Technology News

Hands on with Google Buzz - It's a Stream in Your Inbox

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2010

Tuesday saw the debut of Google Buzz, a new service for sharing status updates, links and media with your friends.

Its currently being rolled out to the public slowly you can sign up at buzz.google.com but weve had access to Buzz since shortly after it launched, and Ive had a chance to play around with it. Buzz integrates directly with your Gmail inbox, so updates and comments appear along side your e-mails. It bears a strong resemblance to other sharing ...

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When Does Hacking Become Cyber Warfare?

Source: PC Magazine
February 9, 2010

The problem with most hacking attacks is that the source of them is, fundamentally, unverifiable. Even if you can have an intelligent guess at the origin, you can't usually know.

But let's assume, for the sake of argument, that widespread malicious attacks against US companies, infrastructure and government are coming from China; there's plenty of evidence for it and it's a reasonable scenario. Furthermore, let's assume that the attackers in China are government agents or, at the very least, acting ...

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Music Gets More Social as It Moves to the Cloud

Source: HypeBot
February 9, 2010

"Social tools and media are of course already inherently connected and inherently cloud based, whether it be Facebook, Twitter or MySpace. When woven into the fabric of a digital music offering they bring that experience to life. In a connected music experience that exists across multiple devices and multiple platforms, social connectivity is more important than ever. Social connectivity turns a bored 10 minutes waiting for a train into a connected a fun engaged interaction with a friend, sharing playlists ...

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Culture Jam: Tweeting for a Song

Source: Michael Ricci
February 9, 2010

Edith Piaf, whose last name means “sparrow" in French, used to sing for her meals. Culture Jam, a Santa Monica startup, wants to do the same.

Working with bands and record companies, Culture Jam builds viral marketing campaigns on Twitter. One campaign they developed for the band 30 Seconds to Mars yielded more than 25,000 tweets within a couple of days. Here's how it works. A band wants to get the word out about its new album. Culture ...

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How Google Buzz is Disruptive: Open Data Standards

Source: Michael Ricci
February 9, 2010

Google rolled out a social stream service today called Buzz.

It looks on the surface like Facebook, FriendFeed and other stream reading and writing services. It will compete with Facebook and Twitter. Under the covers, though, this major product was built by a team of people taking a radical new approach to online publishing: Buzz is all about open, standardized user data.

Google Buzz data can be syndicated out to other services using the standard data formats called ...

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Google Making Gmail into a Communications Hub

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2010

Gmail users will soon have more ways to keep up with their friends via a widget that shows quick status updates like Facebook and Twitter do, The Wall Street Journal reports. The move would further turn Gmail, which revolutionized online e-mail, into a comprehensive communications hub. The intent is to keep peoples attention centered on Google, by making Gmail, not Facebook, peoples first stop online and their default place to send and receive messages. Gmail users can already chat via ...

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Driver's Licenses for the Internet

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2010

The conversation about where to draw the line between privacy and security is as old as society itself.

I didn't mean to so forcefully insert myself into the middle of that debate when I wrote about a Microsoft executive ruminating on the possibility of driver's licenses for the Internet. Alas, here I am.

That original blog post is already one of the 15 most-read of all time on the Curious Capitalist (it warms my heart that the top post remains ...

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The Willis Conover Facebook Page

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
February 8, 2010

What three administrations in the White House have refused to do, the people have done. They have recognized Willis Conover, the Voice of America broadcaster who may have been America's greatest cultural diplomat of the Cold War. He now has his own Facebook page, The Willis Conover Club. Will that lead to his getting a long overdue posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom? Possibly not, but his page, up only a day or two, is rapidly accumulating fans. One of them ...

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