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The company that got first dibs at implementing OpenSocial gadgets has seen its service grow more than tenfold in the 3 weeks since roll out. Plaxo Pulse, the service that lets you receive live updates on activity going on across your social networks based on the contacts you have in Plaxo, was quick to […]

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Remember when Facebook decided to open itself up so that third-party developers could build applications that work on the social networking site? Earlier this month, Google out-opened Facebook by introducing OpenSocial, a system that lets developers build applications for Google’s Orkut and all of the other partners in the initiative. What can we expect next? […]

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I really like the idea behind this new web app Shift Space (http://www.shiftspace.com) but the model seems to be really similar to a couple of other recent companies, BlipNut (http://www.blipnut.com/) and Me.Dium (http://me.dium.com/). Lets take a quick look at the similarities and differences
All three of the services allow you to connect to users on […]

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Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360. Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into social networks.
Web-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook […]

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Imagine if Picasso painted a search engine results page from Google. It would probably wind up looking like Facebook, which continually draws inspiration from search engines as it rolls out its services for marketers.
What Facebook did was take the classic search channels of paid search, natural search, and paid inclusion and adapt them to […]

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