos Engineer Isaac Sparrow announced an update to the Google+ photos service which allows you to better organize your photos into albums. It's a key addition that lets the once sparse Google+ photos section tell a better story of your life. Now that Google+ has the essential infrastructure... [SocialTimes.com]

Write Together: Google Docs Is Now Available for All Google+ Hangouts - Posted March 14, 2012
Google+ Hangouts get better every day. From cool new facial masks to appearances by the President, the Google+ Hangouts team is dedicated to bringing us new surprises and improving the way we video chat with one another. The latest addition is the introduction of Google Docs into the Hangout... [SocialTimes.com]

TwooglePlus Automatically Cross Posts your Tweets to Google+ - Posted March 13, 2012
Twitter has definitely shaken off its growing pains in the last few years. We all have the friend who was a staunch critic of Twitter when it first got popular - "How can you say anything meaningful in 140 charaters" - who has now taken to it because it's... [AllTwitter]

TwooglePlus Automatically Cross Posts your Tweets to Google+ - Posted March 13, 2012
Twitter has definitely shaken off its growing pains in the last few years. We all have the friend who was a staunch critic of Twitter when it first got popular - "How can you say anything meaningful in 140 charaters" - who has now taken to it because it's... [10,000 Words]

TwooglePlus Automatically Cross Posts your Tweets to Google+ - Posted March 13, 2012
Twitter has definitely shaken off its growing pains in the last few years. We all have the friend who was a staunch critic of Twitter when it first got popular - "How can you say anything meaningful in 140 charaters" - who has now taken to it because it's a... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Gets Mobile Web Facelift - Posted March 13, 2012
In a post from Google's Tom Charytoniuk, Google announced a new design for Google+ on the mobile web as well as translations into over 60 locales. The new design loads quickly and is easy to read -- the home stream uses a more vertical spacing that allows you to easily... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Gives Rare Peek Into Its Meetings - Posted March 12, 2012
At times, it seems like an outright mystery what will make the Google gods happy. What keywords are really going to make your article jump to the top of a search page? How much does spelling matter? What elements make up the secret sauce? That is all about to ch... [10,000 Words]

New Feature Lets You Say Thank You on Google+ - Posted March 8, 2012
There's a theory that labeling Google+ a social network is missing the point because it's actually a tool to integrate social into search. If that's the case, we can expect to see more "your friends have shared this link" tags in our Google search results in the near future. ... [SocialTimes.com]

How Journalists Can Celebrate Women's Day - Posted March 8, 2012
Recently there has been much discussion of the underrepresentation of women in the media industry. It can be easy to lament about the situation, difficult to understand the reasons, and even more difficult to actually... [10,000 Words]

Google Privacy Policy Making Info Less Private? - Posted March 1, 2012
Google launched a new privacy policy today that pulls 60 of the company's services under one roof so that information about user activity can now be shared across platforms, from Gmail to YouTube, for example. And the policy states plainly... [PRNewser]

Google Doodle Team Video Promotes Student Contest - Posted March 1, 2012
Who doesn't love a good Google Doodle? Any day that one of those creative ill... [PRNewser]

Google Puts New Privacy Policy Into Effect, And Stage Is Set For More Personalized Products Even As Google Plus Pickup Is Slow - Posted March 1, 2012
ComScore this week issued a report that wasn't particularly flattering to Google Plus. It noted that users spent just 3.3 minutes on the social network in January compared to 7.5 hours for Facebook. Much discussion revolved around the fact that Google last month touted that the service had grown to 90... [semanticweb.com]

What W3C's R2RML and Direct Mapping Mean to Enterprise Data - Posted March 1, 2012
I'm very happy to announce that the World Wide Web Consortium's RDB2RDF Working Group, in which I participate as an Invited Expert, has published two Candidate Recommendations: R2RML: ... [semanticweb.com]

Key Statistics Of The Top 5 Social Media Sites [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted February 29, 2012
In less than a decade, social media has grown from fairly humble beginnings to an integral and increasingly important part of the everyday lives of hundreds of millions of users around the world, as well as playing a vital role in the marketing and branding aspirations of businesses of all shapes... [SocialTimes.com]

Chinese Flood Obama's Google+ Page with Humorous Comments - Posted February 27, 2012
China's dammed Internet wall is common knowledge -- Chinese users are blockaded from looking at Facebook, Google+, Twitter and other sites that their government doesn't allow. With all that pressure building up, though, the dam seems to have had a small crack, and it led to Obama's Google+ page. Some meddl... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Circles Added to Google Voice - Posted February 24, 2012
Google Voice is a cool product that gives you a centralized phone number and service. Imagine having one phone number that rings every phone you own? That's Google Voice. In addition to that killer feature, the service lets you manage voice mail, control which of your phones ring... [SocialTimes.com]

The Flap of a Butterfly Wing - Posted February 24, 2012
Yes you are right, one of the prime reasons for this post is an excuse to show some stunning pictures from nature. However, there is also good reason to explore a Linked Data... [semanticweb.com]

Twitter Brings On Two Ex-Googlers To Bolster Revenue Generation - Posted February 23, 2012
Twitter has just made two significant hires in an effort to focus on its revenue generation. Twitter's president of global revenue, Adam Bain, today announced the two newest members of Twitter's revenue team (on Twitter, of course): ... [10,000 Words]

Yandex Partners with Twitter - Posted February 23, 2012
Yandex, the up-and-coming Russian search engine has struck a deal with Twitter allowing Yandex to post new tweets in search results in real-time. According to the article, "Twitter will give ... [semanticweb.com]

Google Launches Video Support for Schema.org - Posted February 23, 2012
Yesterday word came from Google that it's launching video support for schema.org. From the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Schema.org is a joint effort between Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! and is now the recommended way to describe vide... [semanticweb.com]

Google Glasses: Augmented Reality or Dystopian Horror? - Posted February 23, 2012
Google is expected to start selling glasses by the end of the year. No, they are not foraying into optometry, but rather finding a new way to stream the contents of your smartphone straight at your eyeballs. The glasses, which reportedly resemble a pair of Oakley Thump... [10,000 Words]

Google+ Threatens Foursquare with New Check-In Leaderboard - Posted February 22, 2012
One of the first things that people usually ask Foursquare users is 'why do you care?' In fact, this is what people usually ask people that play FarmVille or CityVille, or even Tweet. We live in a digital world where people usually have to eat their own snap judgments... [SocialTimes.com]

Microsoft's Clash With Google Over Privacy Settings May Be Part of a Larger Problem - Posted February 21, 2012
Google's policies are once again under scrutiny as Microsoft and others have caught the company circumventing users' privacy settings to track them with cookies. But Google representatives have pointed out that they are not alone. It all started with Apple's Safari Web browser. According to the ... [SocialTimes.com]

YouTube Updates Annotations & Adds New Social Features - Posted February 17, 2012
YouTube has been busy fine-tuning the site, adding new features and responding to user feedback ever since they launched their major site redesign at the end of 2011. Last month they rolled out ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Exclusive Game: Have You Tried Gangs of Boomtown? - Posted February 17, 2012
A few days ago, mobile/social gaming crew Digital Chocolate (headed by the original founder of EA Trip Hawkins) released Gangs of Boomtown exclusively to Google+. According to our sister sites Inside Social Games, the game is "a blend of quests, multiplayer quickdraw co... [SocialTimes.com]

Google's Knowledge Graph to Change Search Forever - Posted February 16, 2012
Manu Sporny writes, "Google is building a gigantic Knowledge Graph that will change search forever. The purpose of the graph is to understand the conceptual "things" on a web page and produce better search results for the world. Clearly, the people and compa... [semanticweb.com]

A Complete Ranking of the Most Popular Profiles on Google+ and 5 Other Social Networks - Posted February 16, 2012
Social ranking sites like Klout have made a person's influence online very valuable to both brands and consumers. But the next wave of influence tracking systems might look more like ZoomSphere, a site for ranking brand and profile pages on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube, LinkedIn, and... [SocialTimes.com]

There's Plenty of Fish on Google+ -- 42% of Users are Single [Infographic] - Posted February 15, 2012
An overwhelming majority of Google+ users are men according to research by Website-Monitoring -- 67%, in fact. In addition, most G+ users live in Bangalore, most G+ users are students and the Google +1 Button is served more than 5 billion times a day. For anybody who's suspecting that... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ for iPhone Update Adds "Instant Upload" and "What's Hot" - Posted February 15, 2012
Google+ has launched a new version of the Google+ iOS application, and the main attraction here is "Instant Upload". This feature will make it so that every photo and video you take on your iPhone or iPad will automatically be uploaded to your Google+ profile. There are a couple... [SocialTimes.com]

How Are the Airlines Using Google+? [Infographic] - Posted February 10, 2012
At a recent Socialize event in Toronto, a few panelists pointed out that people may be looking at Google+ the wrong way. While most are trying to categorize it as a social network, the speaker felt that Google+ couldn't miss because it was just a way of strengthening social SEO,... [SocialTimes.com]

39% Of Marketers Will Use Twitter For Their Campaigns In 2012 - Posted February 6, 2012
Facebook might still be the juggernaut of social media advertising, but Twitter takes the second-place silver medal. More advertisers will be turning to Twitter this year than YouTube, LinkedIn or Google+ to get at their customers' eyeballs - and their ... [AllTwitter]

Watch Obama's Complete Google+ Hangout with America [Video] - Posted January 31, 2012
President Obama completed his first live Google Hangout on Monday, and the results were pretty good. Google has put up the video, and you can see that whether you agree with the answers or not, the overall effect of having Americans from all over the country asking live questions to... [SocialTimes.com]

International Data Journalism Awards debut - Posted January 31, 2012
There's no dearth of ways for journalists to congratulate and recognize themselves with awards. Whether you're a small local newspaper or the most-watched national news show, there exists a seemingly endless list of contests and prizes to celebrate everything from the best public service journalism (Pulitzer anyone?) down to the most-specific... [10,000 Words]

Google+ Extends to Teens -- Will It Be the Cool New Hangout? - Posted January 30, 2012
Google+ is opening up its network to allow teenagers to use social networks. In a post on the Google+ blog, Google VP Bradley Horowitz explains the ways that teenagers can protect themselves using the various services on G+. Googl... [SocialTimes.com]

Socialize: Google+ May Be More of a Social Layer Than a Social Network - Posted January 27, 2012
At today's Socialize conference here at the beautiful St. Andrew's Club onthe 27th floor of the Sun Life Financial Tower there was a great session discussing Google+ and its role within the greater Google suite. The most interesting idea was that Google+ shouldn't be looked at as a social network,... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Plans to Discontinue Needlebase.com - Posted January 25, 2012
Google has decided to discontinue Needlebase.com, "a service Google acquired in April 2011. Needlebase will run until 1 June 2012, to allow c... [AllTwitter]

Google Plans to Discontinue Needlebase.com - Posted January 25, 2012
Google has decided to discontinue Needlebase.com, "a service Google acquired in April 2011 [read about that acquisition here]... [semanticweb.com]

Are You Going To Add a Nickname to Your Google+? - Posted January 24, 2012
When the flocks began migrating from MySpace to Facebook around five years ago, one of the common positives ascribed to FB was the fact that it ensured real names -- that would help you know who the heck you were talking to. In my opinion, it was a series of... [SocialTimes.com]

Parse.ly Brings A Dash of Semantics To Online Publishers - Posted January 24, 2012
Online publishers and other content providers have a new analytics tool to help them understand what their readers care about and use that information to better connect them to their sites' relevant and compelling content. Launching today is Dash, based on the predictive content analytics platform ... [semanticweb.com]

Google Stacks Their Search with Google+ Results -- Is It Unfair or Just a Bad Idea? - Posted January 24, 2012
Google Search plus Your World is the latest incarnation of Google's search, and was released last week to a lukewarm reception. The new service includes Google's Google+ search results into any query, and supposedly kept things equal for existing social networks. However, some sleuthi... [SocialTimes.com]

'Hangout' With President Obama Next Monday - Posted January 23, 2012
The President is on the Internets again. This time, he's doing a Google+ Hang... [AgencySpy]

'Hangout' With President Obama Next Monday - Posted January 23, 2012
The President is on the Internets again. This time, he's doing a Google+ Hang... [PRNewser]

Google+ Starts Asking You To Ask Questions -- Is Quora Threatened? - Posted January 23, 2012
Late last week Google quietly rolled out a feature where Google asks you if you want to ask a question related to your current search query, and it then posts the question on Google+. It doesn't look like they're providing any special interface for the question, but it does make... [SocialTimes.com]

Obama to Answer Your Questions on State of the Union Interview on Google+ - Posted January 23, 2012
Following tomorrow's crucial State of the Union address, President Barack Obama will participate in a Google Plus Hangout next week to ostensibly field questions about his speech. He'll be addressing questions from users who will have until January 28th to submit their questions via video. I'm curious to see... [SocialTimes.com]

What Are People Saying About SOPA on Google+, Facebook and Twitter? - Posted January 19, 2012
Unless you've been hiding in your IP-hidden digital cave for the last few weeks, you're probably aware that the Internet is currently rife with protests for SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act. Critics from Silicon Valley and various technology companies around the world blacked out their sites to protest the... [SocialTimes.com]

Liveblogging, Blackouts, and Protests! The Internet Takes On SOPA - Posted January 18, 2012
... [PRNewser]

The Sharing Avalanche [Infographic] - Posted January 18, 2012
What does 60 seconds of social media look like? How many people are actually on Facebook, Twitter and Google+? How often do people use Foursquare as opposed to Tumblr? A new exclusive infographic examines the numbers and may surprise you -- social is still growing rapidly. Thanks to ... [SocialTimes.com]

Stop SOPA Protest Gets Underway With DBpedia.org On Board - Posted January 18, 2012
Editor's Update Jan. 19: DBpedia, Wikipedia and company are all back online, while some lawmakers have taken their support for SOPA and PIPA offline. Republican Senators Roy Blunt and Marco Rubio have withdrawn their support for the Protect IP Act, and Representative Lee Terry (R-Neb.), an original co-sponsor of SOPA, also... [semanticweb.com]

Big Data For Lean Startups, Or, A Poor Man's Watson - Posted January 18, 2012
What do big companies have that most emerging businesses don't have to help them get value from Big Data? Well, to start with, there's lots of money and a ton of technology resources. Never fear. At the upcoming Semantic Tech & Business conference in Berlin, Christopher Testa... [semanticweb.com]

Big Name Websites Protest SOPA - Posted January 17, 2012
Some of the sites U.S. Internet users rely on most plan to take part in an online protest Wednesday, Jan. 17, against SOPA -- the Stop Online Piracy Act -- and related bill PIPA -- PROTECT IP Act -- currently under consideration. We here at 10,000 Words have cov... [TVSpy]

Google's New Search plus Your World - Posted January 17, 2012
Google has introduced a new feature to their search engine: Search, plus Your World. The official announcement states, "We're transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationship... [semanticweb.com]

Google's New Search plus Your World - Posted January 17, 2012
Google has introduced a new feature to their search engine: Search, plus Your World. The official announcement states, "We're transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationship... [AllTwitter]

Twitter, Google Exchange Angry Words Over Google's New Personalised Search (Which Favors Google+) - Posted January 11, 2012
Twitter has come out publicly against Google's recent changes to its search algorithm, which favors Google+ and Picasa results mixed in to regular search results. ... [AllTwitter]

Google Is Serious About Social -- Introducing "Search plus Your World" - Posted January 10, 2012
Google yesterday launched "Search, plus your World," as it's tentatively called. It takes the best features of Google Plus and integrates them with Google search. It mainly includes results from your friends in a miniature row right at the top of your search results. With such powerful placement,... [SocialTimes.com]

Meet Your Virtual Friends: Google, LinkedIn, Twitter And Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted January 9, 2012
She's smart and unique, with a big mouth and lots of connections. She's Twitter, and she's one of four that this infographic from LinkingR details a... [AllTwitter]

Map My Circles for Google+ Lets You See Where Your Friends Are - Posted January 9, 2012
Have you ever wondered where all your friends are, at once? Alright, it may not be something that comes up all the time, but it doesn't mean it wouldn't be fun to take a look. A new extension for the Google Chrome web browser (my personal favorite) adds a... [SocialTimes.com]

The Power Is In The Link - Posted January 6, 2012
[caption id="attachment_25767" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Courtesy: Flickr/ RambergMediaImages"][/caption] Attendees at the fast-approaching Semantic Tech & Business Conference in Berlin will find one of the opening conference sessions, ... [semanticweb.com]

Google Purchases 217 IBM Patents - Posted January 5, 2012
Google has purchased over two hundred IBM patents including one patent for a semantic social network. Peter Pachal reports, "While the patents cover a variety of topics, one in particul... [semanticweb.com]

Google Launches Election Page - Posted January 3, 2012
Ahead of tonight's Iowa Caucus, Google has released a new portal site to find everything someone would ever want to know about this year's presidential election. The site, google.com/elections, is a dashboard for many of Google's products that could come in handy for following the elections. When you go to the site,... [TVSpy]

Google+ Traffic Up 55% -- Hits 49M Visits in December - Posted January 3, 2012
Experian Hitwise tweeted last night about Google+'s latest coup -- a 55% traffic increase in December over November. We recently reported on a study about Google having up to 62 million users (the report was based on a surname average estimat... [SocialTimes.com]

Get Social and Keep Your New Year's Resolutions - Posted December 29, 2011
New Year's is a time for revelry, reflection, and making resolutions, both personal and work-related. PsychCentral blog says about forty to forty-five percent of American adults make at least one New Year's resolut... [PRNewser]

