Google +1: Screenshot and Details 73
An anonymous reader noted that a screenshot has leaked showing Google's response to the Facebook 'Like' button that is used to track your every movement throughout the web. It's called Google +1. The product is not announced or launched, nor is the updated toolbar also discussed in the story.
StumbleUpon (Score:5, Informative)
Google already bought StumbleUpon a few years ago. It's awesome, use it !
* The data collected by "Like" button helps send you more stuff you'd like based on what other people also liked.
* There's a "Dislike" button
* Provides reviews / discussion thread for any web URL
* Don't need to link it to any of your other "social networks", it stands as its own separate social space pretty well. Never felt the need to share weblinks with friends / acquaintances, anyway, mostly because my IRL friends have vastly different pr0n preferences, and if a link makes me think of someone in particular I'll message it just to them.
Facebook's "like" button has always been utterly useless in comparison, somewhere just above "poke" and below "wink".
Re:StumbleUpon (Score:2, Informative)
Google already bought StumbleUpon a few years ago.
No - they didn't.