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Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web
First days
Bill Gross is the founder of prolific business incubator Idealab and its Twitter app builder and buyer Ubermedia ; he's wrangled with Twitter headquarters over access to the Twitter API and reportedly tried (unsuccessfully) to outbid Twitter to acquire leading desktop Twitter client Tweetdeck . But can you guess what Gross is hot on now?
Could Become Fastest Growing Network in History
Larry Page On Google+: Over 10 Million Users, 1 Billion Items Being Shared Per Day | TechCrunch
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Why it might succeed
Competition
Use Cases
Some issues
Features
Google Hires Silicon Valley Tech Blogger Louis Gray as Google+ Evangelist
Notable Silicon Valley tech blogger and startup consultant Louis Gray is finally turning his passion for Google’s products and services into a career. Gray has just accepted the position of Product Marketing Manager on the Google+ team, an evangelist role involving the promotion of Google’s new Facebook competitor, Google+ . The role is loosely defined, but will involve working with Google+ engineers to improve the product, setting future goals for Google+, and, most importantly, promoting the social network whenever and wherever possible.
Gooogle has a 'celebrity acquisition plan'
To that end, the Internet giant is drawing up a "celebrity acquisition plan" to help publicize Google+, its 3-week-old social network, according to Google e-mails reviewed by CNN.
The Google+ Ecosystem is Slowly Expanding – Even Without an API
Others, like notifications service Boxcar , are recommending workarounds that give their users some of the functionality of an API-enabled service by using Google’s email notifications for Google+ as a gateway to pushing information to other services.. When Will Google Open the API Floodgates? Now, it’s only a matter of time before Google launches an official API that will give developers the ability to create desktop and mobile clients, launch new monitoring services and replicate virtually all the other kinds of apps we’ve come to know and love in the Twitter ecosystem.
Google+ Added $20 Billion To Google’s Market Cap
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