Google being crafty to push Google Plus

You have to give the folks over at Google credit. They might have been slow out of the blocks launching their social media site Google+, but they’re doing everything they can to make sure it takes off now – and not everyone is pleased about it. On Thursday Google CEO Larry Page laid out his [...] Read more »

Google+ ‘Circles’ its killer new feature?

Aside from a cleaner interface with no games and ads, the differences between Facebook and Google+ are not all that significant. Except for Google’s ‘circles’. Google+ is set up so that when you add ‘friends’ you also assign them to one or more ‘circles’. That means you can categorize people into friends, family, colleagues, people [...] Read more »

Reconnect with Facebook Friends: Change news feed settings so posts from all your friends appear

With all the changes that Facebook continues to make to their site and the way people interact with it, there’s bound to be a few slip ups along the way. The most recent round of changes to the Facebook interface had one unintended consequence that a lot of people are complaining about: namely that posts [...] Read more »

Is social media right for marketing your small or medium sized business?

Image by Matt Hamm. Tips for social media marketing, and the many different ways social media can be used to promote small / midsized businesses (SMBs), can be found in almost endless numbers on an incredibly wide variety of websites. But there’s one crucial tip most small businesses won’t see – and that they should [...] Read more »

Is app convergence the next major tech trend?

I stumbled across two, unrelated services that seem to be harbingers of one of the biggest tech trends in the next few years. The first is an app called Digsby that is a handy little tool that looks a lot like a standard instant messenger (IM) interface. What makes it unique is the fact that [...] Read more »