
Mike Elgan
The world's only lovable technology writer.
Occupation: Writer, columnist and blogger
Location: Silicon Valley, California
His ProfilesRankThis is the rank of 'Mike Elgan' out of all Google+ Profiles.: 52 (GenderRankFor the gender 'Men'.: 28)
His ProfilesRankThis is the rank of 'Mike Elgan' out of all Google+ Profiles. in United States: 31 (GenderRankFor the gender 'Men'.: 18)
His CircleRankThis is the rank of 'Mike Elgan' out of all indexed profiles and pages at CircleCount.com.: 84
Followers: 2,337,409
Following: 0
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2013-05-19 16:30:25 (19 comments, 21 reshares, 65 +1s)
BREAKING: Yahoo board approves acquisition of Tumblr.
The price: $1.1 billion in cash.
https://plus.google.com/s/Yahoo%20tumblr
#yahoo #tumblr


2013-05-19 14:59:01 (34 comments, 6 reshares, 187 +1s)
You always remember the first time you get Auto-Awesomed.
And I hope you remember the first time you heard "Auto-Awesome" get verbed.
Anyway, I took a few pictures of my favorite bread in the world, San Francisco's Tartine bakery and its Country Loaf and Google+ Auto-Awesomed them.
https://plus.google.com/115892519691609455114/about
By the way, is there any way to manually Awesome?


2013-05-19 04:33:28 (20 comments, 25 reshares, 395 +1s)
Caturday: Lionesses in Kenya's Masai Mara.
I took this picture from a Land Rover in the Masai Mara a few months ago.
#caturday


2013-05-19 06:30:52 (136 comments, 131 reshares, 975 +1s)
What is a Google+ post?
It's very simple for me: A G+ post is either a conversation or show and tell.
I use G+ heavily for private conversations with family and friends. And those are something else.
But when I post publicly, I'm starting a conversation or showing people something or both. But mostly it's about the conversation.
I use Friends+Me to automatically link to my Google+ posts from Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. The link takes them back to the G+ post.
One prominent tech writer complained on Twitter that I referred to a story, but that instead of linking to the story from my Twitter post, I linked to the G+ post, which he considered an intermediate step requiring another click to see the story I mentioned in my tweet.
But I don't post in order to find stories for people to read. I'm not a news servic... more »


2013-05-18 22:23:24 (39 comments, 41 reshares, 196 +1s)
Why Apple can't be trusted with the App Store.
Apple was caught using its control over app approvals to force a company to accept Apple's terms in an unrelated deal.
Does this bother you? It should.
Here's how Apple abuses its control over the app store:
http://www.cultofmac.com/227871/why-apple-cant-be-trusted-with-the-app-store/
#Apple #appstore


2013-05-18 19:33:16 (24 comments, 24 reshares, 182 +1s)
Another writer notices the potential for Google+ lifelogging.
Sharing publicly or privately with others is great. But Google+ is also ideal for storing memories you share with no one.
After Google I/O, the potential use of Google+ for storing your personal memories has become clearer than ever, as SlashGear's +Chris Davies points out in a new column. Especially when Google Glass is involved.
http://www.slashgear.com/google-and-glass-just-got-the-upgrade-for-lifelogging-everything-18282633/
I wrote two columns on this recently subject recently:
Why Google+ is best for 'real-life streaming'
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238177/Why_Google_is_best_for_real_life_streaming_
Lifelogging gets real
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239094/Lifelogging_gets_real
