 | | Six of Google's under-performers get the ax | If you were a user of Google's Jaiku, Dodgeball, Notebook, Google Video, Catalog Search, or Mashup Editor, you might want to start looking for similar services elsewhere. This week Google announced the closure, or cessation of development of these products. For some it was long-expected, but for others it was a bit of a surprise. In any case, it's a big step for the company to shut down so many products at once--and could signal the imminent closure of others.
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Webware.com |  | | New on Webware.com | | | Yahoo shares your tweets, other online activity
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Yahoo has fired up a major part of its Yahoo Open Strategy: the ability to broadcast blog postings, tweets, photo uploads, Yelp reviews, and other activity to members of your online social circle. Yahoo can show activity from 34 of its own online properties, as well as 21 other services--a list which will grow rapidly. Read more |  | Control your TiVo via text message with Kwiry
Posted by John Falcone
We already knew text messaging service Kwiry could perform some cool tricks via text messaging--things like adding products to your Amazon.com wish list or adding movies to your Netflix queue. But now the service is adding rudimentary TiVo control to the list. Read more | | Yahoo News meets Twitter
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Here's Web 2.0 at its finest: A Yahoo programmer has combined his own project, Yahoo BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), with Twitter and Google App Engine to create a new way to determine what news is both new and important. The service, called TweetNews, presents Yahoo news search results in a different way, using results from the same search on Twitter to determine what should get high placement. Read more | | Photo of Hudson River plane crash downs TwitPic
Posted by Daniel Terdiman
TwitPic, an application that allows users to take pictures from their mobile phones and append them to Twitter posts, went down after at least 7,000 people attempted to view a picture of the US Airways plane that landed in the Hudson River Thursday. Read more | | Get YouTube on your TV
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Don't have an Apple TV or a TiVo box, and have been lusting after watching YouTube videos from your couch? If you've got a Nintendo Wii or a Sony PlayStation 3 video game console, the Google property has just released an overhauled version of its living room-friendly console interface that's almost on par with those two offerings. Read more | | | | New things from Google | | | Inside Google's Gmail: What's next?
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Earlier this week we visited Google's headquarters in Mountain View to meet up with the team at work behind Gmail. What's coming next for the popular e-mail service? HD video chat, bigger attachments, and do-it-yourself themes, to name a few. Read more | | Google Earth gets ultra-high-resolution artwork
Posted by Rafe Needleman
The digital globe app Google Earth is getting new imagery from inside buildings. A new layer gives viewers gigapixel (ultra-high-resolution) photos of artwork from inside the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. The Prado project also includes detailed exterior views of the museum's buildings. Read more | | | | | Stay informed on the tech topics that matter to you most |
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