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Google+ Extensions: Five New Additions To Enhance Google+

July 26, 2011 by Paul Spoerry 1 Comment

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Here are five new Google+ extensions to enhance and tweak Google+.

Google+ extensions can help augment your use of the newest social network on the block. Google+ is growing, and even before it was easy to get an invite, people were busy writing extensions, userscripts, and add-ons for Chrome and Firefox to help you tweak the layout, add new tools, and change the look and feel.

I personally dig the current layout but here are some great extensions that help you trick it out and add additional functionality.

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Filed Under: Chrome, Facebook, Google, Google+, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: Chrome, circles, facebook, google, GooglePlus, sync, twitter

Adrianne Curry (@AdrianneCurry) Kicked Out Of Comicon Because Her Outfit Was To Sexy?

July 25, 2011 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

adrianne-curry-sdcc-1-e1311608074688Adrianne Curry, winner of America’s Next Top Model and star of The Surreal Life got kicked out of Comic-con for wearing a cosplay outfit that was “too sexy” according to her post on Twitter (@AdrianneCurry).

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Filed Under: Tech, That's freakin hilarious Tagged With: adrianne, curry, dominatrix, slave, twitter

Google+Tweet: Display Twitter Streams in Google+

July 8, 2011 by Paul Spoerry 1 Comment

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.

Filed Under: Chrome, Facebook, FireFox, Google, Google+, Tech, Twitter, Web Life Tagged With: Chrome, facebook, google, GooglePlus, LinkedIn, twitter

5 Extensions to Enhance Google+

July 7, 2011 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

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+.

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Filed Under: Chrome, Facebook, FireFox, Google, Google+, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: Chrome, facebook, google, GooglePlus, LinkedIn, twitter

Google and Diaspora To Take On Facebook

July 2, 2010 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

A tweet by Digg CEO Kevin Rose that he has since deleted (“Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch facebook competitor very soon ‘Google Me’, very credible source”) and from comments on Quora from former Facebook CTO and Quora founder Adam D’Angelo. D’Angelo wrote that he had heard from reliable sources that Google has made the project a high priority. Google has made no secret that it’s very focused on becoming more social. So far, its attempts to create social networks have not met with much success. Google Buzz, which it launched earlier this year, has not taken off. Its social network Orkut, which has been around since 2004, is popular in Brazil but reaches only 2% of Internet users.

It’s unlikely that Google is preparing to roll out a Facebook clone. Whereas Facebook is basically a universe unto itself, Google emphasizes openness. A Google service that runs on open standards and with an open ID system, i.e., letting users punch in one password on multiple sites, take their personal data with them when they leave a network or maintain the same profile on multiple services, could give Facebook a run for its money.

The stakes are high: Facebook is speeding ahead, gathering tons of data through its recently launched “Like” feature. “Like” buttons on tens of thousands of websites yield invaluable information about the preferences of its users (and their friends), which could ultimately help Facebook develop a more personalized method of ranking Web pages and of targeting advertising. It’s because of this that Google is intensely interested in social media.

Another project which recently gained steam (and a lot of seed money) is Diaspora. One month into development and Diaspora current implementations include GPG encryption, scraping Twitter and Flickr, awesome design aesthetics, and the initial stages of connection infrastructure (“friending” other Diaspora instances). Websockets are already in the Diaspora core, and any Diaspora plugins will be able to have rapid two-way functionality, (think chat, games etc) almost effortlessly! Diaspora aims to be for social networking what OpenID wants to be for user authentication… an end-to-end open system that can even be personally hosted. In other words, it will take social networking out of the walled garden of Facebook (or whatever Google creates) and placing control of your content into your own hands. You can view their 1 month of development demo here:

Diaspora Message Propagation (pre-alpha!) from daniel grippi on Vimeo.

Filed Under: Facebook, Google, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: facebook, google, twitter

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