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New Google Maps Interface
— Google is about to launch a new interface for Google Maps. The update will remove the sidebar and will display everything on top of the full-screen map. One of the new features lets you restrict local search results to places recommended by top reviews or your Google+ circles.
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The Silent Partner
— Jason Goldman helped build Google and Twitter into what they are today — but few outside of tech's inner circle know his name . On shunning the spotlight in a star-obsessed industry. — Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams and Jason Goldman accept the award for “Best Blog” on behalf of Twitter at SXSW 2007.
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The Fifth Horseman: Samsung
— We all know the “four horsemen” of tech: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. These are the companies that pretty much everyone agrees will shape the foreseeable future of the tech sector. In some circles, that list makes waves for who is not included: Microsoft.
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Sina Weibo rolls out attractive redesign with Google+ style selective sharing
— Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo has begun allowing users to switch over to a new version for the Web that adds an option for selective sharing similar to the Circles feature in Google+.
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In Google's Inner Circle, a Falling Number of Women
— MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — At Google, data is king. Now the company is using data to figure out if it can anoint a few queens. — The company hopes its famous algorithms can solve one of the most vexing problems facing Silicon Valley: how to recruit and retain more women.
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Google rolls out more controls for Google+ Circles, to cut out the noise in your stream
— Google+ has a really great experience for its stream, it surfaces posts that are most active. In addition, there is a slider control to bring “hot news” into your main stream...or not.
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Google releases migration tool for Google+ circles and connections
— In a blog post on his Google+ page, Google+ Product Manager Ronald Ho announced a new tool to transfer circles from one account to another that is now available through Google Takeout. In an overview of the long-requested feature …
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Former Google ‘click-fraud czar’ joins security startup backed by Google Ventures, Google chairman
— Mountain View, California-based web security technology startup Shape Security has hired Shuman Ghosemajumder as vice president. — Ghosemajumder is known in tech and other obscure circles as Google's former “click-fraud czar”.
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Google prepping ‘Events’ and ‘Local’ features for Google+?
— Google rolled out version 2.6 of the Google+ app for Android today, updating its UI and adding several new features, but it appears to have left something hidden under the hood as well. A source informed us — and we have confirmed …
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Gmail now surfaces more information about contacts and circles when you search for them
— The “socialification” of Google products continues with some very cool tweaks announced by the Gmail team today. The product has improved its contact search and will now surface more information about them …
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).