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Today Google announced that they are discontinuing several products including Google Buzz, Jaiku, Code Search, iGoogle Social and the University Research Program for Google Search. I have to admit I am not familiar with either Code Search or the University Program for Google Search. I did however use and participate in both Jaiku and Buzz. Jaiku was a competitor to Twitter
Yahoo! continues to condense the Yahoo! Giant. This time, it's Yahoo! Buzz - the Digg-like site that aggregates news articles. In a statement made on the website, it says: Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011. As of this date, you will be unable to access the Yahoo! Buzz site. This was a hard decision. However this
Google has setup the Family Safety Centre to help parents and teachers keep their children safe online. After spending a little time in the resource, it seems to be a good introduction to online safety for children from a parent's point of view. If you need to know more, you can then take it further through some of the links. The Centre has four main sections:
I took the time to download iTunes 10 over the weekend. With it, the new service - Ping. A social network within a walled garden of iTunes. But not really that much of a social network The service is simple to activate. Apple - just like Google did with Buzz - placed an icon on the sidebar of iTunes. You
By now, most of you have probably heard about the backlash against Google regarding some of the pre-sets on their new Buzz social networking push. What sounded like a little fun turned out to be a nightmare of privacy violations and sharing of information without permission. What concerns me is that no one at Google had any idea that people