
Rumor: Google Launching Third-Party Commenting System To Compete With Facebook
Reports are swirling today that Google will be announcing a commenting platform to rival Facebook comments. The commenting system is said...

Report: Google Spent $213M Advertising Itself In 2011, Including $70M On TV Ads
According to a Wall Street Journal article, which cites data from Kantar Media, Google spent some $70 million dollars on TV ads last year...

Google Analytics Launches New Social Reports To Measure Social ROI
announced new social reports today, designed to help marketers measure the return on investment for social media activities. “Many social...

How Real Is Social Media Fatigue?
How many of these social networks do you belong to? Do you participate in every day? Every week? Every month? When a new one comes along...

Google Hangouts Builds Feature Set With Google Docs Integration
The star feature of Google+, Google Hangouts, is now integrating fully with Google’s online suite of document, presentation and...

Ex-Google+ Engineer: “Sharing Was Not Broken … Google Just Wasn’t Part Of It”
While the two companies have recently been trading shots via ad campaigns and blog posts, today a former Googler — and current...

Mad Men (And Women) Get Introduced To The Digital Ad Age In Google Trade Effort
The ads are classics: Coca-Cola’s Vietnam-era “Hilltop” ad, where a chorus sang of wanting to buy the world a Coke; Volvo’s introduction...

Vic Gundotra: Google+ Doesn’t Intrude On Social With Ads, Piss Off Developers By Changing APIs
Speaking on stage at SXSW, the head of Google+ and Google’s social efforts, Vic Gundotra, made some digs at Facebook’s ads being...

Google Ripples Goes International & Now Shows Link Sharing Stats
Ripples, the Google+ analytics feature, now has some added features for tracking. Launched back in October, Google Ripples now have been...

The Google +1 Button Gets A Google+ Themed Makeover
Today Google announced a new-look Google +1 button that matches the new Google+ theme. Traditionally the +1 button was a white box with...

Google+ Users Spend 3 Minutes Per Month There, ComScore Tells WSJ
Wall Street Journal characterizes Google’s social network while reporting new usage stats from comScore. According to comScore, Google+...

Google+ Badges Now For People, Not Just Brands & Pages
Any Google+ user can now have a badge promoting his/her account — not just brands/pages. That’s one of several updates that Google shared...

Will Google Latitude Succeed As A Loyalty Platform?
Latitude has millions of users, what the company doesn’t generally talk about is how many of those people are actively engaged with the...

Top Google+ Brands See 1400% Follower Lift In February
As Google+ keeps on growing, brands are now reaping the benefits of getting involved early. In a recent report from BrightEdge, a...

Move Over Search Box, Google’s Home Page Gets A Share Box
If you still don’t get how much Google is behind ensuring Google+ gets everything it needs to succeed, consider the screenshot below,...

Adding Credentials To Your Google+ Page: A Look At Verification & Direct Connect
Back in November, Google officially launched brand pages for Google+. While they started were launched with limited features, brand...

Google+ Suggested Users Get 10,000 New Followers Per Day, But Are They Real?
The suggested users list is shown to new Google+ users during the sign-up process, and can also be seen by existing users at this URL:...

Report: More Than Two-Thirds Of Google+ Users Are Male
In a study complied by Website-Monitoring.com, a few key trends about Google+ user demographics were revealed. The most eye-opening...

Google+ Improves Upon Circles & Makes Finding Others Easier
One of the driving features of Google+ has been the Circles product. A handful of enhancements are rolling out to further help users...
























