CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-21 02:46:57 (8 comments, 6 reshares, 45 +1s)

Wrote up my thoughts on how Google and now Flickr are offering more storage space but not what I really want, a better ability to auto-magically organize my photos and in a transportable fashion.

2013-05-21 02:45:05 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Which one of you broke Twitter? Dang site feels down, despite what downforeveryoneorjustme says.

2013-05-21 00:35:19 (7 comments, 5 reshares, 37 +1s)

Is Yahoo's big photo space giveaway part of a plan to show more ads?

2013-05-20 22:26:09 (11 comments, 17 reshares, 45 +1s)

Yahoo's giving everyone 1TB of data for photo storage as part of its comeback efforts.

2013-05-20 20:44:11 (6 comments, 10 reshares, 52 +1s)

The Google+ app for Android gains some updates.

2013-05-20 19:59:06 (2 comments, 13 reshares, 29 +1s)

The new AdWords Keyword Planner tool is now live. 

2013-05-20 18:22:11 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

+Matt McGee looks at how search works with +Project Glass in the latest installment of his "Google Glass Diary" on +Search Engine Land.

2013-05-20 17:10:36 (5 comments, 8 reshares, 28 +1s)

Another big brand, this time Sprint, gets a warning over user generated content spam and goes to the help forums to figure out where exactly it might be.

2013-05-20 16:25:23 (6 comments, 6 reshares, 23 +1s)

Official: Yahoo buys Tumblr, promises not to "screw it up."

2013-05-18 22:08:51 (15 comments, 7 reshares, 69 +1s)

In a year from now, even if +Project Glass isn't ready, I'm certain we're going to low-cost eyeglass-style cameras that deliver much of the best thing about Glass -- the ability to easily take pictures or video without having to look away from the action yourself. They don't need all the other stuff that Glass offers for that. Case in point -- this ad for the Looxcie camera in my newspaper today. This product clips behind your ear ( http://www.looxcie.com/looxcie-2/ ) but I'm sure we'll see Glass-style devices come.

2013-05-18 17:55:19 (21 comments, 12 reshares, 39 +1s)

Google Glass coming into men's restrooms just further erodes what little privacy men have grown up to expect there. Men understand this. Women probably do not. My personal take, inspired by +Nick Bilton's article this week. 

2013-05-18 16:48:34 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

The Bluth banana stand from Arrested Development, currently on tour, won't make a visit to the actual Newport Beach, says Netflix. Come on! Cue Charlie Brown sad walk.

2013-05-18 07:11:19 (5 comments, 9 reshares, 97 +1s)

This is my favorite of the animated Khans that Google+ made for me. Auto-awesome is like a whole new world.

2013-05-18 06:57:44 (13 comments, 2 reshares, 30 +1s)

A tribute to Khan, on the occasion of his third outing. 

2013-05-18 03:46:46 (27 comments, 18 reshares, 39 +1s)

Seen the Google Chrome ads on TV? Microsoft has released a hard-hitting parody supposedly meant for "internal purposes" but put out on YouTube nonetheless. 

2013-05-18 01:52:42 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 107 +1s)

Maiden voyage of the sail kayak :)

2013-05-17 22:54:06 (3 comments, 11 reshares, 25 +1s)

Movie versions of the Enterprise compared. But better, Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars ships included, too. Nice that BSG is there, because I'm sure JJ Abrams will be running that eventually, too.

2013-05-17 21:58:00 (2 comments, 14 reshares, 51 +1s)

Google Authorship continues to expand.

2013-05-17 20:40:08 (10 comments, 36 reshares, 101 +1s)

As it's about to turn two next month, +Google+ seems readily for its second act, a big push of features it says will be "game changing" to boost adoption. It'll need that given how many still fail to recognize the value the service offers. My look at some of the recent changes as well as the "What Is Google+?" and "Why Should I Be On Google+" challenges the service still faces.

2013-05-17 19:49:28 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 26 +1s)

The +Google+ Platform team being animated on the Google+ Platform Team Fireside Chat yesterday. I purposely shot five quick picks figuring Google+ would turn it into an auto-awesome image. It worked! Oh, my write-up of the talk is here http://marketingland.com/fireside-chat-google-platform-team-44172

2013-05-17 19:47:27 (15 comments, 2 reshares, 44 +1s)

Is it just me, or would it be easier to add people to the correct Circles you have if the Circle list was alphabetical? Mine isn't, and it drives me crazy.

2013-05-17 18:55:21 (6 comments, 7 reshares, 27 +1s)

Feel like you see too many pages in your results from the same site? Google's got a fix coming for that.

2013-05-17 16:34:41 (10 comments, 6 reshares, 48 +1s)

Yahoo may be going after Tumblr. All I can think is that if it happens, I hope it doesn't turn into another GeoCities. Kids, GeoCities was a way to blog when blogging was called "having a home page." It cost Yahoo $3.6 billion (in 1999 dollars), which Yahoo closed 10 years later.

