Google opens Plus to all, let’s you share your circles, followers skyrocket—Your move Twitter

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This week Google enabled Google+ users to start sharing their circles with other users. Many folks, like me, who were included in circles by folks like Robert Scoble, Thomas Hawk, and Jason Calacanis saw their follower numbers jump. Hugely. Many users, like Fraser Smith found that their number of followers on Google+ eclipsed their number [...]

Kobo Pulse creates a book club from your Facebook friends

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I’m an unabashed fan of everything Kobo does. I’ve long held that Kobo gets ereading better than anyone else—even that other book seller based in Seattle—and their recent Kobo Pulse announcement shows that they are on the same, solid track as always. By connecting the Kobo app with Facebook and your Facebook friends, Kobo brings [...]

Empire Avenue Starts Tapping into Google+

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Yeah we might be a little biased around here, but we think Empire Avenue is quite the hot item. Sure, it would be great if you bought shares in me, the real story here is that Empire Avenue is fast out of the gates with support for the new Google+ API. Sure, it might be [...]

Catch Me at the Social Media Week Blogging Summit

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Social Media Week is, as expected, coming to (celebrated in?) Vancouver September 19th–23rd and recently organizer Shane Gibson sent out an email asking some Vancouver bloggers if they would participate in the Blogging Summit portion of the week on Monday morning. Well, not that I’m a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, I still wanted [...]

2011 will be the breakout school year for tablets in classrooms

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Next week the 2011–2012 school year kicks off in earnest. On the Future Shop Tech blog (where I contribute posts), we’ve had the raft of Back to School 101 posts to help folks gear up (literally and figuratively ) for school, but in the meantime I’ve been keeping an eye on trends overall and I [...]

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