Microsoft has announced it will discontinue development of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) as of June 30.

Microsoft said midsize businesses are rapidly turning to technologies such as – virtualization and cloud computing as a means to cut costs, improve efficiency, and increase competitiveness,”

Windows Essential Business Server 2008 bundled versions of Windows Server, Microsoft System Center Essentials, Microsoft Exchange and other programs into one package.

Support will continue for current EBS users for the next five years.

Google Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of On2 Technologies, Inc., valued at approximately $124.6 million, after On2’s shareholders voted to approve the transaction.

“We are excited to welcome the On2 team to Google and to continue to enhance the video experience for users on the web,” said Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management at Google. “Through rapid innovation in browsers and web standards, the Internet is becoming the leading platform for development. We believe On2’s engineering talent and technology will be an incredible asset for us as we work to improve this platform.”

Under the terms of the agreement, each outstanding share of On2 common stock will be converted into the right to receive a combination of (a) $0.15 in cash per share, (b) 0.0010 of a share of Google Class A Common Stock and (c) cash payable in lieu of any fractional shares of Google Class A Common Stock.

ITO America is pleased to announce that ITOAmerica.com will host a custom solution center dedicated to Enterprise Search content from Google. The Google Enterprise Search Solution Center will house a variety of content including whitepapers, case studies, podcasts and multimedia content all focusing on the benefits, tools and strategies of enterprise search technology.

“From inside the enterprise and across the Web, to the desktop and the mobile device, advanced search platforms and solutions help CIOs overcome information access challenges. Search can no longer be viewed as a stand-alone application. The Google Enterprise Search Solution Center on ITO America examines ways to leverage search tools, information architecture, classification, and other strategies and technologies to enable information access,” said Glenn Willis, Editor-in-Chief, ITO America.

Featured on the Google Enterprise Search Solution Center are a variety of case studies, whitepapers and multimedia resources. In the whitepaper, “Return on Information Inside the Enterprise,” IDC research reveals that enterprise content is growing at 80 percent per year. At this rate, the excess of information might be diminishing productivity rather than enhancing it. For this reason, many organizations are turning to enterprise search solutions. A high quality enterprise search solution can help generate a true “return on information” and a corresponding return on investment in several ways. The whitepaper details benefits and examines the specific ROI from a high quality enterprise search system.

Additional resources from Google include a whitepaper “Maximizing Website ROI”, case studies by Reuters and Sunnybrook. The ITO America team will also be conducting an exclusive interview session with Matt Glotzbach, Director Product Management, Google Enterprise Search, that will be shared with the ITO America community in March.

For more IT resources or the latest content from Google Enterprise Search, please visit www.itoamerica.com.

ITO America

ITO America is part of the Integrated Media Services Division, which is owned and operated by CDM Media. The ITO America editorial team works with CIOs, industry analysts and technology thought-leaders to bring the latest IT trends and strategies to business executives across the globe. The website, www.itoamerica.com, is considered the premiere business technology resource for enterprises across North America and features a content-rich editorial calendar that encourages innovation throughout our CIO audience. The ITO America team utilizes multiple communication platforms, including e -marketing, live Web events, on-demand multimedia promotion, and one-on-one interviews. With more than 148,000 Web users, ITOAmerica.com achieves maximum exposure for IT decision makers and thought-leaders. Check out ITO America on Twitter, @ITOAmerica.

One of the most rapidly growing and popular operating systems, Ubuntu, is taking a significant run at the U.S. business and enterprise market thanks to a new partnership between The Linux Box and software developer Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu.