WATCH: The Muppets Cover David Bowie for Google Plus Commercial - Posted December 29, 2011
It's no secret that we at Social Times are big fans of Google Plus' Hangout feature, with it's ability to easily have tens of people video chatting and sharing YouTube videos with just a few clicks. Their latest addition, allowing people to start ... [SocialTimes.com]

StreamGlider iPad News-Reader App Touts Mixed Media and Multi-View Modes - Posted December 22, 2011
StreamGlider, which we first covered here, made its debut yesterday. The iPad news and social reader application in its initial version debuts sans the location-aware and some of the more... [semanticweb.com]

What Are the Fastest Growing Google+ Pages? New Service Lets You Find Out - Posted December 21, 2011
Sure, Google+ is its infancy. It doesn't have a lot of million follower count profiles yet, and it is definitely the go-to gag of the social world right now. But I'm not one to count out Google's slow, meticulous approach to the network. They've been adding updates every... [SocialTimes.com]

Tech Round Up: Google+ Photo Upgrade; Cision for Smartphones; and More - Posted December 19, 2011
Google+... [AgencySpy]

Google Plus Updates Notifications, Pages and Photos - Posted December 19, 2011
In the run up to the holidays, Google has been doing a lot of work to improve their Google Plus social network. Just a week ago we had a slew of Google Plus Hangout improvements, and now we've got updates for the notifications and pages features. A lot of... [SocialTimes.com]

Publishing Your News Content to Google Currents - Posted December 15, 2011
Here on 10,000 Words, we've shown you a few tips on how to define your newsroom's mobile presence, as well as some ... [TVSpy]

Twitter Tops Social Media Buzz List - Posted December 15, 2011
Zeta Interactive, a digital marketing agency, recently released its annual rankings of social networks. They are categorized by "buzz," a ranking calculated by volume and tone (percent positive ranking) of all the sites. This year, T... [10,000 Words]

Google+ Rolls Out "Find My Face" -- Will You Opt In? - Posted December 12, 2011
After announcing details of the program last week, Google Plus is slowly rolling out their new "Find My Face" feature to G+ users. The new service will automatically send a Google robot to your front door to determine whether your face is still on your head -- just kidding. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Updates Android Application - Posted December 8, 2011
Google has updated their Google+ Android app including -- wait, it wasn't there before? -- Search. Other features added are giving "+1s" to photos and comments and better photo and video upload support. I've found the Google+ Android application to be an easy-to-use app, with the big clear icons... [SocialTimes.com]

Tool of the Day: Google Correlate - Posted December 8, 2011
When it comes to search, Google reigns supreme. Millions of searches are conducted on a daily basis, and that sort of data is valuable to marketers, business people, and journalists as well. We've all seen the annual Google Zeitgeist data visualizations which show lists like the most used search queries and... [10,000 Words]

Indian Government Asks Social Networks To Prescreen User Content Before It is Posted. All Of It. - Posted December 7, 2011
The New York Times is reporting a rather archaic-sounding move by the Indian government: asking other bi... [AllTwitter]

Everyone's Getting Connected with the Boob Tube - Posted December 7, 2011
If Fred is the future of connected TV, please allow me to disconnect. It is a time when TVs that are aligned with and act like our computers -- smart TVs -- are the ones on... [PRNewser]

The Wit and Wisdom of Sheryl Sandberg: 10 Insights from IGNITION - Posted December 5, 2011
The Business Insider IGNITION conference just wrapped up this week. The height of the event, of course, came on the second morning, at 9 am, when ... [SocialTimes.com]

The Evolution of Search At Google - Posted December 2, 2011
Google this week posted a video about its evolution of search that's worth the watch. All six minutes of it. The highlight for semantic web aficionados will be at the end - or should I say, the future. As Google Fellow Amit Singhal explains, his dream has always been to build the... [AllTwitter]

Revisiting Using a QR Code & SlideShare to Share Presentations on Smartphones - Posted December 2, 2011
I provided a tip here in August that drew a fair bit of attention and commentary. The tip provided a solution to a problem I had to solve myself: How do I share a slide presentation with an audience when a projector is not available? My solution was to upload the... [SocialTimes.com]

Participate in a Google+ Hangout Without an Android or iPhone - Posted December 2, 2011
Google+'s greatest feature is Hangouts. It lets you have a multi-person video chat with up to 10 people. It is also very easy to use and, best of all, is free to use. But, what if do not have a iPhone, iPad or Android phone with a front facing camera?... [SocialTimes.com]

Get Ready For The Inaugural Data Journalism Awards - Posted December 1, 2011
The Global Editors Network, along with search engine titan Google, recently announced the creation of the ... [10,000 Words]

Google Says Tablet Users Multitasking While Watching TV & Expect Interactive Ads - Posted December 1, 2011
How are people using their tablets to multitask? What two activities are going on right on the tablet and nearby? Where are people using their tablets? These are the questions Google asked and claim to have answers for. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Director of Research on Search Algorithms & AI - Posted November 30, 2011
Google Director of Research Peter Norvig recently answered questions about Google's search algorithms. Norvig stated, "We test tens of thousands of hypotheses each year, and make maybe ... [semanticweb.com]

It's About The Google Experience - Posted November 25, 2011
In a piece titled "How Amazon Is Making A Sucker Out Of Google" writer Mike Elgan suggests that Amazon is taking advantage of Google's open policy towards Android and in the process could be destroying the Android ecosystem. Google prov... [SocialTimes.com]

Tech Round Up: Klout Explains, Vitrue Reaches a Billion, and More - Posted November 23, 2011
Google has cut a number of services including Wave, Knol, and Friend Connect. (Does anyone even know what these things are?) But, Google+ ... [AgencySpy]

Google Waves Goodbye To Wave... And 6 Other Services - Posted November 23, 2011
Back in September Google announced that they were on the verge of "shutting down a number of products and merging others into existing products as features." They said goodbye to Aardvark, Fast Flip, the Google Maps API for Flash, Notebook and o... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Now Affects Your Klout Score - Posted November 22, 2011
The big players on Google+ might have noticed a rather pleasant bump in their Klout score today. That's because Klout has officially integrated the new network into its influence calculations. Klout is the "standard of influence" on the social web. Altho... [AllTwitter]

Google+ Now Affects Your Klout Score - Posted November 22, 2011
The big players on Google+ might have noticed a rather pleasant bump in their Klout score today. That's because Klout has officially integrated the new network into its influence calculations. Klout is the "standard of influence" on the social web. Altho... [10,000 Words]

Google Search App for iPad Gets Visual Enhancements - Posted November 22, 2011
Google released a new version of its iOS search app that includes significant enhancements for iPad users. Enhancements includes the Google Instant feature that displays results as you type. Google web apps are also easy to find and use from the updated search app. You can see what the first of... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Plus Adds Trending Topics and More [Video] - Posted November 21, 2011
  Google Plus, the search giant's social network, has added a new feature called Trending Topics within the social network's search feature. Mashable reported that the Trending Topics feature was quietly introduced to users Thursday night. Similar to Twitter's T... [SocialTimes.com]

What Brands Can Learn From Bank Of America's Failure To Protect Its Own Image On Google+ - Posted November 18, 2011
As most of you may know, Bank of America had a rather interesting brand image related problem on Google+ this week. According to one source, Bank of America was at fault f... [SocialTimes.com]

Google vs. Facebook on Privacy and Security [Infographic] - Posted November 17, 2011
No matter what services you use within social media -- be it games, video or photos -- you should be knowledgeable of how your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is protected. Veracode designed this infographic that details different ways Google and Facebook handle Privacy and Security. ... [SocialTimes.com]

61 Percent Of The World's Top Brands Already Have Google+ Pages - Posted November 17, 2011
It's been just over a week since Google launched business pages and already a whopping 61 percent of the world's top brands have created Google+ pages. However, site, search and social management platform ... [SocialTimes.com]

Gmail for iOS Fixed Now. Missing Ability to Manage Multiple Email Addresses - Posted November 17, 2011
Google is a believer in the saying, "If at first you don't succeed, try try again." Google released the first Gmail for iOS app a little over two weeks ago. It was pulled within hours of its release because of a major bug. As Frank McPherson noted here: ... [SocialTimes.com]

The State Of Social Media In The UK [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted November 16, 2011
How do companies in the UK perceive social media? And Twitter specifically? That's the question that Big Mouth Media asked when they put together this infographic visualizing the current state of social media in the UK. Twitter takes front and center stage among UK... [AllTwitter]

Google Voice for Android Gains Offline Voicemail, Group Texting & a Bigger Footprint - Posted November 16, 2011
Google Voice for Android added two new features in its 0.4.2.38 update. The ability to send text messages to multiple recipients brings it up to par with Apple's iOS Messages app and service. It also brings it up to the same level of functionality as the Google Voice desktop web interface... [SocialTimes.com]

Why Your Company Doesn't Need a Google+ Page... Yet - Posted November 15, 2011
It's a tale of two social networks: Once Upon a Time, there was Facebook, the big blue social network, and its little brother, Google+. Four months after its launch, Google announced earlier this month that its network is now open for business. Business pages, that is. Last week, the Twitterverse ... [SocialTimes.com]

New Website Tools Translate Veteran Skills into 500,000 Private-Sector Jobs - Posted November 11, 2011
Just in time for Veterans Day and with the troops coming home, the Federal government introduced new website tools designed to help veterans use the skills they learned from military service to find a job in the civilian sector. My N... [SocialTimes.com]

BREAKING: Schema.org announces intent to support RDFa Lite! - Posted November 11, 2011
Last month, we reported on the new RDFa 1.1 Lite proposal by Ben Adida. In our recent podcast... [AllTwitter]

7 Social Times Stories You May Have Missed This Week - Posted November 11, 2011
If you are an avid reader of our daily content, you may remember reading a lot of articles that were vital to your title as a social media intellect this week. Whether we were discussing slavery of the 21st century or providing you with ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Acquires Two More Startups: Katango and Apture - Posted November 11, 2011
Google has bought two additional startups to help the company upgrade some of its services. The purchases were announced yesterday and are Katango, a service that helps users manage their online social networks, and Apture, a service that makes tools in order to conduct searches about the topics contained in a Web... [SocialTimes.com]

Searches Powered by Microsoft Bing Increasing at an Impressive Rate [Infographic] - Posted November 11, 2011
Without a doubt Google owns a majority of U.S. search traffic on the Internet. But, according to Experian's Hitwise report Microsoft's Bing might be coming up the ranks as it continues month after month gradually wearing down Google's control over search traffic. With that said, if your current SEO strategy has... [SocialTimes.com]

BlackBerry Gets No Respect from Google: Gmail App Disappearing on Nov. 22 - Posted November 10, 2011
As the late great Rodney Dangerfield might have said, "The BlacKBerry don't get no respect." Falling market share, an aging mobile platform and a recent multi-nation three-day outage is not helping RIM win friends for the BlackBerry. The latest blow? Google announced that the Gmail App for BlackBerry will take a... [SocialTimes.com]

Link Building with YouTube, StumbleUpon, Google+, LinkedIn [Infographic] - Posted November 9, 2011
In part, link building is very important for internet marketing efforts because search engines are finding superior ways to determine the quality of each link. It's important for businesses who leverage search to maintain their quality links, and the following infographics give you a few tips. It starts with building a network... [SocialTimes.com]

YouTube Hops On The Google Plus Bandwagon With +YouTube - Posted November 8, 2011
As you may have heard, yesterday Google+ launched business pages to open up a new channel for businesses to connect with their fans, and one of the first brands to jump on the pages bandwagon was YouTube. Yesterday on the ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Pages for Business Are Here. Now What? - Posted November 8, 2011
Now that Google+ Pages for Business is here, everyone is collectively trying to wrap their brains around what comes next. The ... [PRNewser]

Google+ Introduces Brand Pages, News Organizations Join Quickly - Posted November 8, 2011
Months after kicking brands off of Google+, Google on Monday welcomed brands back onto their social network. A land grab ensued, and within an hour or two of Google pushing out the new brand pages, almost all major news organizations (and many, many smaller ones) had created brand pages. Being... [10,000 Words]

Google+ Pages for Brands Are Here - Posted November 7, 2011
Google's SVP of engineering Vic Gundotra has announced on the Google blog that Google+ pages for business and brands are "rolling out worldwide." The post offers a few examples of brand pages that are already live (The Muppets brand page will feature a live ... [PRNewser]

Google Launches Business Pages - Posted November 7, 2011
The search giant announced the launch of Google+ Pages today that will let businesses connect with fans in a manner similar to Facebook Pages. These businesses will receive corporate accounts to start sharing information about themselves and invite others to join in on the conversation. More after the jump. To date Google... [SocialTimes.com]

News Organizations Launch on Something Called 'Google+' - Posted November 7, 2011
Poynter reports that The New York Times, Fox News, NBC News and "Good ... [FishbowlNY]

Russian Search Engine Yandex to Collaborate on schema.org - Posted November 2, 2011
Yandex, Russia's leading search engine has announced that it is joining forces with Google, Bing, and Yahoo! to collaborate on schema.org. One article reports, "Now the pages tagged with Schema.org tags will be pick... [semanticweb.com]

Google+ 1.0.6 for iPhone Gains Messenger Presence & +1 for Photos - Posted November 2, 2011
The update for Google+ for Android got out of the door first. But, iPhone users have a Google+ app update of their own to install. Google+ version 1.0.6.2591 was just released and brings performance improvements and a pair of new f... [SocialTimes.com]

Mobile Apps Affected by Possible Google Maps Access Fee Starting in 2012? - Posted November 2, 2011
A lot of mobile apps depend on Google Maps for displaying maps with all kinds of different information. The screenshot here, for example, is WeatherBug for Android's weather map. For the most part, most of these commercial and non-commercial uses of Google Maps by third parties fell under Google's free ... [SocialTimes.com]

YouTube All Set To Launch Original Programming with Major Partners - Posted October 31, 2011
The Google-owned YouTube has set forth its effort to compete with satellite and cable TV programmers. The platform announced late Friday it has teamed up with industry's best and will roll out high quality television-style channels. YouTube plans to produce professional shows that will stand out against its all to... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Propeller & Yahoo! Livestand News Aggregation Apps on Their Way? - Posted October 31, 2011
[caption id="attachment_82644" align="alignleft" width="420" caption="Yahoo! Livestand for iPad."][/caption]Google's rumored iPad mobile aggregation app has been discussed since September while ... [SocialTimes.com]

Should We Give Google+ Another Chance? - Posted October 27, 2011
Maybe the shine has worn off Google+ or perhaps not enough people I know use it -- seems hard to believe with a reported ... [10,000 Words]

Should We Give Google+ Another Chance? - Posted October 27, 2011
Maybe the shine has worn off Google+ or perhaps not enough people I know use it -- seems hard to believe with a reported ... [TVSpy]

History of StumbleUpon's Influence on the Internet [Infographic] - Posted October 27, 2011
In 2007, StumbleUpon was created by the two friends, Garret Camp and Geoff Smith, who were in their early twenties and just finishing off post-graduate studies in Calgary, Canada. Camp told BBC the development of StumbleUpon started with a general idea of "how to discover really interesting information without searching... [SocialTimes.com]

Nicki Minaj Among Top Halloween Costume Searches - Posted October 25, 2011
Halloween cometh and the mad dash for the perfect costume has begun. Among the top searches on Google this year is Nicki Minaj, the Queens-born rapper known for her wacky and colorful styles. Video tutorials have popped up on YouTube, teaching l... [PRNewser]

Google & Microsoft Jealous of Siri? - Posted October 25, 2011
Apple's Siri interface has been attracting derision from higher-ups at Google and M... [semanticweb.com]

Twitter Hires Ex-Google Communication Manager For Editorial Director Role - Posted October 25, 2011
Karen Wickre, the former blog strategist and global communications manager for Google, has taken a job at Twitter as its editorial director. Wickre will be charged with developing a consistent Twitter "voice" across its various public platforms. Wickre left Google earlier this month, after 9 years on the ... [AllTwitter]

Don't Expect A Google-Twitter Reconciliation Any Time Soon - Posted October 18, 2011
Google's Realtime Twitter search results went offline in July 2011, and, according to Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo, we shouldn't expect the two companies to come to an agreement to renew the service any time soon. Google and Twitter partnered ... [AllTwitter]

Google Burying its Unpopular Buzz Social Network - Posted October 18, 2011
Google ended the unpopular Buzz social network, which was criticized last year for quite a few privacy breaches. According to nzherald.co.nz... [SocialTimes.com]

Hulu is No Longer for Sale - Posted October 17, 2011
[caption id="attachment_81329" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Glee: One of Hulu's most popular shows"][/caption] In a short and to the point statement released mid-week, equity owners and Hulu senior management team announced that Hulu was no longer for sale: ''Since Hulu holds a unique and compelling strategic v... [SocialTimes.com]

Android Signs Up For Twitter - Posted October 17, 2011
Android users, your time has come: your favorite smartphone operating system now has a Twitter account. The Android account (@Android) is just a few days old, and has tweeted three times, one of which includes a ... [AllTwitter]

The Semantic Link - Episode 11, October 2011 - Posted October 17, 2011
On Friday, October 14, a group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the... [semanticweb.com]

Google Quietly Kills Off 'Twitter Killer' Google Buzz - What Price Google+ Next? - Posted October 17, 2011
Over on their official blog, Google has announced the shutdown of a number of Google products, including Jaiku, Google Labs and, unsurprisingly, Google Buzz. Google Buzz? Oh, you... [AllTwitter]

