Conventional wisdom says that Google doesn’t ‘get’ social media. The implied lesson is that leaders in one market often lack the core competence to be competitive in new markets, and the Search Giant Google is one of them compared with Social Demigod Facebook. Looking over their history, it would be easy to see truth in […]
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How I Share to All My Top Social Networks Using Only Google+ Google’s oft maligned social network Google+ has received a mostly warm, or at least open minded, reception from the same tech media that is usually eager to bury it and forget it, after their latest update. The ‘New Google+’ as it’s been dubbed,
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Late last year, Google Photos passed the milestone of 100-million Monthly Active Users, after only 5-months as an independent product (Google Photos used to be part of Google+, and inherited at least some users from the previous Google+ Photos service), and the company shows no signs of reducing their commitment to its development. Photos straddles
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Halloween is nearly upon us in many parts of the world, and with the season comes the seasonal traditions millions of people celebrate in different ways and by different names. In the United States one of the most iconic symbols of the season is, of course, the pumpkin. Whether intact, carved into Jack O’Lanterns, baked
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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. [clickToTweet tweet=”Google services are becoming more ‘open’ through the power of hyperlinks. #Google”
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“Beam me up, Scotty. There’s no intelligent life down here.” – Bumper Sticker Slogan Much has been written, including by me, about the death of Google Authorship. For those of us who embraced it, there are inevitable feelings of disappointment about its removal. Some webmasters are rushing to remove the code, which in some
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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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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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Yesterday the internet exploded with reports that Google has acquired Flutter, a start-up focusing on gesture recognition technology for use with PC webcams. Flutter makes software for Windows, Macintosh, and an extension for the Google Chrome browser allowing users with webcams, “to play, pause and skip songs & videos in YouTube, Pandora, Spotify, Grooveshark, iTunes,
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Let me start by getting this out of the way: I am in no way arguing that Google Glass is entirely without privacy concerns, some of which may have to be addressed through litigation, some through private or pubic regulation (e.g. banning their use or even the wearing of them in certain settings), and some
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