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Is it for geeks only? Perhaps for now, but it will be interesting to see if it can gain some market share from Facebook once the early adopters give way to the regular folks. Read more at: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-yo-momma-wont-use-google-and-why-that-thrills-me-to-no-end-2011-7.

Search Engine Land has a review up on Google+. Will it be the Facebook killer, or just another Google Wave? See: http://searchengineland.com/googles-facebook-competitor-the-google-social-network-finally-arrives-83401 for the complete article.

Think you're getting all of the information you need, just because you've created customized content delivery systems for yourself? Maybe not.



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Does the web need yet another news aggregator?

LinkedIn thinks so ... with the launch of their LinkedIn Today, they are aiming at the professional market.

Read more at: http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/03/10/linkedin-today/.

Great analysis and thoughts on a NYT article detailing the move of people away from Blogs to other social media outlets, such as Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.

Read it at: http://ma.tt/2011/02/blogging-drift/.

 

Watch out kids ... your grandparents are catching up ... they are now the fastest growing demographic using social networking sites!

Just read a good overview of why it is important to monitor social media conversations  ...

Nielson just released a study on the online activities of Americans. The top 3 (Social Media, Gaming, Email) take up over 40% of the time spent online.

Facebook just lauched Facebook questions, yet another entry into the question/answer space. The difference? 500 million users.

Yesterday (July 15, 2010), the New York Times published an op-ed concerning the possible need for government regulation of Google. Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand responds to the claims today.

Do you use Google Buzz, Latitude or Profiles on a regular basis? If not, then you're like the vast majority of other Internet users, who prefer to get their social networking fix from other sources ...

Large companies are increasingly turning to monitoring social media to both protect their brand image as well as use the information to better connect with customers ...

Google just launched Caffeine, the new search index that indexes content much faster than the "slow" Google index ...

The Library of Congress just announced that it will launch a searchable archive of Twitter messages.