Launched in October 2004, Ubuntu is one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions in the world with more than 10 million users. With users in homes, schools, businesses and governments around the world, Ubuntu is a powerful and secure open source operating system for desktops, laptops, netbooks and servers. Ubuntu contains all the applications you need and will always be free of charge. With the values of open source software at its core, Ubuntu costs nothing to download or update.
As an official Canonical Silver Solution Provider Partner, The Linux Box will sell, install and support customized Ubuntu-based solutions to organizations running Linux systems. It will also provide businesses with large-scale migration deployment support and training services for cloud computing infrastructures and enterprise desktop alternatives.
“Combining forces with The Linux Box enables many more US businesses in every industry to embrace Ubuntu as their end-to-end open source data center solution,” said Steve George, director of corporate services at Canonical. “We look forward to Ubuntu being The Linux Box’s best-of-breed open source solution.”
The Linux Box is an established bespoke software development consultancy that customizes open source projects for clients across a variety of sectors, providing professional services for organizations looking to gain competitive advantage, reduce IT costs and increase the control they have over their open source technologies.
“Ubuntu’s game-changing operating system model is catching on with original equipment manufacturers and business organizations of all sizes,” noted Elizabeth Ziph, CEO and co-founder of The Linux Box. “We hope to help educate enterprises to Ubuntu’s solid performance characteristics and to expand its market share.”
For more information about Ubuntu, or to inquire about enterprise sales, contact sales@linuxbox.com.
About Canonical
Canonical provides engineering, online and professional services to Ubuntu partners and customers worldwide. As the company behind the Ubuntu project, Canonical is committed to the production and support of Ubuntu – an ever-popular and fast-growing open-source operating system. It aims to ensure that Ubuntu is available to every organization and individual on servers, desktops, laptops and netbooks.
Canonical partners with computer hardware manufacturers to certify Ubuntu, provides migration, deployment, support and training services to businesses, and offers online services direct to end users. Canonical also builds and maintains collaborative, open-source development tools to ensure that organizations and individuals can participate fully in innovations within the open-source community. For more information, please visit www.canonical.com.
About The Linux Box
Founded in 1999, The Linux Box (www.linuxbox.com) is a professional services organization specializing in open source technology and the Linux platform in the server and cluster environments. It provides software development and customization services to a broad range of clients in industries ranging from energy and financial services to government, life sciences and the utilities.

Glide OS announced today at the Mobile World Congress an all new mobile to cloud file synchronization solution with 30 GBs of free storage for your Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm Pre, Symbian and Windows Mobile smart phones that will be available for download in Q2 of 2010.
“The new Glide Mobile Sync solution makes it easier to keep your contacts, calendars, and all of your files in sync at all times across all of your devices,” said TransMedia Chairman and CEO, Donald Leka. “Glide Mobile Sync is designed to work seamlessly with the Glide GDrive cloud storage solution with 30 GBs of free storage.”

Glide Mobile Sync works seamlessly with Glide’s automated device identification and file transcoding services making it possible to achieve cross platform compatibility across virtually any combination of desktop computers and smart phones.

Glide’s Mobile Sync works seamlessly with Glide’s rights based file-sharing services making it possible to sync files securely across user accounts for more effective collaboration.

Glide Mobile Sync is fully integrated with Glide’s suite of productivity and collaboration applications enabling rights based file-sharing through micro-blogging, email and workgroups from your mobile device.

Glide OS:

http://www.GlideLife.com

http://www.GlideOS.com

Twenty-four leading telecommunications operators have formed the Wholesale Applications Community, an alliance to build an open platform that delivers applications to all mobile phone users.

America Movil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, KT, mobilkom austria group, MTN Group, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Orascom Telecom, Softbank Mobile, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenor Group, TeliaSonera, SingTel, SK Telecom, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, VimpelCom, Vodafone and Wind are committed to create an ecosystem for the development and distribution of mobile and internet applications irrespective of device or technology.

Together, these operators have access to over three billion customers around the world. The GSMA and three of the world’s largest device manufacturers — LG Electronics, Samsung and Sony Ericsson — also support this initiative.

The Wholesale Applications Community aims to unite a fragmented marketplace and create an open industry platform that benefits everybody — from applications developers and network operators to mobile phone users themselves.

The alliance’s stated goal is to create a wholesale applications ecosystem that — from day one — will establish a simple route to market for developers to deliver the latest innovative applications and services to the widest possible base of customers around the world. In the immediate future the alliance will seek to unite members’ developer communities and create a single, harmonised point of entry to make it easy for developers to join.

