March 31st, 2011

OMG Someone Just Found An Embeddable Google +1 Button – And It Works!

A day after Google unveiled its “+1″ product, someone has already taken a close enough look at the code to track down an embeddable +1 Button.

Said button wasn’t supposed to be public yet – they essentially let people recommend any online content on Google search. → Read More

December 4th, 2010

Google's Possible "+1" iPhone App, Facebook Similarities, And Social "Loop" Groups

Since we broke the news a couple days ago that Google’s secret social project, formerly known as “Emerald Sea“, is now being called “Google +1″, we’ve gotten more confirmation about the naming. This includes people more confident that this could well be the name Google ends up going with. We’ve also heard a couple other new interesting tidbits about the project.

The first is that Google may be… → Read More

December 2nd, 2010

Google Toying With Naming Social Product "Google +1" As Sergey Brin Gets Involved

Yesterday, after some digging, we were able to confirm that the internal codename for Google’s upcoming social project is “Emerald Sea“. Despite some confusion that it may be called “Emerald City“, it is definitely “Sea”, we’ve confirmed with several sources. But there’s more.

As one of our sources told us yesterday, these codenames quickly evolve. And in fact, it now looks like Emerald Sea may… → Read More