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If you’re searching for something, will you Facebook it?

August 12, 2010 by Keredy Stott
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Excitement seems to be bubbling about Facebook’s Open Graph Search Engine – will it work, will it be useful and, excuse the pun, will it be liked? [read more]

Google Waves Goodbye to Google Wave

August 5, 2010 by Suzanne Vara
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  Goggle has waved its last wave in the decision to cease development of Google Wave as a standalone product. This should not come as a shock as despite the real time communication through character-by-character live typing and the drag-and-drop (both are available as open source) as well as the real time sharing of images a... [read more]
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Implications of the Organization of Data

July 16, 2010 by Alex Torpey
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It’s no surprise that the amount of data and information that exists - much less is becoming increasingly available - is monumental. In 2010, the internet will be about 1.2 zettabytes in size. Haven’t heard of zettabytes? A zettabyte is one trillion gigabytes. So right now, there is about 1.2 trillion gigabytes, or to help conceptualize... [read more]

Google’s Long History of Social Media Attempts

July 10, 2010 by Rax Lakhani
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Google’s long history of acquisition, innovation, experimentation, successes and failures is dotted with household names (YouTube) and forgotten brands (Jaiku anyone?). The following Infographic from Mashable puts Google’s Social Media history into the contect of a timeline. I for one, refuse to get excited by the prospect of Google... [read more]

Reading Between the Lines of Facebook’s Declaration of War Against Google Search

June 25, 2010 by AmithaAmarasinghe
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Allfacebook.com revealed the news of “Facebook’s declaration of search war against Google”, creating some interesting arguments between Google fans and Facebook fans.In my opinion, it is ridiculous to presume that what Facebook means as “search” is the same as what Google is currently offering. It is because of this stereotypical... [read more]