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How Google social search can pull in your Facebook friends
venturebeat.com - 10/27/2009
How Google social search can pull in your Facebook friends
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Google’s foray into the world of social search is now live. As we wrote last week, Google social search pulls in results from your friends alongside conventional results. If you’re thinking about visiting Brazil, a traditional search might turn up hotels, tourism agencies and ...
Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook
blog.facebook.com - 10/26/2009
Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook
— blog.facebook.com — I'm facing an anniversary soon: I will have worked at Facebook for four years. I was originally... drawn to the company for the opportunity to help build a technology that enables people to model their social network and interact with it online... (more) Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook

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Extending Facebook Share
developers.facebook.com - 10/26/2009
Extending Facebook Share
— developers.facebook.com — Each week, users share more than 2 billion pieces of content on Facebook, and most of that... sharing ... (more) Extending Facebook Share

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Using a Google number vs. a non
google.com - 10/27/2009
Using a Google number vs. a non
— google.com — Should I use a Google number or a non-Google number? Choosing to use a Google number while... setting up Google Voice allows you to access a number of extra Google Voice features. You will need to give your friends and family the new custom number you ... (more) Using a Google number vs. a non

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IT Blogwatch's blog:  Google Social Search searches your social circle

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Google Social Search searches your social circle
IT Blogwatch's blog — ... graph. ... Of course, it lacks the richness that Facebook’s social graph data can deliver ... whose profiles you look at frequently, whose posts you comment on and “like”, and whose photos you end up in. Still, Google has some of that in Gmail. ... For those of us who do use Google’s e-mail service, the company knows our closest and deepest contacts because it has years of lengthy personal e-mails and knows who we write most often. By comparison, Facebook knows our weaker ties. more Kaila Krayewski also ponders privacy: The question is, how will the public respond? Some ...

Getting Googly once more
GMSV — ... , will highlight online content produced by the user’s  circle of colleagues and friends. It will apparently draw from Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as Google’s own Picasa, Blogger and Reader. Conspicuously absent: Facebook, despite Google’s access to much of that data. * A pared-down suite of the  ...

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