Top 10 tips to get started on Google+- IT Business Slideshow
Manage How Others See Your Circles Directly under your Google+ profile picture is information about the people you have in your circles and the circles you are included in. Much like everything else on your profile page, this, too, you can edit. From your Google+ profile page, click the “Edit profile” button, then hover over your Circles information. To edit it, click the gray globe icon.
Twitter Is the Web's Best Public Identity Service—So Why Is It Destroying Itself? - Robinson Meyer
The bigger, civic implications of Twitter breaking up with Tumblr Join Tumblr on Monday (as I did) and you'd mosey through a little process. You'd pick a username, type in a password. Look at blogs the service recommends following. Then you'd get to a page which, a few days ago, would let you search Facebook, Twitter and your email contacts to find Tumblr blogs written by your friends. Join Tumblr today? The move's been roundly rebuked. It was in that month that Edd Dumbill, writing at O'Reily and responding to Google Plus, articulated, in a clean list, exactly what a social network did. Identity -- authenticating you as a user, and storing information about you Sharing -- access rights over content Notification -- informing users of changes to content or contacts' content Annotation -- commenting on content Communication -- direct interaction among members of the system It's that first one which has gotten the most attention in the past year.
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. .
Catching the Cloud
When it comes to contracting for a computer service, there is little choice but hoping for the best. Small or mid-size companies, especially those located outside the United States, are betting they’ll never have to go to court – usually one located 11,000km and thousands of dollars in legal fees away. Let’s face it: contracting with a large American company is a jump into the unknown. The Cloud’s rise to prominence makes things worse. European lawyers are beginning to look at better ways to protect their clients’ interests. The CVML partner then laid out six critical elements to be implemented in European legislation. 1 / Transparency. 2 / Incident notifications. 3 / Data restitution. 4 / Control and certification. 5 / Governing laws. 6 / Enforceability. The overall issue of regulating the cloud is far from anecdotal. — frederic.filloux@mondaynote.com
Why Google+ Is Really For Sharing Knowledge, Not Social Networking
Everyone, including possibly even the Google+ team, is currently thinking that Google+ is a Twitter and Facebook competitor. But I think in fact, Google+ is for something entirely different. Google+ is not really for socializing; it’s for sharing knowledge. That’s what makes it different from other social networks. It supports more flexible access permissions on content, longer form content, threaded conversations, and soon it will integrate deeply with search. In many ways, Google+ is a potential replacement for the Blogosphere, which always suffered from the lack of an integrated commenting and search infrastructure. I don’t think all bloggers will move to Google+, because it certainly lacks the power or customization potential of a WordPress or Moveable Type for example, but there’s certainly a chance that good portion of lightweight blogging market share may go there. But that’s just the beginning. Knowledge is not merely information, it is organized information.
Conor Gaughan: We Are Not Arguing Over Chicken
Facebook can feel faceless sometimes. Over the last week, the site has seen a lot of conversations about Chick-fil-A, often among total strangers able to shout at each other just because they happen to have a friend in common. It is worth remembering that behind each unfamiliar headshot or puppy pic is a real person. When you litter your friend's wall with vitriol about the idiocy of your interlocutors, you are talking about people, not pixels. So here's my message to social conservatives: Just because you were a member of the Boy Scouts, I don't think you are a bigot. Have those waffle fries; I'm not going to glitter-bomb you. Hi. Growing up is never easy. When gays get so angry about a chicken sandwich, it is because Chick-fil-A has given around $5 million to fight to discriminate against us. I am your coworker, your frat brother, your cousin, your neighbor. Eat all the chicken sandwiches you want.
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. 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:
Balkanizing the Web
Creeping Balkanization is the internet’s worst enemy. As worldwide literacy grows exponentially, for the web, such expansion results in increasing pressure from corporate interests and regulatory nationalisms. Rising from its arcane beginnings as a DARPA research project, the net has become a symbol of borderless communication between individuals and of unlimited access to knowledge. Unfortunately, the net is about to become a heavily controlled environment, serving two classes of citizens: a dominant class that sets the rules (technological, legal and commercial) and the underclass of citizens and consumers. Consider these two macro trends: The first one stems from the world’s linguistic evolution. Beyond that, only the Spanish group (7.8% of the internet population) and the Japanese (5.3%) are above the 5% threshold. The second trend involves the telecommunication infrastructure. Mobile internet? #1 Technological control. #2 Commercial control. #3 Regulatory control. C’mon guys.
