We kind of knew it was coming. It was only a mater of time. Earlier this week, Google announced that it was allowing companies and brands, perhaps giving brands their desired place of residence on the fastest growing social network on the Internet today. So as soon as the opportunity arose, the race to secure the Google+ pages began — a land grab, if you will. And it was weird that this brand-friendly feature wound up being so controversial because at the beginning, when Google first rolled out Google+, they …

Do you know anyone who uses Google+? I have used it periodically, but not frequently enough to have it replace Twitter as my main social engagement service. Besides me, I think quite a few people use it. Sure, it’s become the fastest growing social network, but in the pursuit to get members to sign on and actively use it, one of the things that seems to be missing are a few great features that would certainly make it more useful to the masses. Of course, one would imagine that these features …

We’re always eager to record our activity and we’re always looking for a way to catalog it so that we can reference it later on. I suppose that’s why the social bookmarking industry came to fruition. A few years ago, I wrote about this phenomenon and for a while they kind of blended in to the void – who really used them anymore. So why bring it up? Well it just happened to be because Delicious has just rolled out a brand new update to their service – nearly eight …

Having lived in the historical home and heart of technology innovation, that being Silicon Valley, I’ve been noticing more and more startups emerge and demo their wares. Some even have even stood out more than others. And I’m not talking about those that are targeted towards consumers versus enterprise. Rather, I’m thinking that there are services and technologies that are being created to help other technologies and startups build their products. I’m sure we all have heard of this in one way, shape, or form, but what I’m talking about here …