I was definitely curious about Google+, but I am definitely not in the OMG-must-get-invite crowd and I wasn’t too worried about getting an invite. You see, Google+ is a social network and they don’t really want it to be exclusive, but they are trying to generate false scarcity to get the type of early adopter [...]

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Google quickly responded to Bing’s showing social media citations next to search results with their own thrown-together version that shows who shared a particular Google News story in Universal SERPs. Next to some Google News stories you now get a “Shared By” link that you can follow to see some of the people who have [...]

Continue reading: Twitter Citations According to Google? There’s a Query String for That.

A dark vision of the future of Twitter? Satirical look at the perils and pointlessness of automated follower building? I started writing a post to go with this image, but realized the words were superfluous. Totally unrelated and unintended, but did you notice the optical illusion where the grey square between the corners of four [...]

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