Daily Archives: July 21, 2011

Google Plus Best Practices: Trey Ratcliff, Artist

July 21, 2011
Google Plus Best Practices: Trey Ratcliff, Artist

As of writing, Trey has 41,516 followers on Google Plus. His Facebook Page has 20,513 fans and his Twitter account 23,788 followers. That goes some way to explaining why Trey is using Google Plus so much – after only 3 weeks he already has twice as many people following him there, compared to Facebook...

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Our Newest Employee: Techathew Cruncherin, Google+ Maven

July 21, 2011

Earlier today, Google started banning brands who had signed up for Google+ profiles when they weren’t supposed to. Some were outraged by this, but the truth is that Google has said from the beginning that Google+ was meant for real people only for now, and that brand/company support would be coming. This is why...

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Vic Gundotra On How Google+ Handled Brands: “It Was Probably A Mistake”

July 21, 2011

After warning people about it for weeks, Google began enforcing its ban on all Google business profiles this morning, to much consternation from, well, businesses. Yes Google did warn people at the launch of Google+ that any non-human pages would be killed and that people shouldn’t be surprised that the pages were killed… But...

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Punchfork uses social networks to aggregate the most popular recipes

July 21, 2011
Punchfork uses social networks to aggregate the most popular recipes

Punchfork is a web app that puts the spotlight on the recipes that are getting the most attention on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. While Punchfork does a number of things, its most prominent feature is sorting recipes from major sites like Epicurious, Serious Eats, The Kitchn and Food Network by the number...

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Access Hadoop HDFS Over HTTP with Hoop

July 21, 2011
Access Hadoop HDFS Over HTTP with Hoop

Hoop is a new tool from Apache Hadoop contributor and enterprise support company Cloudera. Hoop provides access to the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) over HTTP via a REST API. It can be used to exchange data between Hadoop clusters running different versions the platform, or to access data behind a firewall. Hoop is...

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Google+ for Businesses beta to open to “EVERYONE” much sooner than expected

July 21, 2011

Glad their making the change. Google+ shouldn’t show favoritism http://gplusinsider.com – Google+ News Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/xU2uwbmwE2c/

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges

July 21, 2011

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length, also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket, which is powering Facebook’s private market capital raising. peerbackers Today, Andrew Rachmell from Boca Raton, Florida, discussed peerbackers, a crowdsourced fund raising platform to help very early stage entrepreneurs...

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6 Effective Ways to Get More Instagram Followers

July 21, 2011
6 Effective Ways to Get More Instagram Followers

1. Upload Only the Best Photos (And Not All at Once) It almost goes without saying, but the first step to Instagram stardom is simple: take beautiful pictures. The images that get the strongest response on the service tend to be especially attractive, interesting and well-composed photographs. While it may be tempting at first...

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Google Is Blasting Business Profiles From Google+ (GOOG)

July 21, 2011
Google Is Blasting Business Profiles From Google+ (GOOG)

See Also: Google+ May Have 10 Million Users, But They’re Not Visiting Very Often Google Kills Toolbar For Firefox How Google Plans To Trump Facebook In Games A couple weeks ago, Google told businesses that it was building a special version of Google+ for them, and NOT to sign up with a regular Google+...

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How Google Plans To Trump Facebook In Games (GOOG)

July 21, 2011
How Google Plans To Trump Facebook In Games (GOOG)

“Mighty Eagle” from Angry Birds developer Rovio on stage at Google I/O See Also: Google+ May Have 10 Million Users, But They’re Not Visiting Very Often Sergey Brin Is Looking For Recumbent Road Bike Recommendations On Google+ Now Apple Is Talking About Buying Hulu Google will a game network that ties into Google+ very...

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