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• 0October 30, 2009

  How Google Social Search Works

  Google recently launched a new experimental feature in Google Labs that searches your social circle in addition to your regular Google search results. Announced at Web 2.0 in San Francisco last week, Google Social Search is currently in its Beta testing phase. In the video below, Matt Cutts from the search quality team explains how Google Social Search works. [...]

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• 0October 28, 2009

  Google Music Search Feature

  Today, Google announced their much anticipated Google Music Search Feature. From the looks of the video promo above, this could turn out to be a huge play for Google and their music partners. According to Google:

  Every day we get millions of search queries about music. You want [...]

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• 0October 20, 2009

  20 Essential Resources for 4 of the Web’s Hottest Social APIs

  From Mashable:
  This series is supported by PayPal X Innovate 2009, PayPal’s first dedicated developer conference. Register for $49 with the code ppblog3 or join us at $50 if you are a student.
  The API (Application Programming Interface) has been [...]

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• 0October 14, 2009

  Augmented Reality + Google Earth = AugEarth (or Big Brother?)

  Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information (augearth)
  The above demo, from students of Georgia Institute of Technology, is both super cool and scary as hell. Phenomenal technology for real-time mapping via Google Earth but… equally frightening is how easily this could actually destroy our privacy. The unusual [...]

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• 0October 02, 2009

  What is Google Wave?

  As previously noted, Google Wave has been a much hyped about real-time communication platform that has been available to developers since June and was just released to an additional 100,000 select people for the first public beta a few days ago on September 30th. In that time there’s been much discussion around Google Wave and what exactly it will offer. While “real-time communication [...]

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• 0September 22, 2009

  Google’s Long Road Back To $500

  From Chart Of The Day at Silicon Alley Insider by Dan Frommer:

  Google shares traded over $500 for several hours today, for the first time since August, 2008.

  Since then, the company has gone through two significant [...]

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• 2September 10, 2009

  The Google Wave is Near

  Google Wave arrives to the public at the end of this month. On September 30th Google will start sending out 100,000 invites to non-developers to participate in the public beta roll-out of its highly anticipated real-time communication platform. If you haven’t signed up yet, you can try your luck here.
  Google Wave, which has only seen [...]

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