In a move that can only be described as rather familiar, Facebook has announced (rather silently) that their users will soon be able to update their Twitter feeds directly from within their Facebook profile. Remember when MySpace opened its doors to Facebook? This isn’t exactly like that, but think about it: acknowledging the fact that a vast amount of Facebook users can’t live without their Twitter? That’s a pretty big deal. Now we get to see how long it takes for Google to react.
The Google+ social network is about to get more interesting now that it's opened up for third-party developers. In a post on the Google Plus Platform Blog, the company has just unleashed the much anticipated API, giving developers the tools to build apps for the platform.
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Google recently launched a +snippets feature that makes it easy for users to visit a webpage and then share it with their Google+ circles. Today, the search giant has brought the feature to Google Maps, making it easy to share directions as well.
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Facebook has announced that it will be making changes soon to the way users are allowed to organize and view their friends by automatically creating lists of the people on the user's friends lists. The changes will apparently roll out this week and is the latest attempt by Facebook to combat the growing threat by Google+ and other social networks. The smart lists will automatically organize your friends list by affiliation.
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Today marks the first time that Google Voice data is available for download by you via Google Takeout, this adding to the ever-expanding ranks of Google-run services whose data you the users have contributed to on Google Takeout, a service which allows you keep that data for your own. In an internet-only ad spot, a group of Data Liberation Front users sit in a group and cycle through several different physical carriers of data, these being symbolic of the data you're about to have access to on Google Takeout.
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Google+ may soon be getting a new "Suggested User" list feature similar to what's been offered on Twitter. The company's VP of Product, Bradley Horowitz, tweeted a message inviting select individuals to come participate in a pilot for what he calls a "suggested user-like mechanism" on Google+. But the only individuals they're interested in for now are those with over 100k Twitter followers.
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Over half of all online adults in the US now use at least one form of social network, new research suggests, the first time all age segments have crossed the fifty-percent milestone. 65-percent of users have a Facebook or LinkedIn account, or one with another social networking site, the Pew Research Center claims, with young women (18-29) described as "power users" with 89-percent surveyed using the sites, and 69-percent doing so daily. However, the statistics come as one of the poster children for fast-growing social networking, Google+, seemingly experiences a slump in user interest.
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It seems almost obvious that the most requested function of a social networking initiative being produced in our modern world would be the ability to ignore or completely block someone from your spot in that social network. You wouldn’t want to have to interact with someone, would you? Heck no! It is because of that and because everyone is already fatigued of the trillion different opinions people have about the Steve Jobs transfer of power that Google has introduced a brand new Ignore function for their social networking site Google+. Soon you’ll be all alone once more!
Google is shutting down its Slide team, which has been running as an independent unit since it was bought over a year ago for $200 million. Slide was a social apps startup with its acquisition part of Google's plans to get more social. But, that was before the success of Google+.
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While this might not seem like QUITE as big a deal to those of you not in the business of working online exclusively, Facebook has just reached a landmark number of page views, or "pageviews" as they're called in the online advertising world, just this past month. In the month of June, 2011, Facebook had over 1 TRILLION pageviews. Of those pageviews, 870 MILLION unique users logged on during the single month. This is beyond massive by any standard - think Google+ is going to catch up soon?
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Google has updated Google+ by integrating YouTube with Hangouts, adding one-click support on the video streaming site so that users of the new social network can instantly watch clips with their friends. Quietly added to the "Share" menu underneath YouTube videos, clicking the link allows you to invite other Google+ members to watch it with you. Meanwhile, the Google+ interface itself has also had a mild makeover.
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Facebook execs have accused Google of having "emulated aspects of our system" with its new Google+ games, though suggested that the social networking upstart "[doesn't] have any users." According to Facebook director of game partnerships Sean Ryan, Google is directly following Facebook's path including taking a percentage cut of game developer's proceeds, Fortune reports, though the far smaller share involved - Google+ demands 5-percent, versus Facebook's 30-percent - is a sign that the new network falls short when it comes to actual members.
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