Joe Kraus, Google director of product management, gave a brief talk about the social Web at the Supernova 2008 conference without a single mention of Google's own social-networking service, Orkut. However, he did focus on Google's Friend Connect service, which lets Web developers add social features to their sites. Webware chief Rafe Needleman did a thorough job of covering Kraus' remarks, and below is a video of his presentation.
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Industry pioneer Energy Conversion Devices, which makes flexible solar collectors, files for bankruptcy protection and intends to sell of its solar businesses.
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Apple is taking fire from a Chinese company that says it still owns the iPad trademark there--and which now wants an import and export ban.
Apple Talk
While some are blaming technology for an increase in one night stands, perhaps it's simply the brevity with which people communicate by phone that suggests swift progress to sexual congress.
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Having trouble deciding between the new Droid 4 and the Droid Razr Maxx? Or anxious for an HTC phone with Ice Cream Sandwich? Ask Maggie offers some advice.
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The space agency may be best known for launching spaceships, but it also has an obsession with creating educational games that might inspire kids to one day become rocket scientists.
Geek Gestalt
Primus Green Energy has developed a process to convert wood pellets and natural gas into a high-octane gasoline. But can they do it cheap enough?
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A defective capacitor in older Samsung LCD, plasma and DLP TVs is causing the sets to fail, and court documents indicate the issue is widespread.
TV and Home Theater
EnerG2 opens a plant to make an engineered carbon that will improve performance of energy storage devices and make storage for start-stop hybrid cars less expensive.
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Dan Farber is the editor in chief of CNET News. He has covered technology for more than two decades, and he previously served as editor in chief of ZDNet, PC Week and MacWeek. Outside the Lines explores the intersection of business and technology.
