Archive for February 9th, 2010
Google Buzz
Watched the release event live today. Pretty awesome looking product. Waiting for my Gmail to get the service (could take a day or two to populate to all users). Most of the buzz talking about it being a Facebook killer – really it just killed FriendFeed today for sure. It was like watching the launch of FF all over again. Weird. And it’s interesting how Facebook is the one social platform that matters that was absent from the “feeds” that Buzz can grab in this release.
Also nice to hear that Apps support is coming in next rev. This will be huge for Google Apps clients as it is a way to implement a “wave”-like experience today without hosting your own Wave server.
Guy Kawasaki on The Art of the Start
All that user-generated content? 95% is malware, spam
This is interesting and disturbing. An excerpt from the Ars article…
“One way that hackers are infiltrating the Web is by “SEO poisoning,” or using SEO techniques to pump up the ranking of malicious websites in search results to make them appear legitimate. On average, 14 percent of top search results for a given “hot” topic on Google led to a malicious website.”
Trackle Goes Pro; Launches Premium Version Of Realtime Tracking Alerts
This looks like an interesting SaaS tool for managing and tracking your online “presence”. May need to take a closer look at this for work use – could be a good way to automate searching for mentions and branding.
