Here come Google+ Pages for business, at last

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Nov 072011
 

The Web giant has created Google+ Pages, a place where businesses can add their own content so customers and fans can connect with them.”So far Google+ has focused on connecting people with other people,” Google Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra wrote in a blog post. “But we want to make sure you can build relationships with all the things you care about–from local businesses to global brands–so today were rolling out Google+ Pages worldwide.”

via Here come Google+ Pages for business, at last | Digital Media – CNET News.

The F2P Revolution: 25 Killer Online Games You Can Play For Free

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Oct 272011
 

 

 

You may not have heard of all the free to play games coming out recently they don’t tend to have the same marketing budget as your Battlefields and Call of Dutys but you should probably be paying a little more attention. Sure, some of them are a little shallow, or unfair to non-paying customers, but there are F2P games in every genre, and a lot of them are top notch.So why pay to play? Read on for our list of 25 top-notch free online games. For each game, well tell you what you get for free and what costs money, so you never get surprised.

via Maximum PC | The F2P Revolution: 25 Killer Online Games You Can Play For Free.

The insider’s guide to a successful website: promote

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Oct 242011
 

Laurence McCahill, co-founder of Spook Studio, explains how his team has simplified the process of creating a website into three key stages. In the last part of this series he provides 10 top tips on promoting your finished site

So now that you’ve got a kick-ass website you’re all set, right? Wrong. It doesn’t matter how good your site is – if nobody even knows it exists, then you can’t exactly consider it a success. You need to get out there and promote it. Whether this is via search, social media, word of mouth or telepathy, you’ll need a plan in order to focus your efforts and start getting some serious traffic.

via The insider’s guide to a successful website: promote (part 3) | Feature | .net magazine.

Females, Beauty and Travel Industries are dominating Facebook in Europe

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Oct 202011
 

According to Socialbakers statistics, which measure demographic distribution, growth percentage in age distribution and trends in industries in September, there is significant growth of females in most of the biggest European countries. Industries that mostly dominated the statistics in September were Beauty, Travel, Automobile and Retail.

via Females, Beauty and Travel Industries are dominating Facebook in Europe – Socialbakers.

Google+ to get brand pages soon

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Oct 202011
 

Brand pages are coming to Google+ “imminently,” according to Google’s senior vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra. “Not days…a little bit longer than days,” he said.

Gundotra, who shared the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today with Google co-founder Segrey Brin, said there has been “overwhelming interest” in this feature. For users who want to have a non-real identity, Gundotra said that Google+ would support pseudonyms.

via Google+ to get brand pages soon | Digital Media – CNET News.

Google+ to Support Pseudonyms

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Oct 202011
 

 

 

Google+ will soon support pseudonyms and other forms of identity, says a Google executive.During a conversation at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, SVP of Social Vic Gundotra revealed that Google will eventually support other forms of identity. While Google started with only allowing users to sign up if they used their real names, it will be adding features that will “support other forms of identity” in the next few months.

via Google+ to Support Pseudonyms.

Inside Facebook · How to Determine How Frequently to Post to Your Facebook Page

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Oct 192011
 

 

 

Facebook’s new Page Insights and some third-party tools can help you determine the lifespan of your Facebook Page updates. When your updates stop receiving Likes and comments, it may be time to post a new update to make sure you’re consistently engaging your fans. Here we’ll walk-through how to find your optimal Facebook Page publishing frequency.

PageLever ran a limited study of 20 posts from five Facebook Pages with over 1 million fans. It found that that average lifespan of a Page post in the news feed was 22 hours and 51 minutes. The median lifespan was 19 hours and 30 minutes.

via Inside Facebook · How to Determine How Frequently to Post to Your Facebook Page.

Bitcoin implodes, falls more than 90 percent from June peak

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Oct 192011
 

Bitcoin, the worlds first peer-to-peer digital currency, fell below $3 on Monday. That represents a 90 percent fall since the currency hit its peak in early June.Supporters argue that Bitcoin has fundamental advantages over conventional currencies. The system is designed to transfer funds without a central authority, freeing Bitcoin users from bank fees and government regulations. The Bitcoin protocol offers robust anonymity, and the protocol guarantees that there will never be more than 21 million Bitcoins in existence, which supporters have argued would give the currency a stable value.Unfortunately, the currencys value hasnt proven stable in practice. Several waves of media coverage between April and June pushed the currencys value up from less than $1 to more than $30. Soon after it reached a peak, the currency had a series of PR disasters. One Bitcoin user claimed that a half-million dollars worth of Bitcoins were stolen from his PC; he may have fallen victim to Bitcoin-stealing malware. A few days later, the most popular Bitcoin exchange was hacked, forcing a multiday suspension of trading and generating another wave of bad press.

via Bitcoin implodes, falls more than 90 percent from June peak.

Google Expects $2.5 Billion in Mobile Ad Revenue This Year

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Oct 172011
 

Google is on track to earn $2.5 billion this year in mobile ad sales, Larry Page told investors during Googles third quarter earnings call today. That growth is led by mobile search activity, with mobile display ads a lesser factor.Overall, Google grew aggressively during the quarter, reporting revenue growth of 33 percent and overall quarterly revenue that was just shy of $10 billion.

via Google Expects $2.5 Billion in Mobile Ad Revenue This Year | ClickZ.

Google Engineer Accidentally Posts Rant About Google+

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Oct 132011
 

 

 

Then Yegge switches gears to talk about Google.”That one last thing that Google doesn’t do well is platforms. We don’t understand platforms. We don’t ‘get’ platforms,” Yegge wrote. “Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo).” The G+ platform, Yegge wrote, is a “pathetic afterthought” and Google lacked an API at launch.

Google’s biggest blunder, he added, is that it didn’t emulate Facebook’s plan of building “an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work.”

via Google Engineer Accidentally Posts Rant About Google+.

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