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Google Social Researcher Jumps Ship for Facebook

Liz Gannes in Social on December 20, 2010 at 6:28 pm PT

Paul Adams, a senior user experience researcher at Google who was the company’s research lead for social, announced today he will be joining Facebook next year.

What Facebook Messages Means and Why You Should Care

Liz Gannes in Social on November 16, 2010 at 12:18 pm PT

Facebook yesterday launched an interesting product that tries to get at the heart of how highly connected people communicate casually. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others from the company reiterated over and over again (see my live notes; the repetition is excessive) that the product is “not email.”

Live from Facebook's Email Messages Launch

Liz Gannes in Social on November 15, 2010 at 10:04 am PT

Facebook has called the press to yet another launch event, this time in San Francisco for a new Facebook email system. Luckily, they brought their own cafeteria chairs so our butts will feel right at home after a long summer of launches at the company’s Palo Alto, Calif., office.

With Video Chatting, It’s a Small World After All

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on April 27, 2010 at 1:30 pm PT

Video chatting, helpful as it may be for keeping in touch, can be intimidating. Katie goes into the basics.

YouTube and Viacom Find Lots of Emails, but No Smoking Gun

Peter Kafka in Media on March 18, 2010 at 7:25 pm PT

The YouTube-Viacom documents released today are chock full of interesting morsels. Feel free to ignore most of them.

Twitter Guys: We’ll Still Be Running This Company in Five Years

Peter Kafka in D7 on May 26, 2009 at 6:49 pm PT

Meet the Internet’s It Boys: Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. A year ago, their “micromessaging” platform was unknown outside of a small circle of digerati. Now the service has broken through to the mainstream, or at least to the mainstream media (thanks, Oprah!). But while Twitter has no problem generating attention, it’s still unclear how the company will actually generate revenue. Or maybe it doesn’t need to do that: Last year, Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million in cash and stock, and the service could presumably garner a much higher price today. Or at least that’s what its investors may be hoping for.

DailyCandy CEO Pete Sheinbaum Steps Down

Peter Kafka in Media on May 6, 2009 at 3:44 am PT

DailyCandy CEO Pete Sheinbaum is leaving the company, less than a year after Comcast bought the fashion and shopping newsletter from Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group Ventures for $125 million. His last day is Friday. Sheinbaum, who started working for the company as a consultant in 2000 and took the top job in 2005, says he doesn’t have a new job lined up yet. “I let them know after nine years it was time to look for the next thing,” he says via email. No word yet on a replacement.

App Aims to Up Social Status of Some Basic Cellphones

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on March 10, 2009 at 4:46 pm PT

Katie reviews iSkoot’s Notifier, an application designed to give basic cellphones smart-phone-like capabilities.

Skipping Your Computer’s Warm-Up Time

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 20, 2009 at 6:10 pm PT

The time it takes to boot up a computer can be a source of frustration — especially if you’re in a rush and just want to log on, get information and move on with your day. If televisions took as long as PCs take to start working, we’d miss game-winning touchdowns.

The App Test: Rating Programs for Google’s G1

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on October 21, 2008 at 4:30 pm PT

Today, people interested in seeing the first Google-branded consumer-hardware product will get to satisfy their curiosity as the company, joining with T-Mobile, unveils its $179 G1 handheld computer. This touch-screen device will compete with Apple’s iPhone, and it includes a key feature missing in the iPhone: a physical keyboard.

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