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Is 2010 the Year Digital Will Eclipse Print Ad Spending? | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views
DMCA Exemption Unlikely for iPad Jailbreak | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views
Google Buzz Still Has Major Privacy Flaw - 0 views
Outraged Blogger Is Automatically Being Followed By Her Abusive Ex-Husband On Google Buzz - 0 views
Official Gmail Blog: A new Buzz start-up experience based on your feedback - 0 views
Google Staunchly Defends Pact to Digitize Books | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views
Official Gmail Blog: Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback - 2 views
Why Google Buzz will be a hit - CNN.com - 0 views
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Good technology has value, but leading social networks require "network effects." Facebook is infinitely more valuable because all your friends are on it. Facebook has leveraged this "critical mass" of users to stay ahead of new rivals, too. Why visit Twitter, you may ask, when Facebook has continually extended its feature set to keep up with its less popular competitor? The story of social networks is in fact a story about network effects: How can a service reach a point at which there are enough users and content to be useful?
Google Poaches Social Search Service Aardvark | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views
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Epicenter The Business of Tech Google Poaches Social Search Service Aardvark * By Ryan Singel Email Author * February 11, 2010 | * 3:49 pm | * Categories: Search * aardvark-answer1The coolest search engine you've never used got snapped up by Google Thursday for a reported $50 million. Aardvark, a company that lets you use IM, Twitter and e-mail to ask full-text questions and then get answers from people in or close to your social network, confirmed it signed a deal with Google. TechCrunch, which first reported the news, put the figure at $50 million, but Wired.com could not confirm the purchase price.
Facebook Denies 'All Wrongdoing' in 'Beacon' Data Breach | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views
Technology News: Communication Systems: Google's Enterprise and Mobile Plans: Killer Bu... - 0 views
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While the technosphere was busy Tuesday pitting Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) new Buzz service against Facebook and Twitter in some kind of social media steel-cage deathmatch, the search giant's executives were hinting at what they see as the real winning uses for Buzz -- within the enterprise and out and about in the mobile arena.