Archive : Google

One of the elements of Google+ I enjoy is people I follow like to talk about what’s currently happening with Google+. In the past few days, I’ve seen more discussions taking place over the fact Google is continuing to close accounts for businesses, organisations and music bands. From the outset of Google+ creation – we were told not to create business accounts, and if you have one [...]

Twitter – The Adolescent Twitter is like an adolescent child. Talking none stop to anyone and everyone who will listen. Mostly, the content is garbled and non-descriptive. All the content is repeated over and over again until a point the original message is lost in translation. What’s popular or trending isn’t popular or trendy. It’s quick, simple and no attention span required. Facebook [...]

We are all aware that Geolocation is becoming big business for many mainstream businesses. If you cannot be found on Facebook Places, Foursquare or Gowalla you are behind the times. I understand Twitter is playing with the idea of utilizing their geolocation tags for business purposes. These services offer local businesses huge potential revenue streams, and the ability to offer locational discounts, [...]

Google has released it’s url shortener url service. However, it would appear the only way to access the web page is to type in the url: goo.gl. I cannot find a link from the drop-down menus once signed into your Google account. The service is also not listed in on their More Google Products page. With this in mind, I guess one can only bookmark it. [geolocation]

Google has released an update to their popular email service by introducing priority inbox system designed to help heavy email users manage their inbox more efficiently and effectively. The below is a quick guide how to maximize the system: Step One: Once logged into Gmail, you should see a link in red to the left of your email address along the top right of the screen. Click this link, and [...]

How can you be lonely when you have so many friends on Facebook? Are you cursed by the social network generation of only having relationships with people you hardly know, or work colleagues that you would rather not know in person, let alone online? Has time move on from days when groups of friends got together in person for a night out or weekend activity? Do you feel pressured into having [...]

A couple of days ago, Google announced they will no longer be supporting Google Wave. I wanted to write a short article expressing my disappointment at this discussion: I was one of the first fortunate individuals to secure an invitation to use Google Wave, and the immediate problem I found was that no one else I knew had an invitation, so this obviously limited my use of the applications. [...]

Geolocation is the identification of real world graphical location of computers, mobile devices and web site visitors connected to the Internet. Geolocation information can include Country, Region, City/Town, Postcode/Zipcode and latitude and longitute. In the past couple of month two major players in the social networking arena have incorporating geolocation features and made this technology [...]