Google (105) Microsoft (103) Tags: Matt Rhodes Social Media altimeter group Brand Business charline li co-creation customer communities EBay facebook freshminds FreshNetworks Google Microsoft online communities online consultation social media social networking starbucks Thomson Reuters Twitter Virtual community web2.0 Image by communista_unicorn via Flickr There are some great examples of brands using social media that we use a lot at FreshNetworks .

ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives R/WW Thanksgiving: Thank You Google for Open Social (Or, Why Open Social Really Matters) Written by Alex Iskold / November 22, 2007 8:39 AM / 13 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » When Google and others ganged up on

ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Box.net Adds Collaboration, Takes Aim at Google Docs Written by Sarah Perez / February 7, 2008 8:41 AM / 5 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » After being in development for months, Box.net has officially released the

There were high hopes last week that Google Wave would provide an invigorating dip in the collaborative ocean - but by all accounts, an encounter with Wave is as likely to leave you winded on the beach , with your swimmies round your ankles. According to a new Ofcom survey, one in three British schoolchildren thinks search engines like Google rank sites by ‘ how true they are’. Welcome to our round-up of all that's new, controversial or just plain weird on the social media scene in the last few days. THE HEADLINES… The blogosphere was abuzz this week after the US Federal Trade Commission ordered Celebs and Bloggers to ‘fess up if they’ve been paid to plug - or face a whopping $11,000 fine.

Microsoft have brought out there own search engine competitor to Google. Google's results were quite funny. May be Microsoft have tapped into the murkiest corners of my sexual orientation and revealed my true nature to me. Tags: bing google ga it's known as "Bing" (which makes me think of a dead crooner, not sure if that's the association that they're after). I

world was reeling this week, after Microsoft slapped it round the chops with a real-time search double-whammy. Whammy one: Microsoft has inked deals with both Facebook and Twitter, allowing status updates to be integrated into the Bing Search engine. Then, while the social world was rearranging its expression to read ‘not in the slightest bit surprised, saw it coming a mile off actually’, came whammy two: Google is about to do precisely the same thing. Welcome to eModeration's digest of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media. This

8217; including Brett Slatkin from Google, Dare Obasanjo from Microsoft and Scott Raymond from Gowalla among others. Tags: Charlie Osmond SXSW charlie osmond Dare Obasanjo digitalmission Foursquare FreshNetworks Google Gowalla Microsoft real-time web Scott Raymond sxsw Day Two of SXSW and one of the most interesting sessions we’ve been to so far was ‘Can the Real-Time Web Be Realized?’ Rather than regurgitate the content of the session, we’ve included our low-tech hand-drawn notes from the session below. SXSW: Real-time web session

So they’ve formed a company called TextFlow that’s working on a Google Docs competitor of sorts. TextFlow’s certainly not the first company to help users collaborate on documents, and like other similarly-focused startups, it faces an uphill against Google and Microsoft. How many posts have you done in google docs or zoho? Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise CrunchBase More Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch50 TechCrunch UK TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan About Advertise Archives Company Index Contact Jobs Twitter CrunchBar

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I started off liking Google personal home page . Would it work on non-Microsoft browsers? Further, live.com performs much better with individual blogs than google. To see this, look at the following two screen grabs. The one on the left is google personal home page and on the right live.com. It's neat. You can load RSS feeds and have your gmail account right there.