“The GSMA is fully supportive the Wholesale Applications Community, which will build a new, open ecosystem to spur the creation of applications that can be used regardless of device, operating system or operator,” said Rob Conway, CEO and Member of the Board, GSMA. “This approach is completely in line with the principles of the GSMA, and in fact leverages the work we have already undertaken on open network APIs (OneAPI). This is tremendously exciting news for our industry and will serve to catalyse the development of a range of innovative cross-device, cross-operator applications.”

Jonathan Arber, Senior Research Analyst at independent analyst house, IDC, said: “Attracting and retaining developers is vital for any application store offering to succeed. However, mobile application developers currently face a high level of fragmentation in the industry, in terms of both technology platforms, and individual operators’ working practices. Developers want to meet the largest possible addressable market, as efficiently and painlessly as possible, and the Wholesale Applications Community initiative can meet these criteria by providing a simple, single point of access to a large number of operator storefronts. The initiative should also help to drive uptake of existing, open standards among developers, operators and manufacturers, thereby reducing fragmentation and benefiting the whole industry.”

The alliance plans to initially use both the JIL and OMTP BONDI requirements, evolving these standards into a common standard within the next 12 months. Ultimately, we will collectively work with the W3C for a common standard based on our converged solution to truly ensure developers can create applications that port across mobile device platforms, and in the future between fixed and mobile devices.

The alliance will serve as one point of contact for the industry and is open to all relevant parties — from telecommunications operators and device manufacturers to internet service providers and application software developers. For more information go to www.wholesaleappcommunity.com or email info@wholesaleappcommunity.com.

VirtoSoftware announces the release of Virto Ajax Calendar 3.0 – the latest and most enhanced version of our powerful web part for calendar planning and management in Microsoft SharePoint that now supports Microsoft Exchange Calendar.

Virto Ajax Calendar is designed to provide SharePoint users with extended features for calendar planning and management that are not available in the standard SharePoint calendar. It substantially expands the functionality of the default Microsoft SharePoint calendar by a wide range of features and capabilities.
New: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007&2010 Support
Microsoft Exchange Server is part of the Microsoft Servers line with features that include electronic mail, calendaring, contacts and tasks; support for mobile and web-based access to information; and support for data storage. The integration of SharePoint and Exchange Server is highly demanded by many SharePoint users and developers. However, there are only few solutions enabling such integration. Virto Ajax Calendar is now among them.
Version 3.0 now supports Microsoft Exchange Server, allowing SharePoint users to view, edit and manage events from three distinctive data sources (SharePoint lists, SQL tables and Microsoft Exchange Calendar) in a single SharePoint calendar.

Novell Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) and The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) today announced an international partnership to standardize their entry-level Linux certification programs on LPIC-1. Under this program, Linux professionals who have earned their LPIC-1 status will also satisfy the requirements for the Novell® Certified Linux Administrator (CLA) certification. In addition,Novell Training Serviceshas formally agreed to include required LPIC-1 learning objectives in its CLA course training material.
“As a proven provider of enterprise software and services for more than 25 years, and the provider of the most interoperableLinux platform, Novell is well positioned to deliver a comprehensive training program that ensures Linux professionals can achieve the globally recognized LPIC-1 certification enabling them to address diverse data center requirements with technical skill and confidence,” said Markus Rex, general manager and senior vice president for Open Platform Solutions at Novell.
Adoption of Linux, includingSUSE® Linux Enterprisefrom Novell, is accelerating as the industry pursues cost saving solutions that deliver maximum reliability and manageability. A 2009 global survey of IT executives revealed that 40 percent of survey participants plan to deploy additional workloads on Linux over the next 12-24 months and 49 percent indicated Linux will be their primary server platform within five years.
“This partnership represents the strong support the LPI certification program has within the wider IT and Linux community. This historical support has included contributions from vendors such as Novell and has assisted LPI to become the most widely recognized and accepted Linux certification,” said Jim Lacey, president and CEO of LPI. “We look forward to working with Novell to promote the further development of the Linux workforce of the future. In particular, by aligning its training and exam preparation curriculum to support LPIC-1 objectives, Novell has recognized the industry’s need for a vendor-neutral certification program that prepares IT professionals to work with any Linux distribution in an enterprise environment.”
Under the terms of the agreement, all qualified* LPIC-1 holders will have the opportunity to apply for Novell CLA certification without additional exams or fees. Novell Training Services will include LPIC-1 objectives into its Linux Administrator curriculum and programs which include self study, on demand, and partner-led classroom training.
“As an authorized training partner within the Novell PartnerNet® program, SwitchDesk has trained the IT staff from some of the nation’s top companies such as Ford Motor Company, Boeing, Macromedia, NASA and many more,” said Chris Clark, president and CEO, SwitchDesk, Inc. “We are pleased to see LPI and Novell partner to develop aligned course content objectives and deliver dual certification so our customers will be equipped with a broad skill set.”
More information about acquiring dual certification status can be found at Novell:http://www.novell.com/training/certinfo/cla/, and at the Linux Professional Institute:http://www.lpi.org/cla.
*This program is not available in Japan.
About Linux Professional Institute

