Tag Archives: Social network

Google+ Weaving the common thread

June 29, 2011

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I have been playing around with Google+ for the past 24 hours and wanted to get down my thoughts. I have been thinking for awhile that Google is in fact a social network that is essentially hidden. Google+ is the common thread between all the services.  Its a final connection point between networks and services [...]

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Social Media Cleanup

June 13, 2009

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Last year I posted about Social Media Spring Cleaning in which I explained that every so often you need to clean out your social media accounts. In an effort to stick with the same question set here they are: Are you using all your profiles? Everyday? Every Week? Every Month? Are you gaining the original [...]

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Google Latitude

February 5, 2009

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Google rolled out a very interesting feature this week called Google Latitude that allows you to see where your friends are in real time within Google Maps. This is a feature that has been deployed many times in the past, but always platform specific (see SonyEricsson T68i and the new Nokia social network) and never [...]

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Sidebar Widgets – Google Reader Shared Items

December 30, 2008

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Image via CrunchBase I recently added another widget to this blogs sidebar that will display items that I “share” from my Google reader. These items automatically get pulled into my FriendFeed stream but not very well read. Now when I share an item from my reader it will automatically be displayed in the right hand [...]

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Google Launched a Social Network (you just didn’t realize it)

December 8, 2008

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There has been a lot of talk and speculation about how and when Google will jump into the social networking space. I think Google already launched a social network – its called Gmail. (Leaving Orkutout of this thought process and other iterations) As I said in the final line of my last post the best [...]

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Google Friend Connect (there is a new widget in town)

December 4, 2008

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I added the Google Friend Connect widget to my blog today as they have begun sending out invites to the program.. Please join on the right hand sidebar if you are interested. Official notification is here. This certainly represents a new direction for interacting with Google as more of a social network. You can now [...]

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Business Networking 101 (why to have your own website)

October 2, 2008

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Image via Wikipedia You hear the term “network” a lot and I thought it would be a good idea to share a recent post I found specifically on this topic: Business Networking 101 I think one of the strongest ideas in the post is to go out and create your social identity and your blog. [...]

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