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Both Facebook and Google gave 5 minute pitches last night at the New York Tech MeetUp event. Over 400 people came to IAC’s stunning Frank Gehry designed building, overlooking the

The DataPortability Workgroup announced this morning that representatives from both Google and Facebook are joining its ranks. The group is working on a variety of projects to foster an era

With the news coming out of F8 this week, it was hard to not get caught up in the enthusiasm for Facebook Connect, the new authentication methodology which will allow

Google today announced a pilot program (read: closed beta) of their health records application. The program will be conducted at Cleveland Clinic hospital in Cleveland, Ohio and will include under

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Facebook_Adds_Global_Opt_Out_for_Beacon_and_Apologizes'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted on the company blog this morning apologizing for missteps with the roll-out of their much

Every week it seems like the debate over access to, portability of and privacy over user data on the social web has reached new heights. It's only going to get

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Interview_with_Google_s_Sep_Kamvar_Lead_Software_Engineer_Personalization'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; As part of our Personalizing Google Week, we conducted an email interview with Google's Sep Kamvar, who is Lead Software

At the Reuters Media Summit today Fox Interactive Media President Peter Levinsohn said that Fox is planning some additions to MySpace in the next few weeks aimed squarely at Facebook.

A new product from NuConomy Studio Insights promises to be a new way of measuring web analytics. Instead of the old model of page views and traffic, NuConomy proposes a

this February, Google released its Social Graph API, which allows developers to give users the option to easily find data on their social connections around the web. Google itself, however,