The Linux Professional Institute promotes and certifies essential skills on Linux and Open Source technologies through the global delivery of comprehensive, top-quality, vendor-independent exams. Established as an international non-profit organization in September 1999 by the Linux community, the Linux Professional Institute continues to demonstrate recognized global leadership in the certification of Linux professionals. LPI advances the Linux and Open Source movement through strategic partners, sponsorships, innovative programs and community development activities. LPI’s major financial sponsors are Platinum Sponsors IBM, Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, Novell, SGI, and TurboLinux as well as Gold Sponsors, HP and IDG. LPI’s certification program is supported by an affiliate network spanning five continents and is distributed worldwide in multiple languages in more than 7,000 testing locations. LPI has delivered over 230,000 exams and 75,000 LPIC certifications around the world
About Novell

Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visitwww.novell.com

Excel Software, a leading supplier of Mac and Windows software protection tools, announces LicenseSupport 1.0 for customer support. Software vendors use LicenseSupport to manage customer licenses for protected applications and documents. With minimal training or technical skills, a customer support person can safely and securely provide an activation code, reset a license, block an activated license before issuing a refund or change the number of allowed activations for a serial number.

LicenseSupport works directly with an application or document protected by QuickLicense, QuickLicense Server, DocProtect or AppProtect. LicenseSupport also connects by Internet to the Safe Activation server. This task-oriented tool prompts the customer support person for the required information and generates a license code to support a customer by phone or email. LicenseSupport stores customer records, maintains an historical log of support activities, provides integrated email support and presents a secure login process.

In addition to direct and Internet based support of protected applications and documents, LicenseSupport documents a simple programming API for the Safe Activation server. A vendor’s web site can securely access support commands to retrieve a Serial Number for a specific product, check the status of a license or view a customer record. The license status of a Serial Number can be changed including suspend, reset, subscriber, used, notify, allowed activations or optional features in the customer’s license can be remotely enabled.

Customer data including custom fields and checkboxes can be edited, searched, imported from comma-separated text, exported or added from a Safe Activation generated email message. By integrating customer data, license commands and historical logs, LicenseSupport can simplify and optimize the support process for a specific customer license based on the Serial Number.

Pricing and Availability:
LicenseSupport 1.0 is $395 (USD) for a Single User License on either Windows (XP, Vista or 7 with 32 or 64 bit processor) or Mac OS X (PPC or Intel). The Site License edition allows any support representative on the vendor’s network to access the license data. The product includes a printed and PDF User Guide. Visit the company web site for demonstration videos, detailed product information and secure online ordering of Excel Software’s protection and license management tools.

As a self-install native CRM functionality add-in, Spell Checker for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 allows businesses using or considering the CRM solution to assure a more professional image. Spell Checker returns its investment quickly at a purchase price of only $10.00 per CRM user and can be purchased at http://mtccrm.com/spell_check.html.

New features include:
1) Check spelling on all fields of CRM simultaneously
2) Spell check only a single Tab for departmental or specific process functions
3) Spell check only a specific field for accuracy of commonly updated text and memo fields
4) Works with Custom CRM entities within unique CRM implementations

Spell Check is a valuable addition for any Microsoft Dynamics CRM user in a professional or customer service environment. . Review literature at: http://www.mtccrm.com/docs/Spell-Checker-Flyer.pdf or http://www.dynamicsexchange.com/CRM-Specifications/SC.aspx.

