Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Facebook Formalizes Support for OpenID Foundation

By Nicholas Kolakowski
2009-02-06
With MySpace and Google releasing similar applications, Facebook has already moved to allow users to port their data around the Web via Facebook Connect. In the next stage of building open distributed-identity frameworks across the Internet, Facebook officially joins the board of the OpenID Foundation.On Feb. 5, Facebook announced that it would join [...]

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Privacy fears over Google tracker

Google has announced a new feature that allows users to share their locations among a chosen network of friends.
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The “opt-in” Latitude service uses data from mobile phone masts, GPS, or wi-fi hardware to update a user’s location automatically.
Users can also manually set their advertised location anywhere they like, or turn the broadcast off altogether.
The [...]

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Google Quietly Declares E-Mail War on Yahoo

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Many people have sent an e-mail while angry, exhausted, inebriated or just by mistake that they later regretted. Now, Google has a way to help protect you (and others) from such a faux pas.
As part of its quest to attract users to its Gmail service, the Internet search company has introduced [...]

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Some thoughts on FeedBurner Site Stats being replaced by Google Analytics

I’ve been a FeedBurner customer for a couple of years and was initially happy for the company when it was acquired by Google. This soon turned to frustration when I realized that Google had become the company where startups go to die. Since being acquired by Google almost two years ago, the service hasn’t added [...]

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