Google+ people: Who are they? A friend recently commented that the only updates he sees on Google+ are from me and NASA. How can that be if Google+ is the second most popular social media site? Why is the image of Google+ as a virtual ghost town so hard to shake? How can you find active … Continue reading Google+ people: Finding signs of life on the second most popular social media site
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How to be professional. Students gain skills and knowledge, but too many of us get our first job without a true understanding of how to be professional. At a time when many people are looking for jobs or desperately trying to cling to jobs it's a good to time to review how to be professional … Continue reading List 32: How to be professional (or at least fake it)
Don't get "scroogled" this Valentine's Day by letting Google read your love messages and use the content for targeted ads. That's the invasion of privacy Microsoft wants you to consider in their Valentine's Day Scroogled video, part of their campaign to get people to move away from Google services like Gmail. Google ad software analyzes … Continue reading A Valentine’s Day message from Microsoft: Don’t get scroogled
Google+ circles are how you organize people you want to see on Google+. What circles you need depends on how much you want to be able to filter what you are reading or control who sees your posts. New Google+ users sometimes seem intimidated by having to decide what circles to make and who to … Continue reading Google+ circles: You only need to have one
Raytheon Riot is software that can predict your location using social media data. As revealed by The Guardian newspaper, Raytheon Riot (Rapid Information Overlay Technology) gathers data from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare and analyzes it to among other things predict where you will be at a given time. The software doesn't just use … Continue reading Raytheon Riot predicts your location using social media data
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