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

September 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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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 [...]

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Is Google+ New or Just the New Google Wave?

June 28, 2011 By 2 Comments
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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 [...]

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How I choose to who to follow on Twitter

August 29, 2010 By 6 Comments

Yes, no doubt I love Twitter. I have TweetDeck open almost all the time (I have to close it when I want to focus on writing in a serious way) so I can keep up news, tips, and what my friends are doing. Connecting, learning, and chatting with people on Twitter is one of the [...]

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Return of the long form—Tweet thee no more?

August 24, 2010 By 3 Comments

There’s been a lot of buzz (pun intended) about the return of the “long form blog”—which is kinda ironic that blog posts are now considered “long form” content—Leo Laporte is trying to get back into posting more regularly after a snafu with his Google Buzz feed. Folks like Louis Gray never abandoned blogging, they just [...]

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Back in Twitter’s Search Index Follow Up: Yep, It Makes a Difference

August 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Just as a little follow up to a post from almost a month ago—I’m back in Twitter’s search index: what will the result be?—yes, there has been a difference. The main difference is more traffic to posts from the tweets that get sent out (since they are indexed now) and that I’m getting more followers [...]

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