Tweet Google announced a “fall sweep” on October 14, detailing the shuttering of several products, including Google Buzz, the company’s controversial attempt at a social network. Bradley Horowitz, Google VP of product, wrote the following in a post on the Official Google Blog: In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API,
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Tweet Google+ opened its doors to the public on September 20 after 12 weeks of invite-only beta testing. During that time, despite limited signup allowances, Google’s social network exploded in popularity. In late July, the site notched its 25 millionth new account, prompting ComScore to declared it the fastest-growing social network ever. The site continues to add members,
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Tweet Google Maps is adding a new feature that will tie the product more closely to the company’s social network, Google+. The feature, called +snippets, lets users share data from Google Maps using an extension of the +1 sharing button. Google rolled out snippets in August and explained how they work in a post on the
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Tweet Facebook executives have choice words for Google’s efforts to bring casual games to its fledgling social network. A little less than two months after Google launched its fledgling social network, Google+, Silicon Valley’s latest rivalry is heating up. Google+ (GOOG) launched in June with an innovative group video chat dubbed Hangout. One week later,
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Tweet In what has to be somewhat embarrassing for Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed user on Google+, according to the Google+ Statistics counter. The Facebook CEO has 21,213 followers, compared to the Google CEO at 14,798, Google social czar Vic Gundotra at 13,783, Google co-founder Sergey Brin at
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