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Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

and to think people were starting to assume that email is dead.

Web-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook calls the social graph — the connections between people. That’s why the social networks offer to import the e-mail address books of new users to jump-start their list of friends. Yahoo and Google realize that they have this information and can use it to build their own services that connect people to their contacts.

source: bits.blogs.nytimes.com | posted on: November 14th, 2007 11:11:13 AM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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MySpace News Is Stealing Your Search Results

How can Google get away with this! If Siphs tried this we would be sued and shut down immediately. Google clearly doesn't care about the rights of copyright holders...

A search of Google found thousands of MySpace News pages presenting story headlines with a MySpace url that led directly to a framed page that uses content from other sites.

source: www.techcrunch.com | posted on: September 21st, 2007 09:09:06 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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Google To “Out Open” Facebook On November 5

Google is going after Facebook by opening up their service and systems via API's that most probably leverage Gmail. I image that that link sharing service is simply part of their overall strategy. Anyway, we'll again have to play our card right and will definitely have to integrate tighter with Google once they launch their APIs on November 5th.

Yesterday a select group of fifteen or so industry luminaries attended a highly confidential meeting at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View to discuss the company’s upcoming plans to address the “Facebook issue.”

source: www.techcrunch.com | posted on: September 21st, 2007 09:09:32 PM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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