Yesterday a presentation from the research lead for Google’s social team, Paul Adams, began spreading around the web. The presentation provides deeper insight into Google’s existing concept of “social” and could help us further understand what the company believes is weaknesses in Facebook’s armor as they prepared to launch a “Facebook killer“. There [...]

The days of having a separate login and password for each online service we use are behind us. Now, you can log into most sites and services using your social network’s ID.

The most popular social identities are Facebook,…

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There’s an implicit pressure on social media enthusiasts to be connected in more than one way. It’s not enough to…

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With social media itself an exponentially growing trend that’s here to stay, many…

Google is working on a social service to rival Facebook, if web rumors are to be believed.

And while Google’s social networking efforts have so far fallen flat, even satisfied Facebook users should hope that the search engine’s efforts bear…

Over the past few days the rumor mills have been buzzing as news emerged that Google is working on a potential “Facebook killer”. This comes only days after we published about Facebook’s search strategy which could eventually become a direct competitor to Google. One thing is increasingly clear: this year could soon shape [...]

The big rumor that’s recently been making the rounds is Google Me, Google’s upcoming social network and a full-fledged competitor to Facebook.

While there’s virtually nothing official on the record for this project, Kevin Rose recently said it…

Facebook’s quest for the world’s best technological talent continues. The social networking behemoth has hired Matt Papakipos — the leader and key architect of Google Chrome OS — and VMWare Vice President Jocelyn Goldfein onto its engineering team.

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Umberto Milletti is the CEO of InsideView, which brings intelligence gained from social media and traditional sources to enterprise and B2B sales. The company’s SalesView app delivers fresh, complete and relevant information directly within CRMs and mobile devices…

As summer approaches, our thoughts turn to taking a break. Rather than bring you boring beaches or tacky theme parks, we’re planning pilgrimages for our inner- geek.

From the birth of Silicon Valley, to the inception of Twitter, we’ve…