Google+ might not be as large as Facebook (will it ever be?), but it is certainly gaining a lot of traction with the tech community. For one I already have more connections on Google+ after a couple of weeks using it than on Facebook after a couple of years.

Anyway a feature that you don’t have on Google+ yet is the search one. What if you want to find… Continue reading

The Facebook/Google competition is getting more and more interesting. Last week, we talked about Google’s social plans and what “Google Me” will actually be. Basically, what it comes down to is that it  will not be a new social network, but rather a “social layer” added to existing Google products.

I made the case that “Google Me” is probably already bigger than Facebook, based on Google’s existing products, and… Continue reading

According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Bing is its main competitor – not Facebook or Apple. He sat down with Alan Murray of the Wall Street Journal, who was kind enough to post an embeddable video of the conversation.

Do you think Bing is Google’s biggest threat?

“What’s interesting is we think of neither [Facebook or Apple] as a competitive threat…our competitor is Bing… Continue reading

Social Plugins are a new initiative from Facebook to allow website owners to integrate their content into Facebook’s social graph. Put simply, that means if you start using their plugins on your blog, any interactions your visitors make with the plugins will be reflected in their Facebook profiles, and thus to their friends.

There are a bunch of plugins on offer which you can find more about here. Most… Continue reading