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The Roadmap Behind Google Plus

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Bradley Horowitz, Google's VP of products in an interesting interview "Inside Google Plus".Bradley was the head of Buzz, he had seen firsthand how a social product launch could go horribly awry, and as a lead developer on Google+, he was keen to avoid repeating those mistakes. Although the service is still being developed, Horowitz says it could eventually transform the whole company. Read more »

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We Are Drunk on Social Media – Digital Privacy Doesn’t Exist

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If you want to hide something, the worst place to do that is on a social network. That’s where you share. Your brain is where you hide secrets (Eric Schmidt). Broken accounts, copied content are threats everyone should keep in mind at any time before posting. No system will ever be at 100 percent secure and as such everyone should ask the question "What if my private account would all the sudden be public?" - this golden rule should make you vigilant before posting and aware to review your profile content on a regular basis. Read more »

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Moore’s Law For Socialmedia. Do What You Can Do Best.

Moores's Law For Socialmedia. Do What You Can Do Best

Concentrating on their core business and having the vision to ensure that facebook will offer THE infrastructure platform to enable new applications and participate in this growth is the right approach too. Too many individuals and too many companies are trying to do everything by their own. Combing available services (as Skype Video for instance) with the power of the facebook infrastructure is surely far more intelligent than competing with the world's greatest. Read more »

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Google Apps Warning When Attachment Is Missing

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Today I copy and pasted an email from one account to the other. The moved text contained the wording "find attached". I was surprised that consequently Google App advised me that despite the clear statements in my text an attachment is obviously missing. Read more »

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CloudFlare.com is a service that acts as a proxy between your visitor and your web hosting company.  It cashes static content so requests towards your service will reduced and in parallel it provides protection against bots, spam.  Site statistics, protection of your email addresses and injection of necessary code for Google Analytics and similar are further features you are receiving at no costs.  Read more »

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Doppelmoral und Quarktasche

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Die Zeitschrift "DER SPIEGEL" widmet sich diese Woche Facebook, Google und Co. Ich begann die Lektüre gestern Nacht und vollendete sie heute auf meinem Flug nach Prag.Daß diese Titelgeschichte wenig Neues offenbart und alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen ist, hat mich nicht wirklich gewundert, alle Klischees werden bedient und das Lamentieren des klassischen Verlagswesen ist hinlänglich bekannt. Allerdings hatte ich das Gefühl diesen Artikel, so ähnlich, schon mal gelesen zu haben. Read more »

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Facebook URL Linter and Facebook Insights

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In my former post "‘img_src’ And Other Tweaks For Best Facebook Integration" I'm explaining how to populate your blog with the right meta tags to allow a successful integration into facebook.This post will show you how to validate your changes and to reveal how the facebook scanner is processing your side.It is important to know that Facebook as very robust cache mechanism. Any applied change in your meta tags will most probably only be reflected in the parsing results after a couple of hours. Latest after 24h all changes should be processed, afterwards it is highly probable that you have coding mistakes in your blog. Read more »

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Microsoft Sharepoint versus Google Apps

SaaS and Cloud computing? Everyone is talking about it. Instead of just talking I have been trusted to test different vendor tools and their different functionalities. Today I want to shed light on a very simple item: Websites, or Webparts. After working with Microsoft’s Sharepoint 2007 (I am talking about the standard functionalities only) for two [...] Read more »