Google Buzz Integrates Social Networking Directly with Gmail, Your Cellphone [Screenshot Tour]

Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Google today announced a new service, Google Buzz , that automatically brings social networking into Gmail and the rest of the Google-sphere. Whether or not you're big on social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook, Buzz offers a somewhat new and intriguing approach. What's Buzz All About? It's five key features, as laid out in the event at Google HQ today, include: Automatic friends lists (friends...

IAC Loss Has Silver Lining: Online Ad Market Improving

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO — Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offered the latest indication that the online advertising market is improving. IAC shares rose 2 percent in afternoon trading. IAC, which is run by media billionaire Barry Diller, said Tuesday its net loss amounted...

Here Comes Google Buzz

Slog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Mashable has the story on Google's latest attempt to turn Gmail into a social networking hub : Google Buzz . It's kind of confusing: So, apparently, it's like Twitter, Google Wave, and Facebook all at once in your e-mail , and you can connect to Twitter (but not Facebok) with it. It remains to be seen if yet another interface is what the internet needs, but Google at least has an enormous captive...

AP: “Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked”

Don Surber (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

You can’t win. You can’t tie. You can’t quit the game. The Associated Press report: SAN FRANCISCO – Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break [...]

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Google Buzz Is Google's Twitter-Like Client [Google]

Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Google has just announced the name for their rumored new service. It's part of Gmail and called Google Buzz . And it'll be live TODAY by 2PM Eastern. http://www.youtube.com/user/Google#p/u/3/yi50KlsCBio Used on a PC, Buzz reminds us of an RSS combined with all of your social networking—all within the existing Gmail infrastructure. Buzz's five key features include: • Automatic friends lists...

Google announces 'Buzz' update feature to compete with Facebook

New York Post (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google is making it easier to socialize on its e-mail service. It's unveiling a new "Google Buzz" feature that sets up a face-off with Facebook. The feature unveiled Tuesday will enable Gmail users to create status updates on Google Buzz and read and comment on the...

Canon Improves Entry-Level Rebel D.S.L.R.

New York Times (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Canon improves the features of its starter D.S.L.R. cameras with the new EOS Rebel T2i, and adds four new PowerShot point-and-shoot models to its lineup.

Google announces 'Buzz' for a social Gmail

The Raw Feed (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Google announced today a social or micro-blogging-like new "Buzz" feature in Gmail. The Google Buzz service auto-follows you to people you have e-mailed in the past. It supports Twitter-like public posting, as well as Facebook-like private posting. The private posting can go to groups created by the user, or individuals.

Google Gets More Social With Buzz

Bits (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Google's Buzz service, which ties into Gmail, is another way for people to tell others what they're doing, thinking and feeling.

Associated Press Returns to Google News

Mashable (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

After more than a month of proverbial radio silence, news stories by the Associated Press are back on Google News . The AP and Google have been in talks to establish a new agreement that would allow Google to continue to aggregate and host AP content, but because the AP has adopted a hawkish stance with regards to controlling its content online, Google stopped posting new AP stories in anticipation...

Video: Sergey Brin On His Six Months Using Google Buzz, The China Situation, And More

TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Today, Google's social strategy took a big step with the launch of Google Buzz — a new FriendFeed-like feature that's integrated into Gmail, mobile search, Maps, and more (you can see our live notes from the announcement here ). Shortly after the event, Google co-founder Sergey Brin fielded questions backstage from members of the press. Our own Steve Gillmor was there to record the conversation...

Q&A: Stewart Butterfield on the Launch of Glitch

GigaOM (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr and founder of game developer Tiny Spark, talks about his newly launched, massively multiplayer online game Glitch, why he chose 2D instead of 3D, and how he thought about starting a bank instead of a game company.

Apple's Virtual Reality Store: Second Life or XBox Live?

ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

While the rest of the world was caught up with Google Buzz , Apple was quietly granted a patent for a virtual reality App Store. The store patent encompasses details such as seasonal and time-based lighting, color schemes and a basic storefront representation. A few bloggers have already criticized the patent as a relic from SecondLife past , the store may have more use when we consider it in the...

FriendFeed (and Gmail) Founder’s Reaction To Google Buzz: “This Seems Vaguely Familiar”

TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

As soon as Google Buzz was released earlier today, all the early adopters piled in to give it a spin. Paul Buchheit, the creator of Gmal and a founder of FreindFeed, was among them and his initial reaction was: "This seems vaguely familiar . . ." Or, as he put it elsewhere , "There's a FriendFeed in my Gmail. Sweet! :) " It is vaguely familiar to him on various levels. Like FriendFeed...

The Location Implications of Google Buzz

Mashable (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

We learned earlier this morning that Google Buzz adds a shared social experience — very similar to FriendFeed and Facebook — to your Google contact circle via Gmail. Google also made it very clear that the mobile component, especially around location, is important to the product as a whole. Location plays a big role in Buzz — we saw this with the introduction of the snap, Google’s...

Recorded 2009 music sales fell around 10 percent: IFPI

balio2jj3 | yesterday

LONDON (Reuters) –Global recorded music sales fell around 10 percent in 2009, and are down a huge 30 percent since 2004, after rampant piracy ate in to traditional and legitimate digital sales, the industry's trade body said. The IFPI said in its annual report that the industry had seen positive developments in 2009, with more than a quarter of all recorded music revenues now coming from digital sales...

Landing page optimization: Tips to improve actionability

roigeeks | yesterday

The competition on Internet is getting tougher day by day. To make a place in today’s Internet market, professionals are opting for fastest way to increase their sales, by optimizing their landing pages and conversion rates. Landing page optimization it is guaranteed to deliver ROI and increased revenue. It is not that easy and simple to optimize a landing page. However, by following the necessary...

How to import JVC Everio TOD to iPad for Mac OS X?

athna | yesterday

The large and high resolution screen makes iPad perfect for watching any kind of video: from HD movies and TV shows to podcasts and music videos. Wish to playback your camcorder videos captured with JVC Everio on the big screen clearly and vividly. However, the TOD format produced by your JVC Everio camcorder can not be directly played on your consumer video equipment iPad? Since iPad only support...