Today Google officially announced their latest product, Google Buzz, during a live press event. If youre not familiar with Google Buzz, its a way to share updates, photos, videos, and more. ( You can read an extensive writeup of Google Buzz here ). Wait a minute; doesn't the name Buzz sound familiar? Well, theres a good reason for that. Let me re-introduce you to Yahoo! Buzz . Shoud Google have picked a different name for their service? Share your thoughts .

Why Popular People May Seem Negative to Some I was chatting with a friend today about one of our projects and he mentioned how he stopped liking a few other internet marketers recently due to their negativity. Him stating that gave me a bit of internal reflection, and I think it comes down to a few things... When people get from a certain level of success to say 5x or 10x,

eBay said today it is launching a new offering called "Garden by eBay," an area on the site that will allow members to test new features and provide feedback for improvements and changes. Garden by eBay is an opt-in initiative with a concept that is similar to Google Labs where users can test and experiment with different features before they are officially released. eBay says that Garden members' feedback will be provided directly to the teams that manage new,

If you can't tell from my recent posts, I think Google is quite revolutionary. With the implementation of Gtalk with video chat capabilities, Google Wave with the ability to have real-time collaboration, Google Docs & Calendar making document and schedule sharing between colleagues or friends and simply the ability to social share in search results, Google truly has made their website somewhat of a single source for all things social.

Ladies and gentlemen- Google Buzz has now been announced! It looks like Google inadvertently answered my " social hub " prayers today with everything that Buzz has to offer. First thing I noticed: does Buzz sound familiar? That's right, Y! Buzz already exists. It seems like Google is going to be direct competition to good old Yahoo. Unfortunately it hasn't went through to everybody yet so I don't have any screen shots or usage notes to give you. I can, however,

I first started working on the homepage during the Summer Olympics in Beijing. We had just launched the image on the homepage and 10 days later jumped to updating the picture twice a day. It was a chaotic time, but truly some of the most fun I've ever had at a job! With the Vancouver Olympics fast approaching, the homepage team decided to change up our regular programming a bit to bring the excitement of the Olympics to you. Starting this weekend,

by Claudine Zap It's probably true that Megan Fox is known more for her stunning looks than her screen roles (" Transformers ," anyone?). But even though the actress made her Super Bowl ad debut for Motorola lounging in a bathtub wearing nothing but bubbles, all eyes were not on the obvious: her thumb. The actress â?" who is basically perfect in every way, does have one slight imperfection: a wide right thumb.

It's Anuj from the comms team here again. Following on from my blog post on Saturday, I've received a number of questions about the situation in India and I thought it'd be best to simply answer the questions in a blog post. Here are answers to the top questions I've received: 1. Why .

Google users in the UK may be unusually well-informed with regards to their government's healthcare policies. The Department of Health revealed this week that it spent about 2.72 million (or $4.25 million at the current exchange rate) on AdWords over the past year. To be exact: the department spent 2,720,457.11 between February 1 of last year and January 31 of this one, according to official records. And a whopping 21,

Last week, as Facebook celebrated its sixth birthday , the company announced that it was surpassing the 400 million-user milestone. That's one good reason why it pays for businesses to have Facebook Pages. That's not the only impressive number though. Facebook has released a whole slew of statistics about how the site is used by those people.