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Google Plus Business Profiles Are Coming Q3, Analytics and All
Companies clamoring to build a presence on Google's new social network have a few more months to wait. Business profiles are coming to Google Plus around the third quarter of this year, according to a story on VentureBeat . While Google hasn't revealed many details about what the brand profiles will include, a Google representative told VentureBeat that users should expect "a level of analytics and measurement that you'd typically find in Google products," hinting at the inclusion of analytics in business accounts.
I’ve been so focused on the user experience of Google’s new social network Plus that I haven’t thought very much about the big picture, I must admit. Listening tonight to an interview with Plus designer Joseph Smarr on the IEEE Podcast it became clear to me that for at least some of Plus’s leadership the goal is not to win social networking outright, or to kill any competitors, but to disrupt the social networking economy with a big enough, good enough and popular enough service that the walled gardens (Facebook in particular) are forced to open up interoperability enough that their users can communicate with the significant enough number of people in their lives that use a different social network.
Marshall Kirkpatrick, Technology Journalist » Google Plus’s Real Goal is Not to Kill Facebook, but to Force it to Open
Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)
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Why Twitter Should be Very Worried About Google+
Why Twitter Should be Very Worried About Google+ When Google unexpectedly launched its new social network Google+ earlier this week, many pundits were skeptical about the company’s latest attempt to enter the social arena.
Twitter's Biggest Rival Thinks Google Plus Could Become Fastest Growing Network in History
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 .