Google said it is going to close Google+ in the coming months seven years after it was launched as a social networking site of its own name brand. The demise of Google+ also came as a result of a bug discovered last year but acknowledged for the first time by Google on Monday, and t...
Unfortunately for Yahoo, Google is simply going to implement the concept better. Sure, Yahoo! has first mover advantage but Yahoo’s shortcomings are well documented and the scope and abilities of MyBlogLog are limited. Google promises to do much, much more. This whole web of social networkin...
Google is becoming more social on several levels but doesn’t have a central hub where those social interactions can all be seen at once. That may change in the future, and a new patent application from Google shows an example interface that such a system might use. I couldn’t help but...
Google wanted in on that democratisation. Links are broken and Social was the fix. Within SEO there is a close watch across the industry on any Google product and of course as soon as Google+ was launched it was obvious that this was going to be a key part of S...
"Going forward, consumers will get more fine-grained control over what account data they choose to share with each app," Google said. Applications tailored to augment Gmail will also face new rules regarding data handling and be subject to security assessments, according to the company. ...
Google announced Monday it is shutting down the consumer version of its online social network after fixing a bug exposing private data in as many as 500,000 accounts.
Google has announced that it's going to start blocking websites that use certificates from Entrust starting around November 1, 2024, in its Chrome browser, citing compliance failures and the certificate authority's inability to address security issues in a timely manner. "Over the past several ye...
To start with, Google never claimed that Google+ was going to topple or kill anything. It was certainly marketed as a new social network, one that filled some gaps and provided missing functionality – but the idea that it would destroy an existing network and completely replace Facebook? Tha...
That seems like I’m pooh-poohing the whole idea, but actually there are some bigger implications of this move. Firstly there’s a whole massive pile of YouTube sharing going on on Facebook–the company notes up to 46yearsworth of footage are watched via Facebook links every day. If Yo...
You can get to this menu by going to settings in your Gmail web interface: Filter for the Buzz updates and notifications. Available connections for Google Social Network Google Buzz is automatically connected to every Gmail account, but there is more than just Gmail to Buzz! You can also ...