Google has been harvesting speech recognition data through Google 411 for a while now. Apparently, the service has yielded a good harvest. YouTube now extracts metadata from spoken words in videos. Obama and McCain are the first test subjects; expect …
Collaborative viral initiatives are rare, but when they surface the campaigns are highly successful. Their secret: They are simple, short (10-15 sec), easily uploaded (via webcam, video camera or mobile phone) and universal! Like football, passing alon…
The new systems from Google, MySpace and Facebook are meant to let sites around the Web offer social features, but at least at first they will not allow the most social of all activities: people talking to other people. The reason is that it is hard to be wide-open and still provide protections against spam and abuse.
This is the third and final part of this series. If you haven’t read the first two, check them out here:
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The news around GPhone has heated up in past few weeks. There have been several reports of Google working with wireless carriers like T-Mobile and Sprint. WSJ even reports that the announcement can [...]
Google’s (GOOG) much awaited answer to Facebook ecosystem is finally coming to light. The existence of this Google platform was first reported by TechCrunch and is going to become official tomorrow.
Google will announce its new social networking initiative, Open Social on Thursday. Joining Google and its Orkut social network are other partners such as [...]