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Archive for May 2008

Is Google Reader Trying To Do Too Much?

Posted by: casualtech on: May 6, 2008

The question comes to me at the time that Google introduces a new feature for its Google reader that lets add notes to your shared items and basically share anything else you want in the process. But isn’t that what Digg, Twitter and FriendFeed are here for?  The only difference here is that you can [...]

Social Media Take On: Microsoft And Yahoo Deal

Posted by: casualtech on: May 5, 2008

 
News broke out two days ago that Microsoft was walking away from their proposed acquisition of Yahoo. Apparently Yahoo’s Jerry Yang wanted the highest price he could get for the company or there was no deal, Microsoft just growth tired of he’s attitude and walked away leaving them in an uncertain position.
Minutes after the announcement [...]

The Fall Of Digg: Social Sites

Posted by: casualtech on: May 2, 2008

Digg has been metioned a lot latley but not in a good way, there has been a lot of discussion about how the quality of the news hitting the frontpage has gone down a lot and why people don’t like it anymore. But what people are not mentioning is how Digg is in risk of [...]


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