Nov 8, 2011

Google+ have finally launched Google+ Pages. Like Facebook Pages, these are ‘profiles’ that are intended for businesses, brands and other similar indentities, rather than individual people. Perhaps to avoid the mad scramble for vanity URLs (i.e. website addresses that contain the brand name such as facebook.com/nzraw), Google appear to be identifying...

Jun 3, 2011

A message that people will be seeing a lot more of is this: Oops… you need a Google profile to use this feature Google profiles is not available for your organization This is a direct result of the launch of Google’s new ‘plus one’ (+1) feature that launched yesterday. +1 is Google’s answer to social sharing. It’s their...

Nov 5, 2010

50 years ago, if someone said the word ‘internet’, you’d probably have thought they were talking about some kind of mixed gender netball game. You probably wouldn’t even have owned a PlayStation. That’s how dire things were back then. Today, the Internet is so powerful that you can just Google the word ‘dire’ to make...

Oct 19, 2010

Google basically runs the world. With that in mind, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on what they’re up to. One way to do this is to laboriously sign-up to every newsletter going for every Google application – Google, Google Earth, YouTube, Gmail, etc. etc. Another way is to follow the Google accounts on Twitter although of course that means...