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Google crosses the “activity streams”

by Mathew on December 16, 2007 · View Comments

As Ionut Alex. Chitu at Google Operating System and others have noted, Google appears to be pushing the idea of user profiles further and further into its various businesses — from Google Reader, where it just launched the ability to share your saved items with friends (provided they are on your GTalk contact list, that [...]

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Facebook vs. Google — the social wars

by Mathew on December 12, 2007 · View Comments

Facebook appears to be trying to gain some ground against Google’s as-yet-unreleased OpenSocial effort by opening up its developer platform for other sites to use. The F8 platform started as a set of APIs that other sites could use to create widgets — of which there are now about a million (two or three of [...]

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Mark Cuban is lazy, and so are you

by Mathew on November 4, 2007 · View Comments

Basketball-team owner and billionaire TV dance-show star (what a mouthful that is) Mark Cuban has some thoughts about Google’s OpenSocial effort and the competition with Facebook. Among other things he says in his post — such as the fact that he suggested to Yahoo that they convince Facebook to license its API — Mark says [...]

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Looking a Google gift horse in the mouth

by Mathew on November 2, 2007 · View Comments

To say that there has been a lot written about Google’s announcement of OpenSocial, the social-networking standard it developed along with MySpace and others, would be more than a bit of an understatement. There have been some excellent posts — including one by Joe Kraus at the official Google blog and one from Marc Andreessen [...]

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