It seems that more and more time is being spent using Google+, at least for me. Yes, I’ve heard people say that Google+ isn’t relevant and that no one really uses it, but I find that it’s helpful in its own ways. Sure we can post things to Twitter and to Facebook, but for me, I find that Twitter is more “pray and spray” frequent outbursts of communication while Facebook is more a closed dialogue because I can isolate it to my friends who I have a strong relationship with. …

In my last post, I gave an overview on Google+, Google’s latest foray into the social media world and something that continues to need innovation in order to compete with the likes of Facebook, Skype and a slew of other social services currently on the market. Also in that post, I highlighted some things I felt were inconsistent in its growth and that would cause some heartache for those eager to try a new network.
But, now that we’ve battered and bruised Google+ a bit, I think the time now is …

We never thought this day would arrive. But it seems that Google has finally figured out how they are going to enter the social scene and has unleashed their “Facebook-killer” known as Google+ (pronounced “Google Plus”).  Earlier this week, the search engine giant released its latest social product. Off the heels of failed services like Google Wave and Buzz, Google was determined to make its third recent attempt one that was going in the right direction. I was fortunate enough to receive an invitation to try it out and I …

In my last post, I alluded to Google’s +1 service as part of the search engine’s attempt to become social. While that post was primarily meant to briefly call out +1, the more that I thought about it, the more it seemed that it should be its own post. Why? Because there are some issues at play with +1 that people might want to be aware of that I don’t think have been answered by Google…yet.
For those of you that don’t know, Google announced on March 30, that it was …