About MTC:
Management Technology Consulting LLC. is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in Microsoft Dynamics CRM /XRM low-cost add-on products and development services for clients around the globe. MTC is a managing partner of the #1 Dynamics CRM community portal DynamicsExchange.com.

CommVault is now shipping an integrated cloud storage connector for its Simpana® software, which will enable customers to move on-premises backup and archive data securely, reliably and transparently into, and out of, private and public cloud storage without complex scripting or the addition of costly, disparate cloud gateway appliances.
CommVault customers looking to reduce internal IT costs now have unprecedented flexibility to tier infrequently accessed backup and archive data from expensive, on-premises disk and tape storage into lower-cost cloud storage.
Only CommVault provides enterprises with a singular platform and unique product architecture to simplify the movement, protection, archiving and eDiscovery of all types of data stored in the cloud, including Oracle and SAP databases, Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint systems as well as virtualized data. With Simpana software, customers can easily deploy embedded data deduplication and encryption modules to further reduce data management costs while securing the delivery and recovery of data stored in the cloud. To help meet compliance and eDiscovery needs, CommVault customers also can add Simpana Search to index data prior to sending it to cloud storage.
Seamless integration with trusted cloud storage providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Nirvanix extends the unified data and information management capabilities of the Simpana software platform to the cloud. Planned integration with EMC and Iron Mountain currently underway will achieve the same benefits.
The combination of key partner offerings and Simpana software reduces the complexity of moving and managing data in the cloud while also easing top business concerns regarding security, reliability and robust performance.

SADA Systems, Inc., a leading Google Apps Enterprise partner, has been a key partner in providing migration tools and services for businesses making the switch to Google Apps since 2007. SADA used their experience migrating Google Apps to develop a set of tools and services that facilitate the migration process. Migration tools created by SADA are platform agnostic and may be used with leading email, calendar, and contact management solutions including Groupwise, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, and any other email platform with access to source data.

Novell Groupwise©
SADA provides custom migration services for mail, calendar, and contacts in Groupwise. SADA works closely with Groupwise clients to ensure a smooth migration. Groupwise migration services and tools from SADA include:

1) SADA works with the client to plan and execute email migration using IMAP.
2) SADA implements a custom tool to migrate personal contacts and calendar events.
3) By making use of OAuth (Open Authorization), SADA can complete the migration of user accounts and data without ever needing access to their passwords.

IBM Lotus Notes© and Domino©
SADA provideams a migration service for Lotus Notes that makes use of migration tools created specifically for this purpose by Google. SADA works closely with their Lotus Notes migration clients to plan the process of data migration. Our process ensures:

1) Superb data fidelity including all past present and scheduled calendar entries.
2) Rapid completion of the migration process.
3) Clients have the option to manually provision users, or let provisioning run automatically.

Microsoft Exchange©
Google and SADA provide tools and services that make the switch from Exchange to Google Apps nearly seamless for users. Our tools include:

1) Email migration tools and services for the enterprise
2) Migration of a client’s Global Address List (GAL) using a custom tool created by SADA, and Google’s own migration tools.
3) Personal contact and calendar migration through a custom solution that crawls user mailboxes and parses the information before posting the Exchange data it has gathered to Google.

Custom E-mail Migrations
SADA has developed custom server side migration tools for email platforms that are supported under Unix / Linux based environments such as AtMail, IceWarp Merak Mail Server, and Sun Java System Messaging Server/iPlanet, and others. As long as we are able to read the source data via file system access or IMAP our tools quickly and efficiently migrate data to Google Apps.

1)SADA works with the client to plan and execute email migration utilizing custom server side migration tools.

For more information, visit http://www.sadasystems.com

Virtosoftware announces a new version of Virto Alert Customizer for Microsoft SharePoint 2007, an effective solution that enhances SharePoint Alert Management System. The new version of the web part allows for sending alerts and reminders via popular instant messengers like Jabber and Miranda.

Virtosoftware presents a new version of one of its major web parts for Microsoft SharePoint – Virto Alert Customizer 2.3.1, a component for customizing the default SharePoint notification system and designing custom alerts and reminders, with a new feature of sending alerts via instant messengers.

