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One big social network has been in the news this week. On Tuesday, Photoshop guru Scott Kelby is looking to divert attention to that other, newer social network, with a first -- a conference touting Google Plus's benefits for photographers. He expects 75 Full Article at USA Today

When a young tech company with outsized ambitions goes public, somewhere an older tech company dies a little on the inside. So it was eight years ago with Microsoft, then the biggest, baddest technology company in the world, when Google sold shares to th Full Article at The New York Times

The average post has less than one +1, less than one comment, and is re-shared less than once, says Business metrics firm RJMetrics. That means a majority of us post information that doesn’t get noticed, and that lack of notice likely is the reason why m Full Article at Macworld

One day, you’ll gather the grandchildren around you and tell them wondrous tales of life before cloud computing: how you used to put information, photos and music on a floppy disk, a memory card or a USB fob to carry it from one device to another. You’ll Full Article at The New York Times

The average post has less than one +1, less than one comment, and is re-shared less than once, says Business metrics firm RJMetrics. That means a majority of us post information that doesn’t get noticed, and that lack of notice likely is the reason why m Full Article at PC World

Google's Picasa (free) continues to impress with the smoothness with which it lets you import, organize, and perfect your digital photos. I've praised the app in the past for its leading integration with its online component, Picasa Web Albums in previou Full Article at PC Magazine

Back in the days of traditional film photography, it was easy to see when you had many photos: Shelves full of albums (or shoeboxes bursting with prints) were visible. Today, you could have hundreds of thousands of photos in your collection, and they wou Full Article at PC World

May 11, 2012, 2:43 pm I’ve been debating whether to post this, but I guess I probably should just for future reference. Apparently there are a number of people on the political right who have given up actually trying to refute what I say, and have turned Full Article at The New York Times

Stuart Isett for The New York Times Qi Lu, president of Microsoft’s online services division, said Bing's new search would mine people’s online social connections to provide personal results. BELLEVUE, Wash. Full Article at The New York Times

Abraham Lincoln didn’t invent Facebook, according to Nate St. Pierre, the man who made up the story saying that he did. (ALEXANDER GARDNER - The Associated Press) Nate St. Pierre has had probably one of the best Web ‘gotcha’ moments this week. On Tuesday Full Article at The Washington Post

Vice President Biden voiced his support for same-sex marriage on Sunday and North Carolina voted to ban it on Tuesday, while Preisdent Obama has maintained his position is evolving. The events of the past week moved debate over marriage rights to the for Full Article at The Washington Post

Google is, once again, making a push into your living room. It’s an effort the search giant tried—and failed—to do when it first debuted its Web-enabled Google TVs in 2010. The goal then, and now, is to bring Google’s search and YouTube services to Inter Full Article at The New York Times

Google launched last summer to save us all from Facebook and Twitter. Twitter is too much like shouting in a coffee shop, Google argued, and Facebook’s garden, large and beautiful as it may be, has walls that are too high and opaque—particularly to Googl Full Article at Macworld

Samsung Introduces the GALAXY S III, the Smartphone Designed for Humans and Inspired by Nature Effortlessly smart and intuitively simple, Samsung GALAXY S III reveals a new concept of smartphone London, UK-May 3, 2012-Samsung Electronics Co. , Ltd, a glob Full Article at Engadget

About The Rail The Rail, with Joe Drape, The New York Times's horse racing reporter, and others from the racing community, gives readers a look at the race for the Triple Crown. From the paddock to the starting gate to the winner's circle, The Rail provi Full Article at The New York Times

May 2, 2012, 1:24 am By THE NEW YORK TIMES Before you finish your handicapping and while you’re preparing your simple sugar for Mint Juleps, you should join our Google Plus video hangout on Thursday to discuss this year’s Kentucky Derby and the general s Full Article at The New York Times

Google is selling some of its analytic guts as an online service, in an effort to compete with the likes of Amazon Web Services in the market for enterprise cloud computing. In November, Google offered a limited number of developers access to some of its Full Article at The New York Times

We knew it was coming , but alas, the loss of Google Wave hits us anew now that the execution date has finally come. To say we fully grokked this platform would be untrue, but as we dug through its history to gather our thoughts, we realized what a misun Full Article at Engadget

Zerg Rush is Google's latest easter egg and it's admittedly a little late for the holiday itself. Search for the term (it's a Starcraft thing), and you'll be welcomed by a point-and-shoot mini-game where your enemy is an infinite number of color-coded, m Full Article at Engadget