Google Pulled Google Voice for iPhone Out of the App Store - Posted October 17, 2011
If you took home a shiny new iPhone 4S in the past few days, you might have looked for the Google Voice app in the App Store and come up empty handed. The bad news is that the app was pulled over the weekend. The good news is that it will... [SocialTimes.com]

When it Comes to Data Management on the Semantic Web, HBase has the Edge - Posted October 14, 2011
Researchers at the University of Texas - Pan American have found that HBase "has the edge in data management for next generation Internet and cloud computing users." The article states, "An open-source, non-re... [semanticweb.com]

Google Translate for Android Adds 12 Languages to Conversation Mode Translation Feature - Posted October 14, 2011
The Google Translate for Android app's experimental conversation translation mode can now work with a dozen additional languages: French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch Russian, Czech, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish. This conversation mode lets two people speak to each other in their own languages with G... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Crowdsources Election Trend Spotting, But Be Careful About This - Posted October 11, 2011
With the first caucuses and primaries just months away, Google is turning to the crowd to find neat election trends using the Internet giant's myriad of tools. In a post yesterday on the company's Politics & Elections blog, Jake Parrillo sent out a call for help. Search trends could help explain poll fluctu... [TVSpy]

"Is My Son Gay?" Android App Pulled After Pressure from AllOut.Org - Posted October 7, 2011
[caption id="attachment_80597" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="sligo"][/caption] Google Developers pulled controversial app after AllOut.org launched twitter campaign: "Demand that @Google & #Android dump homophobic "Is My Son #Gay?" app NOW, no excuses! #LGBT." At the beginning of the week, Google developers pu... [SocialTimes.com]

Google OurMobilePlanet.com: A Great Data Trove About Smartphones - Posted October 6, 2011
Google launched a new site to help find data for to all kinds of questions about smartphone. The site is named OurMobilePlanet.com. The data used came from surveys conducted by Google who has made it free available to everyone. The site's data analysis is wizard driven and starts off by providing... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Docs for Android Update Makes it More Tablet Friendly - Posted October 6, 2011
Google Docs has not been particularly friendly to smartphones and tablets. However, Google has been making steady progress in removing that reputation. Unlike other recent mobile announcements which were web based, this Google Docs enhancement is an update for an Android app that takes advantage of the larger d... [SocialTimes.com]

How Long Are International Users Spending Per Session on Facebook? - Posted October 5, 2011
An average Facebook user spends just about eight hours on the site during any given month. That is just about four times as long as the average use of Google's websites. But, don't let that number fool you because Google is the only platform to outperform Facebook in terms of unique... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Dynamic HTML5 Mobile Banners Ads Turned On. Get Ready to Interact with Mobile Ads - Posted October 5, 2011
Mobile advertisements might become a lot more interesting now that Google has turned on the ability to deliver dynamic HTML5 banners. These HTML5 banners are available for all ad sizes through the AdMob network for tablets and smartphones based on iOS (Apple) and Android. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Which Social Media Company Has the Smartest People? - Posted October 3, 2011
Facebook, right? It's always Facebook! And, to a certain extent, this is true. When you look at the war for talent currently being waged in Silicon Valley, Facebook is one of... [SocialTimes.com]

Nuance's Dragon Go! Gets an Upgrade - Posted October 3, 2011
Dragon Go!, the free speech recognition app that lets you talk to your Apple devices, ... [semanticweb.com]

Google+ Vs. Facebook Privacy [Exclusive Infographic] - Posted September 29, 2011
These days most of us spend a lot of time on social sites like Facebook and Google+, but how often do we stop to think about privacy? Unfortunately, not as often as we probably should. In a new infographic shared exclusively with Social Times, PEER 1 Hosting ex... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Announces AdWords For Video With An Emphasis On Getting Your Video Watched - Posted September 28, 2011
Today Google announced some pretty huge news for advertisers--they have launched a new AdWords feature to select users called AdWords for Video that lets advertisers easily place and manage ads on YouTube videos and the Google Display Network. AdWord... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Service Continues to Grow Since Opening to the Public - Posted September 28, 2011
[caption id="attachment_79619" align="aligncenter" width="318" caption="A happy Googler"][/caption] Google+, which we all know is Google's new social-networking service, experienced a boom in visits this last week after the service opened up to the public at large, according to New York research firm Experian ... [SocialTimes.com]

Schema.org: First, The Good News - Posted September 27, 2011
When it comes to schema.org, there's some good news - and some 'eh' news. Let's start with the positive stuff. Today at the schema blog, the news was released that schema.org has added to its NewsArticle and related types such as CreativeWork new properties for mar... [semanticweb.com]

Schema.org Workshop - A Path Forward - Posted September 22, 2011
[caption id="attachment_23388" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="schema.org Leadership Panel; L-to-R: Michael O'Connor (Microsoft), John Giannandrea (Google), Charlie Jiang (Microsoft), Kavi Goel (Google), R.V. Guha (Google), Steve MacBeth (Microsoft), Gaurav Mishra (Yahoo), Peter Mika (Yahoo) "]... [semanticweb.com]

Public Welcomes Google+ While Facebook Stumbles - Posted September 22, 2011
Google+ is now open to the public. The company has announced an open invitation for anyone who wants to join. Some users may think it took Google a long time to remove the invitation policy. But it was a smart move to do it now while Facebook stumbles with its upgrades. Over... [SocialTimes.com]

Klout Expands its Influence to Google+ - Posted September 22, 2011
A recent article reports that Klout, "a startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, Link... [semanticweb.com]

How Google Affects Memory and Learning [Infographic] - Posted September 22, 2011
Online colleges put together this nifty infographic that shows us how Google helps us find information on the Internet, so we can keep our minds clear and fresh. But, perhaps we rely too much on Google. The information is insightful because it illustrates how Google helps us keep our daily lives... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Opens Social Network to the Public - Posted September 22, 2011
Have you been dying to get on Google+? Well, today is your lucky day. Google's social networking site opens to the public. Over the summer, Google+ - Google's addition to the social networking landscape - generated a great deal of buzz: Is it good? Does it improve on other social networking sites?... [SocialTimes.com]

Gmail for Mobile Web Adds Multiple Account, Signature & Vacation Responder Support - Posted September 22, 2011
Apps? Who needs apps? This appears to be Google's motto as they add more features to mobile web pages for services like Gmail. The latest feature addition is the ability to be simulatenously logged in to multiple Gmail accounts and then switch between them. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Limits Mobile Ads Pointing to Flash Heavy Landing Pages - Posted September 22, 2011
Google says, unsurprisingly, The best consumer experiences on mobile devices happen on websites that are designed for mobile. Google suggests using their own Google Sites mobile option as well as a pointer to a recorded Mobile Ads webinar (see the embedded video below). The most interesting informat... [SocialTimes.com]

Vote: Game Developers, What's the Future of Google+ Games? - Posted September 21, 2011
Game developers, please take this very short survey on the future of Google+ games, which we'll be using for Social Times' next report on the subject... [SocialTimes.com]

Newly Debuted Google Flight Search Faces Scrutiny - Posted September 21, 2011
Since Google's purchase of ITA Software a few months ago for $700 million, there's been interest in what the new flight path will be for leveraging any semantic technology included in the acquired vendor's ... [semanticweb.com]

Google+ for Android Gains Hangouts Video Chat - Posted September 21, 2011
Google announced a number of important changes to the Google+ social network service. The most important is that Google+ is now open to everyone. An invitation is not necessary to join the service. There were also two big changes for the Google+ mobile experience. ... [SocialTimes.com]

PRNewser Poll Results: Half Think The Google/Zagat Press Release Alternatives Were 'Great' - Posted September 16, 2011
The results are in and 50.6 percent of respondents to our PRNewser Poll think that creative alternatives that Google and Zagat used to announce their acquisition news were "great." We saw lots of people giving the creative "review" and haiku ... [PRNewser]

Nielsen Wire: Not Much Google+ Reach on Android & Task Killer App Used More Than Angry Birds! - Posted September 14, 2011
Nielsen Wire has really been looking hard at the mobile world. The latest report used on-device meters to determine which apps were used in a 30-day period. Their measurement techniques provided insight into overall use as well as separating app use by men and women. ... [SocialTimes.com]

HOWTO: Find Your Favorite Twitter Users On Google+ - Posted September 13, 2011
If you're having trouble finding interesting people on Google+, why not look to the network you have already built - namely, your Twitter friends? It's easy to look up which of your followers and friends are on Twitter, so you can hear more from them than 140 characters allows. If you... [AllTwitter]

PRNewser Poll: What Do You Think of The Google/Zagat Press Release Alternatives? - Posted September 12, 2011
Google made headlines last week when it announced it ... [PRNewser]

Google Buys Zagat, Ups Ante for Yelp and Foursquare - Posted September 9, 2011
Yelp , the popular city-guides website fleshed out with user-generated reviews of local business, including restaurants, bars and shops, is about to get a run for its money. The ever-powerful search engine Goog... [SocialTimes.com]

Play Google Music On Your iOS Device - Posted September 8, 2011
In June Google launched the beta of their long rumored music service called appropriately enough "Music Beta by Google." At launch Google provided a desktop web app and ... [SocialTimes.com]

No App Needed for Google+ Reshare on Android or iPhone - Posted September 8, 2011
Google continues to attempt to move people away from native platform mobile and desktop apps. The latest is an enhancement to the Google+ mobile web site. Visiting plus.google.com using the Android or iPhone (also iPad) mobile browser now provides the ability to reshare a post writ... [SocialTimes.com]

Early Bird Pricing For Social Media Marketing Boot Camp Ends September 8 - Posted September 6, 2011
Mediabistro's Social Media Marketing Boot Camp is only 21 days away, and you still have two days to get in at the early bird pricing. Save yourself a cool $100 and join other social media professionals and busine... [AllTwitter]

Early Bird Pricing For Social Media Marketing Boot Camp Ends September 8 - Posted September 6, 2011
Mediabistro's Social Media Marketing Boot Camp is only 21 days away, and you still have two days to get in at the early bird pricing. Save yourself a cool $100 and join other social media professionals and busine... [10,000 Words]

CRE Files FTC Petition Regarding Facebook, Twitter, Google - Posted September 6, 2011
Regulatory watchdog the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness is picking up the scent of Facebook, Twitter, and Google, filing a ... [SocialTimes.com]

A Mother Decides Facebook Isn't Private Enough, Starts UmeNow - Posted September 6, 2011
UmeNow.com is positioning itself as the bold new player set to destroy Facebook's lead in the social networking universe. It's the first and only ad-free social communication service in the world that is totally focused on privacy. Founded by a Latina entrepreneur mom based in South Florida, UmeNow.com officially begins its... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Shuts Down Slide: Photovine & PoolParty for iPhone Gone Just Weeks After Their Release [UPDATED] - Posted August 26, 2011
Technology moves fast. But, Google has been moving a lot faster than usual to shut down projects. Let's take a look at the recent history of Google's media sharing subsidiary Slide. Google bought Slide for $182 million a year ago (August 2010). Slide went public with two photo sharing mobile apps... [SocialTimes.com]

Tools Round Up: No More Facebook Places, More Facebook Privacy - Posted August 24, 2011
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Tools Round Up: No More Facebook Places, More Facebook Privacy - Posted August 24, 2011
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RDFa Fading Away in EPUB3 Standard - Posted August 22, 2011
To follow up our story last week about the upcoming EPUB3 standard, for which International Digital Publishing Forum membership comments were due in by today, it appears that the updates "are moving the spec even further from any apparent support/use of RDFa." That's according to ... [semanticweb.com]

Has Facebook Blocked Google+? - Posted August 19, 2011
Google and Facebook are at it again. This time one of Google's executives posted a video implying that Facebook is blocking friend links on the rival network. But, Facebook countered quickly claiming the implication is preposterous. "We are getting reports of Google+ invite links not showing up on Facebook ... [SocialTimes.com]

What Does Google+ Mean For Marketers? - Posted August 17, 2011
Who would have predicted, just two months ago, how quickly Google+ would take off? Its features and execution are compelling. Many in social media are very actively engaged on the platform and there are no shortages of either suggestions or predictions on future functions and features. 22s... [SocialTimes.com]

Google's 6 Mobile Ads Recommendations for Retailers & How Their Tablet Focus Differs from Apple's - Posted August 16, 2011
The Google Mobile Ads Blog provides six mobile advertising trends and recommendations to retailers in their latest blog entry. Mobile Insights: Retailers, are you reaching one of yo... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Catalogs for iPad: Possibly Interesting. But, All I See Are Network Error Messages - Posted August 16, 2011
Google released a new free iPad app that sounded very interesting. It provides mobile versions of well-known retailers' catalogs. These retailers include Anthropologie, Bare Escentuals, Bergdorf Goodman, Crate and Barrel, L.L. Bean, Lands' End, Macy's, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Pottery Barn, Saks Fifth Avenue, Sepho... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Buying Motorola Mobility: Reactions & Two Oddities in Google's Announcement - Posted August 15, 2011
[caption id="attachment_74216" align="alignleft" width="420" caption="Image courtesy of Wikipedia"][/caption]Google's Android strategy has looked more like Microsoft's original Windows CE/Windows Mobile plan than Apple's iPhone plan u... [SocialTimes.com]

Google and AP Announce New Scholarships for Aspiring Digital Journalists - Posted August 15, 2011
Here's another headline to add to the almost never-ending news stories about Google and the Associated Press. But this time, instead of bickering over licensing agreements and the like, the two companies have decided to team up and help student digital journalists. They just announced the ... [10,000 Words]

Google Will Own Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion - Posted August 15, 2011
Google has decided to buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion in cash to reinforce its intellectual property and placing itself directly into the handset business of its Android mobile software. Google is set to pay $40 per share, a 63 percent premium to Motorola Mobility's Friday closing p... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Releases Videos App - Posted August 11, 2011
A while back Google released a new version of the Android Market web site that added the ability to rent movies and buy books. At that time you could only play movies with a web browser on a PC, or on the Motorola XOOM, which had the Google Videos app, but... [SocialTimes.com]

Former Google Marketing Head Joins SocialTwist as President - Posted August 11, 2011
SocialTwist has appointed former Google head of product marketing Sanjeev Agrawal... [PRNewser]

Taking Concept-Based Advertising To Mobile Platforms - Posted August 10, 2011
If the future of web content is mobile, so too then goes the future of advertising. Mobile ad network Mobile Theory and ad technology company NetSeer want to be there for that future. The two have teamed up with the goal of mobilizing NetSeer's concept-based ad... [semanticweb.com]

Google+ for iPhone App Update Lets it Install & Run on iPad & iPod touch - Posted August 8, 2011
Google+ for iPhone saw a minor point update that has major implications for iPad and iPod touch users. The initial Google+ releases would not even install on an iPad or iPod touch. And, while the 1.0.2.1966 release is not a universal release, it does all the Google+ to install and work... [SocialTimes.com]

Android Users Should Sign Up For Google+ - Posted August 4, 2011
I've been using Google+ for a while now, and while I find it to be a good social network, I don't know how popular it will become given the significant number of people who use Facebook. The truth is that most of the people who are on Facebook will have to... [SocialTimes.com]

Should Google Hire The 'Google Please Hire Me' Guy? [Video] - Posted August 4, 2011
Matthew Epstein is a product marketer and digital strategist with big dreams of working for Google. To make his dreams come true, Epstein has launched his own personal marketing campaign at GooglePleaseHire.me, complete with a video resume like none you've ... [SocialTimes.com]

PoolParty Releases Linked Data Plugin for Wordpress - Posted August 2, 2011
PoolParty, a sponsor of the upcoming SemTechBiz UK conference, has released a free linked data ... [semanticweb.com]

Google's Five Step Mobile Strategy for Businesses - Posted August 2, 2011
The Google Mobile Ads Blog provides interesting mobile statistics on their way to listing: Five mobile trends to watch and how you can get started today - 85% of mobile devices will be web enabled by 2012 - Mobile search ... [SocialTimes.com]

Gmail Update Breaks Some Third Party Apps - Posted August 1, 2011
Last week Google released an update to the Gmail app for Android that added new functions to control how much data synchronizes with Android phones. Unfortunately, it appears that the update removes some API functions that third pa... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Releases Update To Gmail Android App - Posted July 29, 2011
Google has released an update to the Gmail app for Android that provides more ways to control how much data it transfers and notifications for when you receive new mail. The update is available now in the Android... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Improves Tablet Search - Posted July 29, 2011
Google has made changes to the layout of the search results pages when running Google searches on an iPad or Android 3.x tablet. The layout changes include more whitespace, larger fonts, and larger buttons to make the content easier to read and manipulate on a touchscreen. The search button now provides quick... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Must Find Its Niche - Posted July 29, 2011
Traffic on the new social network Google+ is down 3 percent this month, which has some people spe... [PRNewser]

Whatever Happened To ... And What's That About a Semantic UI-Inspired Tablet? - Posted July 28, 2011
Will some semantic web mysteries soon be solved? There's been some chatter in the last few weeks about how some semantic technologies acquired by some giants in the IT space will at last see the light of day in their respective platforms. At the same time, the publicity engine has been... [semanticweb.com]

Whatever Happened To ... And What's That About a Semantic UI-Inspired Tablet? - Posted July 28, 2011
Will some semantic web mysteries soon be solved? There's been some chatter in the last few weeks about how some semantic technologies acquired by some giants in the IT space will at last see the light of day in their respective platforms. At the same time, the publicity engine has been... [AllTwitter]