Virto Alert Customizer expands functionality of the default SharePoint notification system by offering a wide range of additional alert-related features. The web part allows for fast and convenient creating custom alerts and reminders, designing their view, sending them to SharePoint users by e-mail and SMS, setting up sophisticated alert triggers and scheduling delivering schemes.

The new version of Virto Alert Customizer makes your SharePoint notification system even more powerful allowing for sending alerts and reminders not only by SMS and e-mail but also via instant messengers. Supporting XMPP protocol, the new version of the web part is able to send alerts via Miranda, Jabber, MSN, Gtalk, AOL IM and other popular instant messengers. Installation and setting up procedure is very clear and simple and requires small amount of time. Once XMPP-settings are added to the web part, users start to receive task, project, document or any other notifications.

The new version of Virto Alert Customizer is already available at www.virtosoftware.com. Visit the website for more information about the product and other Microsoft SharePoint web parts by Virtosoftware, trials and demo versions as well as installation and user guides.

Visit: http://www.virtosoftware.com for more details or contact us: sales@virtosoftware.com

About Virtosoftware:
VirtoSoftware designs and builds innovative web parts for Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 and 2010. It’s compiled using the best Ajax and Silverlight technologies. The very first Virto Web Part was released in April, 2009, and the current comprehensive lineup includes calendaring, alerting, collaboration, workflow and administration capabilities for SharePoint users.

Loqu8 has been invited to the first SharePoint 2010 SocialFest at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus during the week of January 25, 2010.

“Loqu8 is excited about this opportunity to compete with the most innovative Enterprise 2.0 companies at SocialFest,” announced Dr. Tim Uy, President and CEO of Loqu8. “This event will give us the opportunity to integrate our iNtuition knowledge management engine with Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 to provide instant access to information through a pop-up window.”

Loqu8 Prelude: The Power of Instant Information
Last year’s version of Prelude made traditional command line search obsolete by delivering instant visual search to a wide variety of applications, include websites and Microsoft Office. The latest iteration of Prelude will integrate support for enterprise collaboration platforms. No more typing or copy-and-paste keystroke maneuvers. By harnessing the power of SharePoint 2010, Microsoft’s newest business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the web, Prelude delivers information instantly, in context and at the right time.

Augmented Learning for Enterprises
Loqu8’s on-demand learning model is the culmination of years of research at Caltech and Stanford University in cognitive science and information processing. Touch the screen or point with a mouse to display key information: web search, language translation, images and speech. Powered by Loqu8’s iNtution™ engine, Prelude empowers users with the information to learn quickly, work efficiently and make timely decisions. Suddenly every user becomes a learner. That’s the power of Loqu8’s augmented learning technology.

Visit MicrosoftStartupZone.com for how Microsoft supports entrepreneurs with software, support and visibility and to get more information about Microsoft SharePoint SocialFest and Microsoft BizSpark.
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About Loqu8
Loqu8 is a leader in augmented learning software with over 13,000 users in 22 countries. This user-guided, on-demand learning model is the result of years of research at Stanford University in cognitive science and information processing. The company’s innovative iNtuition™ information management engine uses ultra-fast LiveScan technologies to display information in a pop-up window—all in a fraction of a second.

Loqu8, a privately-held corporation with headquarters in Silicon Valley, is a member of Microsoft’s BizSpark Program and an early-adopter of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. For more information, visit www.loqu8.com

Google launched a new service few months ago aimed at increasing search result relevancy to the user called Google Social Search.

When you have set up your Google account. It is necessary to add your contacts, chat buddies, networks, and media sharing or networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, etc. to your public profile so Google can retrieve your contacts through various avenues.

Once you are opted into Social Search and have set up your Google profile and contacts, your Google searches will often include two results at the bottom of the page from members of your social circle. These results will be listed under the header “Results from People in your Social Circle for ___.”

All the information that appears as part of Google Social Search is published publicly on the web, you can find it without Social Search if you really want to. What Google have done is surfaced that content together in one single place to make your results more relevant

You can try it if you have a Google Account at: /www.google.com/experimental

Matt Cutts from the search quality team explains how Google Social Search works YouTube -www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlpTjP6h6Ms