Posts Tagged ‘Google’

The year 2011 is safely behind us, and it looks like the future of social media is all downhill from here.  It seems the bigger companies are consolidating, either by buying out competitors or enhancing their own services.  A new infographic looks at the major events of 2011.

Experian Hitwise tweeted last night about Google+’s latest coup — a 55% traffic increase in December over November.  We recently reported on a study about Google having up to 62 million users (the report was based on a surname average estimate, interesting stuff) and that study had also suspected that Google+ had blown up in December. [...]

It’s no secret that we at Social Times are big fans of Google Plus’ Hangout feature, with it’s ability to easily have tens of people video chatting and sharing YouTube videos with just a few clicks.  Their latest addition, allowing people to start Hangouts in the comment threads of posts offers an experience I’ve never [...]

Sure, Google+ is its infancy.  It doesn’t have a lot of million follower count profiles yet, and it is definitely the go-to gag of the social world right now.  But I’m not one to count out Google’s slow, meticulous approach to the network.  They’ve been adding updates every few days, and they have a few [...]

In the run up to the holidays, Google has been doing a lot of work to improve their Google Plus social network.  Just a week ago we had a slew of Google Plus Hangout improvements, and now we’ve got updates for the notifications and pages features.  A lot of people feel Google Plus has already [...]

The woman who changed the meaning of “oops, I did it again,” has hit a record today: she’s the first person to get followed by over a million people on Google+.   The Next Web broke the news, and reveals that she’s also, of course, the most followed user on Google+.  While people nay say [...]

It’s no surprise that Google, who lists “you can make money without doing evil” on their official company philosophy page, has spoken up against the recent SOPA online privacy act, which gives the US government the ability to “hijack DNS and censor search results” at their own whim.  It’s a controversial bill that has people [...]

After announcing details of the program last week, Google Plus is slowly rolling out their new “Find My Face” feature to G+ users.  The new service will automatically send a Google robot to your front door to determine whether your face is still on your head — just kidding.  The service will look at your [...]

Google has updated their Google+ Android app including — wait, it wasn’t there before? — Search.  Other features added are giving “+1s” to photos and comments and better photo and video upload support.  I’ve found the Google+ Android application to be an easy-to-use app, with the big clear icons and pastel colors, and am glad [...]

Get the future of Facebook right from the horse’s mouth