Daily Archives: January 15, 2013

Facebook’s ‘Graph Search’ Is Really A Plan To Keep Advertisers Locked In (FB)

January 15, 2013
Facebook’s ‘Graph Search’ Is Really A Plan To Keep Advertisers Locked In (FB)

Zazzle See Also How Facebook Thinks Its New Graph Search Will Help Advertisers Watch Mark Zuckerberg Describe Facebook’s New Graph Search Facebook Execs Really Struggled To Name Their New Product For advertisers, the most interesting thing about Graph Search, Facebook’s new social search product, is how dependent it is on Likes. Likes are one...

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Facebook Has Publicly Redefined Itself As A Search Company (FB)

January 15, 2013
Facebook Has Publicly Redefined Itself As A Search Company (FB)

How important is Facebook’s new Graph Search feature to the company? So important that its logo—three magnifying glasses linked to form a triangle—now adorns the sign outside Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. This is not the only time Facebook has changed its campus sign. After launching Poke, an app for sharing throwaway photos...

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There Are A Ton Of Ex-Googlers Working On Facebook Search (FB, GOOG)

January 15, 2013
There Are A Ton Of Ex-Googlers Working On Facebook Search (FB, GOOG)

Owen Thomas, Business Insider Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky, Facebook See Also How Facebook Launched A Search Product Without Ticking Off Microsoft What Really Terrifies Google About Facebook’s New Search Product The Guy Who Led The Charge On Facebook ‘Graph Search’ Also Created Google’s Biggest Flop Facebook is not tackling Google head-on with its...

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Gaana’s free Indian music service goes mobile with iOS, Android, BlackBerry and J2ME apps

January 15, 2013
Gaana’s free Indian music service goes mobile with iOS, Android, BlackBerry and J2ME apps

India’s Times Internet has continued its recent activity with the long-awaited launch of mobile apps for its Gaana music streaming service. The legal music distribution site first went online in June 2011 and, though it sees an estimated 3 million monthly users, the only addition to its Web-based service has been a Web app for...

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10,000 subscribers later, FoundersCard bumps up the price of its entrepreneur-focused service to $595/year

January 15, 2013

Recently FoundersCard, a subscription service that provides entrepreneurial-minded folks with targeted benefits and networking meetups at select events, has crossed the 10,000 subscriber mark. The company, in addition to reaching that milestone and perhaps because of it, is raising its annual price from $495, to $595. The company called the price increase ‘modest’ in a...

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Google sends invites for first Project Glass hackathons, coming January and February

January 15, 2013
Google sends invites for first Project Glass hackathons, coming January and February

In our 2012 Google review we said that Project Glass would be an important part of the year for the search giant, and it won’t be long until we find out more. The Mountain View-based company today (US time) sent out invitations to its first hackathons around the glasses-based technology which take place in...

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Facebook Debuts Graph Search, A Natural Language Powered Social Search Engine

January 15, 2013
Facebook Debuts Graph Search, A Natural Language Powered Social Search Engine

Now we know what Facebook’s mysterious announcement is. Today at its Menlo Park, California, headquarters, Facebook took the wraps off Graph Search, an instant smart search that sifts through the company’s massive social graph to return relevant results. Facebook’s Third Pillar According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, News Feed and Timeline are the two extant...

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Microsoft: All Your Cloud Belong To Us

January 15, 2013
Microsoft: All Your Cloud Belong To Us

With a slew of announcements surrounding its Windows Azure ecosystem on Tuesday, Microsoft has more clearly defined its cloud computing positioning. And that position is: Manage the bejeezus out of everything in the enterprise. Microsoft’s crack PR team may not have put it quite that way, but the focus of today’s announcements, kicked off with...

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What It Was Like Attending Aaron Swartz’s Funeral

January 15, 2013
What It Was Like Attending Aaron Swartz’s Funeral

Aaron Swartz was no ordinary man, so it is only fitting that his funeral was as extraordinary he was. (For more, see The Persecution Of Aaron Swartz.) Besides the press and speakers and attendees of his funeral – from Internet luminaries like Lawrence Lessig and Tim Berners Lee and writers like Dan Sinker and...

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A really tiny explanation of how Facebook’s Graph Search works

January 15, 2013
A really tiny explanation of how Facebook’s Graph Search works

I spent the morning listening to Mark Zuckerberg and company talk about Facebook’s next big product, Graph Search, which allows folks to search (for now) using people, places, photos and interests as search vectors. The reaction to the news ranges from boredom to muted to wild exultation. However, the event left me with more...

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