Sep 23, 2011 | Facebook, Google, Google+
Facebook has a vision that every single thing you do will be channeled back into a record of your life held by Facebook and shared in real-time with your friends – every web site you visit, every photo you take, every movie you see and song you play and place you go,...
Sep 21, 2011 | Facebook, Google, Google+, Microsoft, web_services, Windows8
Are you a Facebook user? You probably noticed the significant makeover to your Facebook page on Wednesday. Your news feed is now formatted a bit like a newspaper or online magazine, with “top stories,” a “ticker” feature on the right, “smart lists” on the left, and...
Aug 19, 2011 | Amazon, Google, mail, Microsoft, Office 365, web_services
On August 10, the main data center for Exchange Defender suffered a catastrophic power failure. Clients using the spam filtering service had their incoming and outgoing mail interrupted or massively slowed for most of a day, and hosted mailboxes went offline for as...
Jul 28, 2011 | business, Facebook, Google, Google+, law
The rules for online marketing change every day. Something simple, like having a web site that ranks high in Google’s search results, is turning into something barely comprehensible as search results become more individual, influenced by each person’s search history...
Jul 21, 2011 | Facebook, Google, Google+, web_services
Google+ represents Google’s boldest step yet into the social networking space, with a direct shot across Facebook’s bow. After several failed social network projects (Buzz, Orkut, Wave), Google might have a winner with Google+, at a time when Facebook is due for a...
Jul 18, 2011 | Google, news
When I opened Google News today, I was greeted by this screen, asking me to “collect private badges for [my] favorite topics”: Here’s the way it was described in the Google Blog: “On Google News, the average reader of political news has read 20 articles about politics...
