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The D8 Site Is Now Live

Kara Swisher in News on May 18, 2010 at 10:15 am PT

The conference site for the eighth D: All Things Digital is now up. There are posts related to D8, and we will be adding more in the next two weeks, ahead of the June 1 start of the conference. And when the conference kicks in, these pages will also be populated with up-to-the-minute posts, photos and videos.

The D8 Site Is Now Live

Kara Swisher in D8 on May 18, 2010 at 10:15 am PT

The conference site for the eighth D: All Things Digital is now up. There are posts related to D8, and we will be adding more in the next two weeks, ahead of the June 1 start of the conference. And when the conference kicks in, these pages will also be populated with up-to-the-minute posts, photos and videos.

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Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 8, 2010 at 11:48 am PT

Google Inc. is set to unveil a new feature to Gmail designed to make it easier and faster for users to share media and status updates with friends, according to people familiar with the matter. These people said Google could launch the new feature, which aims to make its Gmail email application more social, as soon as this week.

Clutter-Free, Twittified, Binged (and Also Apple-icious): The New MSN Homepage Debuts (Plus Screenshots and the Press Release)

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2009 at 8:15 pm PT

The new MSN homepage debuts tonight and you would be completely correct in thinking the recipe Microsoft has cooked up to inform its design ethos–white, clean and hiply modern–has definite echoes of a certain longtime tech rival. That would be Apple, of course, with a big dollop of Twitter and Facebook tossed in, and finished off with a generous sprinkling of Microsoft’s new Bing search service. For those who care: The MSN butterfly logo remains, although it appears to have lost a lot of weight.

Huffington Post and Facebook Go "Social News," With Connect on Steroids

Kara Swisher in News on August 16, 2009 at 11:00 pm PT

In an unusually robust collaboration using Facebook Connect, the Huffington Post is launching a feature on Monday called “HuffPost Social News,” which lets readers create a personalized social networking-like news page on the Huffington Post itself. While the Huffington Post had already been using Facebook Connect since January–which allows readers of the site to log in using their Facebook identity to interact, which is mostly used to leave comments–this essentially takes Facebook Connect and puts it on steroids. While the use of “social news” will be seen by some as simply a clever PR term, it is an interesting development for both the popular online news site and for the social networking giant.

Yahoo Renovates Its Home Page

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on July 28, 2009 at 4:52 pm PT

Katherine Boehret reviews Yahoo’s made-over home page, which features less clutter and new “apps.”

Using Mac OS X On a PC

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on October 8, 2008 at 5:28 pm PT

Walt answers questions about using Mac OS X on a PC, and how to use a Boot Camp setup as a virtual machine with VMWare Fusion.

Sony and Roku Try To Join TV to Web, But No Merger Yet

Walter S. Mossberg in Personal Technology on August 13, 2008 at 6:06 pm PT

Two set-top boxes have been launched to try to marry the Internet and the TV. Both adapters, from Sony and Roku, worked well in tests, but each has limitations.