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Google 'Friend Connect' Adds More Social Media Features
Google's Friend Connect has expanded its roster of social networking and social media services that participating Web publishers can add to their sites. Other new features allow web publishers to 1) offer people the ability to use their site profiles to send private messages, and 2) fine-tune their sites by aggregating and analyzing data that users make public about their interests, Perez writes. Launched in May 2008, Friend Connect is now deployed by 9 million web sites worldwide and is available in 59 languages. Auletta: Traditional Media 'Googled' ThemselvesFrom the title of his new book, Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, you might suspect that author and longtime New Yorker magazine media critic Ken Auletta may blame the Internet for the ongoing demise of traditional media. Not so. Auletta says in an upcoming edition of C-SPAN's "Q&A" program -- his first interview for the new book -- that old media essentially blew it. "What really bugged me about the time I spent with traditional media...is how late they were to understand the new digital world and how the Internet changed the game. And they had to change and play a new game, and they weren't doing that..." Auletta does reserve some ire for the hubris displayed by many tech players. "There's a conceit that people in Silicon Valley have that the Internet is the most transformative technology that the world has ever seen. That's crap...electricity was much more transformative." The interview will air on C-SPAN Sunday (Nov. 1) at 8 and 11 p.m. ET and Monday (Nov. 2) at 6 p.m. ET. Here's a preview:
MySpace Music Harmonizes with Google Search
MySpace will provide Google search with audio tracks from major and independent labels, as well as links to music videos and upcoming tour information. The social-networking site said in a press release from MySpace Music president Courtney Holt: Today's implementation is only the beginning: Not every MySpace song or tour date is integrated into today's launch. In the coming days, we’ll continue to add additional MySpace songs, video links and tour info to Google search results, leveraging the breadth and depth of content available from the millions of artists on MySpace. The Google integration is a direct result of the MySpace acquisition of iLike. I'm especially proud of the agility with which we evolved an iLike/Google initiative into a deeper integration with MySpace. I know this is only the beginning of what we can achieve working together and I thank the iLike team for their hard work in bringing this product to life. We believe the future of MySpace includes enabling the socialization of content not only on MySpace but also on other Websites. Working with partners like Google is an important part of this strategy, and we have plenty of other opportunities ahead of us. Google's Turn for Twitter Deal
Vice president of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer announced on The Official Google Blog that the search-engine giant will include tweets in its search results. Mayer wrote: At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged—real-time updates like those on Twitter have appeared not only as a way for people to communicate their thoughts and feelings, but also as an interesting source of data about what is happening right now in regard to a particular topic. Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you'll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information. Will Twitter Feed Microsoft, Google?
For the information that could be mined from the data stream of billions of tweets by Twitter's 54 million monthly users, the company would be paid several million dollars or enter into revenue-sharing proposals that would give it a piece of the revenue made from search results, according to AllThingsD. N.Y. Times Digital Head Nisenholtz on About.com, Google AdSenseThe New York Times Co. senior vice president of digital operations Martin Nisenholtz spoke at the OMMA Global conference last Monday, and Beet.TV executive producer Andy Plesser captured it on video. He discussed the margins his company's About.com gains from Google AdSense and the fact that the latter does not perform well for news coverage in The New York Times. Gmail Woes ReturnFor the second time this month, Google's popular email service is experiencing outages.
Users are being informed that Gmail is "temporarily unable to access your contacts." As is now custom, users are turning to Twitter to report problems sending and receiving emails, seek solace, and complain. Perhaps Twitter user @federina puts it best: Gmail ora è down (spero non come demonoid), probabilmente un nuovo attacco... Gmail also went down on Sept. 1 before returning to full operability about 18 hours later. (What am I, the outage reporter today?) Seizing the opportunity, Mashable RTed the link to Barb Dybwad's Sept. 1 column on 5 Things to Do While Gmail is Down. Thing No. 1: Break the news on Twitter! (As I just did.) Thing No. 5: Go outside. Yeah, right. Google Books Adds LIFE
This announcement follows a previous partnership between the two parties, announced in November, under which LIFE made the contents of its image collection available through Google Image Search. Life Inc. president Andrew Blau said: LIFE magazine was there for every historical event, cultural shift and pop-culture occurrence. From our first issue in 1936 featuring President Franklin Roosevelt's work-relief project to coverage of Apollo 11, Marilyn Monroe, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, The Beatles, the beehive and everything in between. Every day we receive requests from readers looking for these issues for research purposes and to find photos and articles featuring family members, hometowns and other memories. Now with these full issues available online, readers will be able to browse through history as it was being recorded. And Google strategic-partner-development manager Andrew Madden added: We're tremendously excited to partner with Life Inc. Our partnership will enable millions of people around the world to discover and access LIFE magazine's iconic archive online. Google Launches 'Fast Flip' News-Reading ServiceA "solution to the future of journalism"? A "path to peace" with traditional publishers? Or yet more competition for battered news web sites?
From the New York Times: On Monday, the company introduced an experimental news hub called Fast Flip that allows users to view news articles from dozens of major publishers and flip through them as quickly as they would the pages of a magazine. Google will place ads around the news articles and share resulting revenue with publishers. Authors, Privacy Watchdogs Press Judge to Block Google Book Search DealThe battle over Google's right to access and control millions of digitized books moved to a New York court today. From Network World's Buzzblog:
A group of prominent authors and privacy advocates, including the ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation, is urging a New York judge this morning to reject a proposed deal that would grant Google access to and control over millions of digitized books. Indeed there have. Here's coverage of the ongoing arguments from BayNewser and WebNewser. The crux of the argument against the settlement is detailed in a press release from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: [T]he sweeping agreement to digitize millions of books ignores critical privacy rights for readers and writers. Meanwhile, internetnews.com reports that European Union officials offer only "tepid" praise for the settlement. Which, when you think about it, really isn't praise. PreviouslyGoogle Searches As Investment Guide? Facebook Launches San Francisco-Palo Alto Shuttle Gmail Is Down -- For How Long? Kennedy Searches Burning Up Google Kennedy Searches Burning Up Google Google Banned From the Street (View) In Switzerland Huffington Post Updates iGoogle Gadget Grumbling Grows Over Google Digital Book Settlement Google Looks to Add 'Caffeine' to Its Search Engine Google CEO Falls Far from Apple's Board Google Ramps Up Lobbying Efforts When NBC News Is Actually ABC News Google Health Offers Document Uploading, Storage Google, New America Foundation Seek National Broadband Plan Input Gates, Ballmer Unfazed by Google Chrome OS Reactions to Google Chrome Operating System Google Maps Adds Property Listings Down Under Quoted in Google News? No Comments Google Loses Its 'Social Force' Should Old Media Still Be Concerned About Google? Twitter's Biz Stone Responds to Google Rumor Internal Google Memo on Today's 200 Layoffs: 'We've Ended Up With Overlapping Organizations' Irony File - Google To Buy Former Paper Mill Google Cuts 100+ Employees, Closes Offices Jeff Jarvis Wants Your Company To Succeed in the Internet Age |
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