Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

Google Shuts Down More Services

Sunday, November 27, 2011 6:21 No Comments

Google continues to trim down its product line as part of the company’s new “focus”. The Internet giant announced that it is closing down some more of them, and some functionalities of others.
Google Wave. You may have already thought it was dead. The company announced that it would no longer develop for [...]

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Google Starts Verifying Google+ Accounts

Sunday, August 21, 2011 5:52 No Comments

Google is rolling out verification badges to Google+ users who qualify as celebrities, public figures, or those who have simply been added to a lot of circles (though they do not specify how many circles this requires). But fret not. That’s just the beginning.
Google’s Wen-Ai Yu writes in a Google+ post, “For now, we’re focused [...]

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Google Adds +1 Button Data to Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools

Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:57 No Comments

Google announced the addition of +1 button data to Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools. These new metrics can show you how the +1 button actually affects the traffic to your site.
In WMT, there is a Search Impact report, which shows how +1′s affect your organic search traffic. “You can find out if your clickthrough rate [...]

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Facebook’s New Photo Viewer Rolls Out To Everyone

Monday, February 14, 2011 8:04 No Comments

Last fall, Facebook announced some new features for Photos. Among these were a new photo viewer. Now, the company has announced that the new viewer has been rolled out to everybody.
“We are rolling out the new Photo Viewer to everyone over the course of the next few weeks,” says Facebook’s Sam Odio. “Now, you can [...]

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