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Is The Google+ Party Over?

Google+ came on the scene like a category 5 hurricane plowing into South Beach!  Member signups exploded on Google+, and sharing content went through the roof. In fact, Google+ was growing so fast that the biggest story line was how Facebook will soon become the next MySpace. This story line became so popular that there […]

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iPad Technology

Google For Tablets, A New Search Engine Design Is Coming

One thing Google doesn’t do is sleep.  Never will you find the search engine giant just sitting back waiting for something to happen in the marketplace and waiting for an opportunity to just show up at the front steps of their headquarters in Mountain View, CA. For example, look at Groupon.  Google approached the daily […]

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Technology

Google In Apps Payments, A Huge Plus For Developers (Video)

Google is stepping up their game with the announcement of in app payments.   A couple of HUGE advantages that Google is leveraging in draw in developers are: 1)  with a single line of code (according to Google), in app payments can be integrated into any application, regardless of where the application is hosted. 2) […]

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Facebook

‘Facebook Editions’ – Facebook Wants News Outlets To Make Facebook Apps

Facebook sees a huge problem looming on the horizon, and it goes by the name of Google+. Google+ hasn’t even been made available on a large scale to uses, and already it has accumulated 10 million users. And a lot of buzz is building right now about the potential that news outlets can leverage from […]

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Technology

Google De-Indexes Belgium Newspaper Copiepresse Over Copyright Lawsuit

According to AllThingsD, Belgian newspaper consortium Copiepresse has been removed from both Google News and the main Google index. Google states that the move was necessary according to terms reached in a copyright infringement case that was brought by Copiepresse.  However, Copiepresse is fighting back stating that Google removed their site from the index because […]

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Facebook Technology

Is Microsoft Working On A Social Network?

Is Microsoft working on their own social network?  A webpage was published on Thursday by Microsoft for a social network called “Tulalip.”  The page appeared on a domain called Socl.com, but was then quickly taken down. Following the publication of the page, Microsoft issued a statement stating “Socl.com is an internal design project from a […]

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Business Search Engine Optimization

What Google+ Means for Social Media Marketing

What Google+ Means for Social Media Marketing Anyone who has seen and played around with Google+ knows the crazy amount of potential and usability vested in this new social network. Google is essentially adding a needed layer (or more) of complexity to the status of “friend” in traditional social media (i.e. Facebook), so that privacy […]