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Warner Bros. Acquires Social Movie Site Flixster (And Rotten Tomatoes)
Bing launches a massive new Facebook integration
In a stunning move of corporate cooperation, Bing has teamed up with Facebook to deeply integrate the social giant into not just into its search results, but into its search algorithms, fundamentally changing the way it will create results. According to Microsoft : “The best decisions are not just fueled by facts, they require the opinions and emotions of your friends. Search is now more than a fact finder — [In this update] we’re marrying fact-based search results with your friends’ street smarts to combine the best data on the Web with the opinions of the people you trust the most and the collective IQ of the Web.” Improved “Liked” Results, Answers and Sites: Instantly see which stories, content and sites your Facebook friends have “liked,” from news stories, celebrities, movies, bands, brands and more. Bing shows the faces of up to three of your friends that like a search result, offering a visual, virtual seal of approval from your trusted social network.
BBC News - Facebook alternative Diaspora eyes launch date
Many believe that it will be difficult to challenge Facebook The open-source project made headlines earlier this year when Facebook was forced to simplify its privacy settings, after they were criticised for being overly complex and confusing. "That means an intuitive way for users to decide, and not notice deciding, what content goes to their co-workers and what goes to their drinking buddies.
BBC News - Google+ challenges Facebook in social network battle
Google+ has been released for use by a small, selected number of users Online search giant Google has launched a new social networking website in its latest attempt to take on Facebook, which now claims more than 500m users. Google is playing it canny by only releasing the product via invite to a limited set of users before being gradually opened up to the general public” Circles - a functionality that allows individuals to place friends into groups, allowing users to share different forms of content with targeted clusters of friends The current version of Google+ has only been released to a small number of users, but the company has said it soon hopes to make the social network available to the millions of individuals that use its services each day.
Google+ Project invites you to ditch Facebook, plus others
By Richi Jennings ( @richi ) - June 29, 2011. [Updated with Preston Gralla's review] Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has finally launched the rumored Google+ Project -- its revamped social networking strategy (Google Plus, if you prefer). Is this another Buzz or Wave, or is la Goog serious this time? Is it a Facebook killer?