Gigaom.com: Google Accepts Buzz Criticism, Invites Boyd to Speak on Privacy
Google, to its credit, is rolling with the punches thrown in response to its Buzz launch from last month, making changes to the product to address user concerns, and staying committed to it despite a messy launch. Members of the Buzz product team spoke on a behind-the-scenes-of-Gmail panel at SXSW today, addressing industry-wide criticism as well as a cutting attack over privacy issues from SXSW keynoter and researcher Danah Boyd delivered
on Saturday.
Todd Jackson, product manager for Gmail and Buzz
Google has been criticized far and wide for the way it launched and implemented Buzz, its new social web aggregation product. The primary complaint was over privacy — since Buzz exposed and made assumptions about pre-existing Gmail users’ relationships with each other. Buzz also has other problems: it’s noisy, limited to[...]
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Google Opens Apps Marketplace for Biz Users (and Developers)
The new Google Apps Marketplace is open: The online store ties directly to Google Apps (of course), so online business applications can integrate directly into the existing Apps, including Gmail and word processor.
The store is launching with 50 companies providing apps, including Intuit, Dimdim, TripIt, Box.net, Aviary, and even the company's direct competition at Zoho. You can read the full story about the Apps Marketplace in PCMag News.
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Shoeboxed App Available Through the New Google Apps Marketplace
By now, you have most likely heard about the launch of Google’s new App Marketplace. This revolutionary launch will now allow the millions of Google Apps users instant access to over 50 apps to help them avoid administrative hassles and focus on growing their businesses!
Here at Shoeboxed, we are thrilled to announce that we are [...]
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Coding for Pleasure: Developing Killer Spare-Time Apps
Loose notes from the SXSW 2010 session Coding for Pleasure: Developing Killer Spare-Time Apps, hosted by :
Gina Trapani of Lifehacker and now author of Google Wave book. Also made BetterGmail and ThinkTank;
Matt Haughey – Fuelly – public social miles per gallon site, also creator of MetaFilter (now a 4-employee corporation); Adam Pash – [...]
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Location-awareness apps and movie theaters
If I’m involved with a movie theater, be it an individual art house or nation-wide chain, I’m taking a serious look at how I can integrate location awareness apps and services into what I do and how I can use them to draw people into theaters. There’s so much potential there, especially in light of [...]
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Google Reader Play- Google’s iPad-Ready RSS Reader
Google Reader is a pretty powerful way to organize and read your RSS feeds. For the most part I use it as the engine powering and syncing my data beneath the surface but actually read my feeds using a 3rd-party app. For example, my Google Reader account gathers dozens of feeds but the app iNews [...]
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Bloggers Delight: 3 iPhone Apps For Google Buzz Fanatics
It’s now been exactly one month since Google launched Google Buzz upon the general population, and as expected the service has not exactly been a hit amongst the masses.
However, like its Friendfeed predecessor, Google Buzz is slowly becoming a hit amongst many in the tech blogosphere, and I’m beginning to see even art bloggers embrace Google Buzz (as [...]
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White House Announces Apps for Healthy Kids Competition
As part of the national Let’s Move campaign, First Lady Michelle Obama has announced the Apps for Healthy Kids Challenge, a contest for professional and amateur web developers to submit ideas for online games and mobile apps that promote healthy lifestyles for kids. Learn more about the challenge and submit an application at www.AppsforHealthyKids.com
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Google’s New Apps Store Google Apps Marketplace
Today Google launched the new App Store Google Apps Marketplace, Google made the announcement at its Google Campfire One event tonight. As the name suggests, it’s an online store where third-party developers can sell their applications to the 25 million users of Google Apps. The third-party apps are integrated with Google’s, so that users can [...]
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Addicted To iPhone? How About Some iPhone App Fridge Magnets
How addicted are you to your iPhone? Addicted enough to express it on your fridge with some iPhone app magnets? If so, check out the iPhone App magnets from Jailbreak Toys.
The magnets include the entire first iPhone home screen, including the newer “Messages” app instead of “SMS”. The only two missing apps are Voice Memos and Contacts.
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Product Buzz: Apps With a Future
By Ned Smith
Our Product Buzz section gives Digital Media Buzz the chance to kick the tires and get under the hood of a number of new and innovative products. We’ve taken a look at some of our recent Product Buzz selections and picked the ones we think have a strong shot at longevity.
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