Google+ App for Windows Phone 7 Still On Its Way - Posted July 28, 2011
Windows Phone 7's Internet Explorer 6 based browser is not quite up to specs to render Google+'s HTML5 web pages. So, Windows Phone 7 users currently get a degraded web view of Google+. However, the "Unofficial Google+ Blog" notes that a Google+ app for Windows Phone 7 will be available next... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Maps 5.8 for Android Gains My Places Check-in Richness. Disconnect with Google+? - Posted July 27, 2011
Google Maps for Android got an update earlier today. Google Maps 5.8 for Android adds photo uploads, My Places, and more Google is moving further and further into territory owned by Foursquare, Gowalla and (to a lesser extent) Facebo... [SocialTimes.com]

Tip: Configure Google+ to Limit Who can Huddle (group message) With You - Posted July 27, 2011
Huddle is a Google+ feature unique to its Android and iPhone apps. It is not available on the desktop web interface. Huddle is Google+'s group messaging feature that can work with SMS (text messaging) but does not require it. Here's a quick tip on how to control who can include you... [SocialTimes.com]

Bookmark Google+ Notifications on an iPhone - Posted July 26, 2011
If you want to check Google+ notifications on your iPhone quickly, here's a handy technique. Google's search site tunes itself for the platform it sees. On an iPhone tapping the "more" link in the upper right hand corener (see above). ... [SocialTimes.com]

Doug Edwards: Exposure Through Earned Media Was Better for Google Than Placing Ads - Posted July 26, 2011
In Part 2 of our Media Beat interview with Doug Edwards, Google's first director of consumer marketing and brand management and author of the book I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59, he talks about his job as publicity and marketing lead for the former startup company. As time... [PRNewser]

Google Photovine for iPhone Gets a 1.1 Update. Has Anyone Received an Invitation to Actually Use It? - Posted July 25, 2011
Google's quasi-stealth (compared to Google+) Photovine for iPhone app was released in the first half-of June. I applied for an invitation on June 12 and never heard back. There has not been much of an uproar of people wanting invitations. But, it is odd that I don't really hear (read) about... [SocialTimes.com]

Doug Edwards: 'Google Looks At Failure Like a Data Point' - Posted July 25, 2011
Today, Google is a tech giant seeing remarkable success with its latest attempt at social networking, Google+. Back in 1999, Google was a startup company with assorted successes and failures in its future. In Part I of this week's Media Beat interview, ... [PRNewser]

Google Plus Apps Roadmap: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Symbian - Posted July 25, 2011
The official Google Plus Blog (which is actually a Google+ account) published a brief roadmap for Google+ mobile apps yesterday. Google+ mobile update roadmap Here's what we can expect: - Google+ for Android updated today (Monday,... [SocialTimes.com]

Google mobile Web App Searches by Platform - Posted July 25, 2011
Frank McPherson noted here a year ago that: Android And iPhone Apps Appear In Google Mobile Search Results This mobile app search required the word "download" to precede an app name to increase the change... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Buys Fridge to Attract Groups - Posted July 21, 2011
Google+ made an interesting turn last night. The ever growing social media platform nabbed Fridge, a group social networking site. Some could say it is an out of the ordinary move for Google+ or others could say it makes sense. I find it rather interesting considering Google+'s best feature is its Circles,... [SocialTimes.com]

Bing Brings It On (RDFa, That Is) - Posted July 21, 2011
The Twittersphere is buzzing about the Semantic Web at last grabbing onto the hearts and minds of the whole web community. It started off with a tweet from Juan Sequeda - a contributor to The Semantic Web Blog and a well-known figure in our area - that reads:         A follow-up message explains: ... [semanticweb.com]

Windows Phone & Feature Phone Users Can Now Join the Google+ Circle Without an App (screenshot tour) - Posted July 21, 2011
[caption id="attachment_71257" align="alignnone" width="180" caption="Windows Phone: Google+ stream"][/caption] The Google+ for Windows Phone app is not available yet. However, Google added a new Basic Mobile view to Google+ that lets it work with Windows Phone's Internet Explorer 6 based mobile web browser. Previously, Googl... [SocialTimes.com]

Do iPhone Users Like Google+ More Than Android Users? - Posted July 21, 2011
TechCrunch noted that the Google+ app for iPhone became the number 1 downloaded free app within 24 hours of its release. Google+ Now The Top Free App In The Apple App Store But, what about Google's o... [SocialTimes.com]

The Semantic Link - Episode 8, July 2011 - Posted July 19, 2011
On Monday, July 18, a group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the ei... [AllTwitter]

Infographic: The Growing Internet of Things - Posted July 19, 2011
A new infographic demonstrates how the internet of things has overtaken the internet of people. The article notes, "While we were asleep at the switch learning to 'plus one' on Google, the ... [semanticweb.com]

Google+ App for iPhone Available (screenshot tour). Will NOT Install on iPad! - Posted July 19, 2011
[caption id="attachment_71026" align="alignnone" width="240" caption="Google+ main screen"][/caption] Google announced the availability of the Google+ for iPhone app this mornning. Here's a couple of pieces of pertinent information about the app followed by a screenshot tour. Phone, meet Google+ (Googl... [SocialTimes.com]

Would Twitter Lose Some Of Its Cachet If Google+ Implemented Hashtags? - Posted July 19, 2011
The hashtag is an integral part of Twitter. They made up 40 percent of the trending topics in 2010, they have been used to organize ... [AllTwitter]

Will Twitter Ditch Google For Bing? - Posted July 18, 2011
Two weeks ago, Google let its deal with Twitter expire, effectively eliminating its Realtime Search results and the prominence given to tweets when users searched for news items. Now, rumors have it t... [AllTwitter]

How To Use Google+ For Breaking News - Posted July 18, 2011
Google+ is the newest social media network on the block and, as we chronicled last week, there's a lot of innovative ways it can help a reporter with their individual beat. But what about when it comes to breaking news... [10,000 Words]

Show Us Your Google News Badges - Posted July 18, 2011
Web surfers can earn badges for checking in at various locations, as well as for their entertainment selections. Add reading the news to that list, thanks to Google News. The search-engine giant debuted badges for the U.S. edition of Googl... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ "Nearby" Feature Unique to Mobile View - Posted July 14, 2011
The Google+ mobile web view on the iPhone and iPad has a feature that is not available in the desktop view. If you are in the stream view, there is a link under the Home button labeled Nearby. Tapping that link displays a stream of public posts on Google+ from people... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Photovine Video Teaser. Invitation Request Available - Posted July 13, 2011
Google is providing a bit more information about its Photovine iPhone app and service. It placed a video up on YouTube that shows people contributing photos from their iPhone that more-or-less fits the theme of "warm and fuzzy." Photovine You can also "Request and invite" to the ser... [SocialTimes.com]

Android Market App Update Will Permit eBook Buying & Movie Rentals From the Phone - Posted July 13, 2011
Google's revving up for a full assuault on Apple's iTunes. They announced that the Android Market app will be updated "in the coming weeks" for phones running Android OS 2.2 or newer. The, which currently only supports app purchases, will also permit renting movies and buying ebooks. Movies can be downloaded... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Adwords Now Provides Tablet Specific Campaigns (except for RIM's PlayBook) - Posted July 12, 2011
Tablets, or least the iPad, are hot. So hot, in fact, that Google just turned on the ability for advertisers using Google AdWords to specifically target tablets for their campaigns. Tablet targeting options now avai... [SocialTimes.com]

What is Google's Photovine & How is it Related to Spotlife? Instagram Competitor? - Posted July 12, 2011
What is Phonevine? Here's what we can learn by browsing all three pages that make up the web site. Main page - Photovine is a native iPhone app and not a web app based on the look of what is seen on an iPhone 4 image - The site has something to do with... [SocialTimes.com]

How Journalists, Community Can Connect With Google+ - Posted July 12, 2011
Chances are if you read 10,000 Words, you're a journalist of some stripe and you're also familiar with -- and likely already belong to -- the latest social network: Google Plus. I'm no longer a news beat reporter, but I immediately saw an awesome opportunity for a specific journalist or even... [10,000 Words]

How Journalists, Community Can Connect With Google+ - Posted July 12, 2011
Chances are if you read 10,000 Words, you're a journalist of some stripe and you're also familiar with -- and likely already belong to -- the latest social network: Google Plus. I'm no longer a news beat reporter, but I immediately saw an awesome opportunity for a specific journalist or even... [TVSpy]

Google+ Hangouts To Add Sign Language Support - Posted July 12, 2011
Google+ just launched and they're already talking about new updates and features. One such update will be especially appreciated by deaf Google+ users. According to GigaOM's NewTeeVee, Google will be launching a field test with a set of users th... [SocialTimes.com]

The Complete Video Guide To Google+ - Posted July 12, 2011
Everyone is talking about Google+ right now and since more and more people are signing up and adding us to their circles each and every day, we thought there was no better time than now to put together a guide about all the features of Google's new social network. Google has released... [SocialTimes.com]

New Media Index: Twitter Users Captivated by Google+ - Posted July 8, 2011
Twitter users were fascinated by the launch of another social network, Google+, while the declaration by Rep. Michele Bachmann... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Docs for Mobile (browsers) Gains Ability to Share. But, Does it Work? - Posted July 8, 2011
Google refreshed the Google Docs for mobile web feature set this week. Share your docs on the go with the improved Google Docs for mobile Here's what's new: - Sort: Sort list of documents in the mobile br... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Works on the iPhone & iPad. No App Necessary - Posted July 7, 2011
The Google+ Android app works fine. Screenshot Tour of Google+ for Android But, the lack of a Google+ iOS app doesn't mean that you can't work with Google+ on an iPhone or iPad. Assuming you have a Google+ account, just point the Safari mo... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Hopes to Rival Facebook - Posted July 7, 2011
Google is developing a new alternative to Facebook, a project currently in a limited field trial called Google+. According to ... [semanticweb.com]

Screenshot Tour of Google+ for Android - Posted July 7, 2011
[caption id="attachment_69641" align="alignnone" width="240" caption="Google+ for Android home screen"][/caption] I was finally able to sign-in to Google+ yesterday. Here's a set of screenshots from main components of Google+ for Android running on a Nexus One phone. [caption id="attachment_69650" align="alignnone" width="240" captio... [SocialTimes.com]

Add Facebook Events To Google Calendar - Posted July 6, 2011
Last month I wrote about Best Wishes, which is an Android app that notifies you when one of your Facebook friends is celebrating a birthday and provides an easy way to post a birthday w... [SocialTimes.com]

Google World Domination Starts with... Rebranding? Bye Bye Blogger & Picasa - Posted July 5, 2011
It looks like Google's plan for world domination is comin together this summer. Google+ launched last week with an app for Android. The Google+ app for iPhone was submitted yesterday (the 4th of July). Today we learned that Google is dropping the Blogger and Picasa branding. Those names came with the... [SocialTimes.com]

How Will Google+ Be Integrated With Android? - Posted July 5, 2011
By now you most likely have heard about Google's new social networking app, Google+. While much of the talk about Google+ has been about how it affects other sites like Facebook and Twitter, I think another vali... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+'s First Privacy Error for the Social Network Platform - Posted July 5, 2011
Barely out of the incubator, Google+ has experienced its first major privacy complaint. The Financial Times are the ones who discovered the error and reported it. There is a slight bug where users "reshare" any content with anyone. Even if the Circle is private, users can still "reshare" anyone's content. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Groupon's Indian Partner Accidentally Publishes User Database to Google - Posted July 5, 2011
[caption id="attachment_69284" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="thetechjump"][/caption] "A few hours and tweaks later, this database came up," Australian security consultant Daniel Grzelak told Risky.Biz. "I started scrolling and scrolling and I couldn't get to the... [SocialTimes.com]

Play: Google Promotes Nexus S With Addictive YouTube Game - Posted July 5, 2011
Back in February, Google took to YouTube to promote Chrome with 'Think Fast', an interactive YouTube game. They are following in the tradition of using YouTube interactivity for promotions with a brand new interactive game, designed to promote ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ for iPhone App Waiting for Apple's Approval - Posted July 5, 2011
Google shut down the invitation queue for its new social network service Google+ hours after it became available for public beta testing. It launched with an Android app available but nothing for the iP... [SocialTimes.com]

YouTube Coming To Televisions In Saudi Arabia - Posted June 30, 2011
Saudi Arabians will soon be able to watch YouTube videos directly from their televisions, thanks to a new partnership between Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and Google Saudi Arabia. The partnership will bring an interactive television service called Invision, to customers, letting users search for and watch YouTube videos directly from... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Goggles for Android Can Copy & Paste OCRed Text, Map Searches, Translate Russian! - Posted June 22, 2011
Google Goggles for Android 1.5 was just updated and gained a couple of interesting new abilities. Google Goggles learns Russian and gets a new view The first is the ability to recognize and translate (optic... [SocialTimes.com]

SemTech2011 Coverage: SemWebbers, LODers: What PubSubHubbub Can Do For You - Posted June 21, 2011
I sat down with Dr. Alexandre Passant, of DERI NUI Galway, to discuss his recent research projects entitled "sparqlPuSh" and "SMOB." SparqlPuSh combines Google's PubSu... [semanticweb.com]

YouTube, Facebook and Netflix Leaders in Web Video - Posted June 21, 2011
Based on a survey of a number of Web users during the last week, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney reports that Apple's iTunes Store has more or less 10% of market share for online video. In the survey, the most common video platforms were mentioned by users and here are the findings: 1.... [SocialTimes.com]

'Photovine' is Google's Latest Trademark for Photo Sharing? - Posted June 21, 2011
Recent reports seem to indicate that Google is aiming to launch a new photo sharing platform called "Photovine". The reports surfaced from The San Francisco Chro... [SocialTimes.com]

The Semantic Link - Episode 7, June 2011 - Posted June 20, 2011
On Monday, June 20, a group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the se... [semanticweb.com]

Q About Google Smartphone Use Data: Ave. Apps Installed = 28, 22 or 14? - Posted June 20, 2011
Google shared their findings about smartphone users at the MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) Forum last week. Global mobile research on the smartphone user and the mobile marketer from the MMA and Google The en... [SocialTimes.com]

Does Pandora IPO Mark the End of the New Tech Bubble? - Posted June 17, 2011
[caption id="attachment_22863" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo: Richard Drew, AP"][/caption] By late Thursday Pandora became the latest in a series of Internet companies to ... [PRNewser]

Sindice Puts The Web of Data At Your Disposal - Posted June 16, 2011
Sindice Ltd. launched as a startup company this week, complete with a publicly available beta SPARQL endpoint to its indexed and live-updated dataset of some 12 billion triples. Next week will see Sindice --which began as a joint academic research project among ... [semanticweb.com]

Sindice Puts The Web of Data At Your Disposal - Posted June 16, 2011
Sindice Ltd. launched as a startup company this week, complete with a publicly available beta SPARQL endpoint to its indexed and live-updated dataset of some 12 billion triples. Next week will see Sindice --which began as a joint academic research project among ... [AllTwitter]

Google Chromebooks Available for Pre-order From Amazon & Best Buy - Posted June 10, 2011
What would you say if I offered to sell you something that looks like an ordinary notebook with an 11.6-inch display, an unspecified amount of flash storage that you can't directly use and the only piece of software that runs on it is Google's Chrome browser. Let's also say this product... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Now Supports Authorship Markup - Posted June 8, 2011
On Tuesday Google announced, "Today we're beginning to support authorship marku... [semanticweb.com]

Google Releases Authorship Markup To Help Connect Authors With Their Content - Posted June 8, 2011
Yesterday on their search blog, Google announced the release of Authorship Markup, an attribute which publishers can tack onto link tags to help Google's algorithm better connect authors and their conte... [TVSpy]

Verizon/Google Team to Block 3rd Party Android Tethering Apps - Posted June 8, 2011
You've probably seen Verizon Wireless' commercial of three people downloading media to 4G tablets while a rocket speeds to destory a 4G MiFi hotspot. If you have a 4G capable Android phone running OS 2.2 (Froyo) or newer, you don't need a MiFi hotspot since the phone can become a hotspot... [SocialTimes.com]

Tools Round Up: Private Jets, Groupon Going Public, and An App to Avoid - Posted June 2, 2011
Tired of sharing flights with tons of people you don't know? Load ... [PRNewser]

Google, Yahoo! and Bing Announce Schema.org - Posted June 2, 2011
[Revised and re-posted at 4:03pm EST] In a collaborative effort reminiscent of sitemaps.org, Google, Yahoo! and Bing have announced the launch of schema.org. Perhaps the most significant aspect of this a... [AllTwitter]

Google & Gilt Teamed to Offer Early Limited Edition Chromebooks - Posted June 1, 2011
Were you one of the many people who received an email from Google's Chrome Team that, in part, said: Our good friends over at Gilt, the premier invitation-only shopping site, have agreed to put these Chromebooks up for sale -- but only for a very limited time. This early availability Chromebook is a... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Rolls Out +1 Button To Publishers - Posted June 1, 2011
Despite its reputation as a search giant, it's no secret that Google has fallen behind in the social media game; even the company's former CEO and current Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has ... [TVSpy]

Google Maps 5.5 for Android Lets You Check-in & Rate Places - Posted May 25, 2011
Google updated Maps for Android by adding the ability to check-in and rate a place from Maps itself. Check-ins and rating places get easier with Google Maps 5.5 for Android This update also lets you adjust ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google News Gets Local - Posted May 25, 2011
Google recently announced a few changes to its news search feature. According to the article, "Android and iPhone smartphone users now have the option to see ... [semanticweb.com]

