Could Google soon be bringing out its own new, dedicated online photo service or app separate from the Google+ service? According to some sources, in a report on Bloomberg, Google is hoping to get more traffic for its photo service. The idea being mooted for doing this is to make it more autonomous, with the possibility of attracting those users who aren’t part of the Google+ social network. There is also the chance that the service will be re-banded as part of these changes, although no potential new name has yet been suggested. It...
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Software giant Microsoft has quietly launched the new So.cl, a social networking site that is specifically designed for students. Although a social network service, the company clarified that the website is not meant to compete with Facebook or any other existing websites. The company has been giving hints to So.cl since last year, but it launched the site over the weekend quietly. So.cl (pronounced “social), which was developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, is an experimental project that aims to please students for its educational...
Google+, the Internet search giant’s attempt to rival Facebook, has received 2.6 million unique visits in the United Kingdom in November 2012, according to comScore. The UK-specific traffic data released by comScore do not include visits through mobile devices. The figures show that Google’s social network service ranked the United Kingdom as the seventh highest country in terms of visitors, next to Japan. Other countries that top the list are the United States, India, Brazil, Germany and France. The website got a total of...
With the holidays just around the corner, Google is rolling out some new features for its Google+ social network. Bradley Horowitz, the vice president of Google+, said that the new features they are releasing includes a tool called the noise filter, which can fine tune a user’s stream to control which posts can be seen. “We’re adding fine-grained controls that will enable you to ‘graphic-equalize’ and fine-tune your stream,” said Horowitz in a blog post. “When viewing the stream for a particular circle,...
In an effort to enhance its social network, Internet search giant Google has integrated its own Chrome web browser and video sharing website YouTube more deeply into Google+. Vic Gundotra, the company’s senior vice president for engineering, said that Chrome and YouTube can be accessed more easily from the network of Google+. “It’s no secret that YouTube is filled with tons of great content (from inspiring speeches to music videos to honey badgers). We wanted to bring YouTube directly into Google+—as well as make it...
In the last 24 hours, a number of Mark Zuckerberg profiles have appeared on Google’s take on social networking, Google+. Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has three Google+ profiles: one ‘Fake Zuckerberg,’ one ‘Mark Zuckerberg,’ which was created yesterday, and a ‘Mark Zuckerberg’ that was created today. The Fake Zuckerberg and one Mark Zuckerberg profile has been removed, while the last profile still remains. Twitter has been all over it, with a number of users posting screen grabs of the supposed...
Google has come clean with its social networking plans, revealing its Google+ service last night. With the failure of Google Buzz, the company’s first attempt at taking on Facebook, Google is now going to take on the social networking giant with its new service which aims to “bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software.” In a statement announcing the new Google+, Google executive Vic Gundotra said: “Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online.” He added, “Yet the...
It has finally come to light who was behind the smear campaign against Google. Can you guess who it was? It turns out that the PR firm hired to release stories laying into the alleged Google user information problems was working on behalf of Facebook. The PR firm is called Burson-Marsteller and the details of their dirty tricks campaign were blown wide open when they approached blogger Chris Soghoian and he released details of the email exchange we had carried out with them. The campaign was based on the Google Social Circles service and...
Tech channels and blogs are buzzing this morning after a post by the Next Web speculated that not only is Google preparing a Facebook competitor but have also named and planned its date of birth! Some channels have suggested that the big G could make the announcement over the next few days during SXSW. Sadly the guys over at Google have been quick to pour water over the idea by releasing a statement over their official Twitter account. ‘We’re not launching any products at #SXSW’, interestingly they didn’t However, the Next...