Identified uses your Facebook network to build a professional profile that’s descriptive of the people you actually know. What Facebook has built for the social graph, Identified is building for the professional graph. [Read more…]
LinkedIn: Importing Contacts to Google+ (the easy way)
You’ve built a network of professional contacts on LinkedIn; here’s the most direct way to import them into Google+.
There’s been a lot of discussion on Google+ about how to best utilize the social network lately. Last week +Ryan Crowe published an article, “Using Google+ and LinkedIn to Expand Your Professional Network” contemplating the merging of the two and his personal suggestions on doing so. After giving it some thought I decided to toy with the idea of how I’d best leverage the two networks together. The first step of course is getting your contacts into Google+. [Read more…]
Google+Tweet: Display Twitter Streams in Google+
Wow that was fast… no more did we get Google+Facebook which lets you see your Facebook stream inside Google+ but now Google+Twitter comes at us providing the same for your Twitter stream.
Is it just me or does it feel like Google+ could be my central hub? I wonder when Google+Reader integration will show up?
Only works in Chrome or FireFox, get Google+Tweet here and don’t forget to follow me on Twitter.
Google+Facebook: Display Facebook Streams In Google+
So… now the only reason I have to go to Facebook is to play Cityville right? (at least until Zynga gets it up and running with Google).
Google+Facebook allows you to see your Facebook stream inside Google+. Simply Connect to Facebook, and get all the updates on your Google+ Facebook tab.
Check the screenshot for an example:
Only works in Chrome or FireFox, get Google+Facebook here.
5 Extensions to Enhance Google+
Google is currently testing their latest attempt at breaking into social networking: Google Plus. Even though the service is in it’s infancy 3rd party developers are already unleashing extensions to enhance it.
Google has internally dogfooded the application (really it’s several applications loosely tied together) and and are now extensively testing it with a limited number of users. There’s isn’t a public API available to developers yet but that hasn’t slowed down developers who are already busy developing extensions and add-ons to enhance features. Following are four extensions that you can use to enhance Google+.