Is Google Readying to Buy Sprint? Voicemail, Long Distance & Mobile Payment - Posted May 25, 2011
Google and Sprint have become very chummy recently. In March, The pair announced that Google Voice would eventually provide voice mail service for all Sprint cell phones. Google Said to Plan Mobile-Payment Service Unveiling ... [SocialTimes.com]

YouTube Adds VP/Sales and Marketing, YouTube TV Hire - Posted May 24, 2011
YouTube is beefing up its staff, as the Google-owned video site added Lucas Watson (pictured) as vice president of sales and marketing (for both YouTube and Google Video), as well as ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Abandons Plan to Archive the World's Newspapers - Posted May 20, 2011
This could have been amazing: Google has had a five-year-old News Archive project that was basically its newspaper version of Google Books. As part of the project, Google promised to scan, index, and host digital files from numerous newspapers, and it eventually had 60 mil... [FishbowlNY]

Facebook Smear Campaign Against Google Backfires - Posted May 12, 2011
A true-to-life drama better than anything Aaron Sorkin could pen for Hollywood. Dan Lyon's The Daily Beast reported today that Facebook hired "Burson-Marsteller, a top public-relations firm, to pit... [SocialTimes.com]

Angry Birds Fly Into Your Browser - Posted May 12, 2011
Angry Birds, the highly addictive mobile game, has made its way to the web. Rovio, the developer of Angry Birds, has released a browser version of the game for ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Announces Movie Rentals And Music Service - Posted May 10, 2011
If Apple has set the standard for mobile technology, then Google crossed off two more items on their list of what they need to implement with their movie rental and music announcements made at the 2011 Google I/O conference. Movie rental is available now via the Android market, while ... [SocialTimes.com]

B-M Pitch on Behalf of Unnamed Client Raises Ethical Questions - Posted May 10, 2011
USA Today reported this morning on a "whisper campaign" launched by Burson-Marsteller on behalf of an unnamed client that targeted Google's Social Circle feature for Gmail. (The USA Today article and this one from Bus... [AgencySpy]

Apple Charges Ahead of Google on Brand Ranking Chart - Posted May 9, 2011
Apple leads the sixth annual BrandZ report put out by WPP research firm Millward Brown. The brand, valued at $153.3 billion, overtakes Google, which is valued at $111.5 milli... [PRNewser]

Renren -- The Facebook of China -- Raises $743 Million - Posted May 9, 2011
Shares of the Chinese social networking site Renren surged on their trading debut in New York on Wednesday. The company raised $743 million from the offering. Renren has been called China's answer to Facebook and is one of the few publicly traded social networking sites and the latest symbol of China's soaring... [SocialTimes.com]

Legislative Update: 'Do Not Track' Advances from California to Capitol Hill - Posted May 9, 2011
Legislation that would dramatically change the way online advertising and Web companies are allowed to collect and retain consumers' personal data is moving forward in the U.S., from sea to shining sea. California moved one step closer to enacting the first 'Do Not Track' legislation in the nation that would give... [SocialTimes.com]

Demand Media Raises the Bar for its Content - Posted May 6, 2011
Demand Media is shutting down the program that lets anyone publish to its eHow website, Reuters reports, and it plans to raise the quality of... [FishbowlNY]

South Korean Police Raid Google's Office -- What Does It Mean to the U.S? - Posted May 6, 2011
How do consumers and the feds respond to potential privacy breaches on mobile phones? Depends on where you are. In the United States, lawmakers call for hearings, while ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Is Crowdsourcing Improvements To Maps - Posted May 5, 2011
Google has released version 5.4 of Maps for Android that includes three new features, storage of Map searches in the Google Web History associated with your account, inclusion of more details in the Pla... [SocialTimes.com]

How Are iPhone and Android Users Fighting Back Over Location-Sharing? - Posted May 2, 2011
Forget emails to Steve Jobs and blog ranting, iPhone and Android users are taking their privacy complaints straight to the courtroom. Two Michigan women have sued Google over location data collected by Android devices, just one week after fellow iPhone-maker Apple was named in a lawsuit citing privacy violations with... [SocialTimes.com]

Best Buy: Next Steps Into the Semantic Web - Posted May 2, 2011
Just a few months ago Jay Myers, lead web development engineer at Best Buy, talked to The Semantic Web Blog about using RDFa to mark up the retailer's product detail pages and more semantic things he'd like to do, including mashing up its online catalog data with some other data sources. ... [semanticweb.com]

Google Docs for Android: Limited Functionality. Big App Size - Posted April 28, 2011
Google released a free Android app that accesses files stored in Google Docs. Introducing the new Google Docs app for Android When you search for "Google Docs" in the Andoid Market, it is, ironically, the second result hit. The first h... [SocialTimes.com]

Is The Dogfighting App Acceptable? Michael Vick and Humane Society Say No - Posted April 26, 2011
A new app for the Android is stirring up controversy, and a once unlikely alliance is leading the cause to have the game removed. Dog Wars, a mobile app that is just what it sounds like, in which users fight dogs, has come under heated resistance led by reformed Philadelphia Eagles... [SocialTimes.com]

How To Move Google Video Videos To YouTube In One Easy Step - Posted April 25, 2011
Last week Google announced that Google Video is history, and that starting Friday, April 29, 2011, the site would no longer be hosting videos. Google Video users are being advised to transfer all of their Google Video files... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Puts The Kibosh On Roku YouTube Channel - Posted April 22, 2011
Roku users looking to watch YouTube videos from their TVs are out of luck. You can still use Roku to watch everything from Netflix to Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video and more, but Roku users can no longer access YouTube after Google requested that the Roku YouTube cha... [SocialTimes.com]

PRNewser Poll: Will QR Codes Follow in the Flip Cam's Footsteps? - Posted April 21, 2011
As we've noted recently, QR codes are popping up in a lot of places, and they're becoming a popular marketing tool for a variety of industries. However, it has been mentioned by tweeters and ... [PRNewser]

Twitter's Effect on Search Engine Rankings: Not as Big as You'd Expect - Posted April 20, 2011
In December 2010, Google and Bing confirmed that Facebook and Twitter affected search rankings. And although marketers suspected as much for some time, the confirmation seemed to signal the ushering in of a new, more s... [AllTwitter]

More Semantics For Google: ITA Software Acquisition Comes With Needlebase, Too - Posted April 20, 2011
A couple of weeks ago The Semantic Web Blog asked our audience whether we thought Larry Page picking up as Google's CEO might result in semantic search efforts gaining more traction at Google. The results of that poll, which you can find ... [semanticweb.com]

Use Search Operators To Find Stories, Sources and Documents Online - Posted April 19, 2011
There are billions of websites on the Internet. But finding the one you need or want isn't always easy. Thanks to the glut of content farms and spam blogs, the legitimate, useful and smaller sites are often pushed down further in the results, meaning you have to wade through hundreds or... [TVSpy]

New Media Index: Google's YouTube Plans Top Twitter - Posted April 15, 2011
Google's announcement that it would spend $100 million to create original programming for its YouTube video site was the subject of 10 percent of news links shared via Twitter, topping th... [SocialTimes.com]

Photo and Video Sharing Site Multiply 5.0 Evolves towards Social Shopping - Posted April 13, 2011
Social media platforms tend to evolve by the whims of the owners who decide what is best for their users. We have certainly witnessed that with Facebook, Google as well as YouTube. In Indonesia, a social networking platform for photo and video sharing has evolved into a social shopping site... [SocialTimes.com]

Twitter Feeds Worth $11 Billion A Year To Search Giants, Says Study - Posted April 13, 2011
Search giants such as Google and Microsoft could generate revenues of $30 million per day by selling advertisements that point directly to tweets and Facebook status updates, says new research from Penn University. The researchers looked at the value of displaying ads along th... [AllTwitter]

Google Puts In Place Another Piece Of Their Music Puzzle - Posted April 11, 2011
For the past year we have seen brief glimpses of Google's efforts to add a music service to Android which most likely will also have a web app for playing music on personal computers. During last year's Google I/O conference we saw a Music section of the Android Market that frankly... [SocialTimes.com]

'A Google a Day' Encourages Googling for Trivia Answers - Posted April 11, 2011
Using Google to look up answers in trivia games is generally frowned upon, but not when Google is the creator of the trivia game. User-experience researcher Dan Russell announced the launch of ... [SocialTimes.com]

The New York Times Partners with Google for Trivia Game - Posted April 11, 2011
The New York Times has partnered with Google to launch A Google A Day, a trivia game that actually encourages you to use the search engine to solve one question per day. ... [FishbowlNY]

Google Ensures That Messages for Japan Aren't Lost in Translation - Posted April 11, 2011
Google aims to eliminate the language barrier faced by users who wish to share messages of support for earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Japan with its launch of Messages for Japan, which serves the dual purpose of automatically translating posts into Japanese and ... [SocialTimes.com]

Exploring the Semantics of Yahoo Search Direct - Posted April 11, 2011
A couple of weeks ago Yahoo debuted a beta version of its Search Direct technology, which was seen as a competitor to Google Instant in that it shows search options as users begin typing in a query. There were also questions raised among those in the industry about h... [semanticweb.com]

Google Hotpot Folded into Google Places - Posted April 11, 2011
Do you remember Google Wave? It was, um, well, that's the problem. Most of us never quite figured out what it was and what it was supposed to do for us. Google pulled its plug less than a year after it became widely available. It is now an Apache Open Source... [SocialTimes.com]

Click Google +1, Get a Google Employee a Bonus - Posted April 8, 2011
If you just clicked the +1 button to share a Google Search result with a friend, you just made the day of every Google employee behind the walls of the Googleplex. And they'll be thanking you all the way to the bank. The size of annual bonuses of Google employees will... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Found: Tablet Users Say it is Displacing TV, PC & Smartphone Use - Posted April 8, 2011
Early in Microsoft's history (1977), co-founder Bill Gates said that his goal was to have a computer on every desk. Flash forward to today and Google's goal appears to be to have Google advertisements on every display of every kind. Apple's iPad reinvigorated the tablet computer market (s... [SocialTimes.com]

Larry Page Steps Up as Google's New CEO. Will Semantic Search Gain Traction? - Posted April 5, 2011
Yesterday Google co-founder Larry Page took over as CEO of the company: "Eric Schmidt, who was 'adult supervision,' and ... [semanticweb.com]

PRNewser Poll: Many Would Take A Pass on April Fools Day - Posted April 4, 2011
The Internet was lit up with all sorts of April Fools Day hijinks on Friday. But the holiday isn't too popular with those who responded to our PRNewser poll. About 38 percent of respondents said April Fools sucks, while 23 percent voted Google's gags to be the best. Pranks pulled by a... [PRNewser]

Are Privacy Concerns Behind Google's Denial of Facial Recognition App? - Posted April 4, 2011
Google wasted no time denying a CNN report published Thursday morning that the company was close to releasing a facial recognition app that would share users' personal information with the click of a camera. What was behind the company's quick and forceful response? ... [SocialTimes.com]

Tracking the Trail From Silicon Valley to Washington D.C., and Back - Posted March 28, 2011
President Barack Obama's claim as the first "Web 2.0 president," along with his ties to the tech industry, may be getting a little deeper with rumors of two impending personnel moves between his presidency and Silicon Valley. Obama, of course, was not the first politician to use Web 2.0 technologies to r... [SocialTimes.com]

Color 101: Where Did It Come From? Do We Want It? - Posted March 28, 2011
Forget the fact that I just asked whether we want this new photo app called "Color." We have no choice. It has to work. That's what $41 million in funding from a few different firms inclu... [PRNewser]

Google Guru Calls for "New Social Order" for Online Privacy - Posted March 28, 2011
The man widely known as one of "The Fathers of the Internet" has spoken out about online privacy. He's called for new "social rules of order," so what does that mean for you? Vinton Cerf, Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist, says people should be abl... [SocialTimes.com]

GoogleArt - Semantic Data Wrapper (Technical Update) - Posted March 25, 2011
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Recently, we reported on the creation of a semantic data wrapper for the GoogleArt project. At the tim... [AllTwitter]

Google Quietly Launches Quarterly Online Magazine In The U.K. - Posted March 23, 2011
What's this, hmm? Newsgrange is reporting that Google has quietly launched an online magazine in the UK called Think Quarterly. The first edition is 62 pag... [GalleyCat]

Google Quietly Launches Quarterly Online Magazine In The U.K. - Posted March 23, 2011
What's this, hmm? Newsgrange is reporting that Google has quietly launched an online magazine in the UK called Think Quarterly. The first edition is 62 pag... [FishbowlNY]

Semantic Image Search: Next Up For a Major Search Engine? - Posted March 23, 2011
We've seen the big three players in the search engine space honing their semantic edge, and we may soon see one of them deploying semantic technology to sharpen image searches, too. nachofoto says it is in discussions with one of the giants (which it declines to name for now) that could... [semanticweb.com]

NYC SeedStart Media 2011 to Provide Mentoring, Funding for Media Startups - Posted March 22, 2011
A new opportunity has ju... [FishbowlNY]

'Time' Tracks the Path of the Corporate Logo - Posted March 22, 2011
[caption id="attachment_17778" align="alignnone" width="466" caption="The evolution of the KFC logo from 'Time' magazine's slideshow."][/caption] Time magazine's J... [PRNewser]

The New York Times Accuses Google of Being A Media Company - Posted March 21, 2011
In the new digital media world, traditional lines dividing companies are blurring everywhere. David Carr at the New York Times makes the argument that even Google, which has adamantly denied be... [FishbowlNY]

YouTube Goes Gaga - Posted March 16, 2011
YouTube wants to offer something for everyone: If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn't your cup of tea, perhaps ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

March Madness, Google-Style - Posted March 14, 2011
The 2011 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship is set to tip off Tuesday night, and while Google Earth may not be able to bring users 3D images from inside the arenas -- CBS and its cable partners might be slightly miffed -- the outside of the 14 tournament arenas is... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google Mines for Management Excellence - Posted March 14, 2011
[caption id="attachment_17194" align="alignnone" width="468" caption="The Google logo from March 6, Ghana's independence day."][/caption] From the sublime to the bizarre and from the bizarre to the ridiculous Google mines it. So it's all the more i... [PRNewser]

Google Crisis Response Page for Japan Earthquake Goes Live - Posted March 11, 2011
Google set up a Google Crisis Response page for Friday morning's massive earthquake in Japan and res... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

University of Southampton Takes Practical Approach to Open Data Services - Posted March 11, 2011
A whole lot of open data made its way onto the web this week, thanks to work undertaken at the University of Southampton, where Semantic Web thought leader Professor Nigel Shadbolt is professor of Artificial Intelligence and Deputy Head of the school of Electronics and Computer Science. ... [AllTwitter]

Google Changes How Twitter Appears in Search Results - Posted March 8, 2011
It looks like Google is experimenting with changing the way Twitter appears in its search results. Rather than linking to the account and including a generic blurb about someone being on Twitter, Google now displays the most recent tweets from that user right in its... [AllTwitter]

Google Refine + RDF Extension = Step To Enterprise Data Space - Posted March 7, 2011
Time to reflect on Google Refine in so far as it relates to the RDF extension produced by DERI Researcher/ Linked Data Technologist Ri... [semanticweb.com]

Google Adds Twitter Functionality to Google Maps for Android - Posted March 3, 2011
Google is embracing Twitter for its Google Places reviews made via the Android Maps app. Now, whenever someone reviews a restaurant, retail store or cafe from Google Places, they can share their review directly with their Twitter followers. ... [AllTwitter]

SEO Terms to Know for Web 3.0 - Posted March 1, 2011
A recent article directed at SEO (search engine optimization) professionals gives insight into some emerging terms that are coinciding with the development of Web 3.0. Accord... [semanticweb.com]

Search by Ingredients, Prep Time, or Calories with Google's Recipe View - Posted February 28, 2011
Last week we reported on Google's new Recipe View. The new search feature on Google allows users to search for recipes by ingredient, calorie count, and preparation time. Currently ... [semanticweb.com]

RDFa is Sweeping the Web - Posted February 23, 2011
A new article by Peter Mika looks at the growing reach of RDFa and microformats on the web. The ar... [AllTwitter]

Google Continues to Tweak Social Search Results - Posted February 17, 2011
Google is testing a way to make social results a more prominent part in its search results, moving content that previously appeared at the bottom of its results page toward the top and adding friends' names, where applicable, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Time Inc. and Sports Illustrated Unveil Digital Subscription Model - Posted February 11, 2011
Yesterday we told you about this, and now it's official: Sports Illustrated has launched a digital subscription plan on Google's Android platform, called All Access. Launching today, All Access provides magazine apps and website access to any Android smartph... [FishbowlNY]

'People Familiar' With a Bajillion Exaggerations Bloat Valuations by the Billions - Posted February 10, 2011
A Wall Street Journal story addressing, ironically enough, tech industry hyperbole, starts with the statement that certain people "familiar with the matter" have said Twitter has had low-level acquisition talks with executives at both Facebook and Google. Then it shuts the door on that notion by stating the talks have gone... [AllTwitter]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Invests in Twitter Payment Technology Twitpay - Posted February 4, 2011
Twitpay, the Twitter-based payments service, has received some funding from Eric Schmidt's TomorrowVentures investment firm, as well as CompuCredit Holdings Corporation. It looks like Twitter payment systems might be the big thing next to F... [AllTwitter]

GoogleArt Gets a Semantic Touch-up - Posted February 4, 2011
On Tuesday in London, the Google Art Project was announced. The project includes artworks from 17 of the world's leading institutions including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Frick Collection; the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC; London's Tate Museum, and museums... [AllTwitter]

