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New Google Buzz API with firehose feature

According to google code blog a new feature called the Google Buzz firehose has been upgraded into the online tool.

July 22, 2010 (1 month, 19 days ago.) Reporter:Shohag View Comments

How To:Change Google Background Images (Steps)

Recently Google has rolled out a new feature that will allow Google search users to add or set custom Google background images to their personalized Google search homepage – even unfortunately meanwhile this feature is available for US users only.

June 7, 2010 (3 months, 4 days ago.) Reporter:Shohag View Comments

Social Community

‘Quit Facebook Day on May 31′ campaign set to be a flop

Only two percent of US Facebook users plan to delete their accounts today as a result of the ‘Quit Facebook Day on May 31′ campaign.

May 31, 2010 (3 months, 11 days ago.) Reporter:Shohag View Comments

Social Community

Facebook Has Reopened in Pakistan

Pakistan lifted the Facebook ban on Monday after Facebook officials apologized for offensive content and removed it from the site.

May 31, 2010 (3 months, 11 days ago.) Reporter:Shohag View Comments

Social Community

Facebook Is The Most Visited Site

Google has publicly released a list of the top 1000 websites in the world, raking the Facebook social networking site as the leading Web property by unique users.

May 29, 2010 (3 months, 13 days ago.) Reporter:Shohag View Comments

Internet

New Web and Desktop applications in Google Buzz

Today Google announced that a number of notable web and desktop applications — like TweetDeck, Seesmic, Plancast and Boxee — have integrated Google Buzz via the new Google Buzz API.

May 20, 2010 (3 months, 22 days ago.) Reporter:Shohag View Comments

Internet

Is Google Changing It’s Stance On User Privacy?

Google has caught a whole lot of flak fore what most people consider it’s lack of respect for the privacy of its users. FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour has outright lambasted the company after the release of Buzz, calling it irresponsible on consumer privacy. Now a recent blog post suggests that Google may be changing [...]

March 21, 2010 (5 months, 22 days ago.) Reporter:Nawal Mahmood View Comments

Internet

How To Be Free Of Google If You’re Fed Up

If Google’s actions over the last couple of months (with Buzz and all) have left you with a bad taste in your mouth, and has added to your list of reasons you no longer like the company and would like to stop using as many of their services as possible, then the guys at Gizmodo [...]

February 22, 2010 (6 months, 19 days ago.) Reporter:Nawal Mahmood View Comments

Social Community

MySpace and Facebook To Join Microsoft Outlook

After LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace are also on the process of integration with Microsoft Outlook. According to Mashable, Microsoft Outlook also joined in the race of social network through new partnerships with Facebook and MySpace and an existing one with LinkedIn. Look, everyone wants the social networking traffic. Back in November, Microsoft announced that Outlook [...]

February 17, 2010 (6 months, 24 days ago.) Reporter:aguntuk View Comments

Social Community

People Use Facebook 44% And Twitter 29% For Social Sharing

The traffic is booming in the social networking site around the world. According to a survey result by Gigya, Facebook drives 44% social sharing, where Twitter drives 29%. their old rivals Yahoo and mySpace drive only 18% and 9% respectively. Now you can understand why Google is focusing Buzz. they are trying to get those [...]

February 17, 2010 (6 months, 24 days ago.) Reporter:aguntuk View Comments

Internet

The Government of Canada taking a closer look at the privacy implications of Google Buzz, USA Next?

After the launch of Google Buzz, it’s facing lots of obstacles. Now the Canadian Government is concerned about the privacy settings of Buzz. Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner is investigating about the issue. According to CBC News, the office may issue further comment on Wednesday. On the other side, the Electronic Privacy Information Center [...]

February 17, 2010 (6 months, 24 days ago.) Reporter:aguntuk View Comments

Security

Google Adds More Security Features To Buzz

Google has been getting a lot of flak for the intentional privacy holes it left in Buzz. The privacy problems handed Google a lot of bad publicity, with the entire web community (it seems) hating Buzz with a passion. Now Google is trying to reign in the damage by making changes to Buzz’s privacy settings [...]

February 14, 2010 (6 months, 27 days ago.) Reporter:Nawal Mahmood View Comments