Social Networks

Google’s New ‘Secret Weapon’ is a Simple Hyperlink

Quietly, and without much fanfare, Google services are becoming more ‘open’ through the power of hyperlinks.  By ‘open’, I mean substantially useful without signing up for them, in some cases without even installing them or even without being logged in to Google at all. To understand what I mean by this, let’s first take a step back,

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Google Authorship Nostalgia

Google Authorship, Structured Data, and the Future of Search

This past Thursday, August 28th, 2014, Google’s John Mueller, in a Google+ Post, announced the end of support for Authorship Markup in Google Search. For those unfamiliar with the concept, a brief analysis. Google Authorship in a Nutshell Google Authorship is based on a bit of web code known as rel=”author”. rel=”author” is a microformat

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A Storm is Coming for FourSquare

Foursquare’s No Good, Very Bad (or Maybe Brilliant) Idea

Foursquare recently announced that they would be moving the Check-In functionality of Foursquare over to a new app called Swarm, which will focus entirely on sharing with “Friends”. At the same time, FourSquare itself will evolve into a Personalized Local Search app. According to the official FourSquare blog announcement, “We believe local search should be

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