Google Plus & What’s Next
Talk about press coverage, the release of Google+ seems to have reached every single media outlet on the planet. If you’ve just signed up but don’t know how to get started, skip the rest of this post and just read this simple 16-step guide. During the earnings call yesterday (July 14, 2011) Google’s CEO Larry Pageshared a few G+ numbers: 10 million users, 1 billion items shared. That’s right, in just two weeks the new social network has garnered 10 million users...
Read MoreGoogle Enters the Browser Battle with Chrome
In an uncharacteristic mistake by an employee of Google, an email was sent with a comic that expressly describes Google’s next big release: a web browser called Google Chrome. Since the dawn of Google (a phrase I feel our children will say very often), the company has relentlessly challenged the status quo of various areas of technology–usually resulting in an increase of innovation and a whirlwind of competition. Their entrance into the browser wars will be no different; in fact,...
Read MoreGoogle Stumbles into the Social Networking Crossfire
In one corner, weighing in at a respectable $15 billion, the reigning champ, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook! And the new challenger—we’ve all heard his name on the streets and he actually helped us discover Zuckerberg—weighing in at a hefty $150 billion, the ad-toting, search-optimizing, float-like-a-betafly Eric Schmidt of Google! Let’s get ready to rumble! Wait a minute—what’s this? It looks like Schmidt and Zuckerberg are not fighting, they’re tag-teaming! And...
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