Features
- The Mountain Lion Experience by Chris
- WWDC 2012: The Train Keeps on Rollin' by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 3 (The Verdict) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 2 (The Experience) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 1 (The Motive) by Tarun
- A Month With Metro for Xbox 360 by Chris
- 2012 by Tarun
- Redefining Reading and Sharing: Flipboard for iPhone by Tarun
- Dropping Their Guard by Tarun
- Design Unification with Google Apps by Tarun
Podcasts
- Weekly Download #38: Google I/O, Podcasts.app, Mansfield
- Weekly Download #37: WWDC, Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone 8
- Weekly Download #36: Nokia's Abysmal Quarter, More on Instagram, Sony, Nest, Apple & Gaming, Patents
- Weekly Download #35: RIM, IE, iPad, Lumia and Windows Phone 7.5
- Weekly Download #34: Windows Phone, Google, RIM
- Weekly Download #33: the New iPad, Apple TV, Draw Something, Mike Daisey
- Weekly Download #32: Apple "New iPad" Press Conference Event
- Weekly Download #31: iPad 3, Google Goggles, T-Mobile, Facebook, iFactory, Chomp, Microsoft, Nokia, Siri
- Weekly Download #30: Mountain Lion, iPads, Browser Cookies, Nook, Playbooks, Blackberry
- Weekly Download #29: iPad 3, Apple TV, Patent Uselessness, Facebook, Bing & Social, Google's Living Room
Tag Archives: googleplus
Link: Google+ Adds “What’s Hot” and “Ripples” Services →
What’s Hot: Shows the most popular, publicly shared posts. Ripples: Shows where shared posts originate from. What they have in common? Data visualization. Cool for people interested in that, questionable for the general masses. What’s Hot looks like a more … Continue reading
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Tagged data, googleplus, whatshot
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Link: Google revives Real Time Search through Plus →
The hashtag omission from the early stages of Google+ was curious, but here is the reason — real time search is now ready for hashtag support. It took some time, but this is the first step to bringing people closer … Continue reading
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Tagged googleplus, hashtag, search
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Link: Google+ Traffic Drops →
The service isn’t sticky.
Posted in Google, Social Networking, Uncategorized
Tagged googleplus, social, traffic
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Link: Google’s Management Doesn’t Use Google+ →
Terrific analysis piece by Michael DeGusta: In total, of the 18 most senior people charged with overseeing Google, 11 have either not joined or have never made a single public post, and 5 have barely used it at all. Only … Continue reading
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Tagged googleplus, sharing, usage
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Link: An Overview of Facebook’s New Privacy Features →
Look familiar?
Link: Six Improvements to Google+ →
The first improvement Casey has mentioned is main-stream filtering, which I believe should go deeper than circles — specific people should also be filterable. Perhaps I could put that person in a circle, and then filter them out, but on-the-fly … Continue reading
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Link: Google+ “Has No Users” →
Good points on the virtual gaming impact on the economy, and more importantly a valid conclusion from a financial analyst: But according to Owyang, both services have their work cut out for them. Google+ is off to a good start, … Continue reading
Link: How to Keep People Engaged with Google+ →
Google+ is surging with users, but the service is lacking some key features to keep users engaged. Tarun talks about three main features that Google could implement to make the new social network “sticky”. Continue reading
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Link: Reflections on Privacy →
Jaimie Murdock: My ideal publishing model wouldn’t be about circles of people, but streams of tagged content. If there existed a service where you could follow a person, but mute certain content streams (such as local events, politics, etc.), we’d … Continue reading
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Link: Exactly This →
MG Siegler: Of course, we can rest-assured knowing that Twitter is very likely are not this foolish. After being in business for a full five years, they must know by now that their strength is not to mimic every just-launched … Continue reading
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Link: Scoble Thinks Twitter Is Boring →
Robert Scoble thinks Google+ is the best thing since sliced bread. Is his experience a general case for using Google+ and ditching Twitter, or an exception to the current status quo? Continue reading
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Possible Privacy Hole in Google+
Tarun has discovered an awkward privacy implication with Google+. The bug/feature stems from reshares of posts from limited circle sharing. Continue reading
Link: Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook. →
Paul Adams: Google values technology, not social science. (Thanks, Leo!)
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Link: What MySpace’s Tom Anderson Thinks of Google+ →
Tom Anderson: My original vision for MS was that everything got better when it was social–so I tried to build all the super popular things used on the web (blogs, music, classifieds, events, photos) on top of MySpace’s social layer. … Continue reading
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Link: Google+ →
Google’s supposed answer to Facebook. Keep in mind, the last time they tried a foray into the social media world ended up being a disaster. But, if anyone has the user base to pull it off, it is this firm.