Today, Google web search is getting a new, bigger, better brain

Finally, Google’s search algorithm is getting a huge boost from a source we can actually trust.

No, it’s not your dimwit friends and their Facebook shares. It’s Knowledge Base, a semantically structured body of data 500 million items strong and …

The “Facebook Timeline bump:” App usage skyrockets for Goodreads

Goodreads is an app for those who are both bookish and web-friendly, and in a recent call with VentureBeat, founder Otis Chandler told us Facebook’s new Timeline-focused actions are just about the best thing that’s ever happened to the company.…

Facebook gives us some clues about the next 12 months of Timeline

Facebook product chief Carl Sjogreen gave developers and others a few clues about what to expect from Facebook over the next year.

At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco today, the Facebook executive laid out the three most …