GoogleArt Gets a Semantic Touch-up - Posted February 4, 2011
On Tuesday in London, the Google Art Project was announced. The project includes artworks from 17 of the world's leading institutions including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Frick Collection; the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC; London's Tate Museum, and... [semanticweb.com]

CNN Readying App for Android Tablets - Posted February 2, 2011
Lost among the hoopla over that other news app that launched Wednesday, CNN announced that it will launch a CNN App for Android-powered tablets. The announcement was made at Google's press event Wednesday at its headquarters in Mountain Vi... [AppNewser]

Twitter, Google, SayNow: Tweet from Egypt, Even Without Internet Access - Posted January 31, 2011
The embattled Egyptian government may have shut down Internet access, but engineers from Twitter, Google, and voice-application provider SayNow teamed up on Speak2Tweet, which allows people in Egypt to leave voice mails at international phone numbers +16504194196, +390662207294, or +97316199855, which will then be converted to Tweets with the #egypt hashtag. The... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Firefox, Chrome Take On Tracking; Maybe Now It's Time To Look To Semantic Web Advertising Platforms - Posted January 27, 2011
Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers this week unveiled responses to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) call for a Do Not Track browser option. What's the impact on the online advertising community? Andy Ellenthal, CEO of semantic web advertising company Peer39... [AllTwitter]

Firefox, Chrome Take On Tracking; Maybe Now It's Time To Look To Semantic Web Advertising Platforms - Posted January 27, 2011
Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers this week unveiled responses to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) call for a Do Not Track browser option. What's the impact on the online advertising community? Andy Ellenthal, CEO of semantic web advertising company Peer39... [semanticweb.com]

Why You Can't Wait Another Day to Launch Your Twitter Startup - Posted January 25, 2011
2011 is going to be the year of Twitter startups: if you've been playing with an idea for one, now's the time to get the ball rolling. Today marked a huge acquisition of a small Twitter startup that could signal good things to come for early Twitter... [AllTwitter]

Garlik's Angel Online Data Protection Service Flies Into Google's Chrome Store - Posted January 25, 2011
Garli... [AllTwitter]

Epik Has Epic Semantic Web Plans For Its Domains and Domainers - Posted January 24, 2011
Are you a domainer? More specifically, are you a domainer who's sitting on a lot of parking sites that aren't turning the profit they once used to, and for whom the cost proposition of building out each one individually to generate revenue is just plain prohibitive? Well, ... [AllTwitter]

Down on the Farms: Google Outlines Plan to Curb Search Spam - Posted January 21, 2011
Finally, some Google news: Principal engineer Matt Cutts wrote a post on the ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Hakia Semantic Search Engine Powers New Stock Intelligence Service - Posted January 19, 2011
Pssst...want a hot stock tip? Perhaps you might want to check out Hakia-search powered SENSENews, while you still can. The new service aggregates information from news and social media and filters it so as to produce a score to characterize the performance of a company. Individual subscriptions to the semantic-enabled service... [semanticweb.com]

Google buys Ebook Startup - Posted January 13, 2011
Google gave its newly launched ebook business a big boost with the purchase of eBook Technologies Inc., the startup-gobbling giant's first acquisition of 2011. The Internet giant o... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Top Startup Trends of 2010 - Posted December 28, 2010
... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google Employee Gets Local High School Student Out Of Jail & Home For Xmas - Posted December 24, 2010
This past May, high school student Jeremy Marks filmed a female campus cop wrestle with an uncooperative student while a crowd of rowdy youths looked on. Marks allegedly called out "Kick her ass!" during the incident. Shortly afterwords, he was arrested for "attempted lynching" and he's been stuck in jail ever... [FishbowlLA]

Ex Googler Tells Gawker, Facebook Has Better Social Skills - Posted December 22, 2010
Former ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Hey Google: It's Not Your Sentiment Analytics! - Posted December 22, 2010
This week a press release came out from General Sentiment that said that an official Google blog implied that the search engine giant itself owned the start-up's sentiment analysis system - which it doesn't. No hard feelings, though - Genera... [AllTwitter]

News design trends in Google's Chrome apps - Posted December 20, 2010
As a proud recent pilot tester for the Google Chrome Notebook, I've switched over to the device as my primary laptop and have thus been consuming more and more news through the web apps in the Google Chrome Web app store. Because Chrome web apps have yet to be adopted at a... [TVSpy]

Myspace, Google Announce Multiyear Extension - Posted December 16, 2010
Google will continue to power search and search advertising on Myspace, and the search giant will add display-advertising services, under terms of a multiyear extension between the two companies, announced Thursday. Google will provide Web search, search... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

YouTube in Talks to Buy Video Producer - Posted December 16, 2010
Google's YouTube has traditionally left the production of content to its users and network partners. But that may soon change if buyout talks with a New York-based conten... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

First Update to Google TV Begins Rolling Out - Posted December 15, 2010
Google TV released its first software update, which added an app for Netflix; added a dual-view feature that allows users to watch a show and surf the Web at the same time; added support for the Google TV Remote app in Android Market; included a movie results page; and fixed some... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google Buys Mobile Payments Startup - Posted December 15, 2010
Google has given its payments system a boost with the acquisition of a startup that will let vendors take payments at the wave of a hand. The search giant has purchased a Zetawire, a little kno... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Top 10 Twitter Trends of 2010: BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Was No. 1 - Posted December 13, 2010
Twitter analyzed the approximately 25 billion Tweets sent so far in 2010 and found that BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the top trend for the year. The complete list, from the ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Lisp Bot Wins Google AI Challenge -- Will Lisp Win in the Semantic Web, Too? - Posted December 10, 2010
The prize for Google's AI challenge - creating a bot to play the game Planet Wars as intelligently as possible - has been taken by a developer from semantic web vendor Franz Inc. G bor Melis, who works on the company's Lisp-based AI database, claimed the win for his Lisp-built... [semanticweb.com]

Amazon May Demo 'Kindle For The Web' Today - Posted December 7, 2010
Computerworld is reporting that Amazon will demonstrate a new version of Kindle... [AppNewser]

The Once and Future Groupon - Posted December 7, 2010
Another day, an... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

DoubleClick Founder's FindTheBest Comparison App Gets Investment From Social App Fund -- And Sees Open Graph In Its Future - Posted December 6, 2010
Comparison engine FindtheBest, the startup launched by DoubleClick co-founder Kevin O'Connor (see our story here), has found itself the recipient of some VC funding. The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers sFund is parting with an undisclosed sum out of its ... [semanticweb.com]

Google Considering Startup Incubator to Retain Talent - Posted November 30, 2010
The 12-year-old Google is tired of losing talented employees to younger rivals, and is considering starting an internal startup incubator to keep them in-house, according to a ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Promoted Tweets Appear in Google US; Soon to be in UK - Posted November 23, 2010
Earlier this month, US citizens might've noticed Promoted Tweets appearing in their Google searches. Tweets themselves have been popping up for relevant searches for some time, but Promoted Tweets appear to have been made visible on Google search in the b... [AllTwitter]

Google Exploring Groupon Buyout - Posted November 19, 2010
Google is in negotiations with group shopping startup Groupon over a possible buyout, according to a report Friday. The asking price is well above the $2-3 billion rumored to have been offe... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Kayak Files for $50M IPO, Claims Google Threat - Posted November 17, 2010
The high-flying travel search startup Kayak Software Corp. intends to go public with shares worth up to $50 million, according to an ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Facebook or Gmail? Analysts are Watching - Posted November 16, 2010
Facebook's new messaging system doesn't seem to scare Google CEO Eric Schmidt. While some woul... [PRNewser]

WEBCAST: Maximizing your Google SEO Effect with Semantic Web Technology - Posted November 12, 2010
NOTE: This Webcast is in three parts. Part I Part II Part III DESCRIPTION: If own or manage a web sit... [semanticweb.com]

Next Issue Media to Debut in Early 2011, But Only for Android - Posted November 11, 2010
"Hulu for Magazines" is coming in early 2011, b... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

What a Difference a Year Makes: Foursquare Hires PR Firm; Grows Up? - Posted November 5, 2010
Last October, Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley ... [PRNewser]

Google Buzz Class-Action Privacy Suit Settled; No Money to Users, But $8.5M Fund Established - Posted November 3, 2010
Google announced via a mass email on its Gmail service that it reached a settlement in a class-action suit over privacy concerns with its Google Buzz social component to Gmail. Users of its email service will not receive compensation, but the search-engine giant wi... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google Recommends Using RDFa and the GoodRelations Vocabulary - Posted November 2, 2010
Martin Hepp, of Hepp Research, GmbH, announced today that Google now recommends using the GoodRelations vocabulary for product and price information in Web pages. This is significant news for broader adoption of the Semantic Web and Linked Data. Why is this significant? ... [semanticweb.com]

CBS News to Stream Election Results on Its YouTube Channel - Posted November 2, 2010
CBS News will begin live-streaming results from Tuesday's midterm elections on its ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Apple, Google Face Off Over Mobile Payments Startup - Posted November 2, 2010
Apple and Google are headed for a showdown over mobile payments startup BOKU, according to reports. The two tech giants are both in private talks with the San Francisco-based company about ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google TV to Give Away 10K Devices to Developers - Posted October 26, 2010
Google TV announced that it will give away 10,000 devices to developers so that they can optimize their content for its system. ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Knight Foundation Gets $2M Grant from Google - Posted October 26, 2010
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has 2 million reasons to be happy Tuesday courtesy of Google, which provided it with a $... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Freemium Summit East: Lessons from Leaders at Scale - Posted October 25, 2010
Google Apps partner lead Scott McMullan used a panel titled "Lessons from Leaders ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google's Marissa Mayer to Sit Down for Digg Dialogg - Posted October 21, 2010
Google vice president, location and local services Marissa Mayer will take part in the next Digg Dialogg, Digg community manager ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Jay-Z Unveiling His Book One Page at a Time - Posted October 21, 2010
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The Dead Sea Scrolls? Google It! - Posted October 20, 2010
The ancient and the modern will go hand-in-hand, as the Israel Antiquities Authority is teaming up with Google to upload digitized images of the Dead Sea scroll... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google TV to Include YouTube Leanback - Posted October 19, 2010
YouTube Leanback is officially a part of Google TV, and as devices for the latter become availa... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

More Chilean Miner Stats for News Sites, Social Media, Search Engines - Posted October 19, 2010
The rescue of the formerly trapped miners from the northern Atacama desert in Chile generated strong numbers for ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google Android Chief Andy Rubin Tweets Tweak at Apple CEO Steve Jobs - Posted October 19, 2010
What better way to break in a cobweb-covered Twitter account then to take a poke at your biggest rival. As reported by ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Oscar Wilde & Ahmad Shawqi Honored by Google Doodle - Posted October 18, 2010
The Google Doodle team honored two writers in select countries last Friday. ... [GalleyCat]

Social Media Search & Data Mining Primed To Out-Google Google - Inventorspot - Posted October 17, 2010
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Google, NBC Universal End Ad Partnership Early - Posted October 14, 2010
The advertising partnership between Google and NBC Universal came to an early end, with the two parties announcing that they had terminated it nearly one year prior to its original expiration date, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Tech, Media Dominate Landor Associates' 2010 Breakaway Brands Study - Posted October 11, 2010
Clif Bar and Kraft Foods have something else in common besides edible products: They were the only two companies to crack the top-10 list in the 2010 Breakaway Brands Study from strategic brand consulting and design firm ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Crowdflower Teams with Arcade Fire, Google on Artsy Crowdsourcing Project - Posted October 11, 2010
In a special project tailor-made for the Web, Google teamed with the band Arcade Fire and writer and director ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google TV Offers More Details on Apps, Partnerships - Posted October 4, 2010
For those who have been wondering what's going on with Google TV, wonder no more: Developer and product manager Ambarish Kenghe offered a progress update on the Google Blog, and the new Google TV site offers descrip... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google on Positive PR - Posted September 30, 2010
Google turned 12 on Monday, giving Business Insider and others a great r... [PRNewser]

MySpace Rolls Out Sync with YouTube - Posted September 23, 2010
Following an integration with Google, MySpace announced the rollout of Sync with YouTube, which enables users of the social-networking site to add videos from Google-owned YouT... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google Puts More than 500 Midterm Races on the Map - Posted September 21, 2010
Followers of the midterm elections who are having trouble telling their blue from their red can rest easy: Google teamed up with political analysts The Cook Political Report, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The Ticker: Google Instant; Measurement; Foursquare's 'Like' Button; Univision - Posted September 21, 2010
Softpedia: Google Instant Was a Huge PR Win the cube: The social media strategy series: Metrics and Measurement Business Insider: ... [PRNewser]

YouTube Adds Dean Gilbert, Robert Kyncl to Leadership Team - Posted September 20, 2010
Google-owned video site YouTube added two new executives to its leadership team, including one from its parent company. New global head of content Dean Gilbert had worked with Goo... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google Data, Statistics, and the Semantics of the Web - Intelligent Enterprise (blog) - Posted September 20, 2010
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Have Semantic Technologies Crossed the Chasm Yet? - Posted September 17, 2010
  This article kicks off a series of interviews on Semantic Technologies in the MIT Entrepreneurship Review with industry thought leaders including Thomas Tague (Thomson Reuters), Chris Messina (Google), David Recordon (Facebook), Will Hunsinger (Evri) and Jamie Taylor (Metaweb). At first sight, the answer is yes. I recently attended the Semantic Technology Conference... [semanticweb.com]

BP Falls Off List of Best Global Brands - Posted September 16, 2010
To no one's surprise, BP has fallen off the list of Interbrand's ... [PRNewser]

Interview with Rob Torres, managing director for Travel, Google - m-Travel.com - Posted September 16, 2010
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Webiplex Announces DocuPeak Meta Server for Semantic Web and Google Base ... - PR Web (press release) - Posted September 16, 2010
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Primal Makes Content Automation Almost Too Easy - Posted September 15, 2010
With tools such as WordPress, Tumblr and Posterous, you might think there are already enough ways to publish content online quickly and easily. Primal, which is launching at the DEMO conference this week, thinks that it has something extra to offer. The company’s semantic tools allow publishers to create an entire... [semanticweb.com]

Semantifi Debuts First Search App Marketplace for the 'Deep Web' - Posted September 14, 2010
Startup Reveals the 'Invisible Web' with Semantic Search Apps that Tap the Power of Community   SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- DEMOfall 2010 -- Semantifi, Inc., a pioneer in Web Data Search, today publicly launched ... [semanticweb.com]

The semantic web and the move towards an interconnected world - Posted September 14, 2010
Media Update The semantic web is a relatively new concept, initially proposed some ten-plus years ago as a component of Web 3.0, and is creating quite a bit of buzz in ... ... [semanticweb.com]

Google Instant Might Change the Face of the Internet - Bluhalo (blog) - Posted September 10, 2010
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Google Instant: Search at The Speed of Thought - Fresh Egg (blog) - Posted September 9, 2010
Fresh ... [semanticweb.com]

Social Media App Helps Users Find Best Content - Bluhalo (blog) - Posted September 8, 2010
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Last Night: Bumbershoot - PubliCola (blog) - Posted September 6, 2010
... [semanticweb.com]

Bridging the gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW - Posted August 17, 2010
Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). I know that this is a strong statement, but I am confident that it will happen. Mainstream is defined in Wikipedia as “the common current of... [semanticweb.com]

Google Expected to Purchase Major Ecommerce Website - Bluhalo (blog) - Posted August 17, 2010
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Facebook and Google Build Semantic Web - Big Think - Posted August 3, 2010
  ... [semanticweb.com]

Metaweb joins Google - The Freebase Blog - Posted July 16, 2010
As of today, we’re very pleased to announce that Metaweb is now a part of Google... ... [semanticweb.com]

SemTech 2010 Hosts Web Day 3.0 at the Annual Semantic Technology Conference, Thursday, June 24th - Limited Seating Still Available - Posted June 23, 2010
David Recordon, Senior Open Programs Manager of Facebook and best-selling Author, David Siegel will keynote the conference. San Francisco, CA (June 24, 2010) -- SemTech 2010 is currently taking place at the San Francisco Hilton in Union Square. Web Day 3.0 will be held Thursday, June 24, and will include a number... [semanticweb.com]

Atigeo to Speak on Semantic Reasoning, Personal Data Lockers, and Leveraging Unstructured Enterprise Data at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco - Posted June 21, 2010
June 21, 2010, Bellevue, WA -- Atigeo (www.atigeo.com), a compassionate technology company delivering revolutionary semantic software, will host three panel sessions at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, June 23rd and 24th, highlighting technologies that enable a holistic view of the consumer for enterprises, semantic understanding, and consumer privacy and... [semanticweb.com]

Atigeo: Interview with Chief Scientist Dr. Oliver "Olly" Downs - Posted June 17, 2010
— TONY SHAW, OLIVER (OLLY) DOWNS Tony Shaw: Hi Olly, so to get us started, could you give me a high-level overview of what Atigeo does? Olly Downs: Absolutely. Atigeo’s platform, xPatterns, enables enterprises to derive insights from large, disparate sources of unstructured data. In doing so, we’ve taken two approaches toward how our... [semanticweb.com]

Dassault Systems Acquires Exaled - - Posted June 10, 2010
Tnooz (blog)... [semanticweb.com]

Marketing and the Semantic Web: Sneak Peeks and Big Ideas - Posted May 28, 2010
Date: May 28, 2010, 11:00AM (1 hour)Register: View the Recorded Webcast How will the semantic web change advertising and marketing? At this year's Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, we'll have 15 sessions that explore the state-of-the-art of semantic web and linked data technologies in the realm of digital marketing. In this... [semanticweb.com]

