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Why Google+ Won’t ‘Kill’ Twitter
As of now, it’s still unclear as to what exactly Google+ is going to be. For some, like Digg founder Kevin Rose (who replaced his longstanding blog with a redirect to his G+ page), it’s a platform for discussion, an ecosystem uninhibited by mandatory follow backs or character limits.
But for Google? G+ is a tool for systematizing …
Google+ May Hit 10 Million Users, New Updates Coming Too
How many people are using Google+? The scales should tip at around 10 million users today, according to Ancestry.com founder—and Google+ user, of course—Paul Allen. This Paul Allen is not to be confused with the Paul Allen that co-founded Microsoft, though. But I digress…
Allen’s been crunching some numbers lately, with his …
Google+ Is ‘Growing Like Crazy’
If you’re desperate to get on to Google+ but are still awaiting your invite, stay calm: Google’s new social network is growing incredibly fast, according to one unofficial study. So your chance to join in the Circle-dancing fun on G+ can’t be far off.
According to G+ user Paul Allen (not the Paul Allen that co-founded Microsoft, …
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A Brief History of Google’s Social Networking Flops
For last week’s Technologizer column over at TIME.com, I took a look at Google+, the promising new “project” that consists of several loosely-knit services that add up to a plausible Facebook alternative.
At the moment, it’s a sort of Fantasyland where almost everybody is a tech geek, and nearly all the talk is about Google+. And …
Oops, Google+ Already Ran Out of Disk Space
Google’s social networking Facebook rival test-launched not quite two weeks ago, and it’s already suffering growing pains. In fact Google+’s storage well apparently ran dry this weekend, prompting the service to spam users with a sudden fusillade of error messages.
On Saturday, Google+ senior vice president of “social” Vic Gundotra …
Eric Schmidt: There’s Room for Multiple Social Networks, More Cooperation
Securing an invite to the Google+ treehouse has more or less been a crapshoot, as Google appears to be opening and closing its invite system arbitrarily. It’s kind of like waiting in line all night for a nightclub, only for the bouncer to finally let you in to a near-empty room of tech bloggers poking at their smartphones. So while …
The Most Followed Person on Google+ Is Mark Zuckerberg
Well, this is awkward. It appears that by a substantial margin, Mark Zuckerberg is currently the most followed person on the new social network on the block, Google+.
According to the Google+ Statistics Counter, the Zuckerberg account has nearly 10,000 more followers than Google’s co-founder Larry Page, with 29,543 and 19,878, …
How to Make Google+ Look More Like Facebook
Guys, remember that old social network everyone used to use? No, no — not MySpace. What are we, savages? I know it’s been for-e-ver, but Facebook! Duh. For the uninitiated to Google+ (which as a writer is still really weird to type out), we’ve been giving the new kid on the block its due praise, despite a few bugs here and …
Resharing Loophole: Is This Google+’s First Privacy Flub?
Has anything gone from “That’s dumb!” to “Ooh, I wish I could get in…” to “Hey! This is cool!” as quickly as Google+ has?
It’s like a hot new nightclub opened in town, and everyone’s waiting to get in—but you’re not really a party person, so you’re at home playing on the internet sorting your contacts into Google+ Circles. You …
Google Plus… Me? Securing a Google+ Invite Isn’t Easy Yet
At 3:54 PM on Tuesday afternoon, I received an e-mail telling me that my friend Hope was “hanging out.” Having no idea what this meant—and being at work and therefore in no position to go “hang out” with her—I ignored both the e-mail and the novel “(Google+)” label next to her name. Surely this was another of those Google …
Impressions: Google+ Is Everything Facebook Should Be
Oooh, things might start getting interesting around here. That’s because for the first time, Google’s thrown down a real social networking contender with Google+. Facebook finally might have gotten its first real rival.
Forget Buzz. Forget Wave. I almost even forgot what Google Wave was called. While my first impressions of …
