The Social Sharing War Is Fully On. Google and Facebook are at war. This is old news. They both want to be the center of the Internet — but there can be only one center. For a while, it looked like things were quickly shifting Facebook’s way after years of dominance by Google. Then Google+ appeared — already the most compelling social experience Google has ever offered. While it’s still far from clear what the actual impact of G+ will be on the Internet at large, it’s pretty clear already that it’s something Facebook is going to have to take seriously. But where things are going to be really interesting is on the social sharing front. As we noted a couple days ago, it is possible to track the referrals coming in to your site from G+, but it’s not straightforward. When you click on a link now in G+, it redirects it through the plus.google.com domain. Facebook does a similar redirect to ensure that the pageviews they’re sending others’ way are correctly counted.
The competitive prospects of Google+ Google+ looks like Google’s best effort yet in social media. To get a handle on industry reaction to Google+, we did a quick survey over the Fourth of July weekend of 451 GigaOM readers on Google+’s chances for success, its competitive weapons and its likely impact on other social companies. In a new research note at GigaOM Pro (subscription required), we analyze the results. Why does asking GigaOM’s readership make sense? Because, as we suspected, they’re radically early adopters, as the 69 percent of respondents that said they’ve tried Google+ shows. Source: GigaOM Pro We asked this early adopter audience what kind of impact they expected Google+ to have on the competition. What did they think? Why Facebook and Skype? A few select quotes from the survey’s open-ended responses (the best of which are in the research note)* may give you a clue.
On Facebook “Google+ has the potential to be a Facebook without the ‘my life is better/worse than yours’ component. On Skype.
Google+ vs Facebook. 5 Ways Google+ Could Steal Music Fans From Facebook. Google’s social network, Google+, is late. Facebook has a big lead, having ousted MySpace, which in turn deposed Friendster, the site that started us all on this path towards recreating our social fabric as a network of connected personal nodes. [partner id="evolverfm"]Facebook is an excellent tool for sharing music — usually in the form of Google’s YouTube videos — but even the developer of the top music app on Facebook says it doesn’t do enough, musicwise. And when we canvassed the top 20 Facebook music apps, we were shocked by what we found. The list of the most popular music apps on this, the most popular social network, included werevertumorro and Shane Dawson TV, which aren’t even music apps; they merely alert fans when one of those videobloggers throws up another video on YouTube.
Google+ may have a tough time making a dent in the popularity of Facebook. 1. 2. Continue reading…. Did Google just sneak a foursquare competitor under our noses? Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about Google+ by now. There’s been lots of coverage about its new features like Circles, Sparks and Hangouts, but there’s one thing I haven’t seen mentioned: Google snuck in a pretty savvy checkin service. If Google+ takes off, it could be a worthy competitor to foursquare and (especially) Facebook Places. Google Check-ins, as they appear to be calling it, shows up front and center in the mobile app.
It’s actually featured more prominently than the “share” button that sits next to it. Clicking the “check in” button takes you to a list (from Google Places, of course) and a single click checks you in. You can also check in by attaching your location to a status update. The real beauty of Google Check-ins is that it integrates tightly with your Circles to share your checkins with only the people you want to see them. Checking in at the golf course while you’re supposed to be at work? I’m really enjoying Google+ so far. Google+, A Bold Step Forward in the World of Social Photo Sharing. Note: If you are a photographer and on Google+, leave a link to your Google+ url in the comments. I’ve spent the past two days playing around in Google’s new social network Google+. Thanks to Brian Rose who works in Google photos for the invite! A lot of people have asked me if I have invites to send out.
I don’t right now, but I suspect that I will in the near future. They turned invites on last night (when I wasn’t paying attention) but then turned them back off because the demand was so high. Most of my initial observations about Google+ will have to do with how it impacts photo sharing, and here I think Google has pushed the envelope to create a compelling photo sharing experience to accompany this new social network. Circles on Google+ are very easy to create and drag people into. Observation #1, Circles. Everybody and their brother/mother/sister is talking about Circles in the new Google+. The ideas on ways to categorize your contacts are limitless. Observation #5.