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Google’s +1 Button Is Finally Ready for Publishers

in Social on June 1, 2011 at 10:52 am PT

As expected, Google today released its +1 button for publishers, which solicits user votes to move Web pages higher in Google rankings. The product was oddly delayed given +1 has been live in many users’ search results since the end of March. Twitter also yesterday expanded its sharing widgets with a “Follow” button.

Yup, It's True: No Social at Google I/O

in Social on May 6, 2011 at 10:18 am PT

Sources familiar with Google’s plans say there will be no big social launches at the splashy Google I/O developer conference next week.

+1 Gets a Minus

in News on April 4, 2011 at 1:15 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

Everyone's an Innovator

in News on April 1, 2011 at 3:40 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

Plus None: Babbling Babies Take on Google +1

in News on March 31, 2011 at 2:54 pm PT

Please, please watch this video if you want to spit up your soda laughing hysterically. It mashes up the babbling twin babies YouTube phenom with Google’s +1 shoplift of Facebook’s “Like” button.

Google Gets a Like Button: Users Can Recommend Search Results With +1

in Social on March 30, 2011 at 10:46 am PT

Google today will start rolling out a social search feature it is calling +1. The product is much more limited than sharing tools from other services like Facebook, Twitter and Delicious, but since it will influence Google search results, it’s significant.

Don't Do This With Your iPad

in Media on September 10, 2010 at 7:08 am PT

Newsday says its new app is useful. But not that useful…

AOL: More Eyeballs, Less Money

in Media on November 13, 2008 at 6:58 am PT

AOL boasts that its traffic rose yet again in October. In the old days, where eyeballs trumped everything else, that’d be great. But today Internet businesses get evaluated on revenue, and those results aren’t anything to boast about.