http://thomaspower.org Internet scout, speaker, IP creation Mon, 14 May 2012 15:22:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thomaspower.org/2012/05/google-google-google-google-plus-googleplus/ http://thomaspower.org/2012/05/google-google-google-google-plus-googleplus/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 15:22:14 +0000 Thomas Power http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=177329 Google+ I am beginning to understand what Google are up to.

Firstly they are putting all their existing products into Google+ to reduce the number of products and brands present in the marketplace. Less is more.

Secondly they are focusing hard on integration. The way Google+ now integrates with my Gmail is starting to surprise even me. Most of us tend to build our lives around email, search and social and in that order and that's the way Google+ is being organized. Google search plus your world (GSPYW) is crazily accurate and updates in real time. Search has become so much easier when I ask my friends on Google+.

Thirdly they are thinking long term about CRM or should I say Social CRM as Google+ now recommends who you should Circle from your Gmail. The joy of this is having done so you can now sort your email by Circle. This is a heaven feature to be able to sort email by clients, suppliers, prospects, family, kids, friends, shareholders. Very clever ten out of ten for that. I now have days when I just spend time in one Circle. I've never done that before and that is a behavior change caused by software.

Fourthly is Cloud. Google Drive when I installed it last week automatically ripped all the documents of my hard disk and placed them in the Google Drive or Cloud. So everything I need is there for me wherever I am. Cool. The kids now have access to if ever they need anything for school or Uni.

Fifthly I have just begun to understand AuthorRank and PublisherRank and just how important it is to search. Thank you to Thomas Morffew for educating me on this.

Sixthly Google Hangouts now allow me to record my conference calls and automatically uploading them to Youtue where I can set them to public or private. This is great because with the Google Wallet plug in coming next I can then start selling this content online.

Seventhly I have just ordered my Samsung Galaxy S3 so I can truly immerse myself in the Android and Google+ mobile experience.

Eighthly I now realize you can run a large corporation of 100,000 people on Google+ and that this is a business to business play to replace the intranet and extranet inside organizations including all the apps. I also realize Chrome extensions are application plugs in and things like finance, billing, salesforce management will be a Chrome plug in any day soon. SAP, Salesforce.com, Expenses, Analytics, Klout, Performance Management, Maps, Places, Blogging, Tweeting, Videos, Advertising everything will become a Chrome extension from an appstore like Google Play.

Ninthly of course this all links back to PPC and Google Adwords (where their money comes from). No doubt the PPC will be turned on once Google reaches a billion users in 2015. I have no doubt they will.

So there is a new industry emerging here. A Google+ industry. An industry requiring a vast array of skills commercial, technical, emotional as organizations begin to evolve themselves into the Cloud and make themselves one with the mobile web. All of this of course is before you add Google TV where no doubt Google+ will be the heart of their Social TV initiative. Oh and I never mentioned music.

I have attempted to summarize what I think is going on in this video. It's just one giant guess.

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And stick with the hoodie as it's who you are.

Good luck with the IPO this Friday.

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That could be 10% of global GDP.

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So simple, so brilliant.

Empathy is your greatest weapon.

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Please share

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Brilliant and exciting

but

scary too.

No Google+Plus no SEO is coming you know.

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Google didn't think of this, a member did, I like that.

Hasn't he got a great voice

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How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us.

Publication Date: May 22, 2012

"Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing myself fully to the social revolution." —Larry Downes, author of The Killer App

In Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of "social" companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. The tragic paradox of life in the social media age, Keen says, is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom. By exposing the shallow core of social networks, Andrew Keen shows us that the more electronically connected we become, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be.

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