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Google Beyond Google+ - Five Areas Google Could Soon Be Competing In. After looking at some of the lesser publicized recent moves by Google, in this post I want to turn my attention to other areas Google is already, or I think might soon, point their gaze. Similarly, Steve Rubel has also taken a look at Three Key Things Google Is Doing While We Focus On Google+. It's a really smart post, I strongly recommend you take a read. In it he draws some interesting conclusions that reinforce my thinking on areas I think Google may move into.

My thinking is predicated on Google's "Search and Social" pincer movement. 1. Digital music is clearly a huge area, from iTunes and Amazon to Pandora and the recently introduced to America, Spotify. [youtube] And yes, it works on your Android mobile device. 2. The +1 button is gaining adoption across the web quickly. 3. If I was GetGlue, I would be worried. 4. Foursquare, Gowalla and even Facebook Places also seem vulnerable to me. 5. Buy "I +1 NY" T-Shirt by Designer Adam de la Mare. New York… we still love you! Another addition to my Logo Fun collection… for more see HERE Tags google, 1, plus, one, plusone, plus1, like, button, parody, fun, funny, cool, clever, geek, nerd, dislike, thumbs, up, down, brother, vector, graphic, adam, de la mare, humour, logo, search, topical, ny, new, york desktop tablet-landscape content-width tablet-portrait workstream-4-across phone-landscape phone-portrait.

Google+, le lancement le plus rapide d'un réseau social. Le service Google+, lancé fin juin par le géant américain des moteurs de recherche, a eu le démarrage le plus fulgurant jamais rencontré par un réseau social, a indiqué mardi un analyste du cabinet ComScore, Andrew Lipsman. Selon M. Lipsman, qui présentait une étude lors d'une téléconférence organisée par un analyste de Wedbush Securities, «au 24 juillet Google+ était tout près de 25 millions d'utilisateurs, dont 6,5 millions aux États-Unis».

À titre de comparaison, il a fallu plus de 22 mois à MySpace pour toucher un public équivalent, 33 mois à Twitter et 37 mois à Facebook, actuellement le roi incontesté du secteur avec plus de 750 millions d'utilisateurs. «Google+ est le plus rapide, de loin, mais il est important de se rendre compte que (...) parfois une croissance lente peut conduire à un fort effet de réseau», et «à ce stade Facebook est le plus stable». Google+, le grain de sable dans le monopole des réseaux sociaux. La mathématique a guidé la riposte. En 2011, un internaute passe en moyenne plus de temps sur Facebook que dans le moteur de recherche Google: 33 minutes par jour à réseauter, contre 14,5 minutes à chercher, selon Alexa, une boîte américaine spécialisée dans la quantification de l'économie numérique.

Ceci explique donc cela et, surtout, l'apparition au début de l'été de Google+, la énième tentative de Google de faire vaciller Facebook, champion toutes catégories de la numérisation des rapports humains, de la communication en réseau et des amitiés virtuelles. Et à en juger par les premiers pas de ce nouvel outil de communication sur la Toile, l'ambitieux projet n'aurait rien d'un baroud d'honneur. Les chiffres donnent en effet le ton. «Je n'ai jamais vu un truc grossir si vite, a résumé cette semaine Andrew Lipman, analyste chez ComScore, dans les pages du Wall Street Journal. Éviter le naufrage Le contraire aurait été étonnant.

Google Wallet : le portefeuille virtuel pour mobile est annoncé. Google Reveals Amazing Stats About How We Search. Google unloaded a goody bag full of new search features at today's Inside Search conference, including Voice Search for Desktop, Search by Image, and Instant Pages. They led off the talk with a fascinating look into how people are searching today, both on computers, and on mobile devices. Search traffic fluctuates depending on the time of the day, week, and the year, though patterns of use differ between mobile and desktop searches.

Google found that desktop search throughout the week stays relatively stable before dipping on the weekends. On the other hand, mobile search actually rises on Friday and Saturday. Over the day itself, search traffic for the desktop rises towards lunchtime at noon, at which point it takes a little dip, before continuing to drop the rest of the day. Across the year, a similar trend prevails, namely that times dedicated to leisure see drops in desktop search traffic, and rises in mobile search traffic. Check out some of the charts and graphs below: Google+ is the social backbone. The launch of Google+ is the beginning of a fundamental change on the web. A change that will tear down silos, empower users and create opportunities to take software and collaboration to new levels. Social features will become pervasive, and fundamental to our interaction with networked services. Collaboration from within applications will be as natural to us as searching for answers on the web is today.

It’s not just about Google vs Facebook Much attention has focused on Google+ as a Facebook competitor, but to view the system solely within that context is short-sighted. Google+ is the rapidly growing seed of a web-wide social backbone, and the catalyst for the ultimate uniting of the social graph. As web search connects people to documents across the web, the social backbone connects people to each other directly, across the full span of web-wide activity. Search removed the need to remember domain names and URLs. It’s time for the social layer to become a commodity Why not Facebook? Five Fatal Flaws of Google+ I’m back! It’s been over 3 months since my last post… so what brings me back to writing? Of course, the one topic everybody is talking about, Google+. Full disclosure, I’m very curious to see how much traffic I can get from Google+ vs Twitter or Facebook, and I really needed a fresh post for that … but as I’ve been playing with the new service since day one, I have a few thoughts to share.

Yes, I have a big Google+ bias. But I’m afraid it won’t happen. Circles. Already talked to death as the most innovative feature. Also worth pointing out, the shape of the network itself. And there’s a lot of very innovative smaller features: 10 people video-chat hangoutssocial YouTube videos viewingthe “+” button… Google’s version of the “like”“always on” integration in the Google home pageand what we can’t see yet, but for sure is coming – Google apps integration such as shared calendars, shared Google docs etc… That’s the good.

Yes. But spend a few days trying to manage your circles and You. .