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Nerd Out Together – Google Sparks are Interests

July 4, 2011

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Everyone has the friend that is crazy about stamp collecting, or the car fanatic who can wax poetic about classic cars – but Google has seen the value in helping us find interest groups among our social connections that allow us to express our interests to excess. The video here discusses the idea of “Nerding [...]

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Google Social Circles

July 4, 2011

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This is one of the aspects of Google Plus that is getting the most attention – the ability to sort your “friends” into separate groups called “Circles” and share appropriately with a group of drinking buddies or in a more reserved fashion with co-workers your are connected to. Separating family members from friends is probably [...]

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Google Plus Project – Overview

July 4, 2011

Beta version of Google social network called Plus Project launches with Google engineers, project managers, designers and a few hundred lucky invitees. It’s gotten huge press coverage in traditional media and is being socialized to extremes, but even though I’ve got an invite, I can’t seem to get in there. So I do what many [...]

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Social Disruption by Improv Everywhere at New York Conference

May 22, 2011

This is a stunt called “Gotta Share” pulled off by the same team that brought you “Frozen Grand Central” (26 Million views) and the “No Pants Subway Ride” (18 Million views) Improvisations. This new one is called “Gotta Share” and interrupts a conference in New York when a man refuses to turn off his cell [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg on Financial Transparency

January 8, 2011

John Stewart makes a point here about FaceBook being closed and secretive about finances, operating income and profit, while encouraging everyone to be open and transparent on FaceBook. It’s an interesting note on how Mark Zuckerberg views privacy – that it shouldn’t apply to money and business, but only to personal details. Funny bit. The [...]

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