Understanding Semantic Search and SEO - Search Engine Journal - Posted May 27, 2010
Regardless of what I ve said about the whole LSI and Google crap in the past, one things worth bearing in mind is that all modern search engines do semantic analysis to one extent or another... ... [semanticweb.com]

A Semantic-based Essay as the Result for a Web Search - Posted May 10, 2010
Introduction This article discusses ways of semantic processing in a search engine. Major search engines have one main type of result – a list of links to matching Web sources. There are many enhancements on top of it, but the core premise remains the same: a search result consists of a set... [semanticweb.com]

Why They Can't See It - The Pew Survey - Posted May 5, 2010
Today the Pew Center released a survey regarding the future of the Semantic Web. More than half of those responded didn’t think that the vision associated with the Semantic Web would be realized – that’s a startling conclusion, really. It’s even more remarkable given the fact that those who responded negatively... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook's Like button ages Google overnight - Bizcommunity.com - Posted May 4, 2010
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Grouply Connects People Through Shared Interests - EContent (press release) - Posted May 4, 2010
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The RDFa initiative in Drupal 7, and how it will impact the Semantic Web - Posted April 28, 2010
Date: April 30, 2010, 11:00AM (1 hour)Register: View the Recorded WebcastQ&A: Q&A Session for "The RDFa initiative in Drupal 7, and how it will impact the Semantic Web"Attachment: ... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook Open Graph: The Definitive Guide For Publishers, Users and Competitors - ReadWriteWeb (blog) - Posted April 23, 2010
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A Giant Whooshing Sound - Posted April 21, 2010
Did you hear that sound this week? The giant whooshing sound? There was a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of Semantic Web academics, implementors and enthusiasts sighed in unison and their critics were silenced. I believe something wonderful has happened. With apologies to Mr. Lucas, I don't think that... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook Seeks To Build The Semantic Search Engine - Posted April 21, 2010
Facebook Seeks To Build The Semantic Search Engine If HTML is the way developers get information into Google’s search engine, meta data is the way developers will get data into Facebook’s semantic search engine which will be based on the company’s “Open Graph”. Through the use of easy to implement plugins,... [semanticweb.com]

Put Your Desktop in the Cloud to Support the Open Government Directive and Data.gov/semantic - Posted April 19, 2010
Disclaimer:  This article does not reflect the views of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and does not constitute endorsement by the EPA of the standards or products mentioned. A Semantic Cloud Computing Desktop/Mobile Apps with Linked Open Data consists of the following: A database of "things" referenced by URL's (e.g. ... [semanticweb.com]

Could Google Become the Semantic Web? - Posted February 21, 2010
"Describing the Semantic Web as a “Web of data” is not too helpful for most people, I have learned."  There’s a lot of talk about it, but for most Web users, the idea described in 1981 by Tim Berners-Lee means little. A number of experts and forward thinking companies do care though,... [semanticweb.com]

Yahoo! looks beyond Google's data cruncher - Register - Posted February 16, 2010
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Why Google and Other Humans Don't Read Your Book Reviews - ReadWriteWeb (blog) - Posted February 14, 2010
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Google Snags Operator Of Social Search Service Aardvark - Wall Street Journal - Posted February 11, 2010
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Google Buzz Is A Twitter Killer? Don't Make Me Laugh - Posted February 11, 2010
I've finally been granted access to Google Buzz today, and after playing around with it for an hour or so, I have to say I really don't like it. It's not all bad, but it's bad enough that unless Google makes some significant changes I'm... [AllTwitter]

Peer39: Interview with CEO Amiad Solomon on Semantic Advertising Issues and Opportunities - Posted February 8, 2010
Peer39: Interview with Amiad Solomon Founded in 2006 by an innovative group of scientists and engineers, Peer39 was voted by MIT’s Technology Review as one of the Top Ten Web Startups to Watch in 2008.  Semantic Universe editor Tony Shaw recently spoke with Founder and CEO Amiad Solomon about the company’s innovations,... [semanticweb.com]

Online Retail: Getting the Right Product in Front of Your Customers - Inc.com - Posted February 4, 2010
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Wow, Google Is Awfully Clueless About My Social Life - GigaOm (blog) - Posted January 27, 2010
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Five Quick Tips For Success On Google's Content Network - Search Engine Land (blog) - Posted January 25, 2010
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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology " Part II - Posted December 22, 2009
In the final installment of this two-part series, Dean Allemang and Scott Henninger look into how the insights about semantic web education have an impact on the adoption of semantic web technologies. When we speak of 'technology adoption', we are referring to the uptake of a new technology by a large group... [semanticweb.com]

AdWeek Celebrates The Best Of The Aughts - Posted December 14, 2009
We're only a couple of weeks away from 2010, and that means it's time for every publication still in existence to start doing a "Best Of The Decade" list like its VH1's entire programming line-up. Lists are great because they are fun, subjective, and get people talking. We've seen Time... [FishbowlNY]

Google News Chief Swears Platform Will Not Steal Your Content - Posted December 9, 2009
For the past month, Rupert Murdoch's little kerfuffle with Google has been the center of a heated debate about how content should be aggregated. First, the ... [FishbowlNY]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Offers Rebuttal to Murdochian Complaints via oped in WSJ - mediabistro.com (blog) - Posted December 3, 2009
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Google CEO Takes To WSJ To Defend Google News - Posted December 3, 2009
What do you to when one of media's most recognizable executives -- News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch -- accuses your company of stealing its content? You take to one of... [PRNewser]

Microsoft Finds A Chink in Google's Armor Named News Corp. - Posted November 23, 2009
Two weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch announced that he would be taking content from his News Corp entities like The Wall ... [FishbowlNY]

Google Founder to PR Department: You Have Eight Hours of My Time This Year - Posted November 17, 2009
New Yorker columnist and author Ken Auletta released his latest book, "Googled: The End of the World As We Know It" earlier this month. The book, as the title implies, is a deep dive into the ... [PRNewser]

Marissa Mayer's Take On Search - Mediapost.com - Posted November 12, 2009
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Google VP Mayer Describes the Perfect Search Engine - PC World - Posted November 10, 2009
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Fired Post Editor Comes Forwards With Allegations - Posted November 10, 2009
Rupert Murdoch just can't catch a break these days: He's waging war against Google... [FishbowlNY]

Google Responds To Murdoch's Threats: Bring It - Posted November 10, 2009
Yesterday, Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch complained that News Corp.'s content was being "stolen" by search... [FishbowlNY]

Who At Google PR Booked Marissa Mayer on Local AM Radio? - Posted November 5, 2009
It seems someone at Google PR thought it would be a good idea to book Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer on a local morning drive AM radio show. The first quest... [PRNewser]

Google's New D.C. PR: As A Kid, I Watched White House Press Briefings Over 'Saved By The Bell' - Posted October 13, 2009
"I've always been interested in politics and [its] intersection with [the] press...kids would come home from school and have their snack and watch Saved by the Bell or whatever, but I used to come home and watch the White House press briefings." -Mistique Cano, Google's new manager of global commun... [PRNewser]

How Google Can Make Money With Google Wave (GOOG) - The Business Insider - Posted September 30, 2009
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Google's First Press Release - Posted September 28, 2009
Google celebrated its 11th birthday over the weekend, and to honor the occasion, the folks at The Next Web dug up their first press release. The headline of the release, from June 7, 1999, reads: "Google Receives $25 Million in Equity Funding." The release included a statement from Google CEO and co-founder... [PRNewser]

Caroline Campbell To Join AOL as VP of Corporate Communications - Posted September 24, 2009
PRNewser has learned that Caroline Campbell will join AOL as VP of Corporate Communications. Campbell previously was a VP at Porter Novelli. Prior to Porter Novelli, Campbell served as Senior Manager, Global Communications & Public Affairs at Google. A... [PRNewser]

Google Adds Semantic Web, Facebook Support for Video Search - ReadWriteWeb - Posted September 14, 2009
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Google Reveals What Happened To Gmail - Posted September 2, 2009
Yesterday, a Gmail outage slowed down the media industry for over an hour and generally just annoyed everyone who relies on the free email service for personal or business communications. In a ... [FishbowlNY]

oeGOV: Open Government through Semantic Web Technologies - Posted September 1, 2009
Enabling Data Independence for Government Transparency by Ralph Hodgson, CTO, TopQuadrant, Inc. Open Government has become a popular theme, both in the U.S. and other countries.  With “Transparency” gaining momentum, increasing categories and amounts of government data are becoming available on the web.  In the U.S., an impetus for this was Barrack... [semanticweb.com]

Semantic Technology and Search - SES San Jose 2009 Coverage - Search Engine Journal - Posted August 18, 2009
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Twitter Outage: What Happened - Posted August 7, 2009
Okay, the Twitter outage yesterday wasn't the end of the world. But it did put a crimp in our usual routine and made gathering breaking news and information that much more challenging for a good part of the day. Yesterday, Twitter said its technical difficulties were ... [FishbowlNY]

What will it take to topple Google? - Media Week - Posted July 14, 2009
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Semantics at Google: RDFa, Microformats, and More - SemTech 2009 Audio - Posted July 6, 2009
Othar Hansson, Google, Inc. Kavi Goel, Google, Inc. In this "Late-Breaking News" session, representatives from Google, Inc. discuss the company's recent announcements about semantic web technologies and ongoing initiatives.Attachment: Semantics at Google - RFDa, Microformats, and More.mp3 (38.55 MB)Presenters: ... [semanticweb.com]

KEYNOTE: Executive Round Table: Semantic Search - SemTech 2009 Video - Posted July 6, 2009
This Keynote is presented in six parts. Moderated by: Carla Thompson, Guidewire Group Speakers: Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Search Peter Norvig, Google Riza Berkan, hakia Scott Prevost, Powerset division of bing Tomasz Imielinski, Ask.com William Tunstall-Pedoe, True Knowledge Semantic technology changes the rules of the search marketspace, but exactly how, an... [semanticweb.com]

Thoughts on the Semantic Technology 2009 Conference - and the Semantic Web - Kurt Cagle - Posted June 19, 2009
There comes a point in most programmers careers where they make a startling realization. Computer programming has nothing to do with mathematics, and everything to do, ultimately, with language. It's a sobering thought. The art of computer programming largely involves the creation of and manipulation of text at the level of... [semanticweb.com]

Expert System Adds Semantic Search for Twitter Users - PR-USA.net (press release) - Posted June 18, 2009
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Search leaders debate semantics - CNET News - Posted June 17, 2009
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Announcing Glue API - Posted June 16, 2009
Glue is a browser-based social network that connects friends around things they visit online. Glue appears on popular sites like Amazon, Last.fm, Netflix, Yahoo! Finance, Wine.com, Citysearch and many more, revealing friends and other Glue users interested in the same thing around the web. Today, we are announcing the public availability of... [semanticweb.com]

TopQuadrant Offers Free Semantic Web Modeling Tool - Posted June 16, 2009
First Free Semantic Web Editing and Querying Tool with Object-oriented Rule Modeling and RDFa Import SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2009, SAN JOSE, Calif. - June 16, 2009 - TopQuadrant(tm), the global leader in Semantic Web application development technology, today announced TopBraid Composer(tm) Free Edition... [semanticweb.com]

Expert System Releases Live Semantic Index of Obama ... - Market Wire (press release) - Posted June 16, 2009
Expert System... [semanticweb.com]

Expert System Develops Automated Support for Google's Rich ... - Market Wire (press release) - Posted June 16, 2009
Expert System D... [semanticweb.com]

Who Knew? NYT Has A Sense Of Humor - Posted June 11, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c... [FishbowlNY]

Google's Schmidt dings Bing - CNET News - Posted June 9, 2009
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Google Launches "Squared" Semantic Search Tool - Internet Search Engine Database - Posted June 4, 2009
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The Next Big Thing for the Data Management Community - David Wood - Posted June 1, 2009
The next big thing for the data management community is to give up central control and planning in order to gain scalability and robustness. Relational database systems have been the backbone of enterprise information management since the 1970s. The increase in enterprise information to levels beyond what traditional relational systems can effectively... [semanticweb.com]

WolframAlpha: Loaded with Potential, Short on Meaning - Posted June 1, 2009
I haven’t been formally trained on WolframAlpha nor have I thoroughly investigated it. In fact, I’ve spent more time reading the hype about it than I have actually kicking the tires. But from the time I’ve spent, some things are already obvious. First and prominently, WolframAlpha does not rely on semantic... [semanticweb.com]

Siri: The Virtual Assistant That Will Make Everyone Love The ... - TechCrunch - Posted May 27, 2009
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Wolfram Alpha's Place in the Ecosystem - David Wood - Posted May 27, 2009
 Wolfram Alpha has been launched and is available for the public to try. I sat down to play with it. FIrstly (using the rare American adverb here - don't be confused), you can't expect Wolfram Alpha to act like Google. It is a new kind of search engine, as one should expect... [semanticweb.com]

Connect Your Thoughts To The Mindex With Imindi (Private Beta Invites) - TechCrunch - Posted May 25, 2009
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May 2009: The Semantic Web Gang discuss Wolfram Alpha and Google s RDFa - Posted May 22, 2009
Podcast LinkIn the latest episode of the Semantic Web Gang, we discuss the recent launch of Wolfram Alpha and consider the implications of Google’s support for RDFa. June’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang comes live from the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose. If you’re there, why not come along and... [semanticweb.com]

Abrams Talks PR v. Journalism|Kitfield Wins Third Defense Reporting Prize|Google Won't Buy A Paper|AP Offers Buyouts|A Thrillist.com Party In Pictures - Posted May 21, 2009
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Wolfram Alpha: How does it work? - ComputerWeekly.com - Posted May 21, 2009
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Google, Semantic Web ... - InternetNews.com - Posted May 20, 2009
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Microsoft's Next-Gen Search Engine Kumo Expected Next Week - PC World - Posted May 20, 2009
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Wolfram|Alpha has arrived. Now what's it good for? - Scientific American - Posted May 18, 2009
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Putting Wolfram Alpha To The Test: Not Super-Impressed (But Here ... - TechCrunch - Posted May 15, 2009
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Google embraces exercise in Semantics - CNET News - Posted May 12, 2009
Google embraces exercise in Sema... [semanticweb.com]

Google "Rich Snippets" Supports Microformats and RDFa - Posted May 12, 2009
At their Searchology event today, Google announced a new feature set called "Rich Snippets" that includes microformats and RDFa.  Numerous commentators have provided analysis of this announcement, so we at Semantic Universe have selected a handful of the best, which are linked below: Google Search Now Supports Microformats and Adds “R... [semanticweb.com]

Online Women's Mag Double X Launches - Posted May 12, 2009
Way back in November, Slate chairman and editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg told us about the three ladies that would be helming his newest spin-off venture... [FishbowlNY]

Brian Williams Gets Indie Music Cred|Google's Mysterious Meetings With Post And Times|Newspapers Should Fail|OK!'s Luxury Update Conspiracy|WSJ.com's Micro-Payment Plan - Posted May 11, 2009
WebNewser: Today, ... [FishbowlNY]

San Francisco, We've Got You Covered - Posted May 11, 2009
Our Fishbowl blogs have New York, DC and LA covered, but until now we have neglected that important city by the bay. But, never fear San Francisco, BayNewser... [FishbowlNY]

Layoffs At Papers In San Francisco and San Diego|Recession Chic At WHCD|Times May Still End Up In Ch. 11|Boston Globe Union Debates Concessions|Google Advertises Chrome - Posted May 8, 2009
MediaJobsDaily: Layoffs at the ... [FishbowlNY]

Wolfram Alpha: The Next Google, Or the Next Cuil? - Mashable - Posted May 8, 2009
Wolfram Alpha: The... [semanticweb.com]

Dr. Nancy Snyderman To Host MSNBC Show|HarperCollins' Revenue Declines|Google Could Save Journalism|CNBC Host Mad Over Kindle DX|Toby Young Hit By Car - Posted May 7, 2009
TVNewser: NBC News chief medical editor, an... [FishbowlNY]

Five Percent of New Yorkers Support Higher Taxes to Save the NYT - Posted April 10, 2009
One way to save The New York Times would be to raise taxes. But would New Yorkers support that plan? Not according to 100 people polled by ... [FishbowlNY]

Battle of the Twitter Titans? Microsoft and Google Both Express Interest - Posted April 10, 2009
Regardless of the fact Twitter makes no money, and thus far no one has figured out a way to make money from the microblogging service that has saturated the media landscape in the past few months, everyone wants a piece (including ... [FishbowlNY]

Newspapers Screwed Up, Says Jeff Jarvis - Posted April 9, 2009
Newspapers are really, really sorry that they have to now undergo all these layoffs. At least that's what they say in every press release, but Jeff Jarvis tells the Huffington Post today that it's actually all they're fault that their in this crisis right now. You've had 20 years since... [MediaJobsDaily]

Google CEO to AP: Why All the Fuss? - Posted April 7, 2009
Google CEO Eric Schmidt participated in a short Q&A following speech at the Newspaper Association of America convention during which he addressed the ... [FishbowlNY]

AP Is Not Going To Indulge Taking Anymore - Posted April 7, 2009
Say it with me folks, "We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more." Sound familiar? Like a quote from an Academy Award winning movie about the demise of news? Yeah, well Associated Press chairman Dean Singleton is spouting the same sentiments... [MediaJobsDaily]