2013-05-17 02:31:54 (22 comments, 9 reshares, 76 +1s)

Here's a tip that I shared when it came up at Google I/O, for those with regular Google accounts (Gmail accounts) and Google App accounts. It can be annoying if you're using one for most of your services and when on the other, you get prompted to sign-up for things you don't want. My solution is that you always, always, sign-in first using your "main" account.

For example, I do mail on Google with my Google Apps account. I have  regular Google account that I use for Google+. If I sign in to check my mail first , then sign in later using my regular account for Google+, any other service that I need to sign into assumes that my Google Apps account is my "main" account. Sometimes, if I open a new tab for Google+, I've even found it wants me to sign-in again.

Instead, always sign-in with your main account first. For me, most Google services I use are... more »

2013-05-17 00:16:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

My last live blog of #googleio  will be the Fireside Chat with the +Android Team, which gets underway at 5:20pm PT.

2013-05-16 23:37:18 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 22 +1s)

Google has a few initial reactions to Congressional concerns over +Project Glass.

2013-05-16 23:36:27 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Congress has a few questions for Google about +Project Glass and privacy.

2013-05-16 22:30:55 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 45 +1s)

Getting underway now with a session from +Amy Walgenbach on tips to be successful with +Google+ 

2013-05-16 20:22:33 (5 comments, 10 reshares, 27 +1s)

Yahoo and Twitter do a deal to put real-time tweets into the Yahoo newsfeed.

2013-05-16 18:56:29 (3 comments, 8 reshares, 48 +1s)

Now +Project Glass can send to Facebook and Twitter.

2013-05-16 17:08:39 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

I'm live blogging the Fireside Chat with the Google+ Platform Team that's going now

2013-05-16 17:07:47 (2 comments, 5 reshares, 11 +1s)

User-generated video ads will come to Facebook's newsfeed.

2013-05-16 16:15:23 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

Hashtags can be like a party, and turning up uninvited doesn't go over well.

2013-05-16 15:43:23 (6 comments, 8 reshares, 23 +1s)

Type "beam me up" into Bing, and you'll be transported into the world of Start Trek. It's pretty cool.

2013-05-16 11:14:41 (16 comments, 30 reshares, 226 +1s)

Another Google+ auto-awesome photo of +Larry Page at the Google I/O keynote. I just wish my Samsung S4 hadn't washed his face out so much. Just started using it and didn't have time to try and play with manual exposure to fix. That globe in the background was a great setting.

2013-05-16 11:11:27 (9 comments, 7 reshares, 70 +1s)

Billy Idol, who was awesome at Google I/O, turned into auto-awesome by the new Google+ Photos feature, auto-magically. I do wish you could manually choose to make these, too.

2013-05-16 11:02:47 (9 comments, 6 reshares, 30 +1s)

What's that directly across from Google I/O? An invitation to pit Google against Bing in the "Bing It On" challenge. Might be a coincidence, as the Bing kiosk might normally be there. But it sure made for an interesting contrast.

2013-05-16 03:27:22 (4 comments, 14 reshares, 61 +1s)

An all-women panel took to the stage for a special end-of-day session at Google I/O, and the lessons they shared on success were applicable to anyone of any gender. #googleio   #googleio2013   #googleio13  

2013-05-16 00:27:28 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 37 +1s)

Huge crowd waiting to get in for rock star 7 techmakers session #io13

2013-05-16 00:11:47 (3 comments, 6 reshares, 63 +1s)

This is one bar where +Project Glass wearers can relax comfortably :)

2013-05-15 23:02:07 (6 comments, 31 reshares, 67 +1s)

Google announces support for company logos to appear in search results. But it's not tied to Google+ as with authorship, so it's not really a form of "publishership."

2013-05-15 22:23:14 (1 comments, 16 reshares, 44 +1s)

A quick tour of how the new Google+ related hashtags work.

2013-05-15 21:48:03 (22 comments, 1 reshares, 56 +1s)

Wow. Just got the new Google+. Wow, cool when you click to enter a post how it flies around to the middle of the page.

2013-05-15 21:45:43 (2 comments, 24 reshares, 58 +1s)

Up close with the new Google Maps. Big hint for local businesses. Want to be big and bold on these maps? You need Google+ reviews.

2013-05-15 20:18:22 (14 comments, 12 reshares, 66 +1s)

Multicolumn format and auto-hashtags are big changes coming to Google+, announced today.

2013-05-15 18:44:03 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 34 +1s)

"OK Google" -- that's how you may conduct your searches in the near future, by speaking to Google from a smartphone or desktop computer and having a conversation.

2013-05-15 15:47:37 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 24 +1s)

We're in. We're live. And we get going at 9am PT. #googleio   #googleio2013   #googleio13  

2013-05-15 15:10:41 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 36 +1s)

Some Android action at Google I/O

2013-05-15 14:38:53 (3 comments, 7 reshares, 61 +1s)

+Google+  area at Google I/O.

2013-05-15 13:47:24 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 22 +1s)

What may come out of +Google I/O today. Our live blogging will begin on +Marketing Land at 9am PT, and we'll have coverage throughout the event.