Google’s “+1” initiative, announced in late March, is finally ready for its big debut on sites across the web. Similar to Facebook’s “Like” button, +1 will live on some of the websites you frequent and you’ll be able to click it to recommend whatever you find interesting to others.
“+1 is as simple on the rest of the web
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And so it begins.
Google’s foray into the potentially lucrative world of hyperlocal Groupon-like deals was announced at the D9 conference yesterday. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt was joined by VP of Commerce Stephanie Tilenius to unveil the beta roll out of ‘Google Offers’ starting in Portland, Oregon (with New York and San …
A new survey by the Pew Research Center released today tells us a little more about the Twitter demographic, though most of it isn’t all that surprising.
13% of online adults in the U.S. use Twitter, up from 8% in 2010. 25% of African Americans online are on Twitter and 19% of Hispanics online are also users. Though they’re the second …
When we last left the U.K. super-injunction saga, a London court had issued an order asking Twitter to turn over the names of the anonymous users who tweeted about the alleged affair between footballer Ryan Giggs and reality TV star Imogen Thomas. The question on everyone’s mind was: How exactly is the U.K. going to enforce its laws on …
Clear eyes, full hearts. It might as well be a NASA catchphrase, as the space shuttle Endeavour touched down at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning, completing its 25th and final mission (dubbed “STS-134”) and heralding the beginning of the end for over three decades of shuttle flight. Space shuttle Atlantis will carry the …
PS3 owners have been enjoying online play again for the last sixteen days after the weeks-long shutdown necessary to overhaul the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. But a crucial part of the online offering’s been missing, as Sony’s kept the PlayStation Store offline to further bolster security in the e-commerce portion of …
According to multiple sources, Twitter is launching its own photo sharing service, spelling bad news for third party options like Twitpic and Yfrog that currently fill the void. Twitter is expected to make the announcement at the D9 conference this week in California.
With citizen photojournalism staking a place alongside traditional …
Just like that, Blizzard’s teasing StarCraft II expansion numero duo details, including a teaser that probably shouldn’t have been teased yet. See what happens when you take a day off?
As expected, the expansion—dubbed Heart of the Swarm—continues Blizzard’s epic sci-fi soap, including scruffy brooding cowboy-type Jim Raynor’s …
What happens when one of the biggest publishers of standalone AAA video games merges with the company responsible for global phenomenon World of Warcraft? You get Activision Blizzard, currently the top dog in the video game market. But, for a while now, that’s all we’ve gotten. Industry watchers have been left to wonder when a true …
The latest trailer for Epic Games’ hotly-anticipated Gears of War 3 hit the media today and the clip promises an explosive and emotional end to the interspecies war that threatens to destroy the planet of Sera.
Epic’s already released a taste of what the multiplayer portion of Gears 3 will play like, with a month-long beta that just …
True story: Once, while aimlessly wandering the aisles of a supermarket and wishing I was somewhere else, I caught myself looking up and to the right.
My eyes were instinctively doing what they do when I need to search my computer: looking for the OS X Spotlight icon in the top-right corner.
I needed to find something in the real …
It’s been a tense, nerve-racking week in the United States and the other countries who got the PlayStation Network restored after Sony’s online service was shut down by hackers. Like anyone burned by a bad break-up, PS3 owners were tentative: “Will it stay up? Will it leave us again? How can we be sure?”
Heck, some enterprising folks …