Could quantum mathematics shake up Google? - New Scientist - Posted April 6, 2009
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Michael Daconta | The next wave of semantic applications - GCN.com - Posted April 3, 2009
Michael Dacon... [semanticweb.com]

Startups will test Google in Dark Web' - News Observer - Posted April 1, 2009
Startups will test... [semanticweb.com]

Autopilot Email! Or, April Fools From Google - Posted April 1, 2009
April Fools is to Google what Halloween is to The Simpsons. The thing about this year's joke -- a autopilot feature which promises to mirror your own writing style so you never have to answer emails again! -- is that it's not hard to imagine this becoming a reality in... [FishbowlNY]

Google Cuts 200 In Sales - Posted March 27, 2009
After cutting nearly 100 recruiters in January and 40 more employees when it folded up it's radio division, the news that Google is laying off workers is hardly, well, news at all. What is interesting right now is that Google just laid off 200 employees in sales and marketin... [MediaJobsDaily]

More Changes At AOL - Posted March 26, 2009
Since he was hired two weeks ago at AOL, everyone has been wondering what Tim Armstrong&#151 former head of advertising at ... [MediaJobsDaily]

NASA Ames CIO Blog: Why Make A Universe of Data Available To The ... - Space Ref (press release) - Posted March 25, 2009
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Google Keeps Tweaking Search Results, Leaving Little Room for Rivals - BusinessWeek - Posted March 24, 2009
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Google Rolls out Semantic Search Capabilities - PC World - Posted March 24, 2009
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MSM Wants Google Recognition/Results - Posted March 23, 2009
Perhaps those newspaper folks currently directing their ire at Arianna Huffington may want to reconsider their target in the hopes that she will divulge her company's "mostly secret" ... [FishbowlNY]

Myths of the Semantic Web - Jeff Pollock - Posted March 23, 2009
Over the years there have been a lot of persistent myths about the Semantic Web. Really, I can’t blame people too much. The ‘new’ Web has a pretty cryptic name, it’s been a long time coming, and the benefits of this 3rd generation Web infrastructure take some pretty serious geek-cred to... [semanticweb.com]

Cliqset public beta launched - Web User - Posted March 12, 2009
Cliqset public beta launched... [semanticweb.com]

Doug Lenat - I was positively impressed with Wolfram Alpha - Posted March 10, 2009
Stephen Wolfram generously gave me a two-hour demo of Wolfram Alpha last evening, and I was quite positively impressed.  As he said, it's not AI, and not aiming to be, so it shouldn't be measured by contrasting it with HAL or Cyc but with Google or Yahoo.  At its heart is a... [semanticweb.com]

Wolfram Alpha...Brilliant tool, Google killer, or lots of hype? - ZDNet - Posted March 9, 2009
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Wolfram Alpha: The next major search breakthrough? - CNET News - Posted March 8, 2009
Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks, which developed Twine, an ambitious "interest network" Web application based on semantic Web technologies, , said that Wolfram Alpha may be as "important for the Web (and the world) as Google, but for a different ...... [semanticweb.com]

Google CEO: Search Market ... - InternetNews.com - Posted March 4, 2009
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Web Publishing Roll Up: Tools, Tricks and Clicks - CMSWire - Posted February 26, 2009
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Exploring a Deep Web That Google Can t Grasp - Posted February 23, 2009
One day last summer, Google’s search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth address to the list of Web pages it knows about. But as impossibly big as that number may seem, it represents only a fraction of the entire Web.... [semanticweb.com]

Worio Delivers Web Discovery by Broadening Its Index to 100 ... - Market Wire (press release) - Posted February 18, 2009
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Perfect Search Opens Access to Google Patent Repository - PR Web (press release) - Posted February 10, 2009
Perfect Search Opens Acce... [semanticweb.com]

Applying Ontology, NLP and Semantic Search To Enterprise Collaboration - Posted February 3, 2009
This paper describes how advanced semantic web and natural language techniques can be used within the context of enterprise collaboration to solve concrete user problems. Introduction At GroupSwim.com our mission is to significantly improve enterprise collaboration. In the last few years, enterprise collaboration has advanced significantly with the introduction of wikis, discuss... [semanticweb.com]

Ontology based mining of digital text - Internet monitoring for Investor Relations - Posted January 22, 2009
The evolution of the semantic web brings new possibilities to handle the information overload. This paper focuses on the motivation to integrate two applications and the usage of semantic content for information managers. Analysts and executives need to understand today the value of semantic technologies in relation to business intelligence and... [semanticweb.com]

Implementing Commercial Applications With Semantic Search - Posted January 21, 2009
Executive Summary A common challenge facing today’s enterprise, its employees, and customers, is the ability to easily and effectively access corporate data and product/services-related information.  To obtain the accurate and specific information needed from a vast corporate network is a daunting task, especially as data grows more complex and the workforce becomes... [semanticweb.com]

Agent Based Semantic Web - Posted January 21, 2009
— GEORGE RZEVSKI, PETR SKOBELEVThe Internet is a vast digital network of computers spreading around the globe. In 2008 the number of people connected to the Internet via servers, desktops and various mobile devices reached 1,463,632,361, which represents 21.9% of population of the world. One could argue that a quarter of all... [semanticweb.com]

Dublin Core and OWL - Posted January 20, 2009
We've known about the Dublin Core (www.dublincore.org ) pretty much forever. We know it has a following in Library Science and content management systems, and Adobe uses their tags as the basis for the XMP (www.adobe.com/products/xmp/). And we knew that at least one of the original architects for the Dublin Core, Eric... [semanticweb.com]

Dublin Core and OWL - Posted January 20, 2009
We’ve known about the Dublin Core (www.dublincore.org ) pretty much forever. We know it has a following in Library Science, and content management systems, and Adobe uses their tags as the basis for the XMP (www.adobe.com/products/xmp/). And we knew that at least one of the original architects for the Dublin Core, Eric Miller (www.w3.org/Peopl... [semanticweb.com]

Top 2008 News Stories that Don't Begin With 'O' - Posted December 23, 2008
Barack Obama is not the only top story of 2008! Over at The Morning Delivery Bill Lucey... [FishbowlNY]

Yahoo's Jerry Yang Steps Down as CEO - Posted November 18, 2008
Looks like at least one chapter of the long Yahoo soap opera has drawn to a close. Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo back in 1995 announced yeste... [FishbowlNY]

Is Google Recession Proof? - Posted October 20, 2008
While everyone and his editor is getting canned, it looks as though search engine Google is doing just fine. According to ... [FishbowlLA]

Does Gawker Have Screen Grabs of Sarah Palin's Personal Email Acct? - Posted September 17, 2008
It looks like John McCain's aversion to the Google may be a good thing after all, or at least something to be envied if you're Sarah... [FishbowlNY]

The Rest of the World Not So Thrilled at the Empire of the Google - Posted September 16, 2008
Looks like the rest of the world isn't so thrilled at Google's "ever-tightening grip on internet traffic" and "its unbridled use of online content." Especially when it comes to the proposed Google-Yah... [FishbowlNY]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted September 16, 2008
Driven: Bob Pool is surprised to learn that there are cab drivers in Burbank with hybrid cars. We are surprised to learn that there are cab drivers in Burbank. ... [FishbowlLA]

Tribune and UAL: When in Doubt Blame the Google - Posted September 11, 2008
You will recall how earlier this week due to some sort of time/date glitch that resulted in an old bankruptcy story getting picked up by Bloomberg News... [FishbowlNY]

A Date by Any Other Name Could Spell Financial Doom - Posted September 9, 2008
If a false story is reported and Google picks it up, does that make it true? Could be. Case in point yesterday the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reprinted a six year old story about United Airlines going bankrupt. The sto... [FishbowlNY]

The Future of Newspapers: Is the Snake Eating its Own Tail? - Posted August 1, 2008
Here's an interesting little dilemma, in a circle of newspaper life sort of way. Where will Google get its news if there is no more news being reported because the rise of Google News has resulted in the shuttering of all the newspapers that gather the news in the fir... [FishbowlNY]

Cuil Runnings: Day Two of the Biggest Search Engine Ever! - Posted July 29, 2008
Yesterday we told you about a new search engine that had just launched, which was being heralded as the best thing since Google. Better actually. And created by a former Google empl... [FishbowlNY]

Android, Symbian Merger in the Wings? - Posted July 28, 2008
Market analyst firm J. Gold Associates is predicting that Google's Android and Nokia's Symbian open mobile platforms will announce ... [ThinkMobile - SocialTimes.com]

Sprint Gets Serious about Web Access - Posted July 28, 2008
Doing its part to push mobile Internet usage, Sprint launched Sprint Web, something it describes as a "next-generation mobile Web browsing experience." The new e... [ThinkMobile - SocialTimes.com]

Too Cuil for Google's School - Posted July 28, 2008
There was an article in the recent much-talked about New Yorker that mentioned it was not unusual in the science community for a person to leave his ... [FishbowlNY]

Breaking into the Semantic Web, Part II - Posted July 23, 2008
This interview with Eric Miller, President of Zepheira was conducted by Golda Velez. http://zepheira.com SR: Eric, let me ask your advice. The Semantic Web is interesting, exciting, promising. So say I'm a developer, how do I get involved with it? Or suppose I have a tech company,... [semanticweb.com]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted July 16, 2008
50 Cent: Not the rapper, the price tag. In the face of cuts and other awful things, Steve Lopez reminds readers what they're getting for 50 cents: "Although that money doesn't buy you ... [FishbowlLA]

Yahoo, Microsoft and Google Take it to the Judge - Posted July 16, 2008
If only we could all take our bad relationship complaints directly to a congressional hearing. At an anti-trust hearing yesterday an exec for Microsoft — whose ... [FishbowlNY]

Microsoft buying into Semantics - part 1 - Posted June 28, 2008
The news yesterday that Microsoft is likely buying semantic search provider Powerset had those of us in the community buzzing.  Besides the valuation per se this event provides several thoughts about the maturity of our technology, its value and its future.  What will Google do now?  This is the first question that... [semanticweb.com]

Lee Abrams Has Us Pretty Well Pissed Off - Posted June 2, 2008
We're used to making jokes about the outside people who come into newsrooms and mess them all up with their complete lack of understanding about what makes a newspaper a newspaper. But we're having a hard time laughing at the latest lunatic musings from ... [FishbowlLA]

How Yahoo! is defining the Semantic Web - Posted June 2, 2008
Yahoo! has entered the Semantic Web with the announcement of RDF support in SearchMonkey . And leave it to a semantic web veteran like Peter Mika to be the one to make it happen. SearchMonkey has become the inspiration for my latest cocktail-party answer to the question, "What is the... [semanticweb.com]

Jack Smith Retrospective - Posted April 2, 2008
Veronique de Turenne reminds us that the Huntington is hosting a Jack Smith retrospective, Smith on Wry, featuring the papers of L.A.'s beloved colum... [FishbowlLA]

GMail Custom Time Fools Dozens - Posted April 1, 2008
Oh those wacky guys at Google-- Gmail custom time stamps. How does it work? Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality But they did get a ... [FishbowlLA]

Mother and baby doing well - Posted March 14, 2008
You know something is up when RDF and the Semantic Web are mentioned on TechCrunch . That's not one of the 'new company raises $6m to enable Semantic Web search, but is never heard of again' kind of mentions. It's a simple, straightforward, 'Yahoo! is now starting to index the metadata... [semanticweb.com]

Connecting the Dots - Posted March 10, 2008
What is commonly understood about the Semantic Web is not what I care to write about. I have a long professional history of looking to the future of business and how things come together in unique and challenging ways. In other words how stuff turns out that most people... [semanticweb.com]

Building Effective Relationships in Software - Posted January 15, 2008
One of the many factors that led to the success of the Web was in how it defined links in a very simple manner, which encouraged cross-referencing. In the last two installments of this column, I've discussed the importance of the identifiers of the Web: URIs. The Web's native... [semanticweb.com]

A Wiki for Business Knowledge in Executable English - Posted January 3, 2008
The problem of business-IT alignment is of widespread economic concern, and is largely caused by a semantic disconnect between business people and technologists. The business people speak English, and the techies have to translate that English into something a computer can understand -- often a low-level, step-by-step way to complete... [semanticweb.com]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted December 4, 2007
Hot Network Mess: Reporter Greg Braxton describes how far BET has to go to undo its image as a bad-taste maker in the black community. ... [FishbowlLA]

Moving the Internet Inside with Semantic Technologies - Posted November 13, 2007
The vast majority of today’s enterprise applications owe their genesis to a period very different from today. Even the most apparently innovative share perhaps unnecessary heritage with their ancestors, preventing them from fully exploiting the potential of an ever-more connected world. The increased ubiquity of high speed access to the Internet... [semanticweb.com]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted October 25, 2007
Fighting Fire With Fire: Police shoot and kill an arson suspect near Cal State San Bernardino. Another suspect was arrested. ... [FishbowlLA]

Mark Jen Getting Hitched, Rather Than Separated, Which is Nice, Considering His History - Posted October 9, 2007
Mark Jen, the most famous ex-Googlite, ex-Plaxo as of a few months ago, is getting married to Rose Kwok. Mark is part of the Lunch 2.0 conspiracy. (The next LA one is... [FishbowlLA]

Using Microformats to Get Started with the Semantic Web - Posted October 4, 2007
Web developers use microformats to get out of the Semantic Web starting gate. True technological paradigm shifts don't happen easily. There's always the challenge of getting from here to there. The IT industry has typically referred to this as the "installed base" problem, and it represents as thorny an issue for... [semanticweb.com]

Attributor Asks Google--Where's Claim Your Content? - Posted October 2, 2007
Attributor, the Silicon Valley content-identification service, reminds us that Google promised Claim Your Content back in April, and t... [FishbowlLA]

The Semantic Web as a Large, Searchable Catalogue: A Librarian s Perspective - Posted October 1, 2007
— DEAN GIUSTINI, ALLAN CHOSome information observers have suggested that Web 2.0's rise has been due to software applications, while it is becoming increasingly obvious to futurists that the Semantic Web will be defined by services. How those services will be developed and leveraged to bring order to the Web is central... [semanticweb.com]

The Next, Still Pessimistic Chapter for E-Books - Posted September 6, 2007
The New York Times' Brad Stone doesn't really add much more about the next generation e-book readers like Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader, but since people reading the NYT aren't necessarily reading GalleyCat (or tech-related websites and blogs, for that matter... [GalleyCat]

Technology Review - OwlSight - Posted August 13, 2007
Most of us are familiar with the Protege-OWL editor as a widely-used visualization tool for ontologies.  Recently, a new tool called OwlSight was released from the consulting firm of Clark & Parsia , a small cadre of engineers and researchers with ties to the Universities of Maryla... [semanticweb.com]

Google Launches Newsmaker Comments - Posted August 9, 2007
Google, when not aiding and abetting stalkers, will provide a forum for those ... [FishbowlLA]

Amazon Offers Early Galleys, Online Payments - Posted August 6, 2007
Though Amazon tried this idea once before without much success, the company has decided that sending out ARCs to hand-picked customer reviewers is a good thing, Ergo, Amazon Vine, which will "help our vendors generate awareness for new and pre-release products by connecting them with the voice of the Amazon community:... [GalleyCat]

Authors At the Workplace to Read, Not Work - Posted July 23, 2007
The SF Chronicle's Tamara Straus looks at the recent trend of publishers sending authors not to the bookstores, but to the workplace to tour. Since the fall of 2005, for example, Google has joined several large West Coast companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks and Yahoo in hosting authors for weekly, sometimes... [GalleyCat]

Sundown on Sunset: Tell Us All About It - Posted June 29, 2007
Paris Hilton's interview on Larry King Live brought in 3.2 million viewers; 1.4 million in the adults 25-54 demo, three times King's regular average. And some disapprove. Television Without Pity goes head-first into Rescue Me. Jack McGee... [FishbowlLA]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted June 14, 2007
Meee-ow EBay and Google are fighting like sorority sisters. Girls Gone Goree:... [FishbowlLA]

Giving Google a Taste of its Medicine - Posted June 8, 2007
The UK publishing world is abuzz with Macmillan CEO Richard Charkin's actions at BEA last weekend. Charkin and a colleague went to Google's booth, took a couple of its laptops and waited in close proximity until someone at the company no... [GalleyCat]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted March 15, 2007
Dinner and a Show: Here's an alternative to all those summer evenings you won't be spending at the movies. ... [FishbowlLA]

Google Gets Attacked on Several Fronts - Posted March 6, 2007
With the Association of American Publishers' annual meeting in full swing today, the prevailing theme is what to do about Google's plan to digitize all books ASAP. Which is why, as the Financial Times' John Gapper reports, Microsoft plans to launch a fierce attack on Google over its "cavalier" approach to... [GalleyCat]

More Evidence That Google Has Lost Its Cool - Posted February 9, 2007
Two brothers have quit a company that they founded and sold to Google "amid reports of growing tension" between them and the online behemoth, Online Media Daily reports. Chad and ... [FishbowlLA]

Publishing Unbound, Google-Style - Posted January 19, 2007
A crowd more than 300-strong gathered at the New York Public Library's Celeste Bartos Room for Google's all-day Unbound conference to be told, in no uncertain terms by an array of speakers, that if you're not moving with the digital times, you're just not a 21st century publish... [GalleyCat]

AMS To Sell Off PGW? - Posted January 8, 2007
So says PW Daily, reporting that it appears increasingly likely that Publishers Group West will be sold off in a deal that could close relatively quickly. Sources said that "well funded" companies have been in discussions about acquiring the company in a transaction separate from any AMS deal. But before anyone starts... [GalleyCat]