YouTube to Live-Stream Tiger Woods Press Conf (8am PST)
According to YouTube, Tiger Woods will be breaking his self-imposed silence today to address the months-long unraveling of his career, and his good name.
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NEW: Google Goggles – Use Images as Search Terms!
Google are taking advantage of their huge user base once more to identify logos, landscapes, artwork, landmarks, and lots more! Why? Because they want to use the info to make their new Google Goggles into a working Search Engine that uses images instead of text! The application is available now on Android phones.
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02 2010
Microsoft Office 2010 Gets More Social
Microsoft have just announced a new addition to Microsoft Office 2010 – and it’s social! The tool is called Outlook Social Connector, and it’s designed to bring communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the outlook calendar. The Social Connector is designed to help you stay in touch with the people you care about.
17
02 2010
Skype + Verizon to Release Android & BlackBerry Apps in March [Video]
Skype will be releasing Android and Blackberry apps in March of this year!
Skype, along with Verizon Wireless, will be releasing the apps to many of Verizon’s devices including the BlackBerry Storm 9530, Storm2 9550, Curve 8330, Curve 8530, 8830 World Edition and Tour 9630 smartphones, as well as DROID by Motorola, DROID ERIS by HTC and Motorola DEVOUR.
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02 2010
Facebook Launches Facebook Zero for Mobile
According to TechCrunch, Facebook’s Chamath Palihapitiya of Facebook just finished a short speech about Facebook’s mobile strategy. Nothing mindblowing – but he did leave us with Facebook Zero – a text-only site for mobile carriers.
16
02 2010
Social Media Adoption by US Small Biz Doubles Since 2009 [Stats]
According to Network Solutions and the University of Maryland Smith School of Business, social media adoption by small businesses has doubled from 12 percent to 24 percent in the last year. The results were shown in the Small Business Success Index™ (SBSI) third wave of results.
16
02 2010
Intel + Nokia Create New Mobile OS MeeGo
Intel and Nokia have created a new mobile OS called Meego. Meego will be an open-source mobile operating system. The versatile OS will, according to the Nokia blog, work across a huge range of devices – mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The open-source platform will be hosted by the Linux Foundation, and they expect it will be adopted by many device manufacturers. The OS itself is supposed to hit devices sometime later this year.
15
02 2010
Aardvark is Live in Google Labs
Yesterday, it was announced that Aardvark was being bought out by Google for $50 million. Today, both companies sent out their official blog posts and mass emailings, and immediately afterwards – TechCrunch broke the news that Aardvark was already live in Google Labs! And here it is:
12
02 2010
Google Buzz Security Fixes Coming Later Today
Yesterday I wrote a long intricate rant against Google Buzz. It’s not because I hate Google – it’s actually quite the opposite. I was mad at Google for Google Buzz because I love Google. And I think they can do so much better. Well – since most of the 9 million posts (in 2 days!) on Buzz have been complaints about it’s features, they caught on pretty fast and are doing a wicked-good job of cleaning up the mess they made!
12
02 2010
BREAKING: Google Buys Aardvark for $50 Million
GO Aardvark!
According to TechCrunch, Google has just bought Social Q&A site Aardvark for $50 million!
Aardvark, who I’ve reviewed here before, raised $6 million all together in venture capital to build a Social Search Engine that would answer and receive questions from users. I personally use it all the time, and am quite the evangelist for this brand. Here’s a research report Aardvark have published recently:
