Google + Plans To Own Your Online Identity….why?

Amidst furore and protests will Google + succeed in its attempt to claim your online identity ?

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Google Courts Yahoo Users With New Delicious Bookmarks Importer Tool

The Delicious saga continues … In reaction to what many have thought to be Yahoo’s mismanagement of the popular bookmarking service Delicious in the past couple of months, many people have tried to roll their own Delicious importers in hopes of taking advantage of the traffic exodus . Google too has today rolled out a Delicious migration tool for Google Bookmarks, to give people who were scared of the demise of Delicious a safe haven for their meticulously curated links

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Google Search Finally Going Fully Social With Shared Twitter Links

At least a couple times a week we get tipped about Google testing a new “social search” feature. The truth is that the “social circle” results that everyone is pointing to have been in place since 2009

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The Analytics Engine To Measure Your Klout

Move over Search Engines. The time has come for the new generation analytics engine. Understanding the influence metric, or the measure of influence is the latest kid on the block at the social media marketplace. Klout. the two year old start up from the San Francisco bay area set up by Joe Fernandez and Binh [...]

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Search Engine Tells You What People Really Think

Don’t you just love hearing other peoples’ opinions? Sure, you may not always agree with them, but it’s interesting to hear different viewpoints about various topics. That’s where the new search engine, Baduku.com, comes in quite handy.

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Is Googling Oneself the New Act of Vanity?

Do you know what is the first result for your name on Google? How about the 77th? It seems that many people are making use of Google to check out just what comes up when their name is searched online.

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Website Discovery Tool StumbleUpon Attains 10 Million Users

Forget Google – StumbleUpon has becoming one of the biggest drivers of traffic to websites. The social discovery tool recently added its 10 millionth person to its roster of members, representing a 100 percent increase in membership since April 2008.

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Booshaka: A Search Engine for Facebook with a Cool Name

Now there’s a search engine just for Facebook. Log on to Booshaka.com (the name means “do the impossible” according to Urban Dictionary) to find out what people are talking about on Facebook right now.

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Facebook Looking to Change the Face of the Internet

Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg announced at the f8 conference in San Francisco yesterday that the company will be working to alter the fabric of the web, to extend social networking throughout its entire make-up.

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Yahoo Looking to Buy Foursquare

The start-up Foursquare may be about to cash in one some serious dough. Yahoo may be ready to put up $100 million to buy it. Business Insider reports that a source close to bankers involved has told them about the deal that may or may not be about to go down.

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Dating Search Engine Keeps It Simple

It’s easy to become overwhelmed on your average dating website: there are thousands upon thousands of profiles to view. So, along comes OneGuyOneGirl.com. This is a site that simplifies the task of finding your perfect match. It does this by featuring just what its name implies: one guy and one girl per day.

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What makes people look up certain search terms over others? Turns out that word-of-mouth is a much bigger influencer than traditional forms of advertising, and this is even more so true for social media users. These findings came out of a recent survey conducted by BIGresearch, for the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association (RAMA), and were reported by e-Marketer.

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Facebook Revenues Predicted to Skyrocket This Year

It’s been suggested recently by the Wall Street Journal that Facebook revenues for 2010 could hit between $1.2 and $2 billion. The article was published just a few days ago by Jessica Vascellaro and also touches on how Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerburg isn’t itching to take Facebook public. Estimates from December last year had said Facebook’s 2010 revenues would be around $700 million.

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The Dalai Lama Joins Twitter

Published on 23 February 2010 by in Social Search

The Dalai Lama Joins Twitter

It’s definitely a sign that Twitter has become a monolithic force in the cyber world: one of the world’s holiest men has established a presence on the social networking site.

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