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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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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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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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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While some may point to the iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, most historians agree that Apple’s fall from the top began in 2012 when, panicked by the success of rival tablets, they released the iPad Mini. While ultimately a bigger success than the full sized iPad in terms of sales, the Mini was widely panned
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Did I wake up in a parallel universe, because suddenly there is a spate of articles declaring that Bing won the search war in 2011 over Google Search? No, seriously, is this a parallel universe, or did I miss something catastrophic for Google in the search market? I don’t recall spending the past year in a
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Greetings fellow citizens of Skyrim. I’ve been playing since its release. For those who’ve been living in a cave on Pluto, Skyrim is the fifth chapter in the iconic Elder Scrolls video game series by Bethesda Softworks. Within a month of its recent release it won nearly every Game of the Year Award that can
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