Too Much Noise on Google Plus? Here is How I Deal With It
A lot of people are complaining that power users such as myself and Robert Scoble and others are causing too much noise in their stream. Scoble’s wife even quit the service because of it (and I can’t even convince my wife to use it even though I created an account for her). It’s nothing new, […]
Read more...Where is Your Audience?
Google+ is all the rage right now. For those that can get in, it’s all they can talk about on Google+. For those that can’t get in, it’s all they can talk about outside of Google+. Or so it seems – that’s what the people I follow and pay attention are doing. It doesn’t mean […]
Read more...New Images Suggest "Shared Circles" Coming Soon in Google+
Florian Rohrweck has been on a role lately uncovering upcoming features to Google+ (including noticing features in Google’s code hinting at Google+’s launch days before it launched and as other bloggers were under embargo and being demoed top secret versions), and it seems Google isn’t keeping their upcoming features well enough behind a test area […]
Read more...Thinking of Creating a Business Profile on Google+? Better Wait.
Danny Sullivan posted a great critique of Google+ today – the fact that in order to create a business profile on Google+, you have to go through the motions of creating a user profile on Google, which includes putting an age (of which is a minimum 18 years old at the moment to use Google+). […]
Read more...The Power of Google+: Privacy "Circles" the Entire Experience
Facebook has always had one strength that no other social network (other than perhaps FriendFeed) has seemed to fully get: The fact that you could add friends to lists, and target your updates so only those lists, and specific people you chose, can see the updates you post. I share this in my presentations often – […]
Read more...Google+ Just Beat Facebook to the Future
Facebook’s entire purpose has been to get to this moment. The moment where they have brought your close friends and family into every element of your browsing experience, following you to every place you go. Allowing you to share everything you do, everywhere you are. They’ve already been rumored to be working on a much […]
Read more...Google is Not Facebook (and Vice Versa)
Google seems to be trying of late to do everything they can to be like Facebook. They’ve restructured their executive management to do it. They’ve structured their company bonuses to get there. They’ve released an equivalent to Facebook’s “like” button. They seem to really want to be on top of social search, but I can […]
Read more...Privacy is Not an On and Off Switch – "Do Not Track" is Not the Answer
Victoria Salisbury wrote an excellent blog post today on “Who’s Creepier? Facebook or Google?“. I’ve been intrigued by the hypocrisy over criticism of Facebook’s own very granular privacy controls when sites like Google, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twitter, and others have an all-or-nothing approach with some things (location and email in particular) that are even more private […]
Read more...Howto: Getting the Logitech Revue (Google TV) to Work With Comcast Cable Boxes
As I’ve Tweeted, Facebooked, and Buzzed about recently, Google sent me a Logitech Revue Google TV unit shortly before Christmas which I will probably be using to write apps for. There are many things I like about it, many I don’t, but I’ll save that review (no pun intended) for another date. I did want […]
Read more...How to Get a User’s E-mail With Facebook Messages, and Why it Doesn’t Matter
It appears that Facebook has taken the Higher Ground. I also warned on Twitter that when Facebook opens up, they also innovate. That, they did today as they launched their new “Facebook Messages” product, a “Social Inbox” intended to change the way you communicate with your close friends and family. The new service also creates […]
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