The winner of our competition to find the best print ad is … Google.
This ad was picked as the best of the bunch, and Google will win $1 million in print advertising in USA TODAY.
Google told the New York Times that it would give that ad space to “people who need it.”
More on the contest from the New York Times: http://nyti.ms/VKcP0w
Novel, effective, and makes you want to use Google+. Rad.
Google pisses off Robert Scoble, creating hilariously profane video: As you might have heard, Google+ pushed out a new events feature earlier this week, and did it in a way that made it easy to spam the heck out of people. The social network’s biggest fan, Robert Scoble, exploded in rage in a recent episode of The Gillmor Gang as his massive network of friends (1.8 million and counting) turned against him, pushing hundreds of events onto his Google Calendar listings. This is kind of amazing to watch. There are at least three “DEVELOPERS“-worthy quips in this one-minute clip. Our favorite: “They started pushing hundreds of $%&! on my calendar.” (NSFW for heavy, but awesome profanity)
Why do I like Flipboard so much? Because it — for me — is the best way to read the social web. It lets me go through my thousands of people that I’ve followed, subscribed to, or circled in a much faster way.
Flipboard now lets us see Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Soundcloud and other social networks.
What Google+ just did is make Flipboard dramatically more important to me, but also made Flipboard the king maker.
This is HUGE.
Key phrase: ”dramatically more important to me.” That said, we were a fan of Flipboard’s Tumblr implementation, so perhaps maybe we’ll like G+ more as a result of this.
Google was the rich kid who, after having discovered he wasn’t invited to the party, built his own party in retaliation. The fact that no one came to Google’s party became the elephant in the room.Former Google (and current Microsoft) employee James Whittaker • Discussing why he left the company. One word and a symbol: Google+. Whittaker had some tough words for his former company, comparing them to a TV network that’s now focused on the commercials instead of creating great shows. This is the second-most-scathing open letter of the day; most days, it would easily be in first place. However … why did he go to Microsoft? It’s not like they’re seen as being much better about innovation *cough* Courier *cough*.
“Your stream could easily be overwhelmed” … by people using apps like Buffer and HootSuite so they don’t have to do everything through 30 different interfaces. In other words, Google+ is shooting itself in the foot by basically preventing third-party apps, which helped Facebook and Twitter in particular get off the ground, from using their service to post. Sorry, Vic. You’re a fool if you think this is a valid reason to block third-party apps.
A somewhat different take on the thing we reblogged earlier, but it shows two very interesting things: First, Tumblr and Pinterest are timesucks in equal measure, and second, nobody’s actually hanging around Google+ once they sign up. The latter is the subject of this super-interesting Wall Street Journal piece. (EDIT: A good point: Don’t take that Twitter number at face value, as this graphic skips two key elements of the Twitter experience — mobile and third-party apps.)
“Don’t Be Evil” tool cuts back on Google’s self-promotion: Remember Google’s new social search feature? It features results from your friends — and Google+ accounts — before other results, even if the other social sources are more popular than the Google+ account. The new “Don’t Be Evil” extension “looks at the three places where Google only shows Google+ results and then automatically googles Google to see if Google finds a result more relevant than Google+,” according to Focus On the User. Would you install this? source
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![This camera was found off the Pacific Ocean. With the help of some detective work from his followers on Google+, the guy who found it, Markus Thompson, managed to track down the owner. “Thanks to everyone who responded,” he wrote. “[It’s] proof that the google+ hive-mind can be utilized in force to complete a simple gesture like returning someones photos :)”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv8jxwhw0a1qas8z9o1_500.jpg)
This camera was found off the Pacific Ocean. With the help of some detective work from his followers on Google+, the guy who found it, Markus Thompson, managed to track down the owner. “Thanks to everyone who responded,” he wrote. “[It’s] proof that the google+ hive-mind can be utilized in force to complete a simple gesture like returning someones photos :)”
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Google Ripples: Concentrated awesome. This is the future of analytics right here. You can get as broad or as granular as you want, and in a completely non-linear way. Imagine if Tumblr did this — a map of your reblogs. That would be some bad-assery right there. But Google got there first, and so they get the high-fives.
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YouTube comments, as you might have heard, are kind of terrible. Would a push to getting people to use their full names help? That’s what Google appears to be banking on.