Category Archives: buzz

Loud Noises Be Gone! Mute Posts by Source in Google Buzz

Posted on September 13, 2010 by jessestay

I’ve long said that in good social networks, it’s not how you give, but how you receive that makes the social network powerful.  This is why I like Facebook – I can hide the types of applications I don’t ever … Continue reading →

Posted in buzz, Facebook, filter noise, FriendFeed, Google, google buzz, google reader, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, noise, Rick Klau, Technology | Leave a comment

Buzz Opens the Firehose With New API Features

Posted on July 19, 2010 by jessestay

Just a few minutes ago, on his Buzz update stream, Google employee DeWitt Clinton announced that Google had opened up their real-time stream of information for Buzz. Now, any application can access, in real-time, all updates across the entire service … Continue reading →

Posted in buzz, firehose, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, real-time, Technology | 3 Comments

Getting Me to Share Your Posts

Posted on April 4, 2010 by jessestay

One of the things I like to do on my Twitter account is to share interesting articles around the web that I think would be interesting to my readers.  Such articles can be techy, geeky, mainstream, pop-culture, or anything I … Continue reading →

Posted in buzz, Google, google reader, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, share, sharing, Technology, Twitter | 4 Comments

Google Re-Enables Adsense on RSS Feeds in Buzz

Posted on March 25, 2010 by jessestay

Some time in the last hour or two it appears that the Google Buzz team has re-enabled AdSense ads in RSS Feeds in Google Buzz.  Recently I wrote about this, criticizing the service for stripping out ads a blog author … Continue reading →

Posted in adsense, author rights, buzz, copyright, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, social, Technology, trademark | Leave a comment

I’ve Been a Little Rough on Google Lately

Posted on March 13, 2010 by jessestay

For having posted just less than 1,000 posts, this blog has gotten a lot of attention in just the last one or two years.  It used to be when I posted something I would get few comments (I still wish … Continue reading →

Posted in anti-google, buzz, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, negativity, open standards, Technology | 6 Comments

Did Google Reinvent the Wheel by Adopting the Protocols They Chose?

Posted on March 6, 2010 by jessestay

In a response to my article here, DeWitt Clinton of Google defined what he deemed the definition of “open” to be.  According to DeWitt, “the first is licensing of the protocols themselves, with respect to who can legally implement them … Continue reading →

Posted in buzz, Facebook, facebook api, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open, open standards, openplatform, Technology | 29 Comments

The Web is No Longer Open

Posted on March 3, 2010 by jessestay

“So it can benefit everyone.” That’s what a Google employee said today as he tried to explain Google’s recent push to have websites use the ‘rel=”me”‘ meta HTML tags to identify pages a user owns on the web.  It’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in buzz, Facebook, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, index, kynetx, open, open standards, open web, opengraph, social, Technology, web | 25 Comments

Is Google Stealing Authors’ Copyright With Buzz?

Posted on February 25, 2010 by jessestay

2 years ago I shared about a blogger and follower/friend of mine, Ali Akbar, who purchased the domain, googleappsengine.com (he still owns it) in order to create an AppEngine-related blog (since Google apparently forgot to purchase the domain).  Ali received … Continue reading →

Posted in ads, buzz, Google, google reader, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, rss, scraping, social, Technology | 47 Comments

Speculation: Expect Something BIG in the Area of Real-Time at F8

Posted on February 22, 2010 by jessestay

I don’t do speculative posts like this too often, except around Facebook’s F8 developer events for the most part.  The last one I predicted was that Facebook would announce a Mobile Platform at F8 – the announcement did occur along … Continue reading →

Posted in butterfly, butterfly effect, buzz, chrysalis, f8, Facebook, FriendFeed, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, paul buchheit, real-time, Technology | 6 Comments

Google Changes the Way You Read My Feeds – You Still Have no Control

Posted on February 20, 2010 by jessestay

Louis Gray just reported a new way Google is trying to control the problem of mine and Louis’s and Robert Scoble and Mashable, and more of the more active feeds and streams on Google Buzz taking over the streams of … Continue reading →

Posted in buzz, control, Facebook, filtering, FriendFeed, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, lists, monkey, Technology, trapped | 6 Comments