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 [...]

HootSuite ups the ante with new Facebook features and support

HootSuite - Social Media Dashboard for Teams using Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

HootSuite does it again adding more features to the already stellar social media app. This time it’s all Facebook love for HootSuite and by the looks of the video from the newly updated HootSuite Facebook features page, I don’t think you’ll ever after visit Facebook again. Which is just fine by me. Now, if you’re [...]

Is Google+ New or Just the New Google Wave?

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So that’s what Google has been working on for the past year+. Google made it official in their Google+ blog post that Google is going full bore (again) into “social”. Word is that this slow public release (think early days of Gmail, but maybe even slower) is designed to prevent failures like Google Buzz and [...]

Do you know where your Facebook friends are?

Or maybe I should ask it a little differently…How do your Facebook friends relate to you geographically? Are most of your friends in the same region or spread around? Now imagine if you took the information for about 10 million of Facebook’s 500 million users and tried to relate them to each other…that’s exactly what [...]

Facebook Places might become the best aggregator for locations

We can stop wondering and waiting, Facebook Places was announced yesterday (after much waiting, I must say). I was relieved to see Foursquare was there. Sure I don’t think they looked happy about it. Something like the king or queen requesting your presence at an announcement of how much you’ll now be taxed as a [...]

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