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Marissa Mayer wrote on Google’s blog this morning  that the ballooning search company has acquired Zagat. In the post, Mayer stated, “…Zagat will be a cornerstone of our local offering—delighting people with their impressive array of reviews, ratings and insights, while enabling people everywhere to find extraordinary (and ordinary) experiences around the corner and around [...]

Today Google is announcing Missouri Get Your Business Online. Designed with prominent local and national partners to help drive economic growth, the program provides businesses in Missouri the tools and resources to establish a website, find new customers, and grow their businesses. Now before you get all excited – this ain’t the much anticipated Google+ [...]

If you can’t have fun at your job – what’s the use? Even a diehard Apple fan as myself can gather some enjoyment out of watching Microsoft executives poke fun at a few of their competitors, and at the same time do a little tribute to Michael Jackson. The cast of characters are: Microsoft Office [...]

We rarely see giant tech companies like Microsoft, Apple, Research in Motion, and Oracle joining forces for a common goal. But they do happen, especially when the situation calls for it. They have recently purchased mobile patents previously owned by software firm Novell and bankrupt telecommunications company Nortel Networks. This incident has led Google to [...]

First it was Captain Kirk, now it’s Phoebe Halliwell. Better know as as William Shatner and Alyssa Milano – these are the two big names (celebrities) that Google has given the boot to for trying to get onto Google Plus. The plan is to maintain the initial presence for “normal people” and have large identity-type folks [...]

“Popular” would be an understatement. Many of us organizations, brands, and businesses have submitted our desire to have a Google Plus Business profile established. Apparently there have been so many such requests that the development and project management team at Google is accelerating their efforts to bring the business platform to market. Check out the [...]

It was inevitable – someone was going to make a viral video for the latest social media/interaction platform, Google+ There have been countless songs produced for Facebook, MySpace and Twitter – so why not Google+ ? Check out this remix version from the team at Hanson Dodge Creative (HDC). Watch out Rebecca Black – you [...]

When the World Wide Web began there were not very many pages that one could obtain information from. As the web increased in size many website URLs started to become rather unwieldy since you could have nearly infinite number of subfolders on hosts. With this you could have a URL similar to http://www.test.domain.com/this/is/my/sub/folder/and/you/will/never/remember/where/this/file/is.html. Who is [...]

For all you early adopters and Google+ fans who have been patiently waiting for the iOS app to be released – today is your day. Now you’re on par with your Android counterparts and have your own application. The iOS version allows the following funcitonality: Interact with your Circles Get updates from your various Circles [...]

Google+ Hangouts allow 10 people in one session. Facebook Chat is specifically one-to-one, no real collaboration there… To fill that necessary void that Zuckerberg left wide open, enter SocialHangouts for Facebook. Not a Facebook developed app, but one that should have been there Day 1 and one that will more than likely be rolled into [...]