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Google+ API Launches – Read-Only, Limited, But a Start
Google just announced that developers can now access an API that exposes public data published on Google+. While a select group of developers already has access to [...]
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Follow Me: Facebook Launches Subscribe Feature to Fight Off Google+ and Twitter
Facebook today announced a major new feature that could put renewed pressure on Google+ and Twitter to out-innovate the social networking market leader. Facebook users can now choose to allow others to asymmetrically follow them thanks to the new (and optional) “subscribe button”– just like on Twitter and Google+. This is an opt-in feature, so you may not see it on every Facebook profile. The fact that Facebook even decided to go into this direction, however, shows that it may be changing its views on how “relationships” on the service should work and that it took a closer look at the success that Twitter and Google+ are having with this model.
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Google’s New (Limited) Flight Search Challenges Kayak and Co.
Google today launched the first iteration of its new flight search feature that will allow users to find cheap airfares right from the Google interface without having [...]
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Microsoft Talks Windows 8 at BUILD: Here’s What’s New
Microsoft today provided developers (and users) with a first detailed look at Windows 8 during its BUILD conference. Steven Sinofsky, who is in charge of the Windows 8 development for Microsoft, provided both consumers and developers with a first look at many of the new features in Windows 8, as well as some of the new hardware devices that will soon run Windows 8.
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As Check-Ins Fizzle Out, Gowalla Pivots
Check-in services like Gowalla and Foursquare were the most hyped kinds of apps of 2010, but for the most part, it has become pretty clear that mainstream users don’t care a lot about checking in. It makes sense then, that Gowalla today announced a major reshuffling of its feature set at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference in San Francisco today. Instead of focussing on checking in, the new Gowalla now puts an emphasis on sharing “stories” and building travel logs. Also among the new features are “guides,” which are “curated travel guides for numerous cities around the world.”
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