Loud Noises Be Gone! Mute Posts by Source in Google Buzz
I’ve long said that in good social networks, it’s not how you give, but how you receive that makes the social network powerful. This is why I like Facebook – I can hide the types of applications I don’t ever want to see, or I can just hide individuals. I liked FriendFeed even better because […]
Read more...Buzz Opens the Firehose With New API Features
Just a few minutes ago, on his Buzz update stream, Google employee DeWitt Clinton announced that Google had opened up their real-time stream of information for Buzz. Now, any application can access, in real-time, all updates across the entire service as they come through. This incredible stream of information will serve useful to Data warehousing […]
Read more...Getting Me to Share Your Posts
One of the things I like to do on my Twitter account is to share interesting articles around the web that I think would be interesting to my readers. Such articles can be techy, geeky, mainstream, pop-culture, or anything I deem interesting. Based on your retweets, I think you like it. I had someone ask […]
Read more...Google Re-Enables Adsense on RSS Feeds in Buzz
Some time in the last hour or two it appears that the Google Buzz team has re-enabled AdSense ads in RSS Feeds in Google Buzz. Recently I wrote about this, criticizing the service for stripping out ads a blog author was including and importing into Google Buzz. This included both RSS feeds directly imported into […]
Read more...I’ve Been a Little Rough on Google Lately
For having posted just less than 1,000 posts, this blog has gotten a lot of attention in just the last one or two years. It used to be when I posted something I would get few comments (I still wish I had more), little traffic, and I knew it was only going to perhaps a […]
Read more...Did Google Reinvent the Wheel by Adopting the Protocols They Chose?
In a response to my article here, DeWitt Clinton of Google defined what he deemed the definition of “open” to be. According to DeWitt, “the first is licensing of the protocols themselves, with respect to who can legally implement them and/or who can legally fork them.” I argue if this were the case, then why […]
Read more...The Web is No Longer Open
“So it can benefit everyone.” That’s what a Google employee said today as he tried to explain Google’s recent push to have websites use the ‘rel=”me”‘ meta HTML tags to identify pages a user owns on the web. It’s not a bad strategy – index the entire web, know every single website out there, and […]
Read more...Is Google Stealing Authors’ Copyright With Buzz?
2 years ago I shared about a blogger and follower/friend of mine, Ali Akbar, who purchased the domain, googleappsengine.com (he still owns it) in order to create an AppEngine-related blog (since Google apparently forgot to purchase the domain). Ali received a threatening Cease-and-Desist from Google shortly after asking him to immediately discontinue use of the […]
Read more...Speculation: Expect Something BIG in the Area of Real-Time at F8
I don’t do speculative posts like this too often, except around Facebook’s F8 developer events for the most part. The last one I predicted was that Facebook would announce a Mobile Platform at F8 – the announcement did occur along with Facebook Connect. The first F8 was the announcement of the Facebook API, which revolutionized […]
Read more...Google Changes the Way You Read My Feeds – You Still Have no Control
Louis Gray just reported a new way Google is trying to control the problem of mine and Louis’s and Robert Scoble and Mashable, and more of the more active feeds and streams on Google Buzz taking over the streams of our followers. The problem that was occuring is that for those with a lot of […]
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