As I explore the new social offering from Google, Google+ (the cool kids are already calling it G+), I wonder who—beyond the early adopter crowd—will really take to using it. What differentiates Google+ from its largest competitors, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn? What’s good? What needs work? Here’s my early take on the experience of using the site.
Nerds love Quora – a user generated content site that focuses on posting questions and answers within a multitude of topics. It’s all the rage right now with the early-adopter social/technophile set (like yours truly). Some are predicting that Quora will be the next big thing in 2011.
In 2005 I imported my browser bookmarks to an online bookmarking website with a strange URL: del.icio.us. Over five years and 3200 bookmarks later, Yahoo! (who acquired Delicious in late 2005) has evidently decided to sunset the service.
Well, they finally did it. Apple jumped into the online community game. Unfortunately, they haven’t landed very smoothly. In fact, I’m not certain that they even made it into the pool.
It’s been exactly two months since I received my Google Wave preview invitation, and began playing with the application. Here’s my take on using Wave to date – the good, the bad and yes, I have invitations for those of you who still feel like they can’t live without it.
After dropping the kids off at school yesterday, I headed to our local Whole Foods Market to pick up the Thanksgiving turkey. Fortunately, I made it into the store just as it opened, beat the crowd and left unscathed – poultry in hand.
Prior to driving away from the store, I posted the following to my Twitter account:
So I went to @wholefoods this morning, and one of their employees gave me the bird. Happy Thanksgiving