Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 29, 2011 at 9:30 am PT
While many are offering their tech predictions for 2012, we thought we’d take a moment to remember those that have gone to the tech-product graveyard.
Lauren Goode in Social on December 14, 2011 at 8:15 am PT
Ah, corporate buzzwords. They’re enough to kill the forward-looking momentum in any strategic, synergistic meeting. And yet they’re used all the time in LinkedIn profiles.
Liz Gannes 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.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 30, 2011 at 8:03 am PT
Remember Buzz? Google’s ham-handed attempt at a Twitter competitor, launched last year, remains a case study on how not to do social.
We got a reminder of that today, when Google settled Federal Trade Commission privacy violation charges in connection with the service.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 1, 2011 at 6:31 am PT
The best ticket in town is the one that gets you into the News Corp. CEO’s apartment for a look at his long-awaited iPad newspaper tonight. I don’t have one! But I’ve got a pretty good idea of what his guests get to gawk at.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 29, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT
Walt looks at the products and competitive positions of key contenders as they enter a new year.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 16, 2010 at 11:58 am PT
At an all-hands meeting for the Yahoo product team following a round of layoffs yesterday that significantly impacted that group, Chief Product Officer Blake Irving announced plans to “sunset” eight products.
Voices
Suzanne Vranica, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 15, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Car companies have long tapped high-profile celebrities to spread word of mouth about new cars by test driving them around town. Now they are turning to a similarly powerful but cheaper source: young social-media influencers who have strong online followings.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on November 2, 2010 at 1:21 pm PT
In the end Buzz, Google’s ill-starred, privacy-violating social networking service, proved more of a public relations burden than a financial one. The company on Tuesday
settled the class action suit brought against it, for its foolish decision to use Buzz to transform our private Gmail address books into public social networks, by agreeing to establish an $8.5 million fund for Internet privacy education and policy.
