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Today, the company is releasing a brand new product called ‘Smart Magazine’ which can be best described as a Flipboard for iPhone with added digital intuition that helps brings relevant content to its users ‘automagically’.
What’s quite evident is that my6sense can sure separate the signal from the noise. I have pretty active Twitter & Facebook feeds but was only presented content that I honestly did feel was quite relevant and personalized for me. It won hands-down compared to the stories Twitter offers me in its new ‘Discover’ tab.
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My6sense figures out everything else without requiring the user’s implicit feedback. There’s even a digital intuition meter that indicates how well my6sense has you figured out.
Back in May, my6sense raised another $1.1 million to continue pushing its digital intuition technology to market.
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Smart Magazine is a major jump forward for my6sense in terms of the overall user experience. The app is simple and intuitive to use. I also found it to be very aesthetically pleasing (see screenshots below).

One thing’s for sure, my Flipboard and Twitter experiences would be that much better were they to have some of my6sense’s digital intuition inside. Just saying.
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In terms of usage, setting-up Smart Magazine is easy as pie. All the user has to do is select ‘Streams’ which can range from pre-set categories such as Business and Gossip, to the user’s own Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader feeds. That’s really all there is to it.
Except that the company elected to forgo iOS and launch on Android and Windows Phone instead. Both versions are free and can be downloaded, here. One thing to note is that the Android version is exclusive to all Samsung Galaxy models. In three months, it’ll be free available in the Android Market store.
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The big question is whether my6sense can survive as an independent consumer play or whether it needs to license, or even sell the entire IP lock-stock-and-barrel to a company with a massive userbase.

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Is Google+ Really a Social Media Game Changer

December 15, 2011 00:43:51 1 Flag this comment Alex Cook Follow
Google+ was unveiled in June and introduced brand pages just last month. How have you explained what the new social network changes or how it works best when it hasn’t been around for very long?
December 14, 2011 23:44:53 Reply 2 Flag this comment Alex Murphy Follow
Hmm…seems bullish. Real of just trying to sell books?
December 15, 2011 08:26:17 Reply 0 Flag this comment Neil Ferree Follow
December 15, 2011 05:28:30 0 Flag this comment James Joseph Howard Follow
Until G+ provides a clear pathway to SEO|SEM a G+ personal page or business page, this new social platform runs the risk of being a repeat of Google Wave (ie) the 1st wave of users were hi-tech people and while GW showed promise, it never hit critical mass. True, 40 million user in 28 days is an impressive benchmark, but w/out being able to influence the targeted traffic demographic, its likely G+ retain the “up and comer” and follow Buzz and Wave to the graveyard.
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December 15, 2011 00:14:20 Reply 0 Flag this comment John Burks Follow
Top line is talking about if search results attract people to sign up and use G+ – may not have been very clear!
Google+ has a fraction of the number of users that Facebook has and is dominated by users who work in the technology sector. Do you think Google+ will ever catch up to Facebook in terms of its reach?
Imagine if Facebook stayed stagnant while it was Harvard, and then saw some growth when they opened it up to all .edu address, but then it dropped shortly after, and stayed in decline until they opened it up to everyone. It would not be what it was today. And something with all the advantages of having Google backing it should be even MORE successful. But it has been nothing but a failure in a long string of failures for Google. (Checkout, Video, Wave, Buzz…etc.)
Google+ may be less than a year old, but New York Times bestselling author Chris Brogan is ready to crown it a game changer. His latest book, which will publish next week, is called Google+ for Business: How Google’s Social Network Changes Everything.
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Now lets say you add them. I do from time to time. You’ve got a few days before you’re removed from their list. That’s why they have a consistent Following: 500, Followers: 5000+. I can only imagine that follower number to keep going up, and up and up. It’s a psychological thing. You think someone really popular is interested in what you have to say.
December 15, 2011 09:00:57 Reply 0 Flag this comment Jessica Kalbarczyk Follow
I love Google+ but convincing friends to just sign up and give it a look over is much harder. People are quite content with Facebook especially if you have older relatives whom barely could figure out how to get started on Facebook.
December 15, 2011 05:58:30 Reply 0 Flag this comment Matthew Brooks Follow
My point has nothing to do with Facebook. Brogan says its a game changer for business. I am just saying there are no mainstream business people on G+ and they don’t appear to be getting any traction in that regard. If you can’t connect with like minded business people they pop in, yawn and leave. They don’t care if its integrated with google whatever. If they can’t get them there it has huge potential. I want it to succeed but at this point, I am not impressed.
December 15, 2011 07:19:32 Reply 0 Flag this comment Charles Wolff Follow
December 15, 2011 09:26:28 Reply 1 Flag this comment Jordiebbing Follow
?I?m not predicting that Google+ wipes out Facebook, but the comparison is silly.”
IMO G+ won’t be about the user number ever, with Chrome & Android they can integrate, interact with users and gather data from them at a level never achievable by Facebook which doesn’t have its own browser and OS
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December 15, 2011 00:47:02 0 Flag this comment Alan KAlawak Follow
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December 15, 2011 01:34:44 Reply 1 Flag this comment Angelique Follow
So…it would be like Budweiser paying the same amount for a 30 second commercial during a 4:30 AM rerun on The Nanny on TV Land as they do for one during the 4th quarter of the Superbowl.
December 14, 2011 23:54:30 Reply 0 Flag this comment Nure Alam Masud Follow
Their strong social foundations have been built elsewhere. Google can chuck money, brand name and a nice platform at this but it still isn?t giving people a reason to leave their friends behind.
I feel like Google creates products then moves on to the next new project. So they have a huge repertoire of products but not much development behind it once they realize that it isn’t gonna be next big thing.
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December 15, 2011 06:03:20 Reply 0 Flag this comment Rick Kerr Follow
I never said I added everyone and none of them are actually “spam” per-say. They just post a lot of lame stuff. “Oh look, more HDR photos… neat… real cool guys.”
December 15, 2011 05:32:35 Reply 1 Flag this comment tonyfaustino Follow
This is one of the silliest questions people ask me. Facebook has been around for years. When Facebook first became publicly available, MySpace had a gazillion users. When AOL was at the top of its game as a community platform, there was no such thing as MySpace. Don’t worry about counting users. Google has far deeper pockets than Facebook and several dozen applications that are all useful to business. I’m not predicting that Google+ wipes out Facebook, but the comparison is silly. A few months of Google+ compared to a handful of years of Facebook is not a decent comparison.
December 15, 2011 05:10:47 Reply 0 Flag this comment Alan KAlawak Follow
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December 15, 2011 08:54:18 Reply 1 Flag this comment Pete Kane Follow
Oh puhleeze. I’ve been following every ounce of news that has fallen out of the the Googleplex in an attempt to keep my clients informed about Google+. This book is a clear attempt to cash in on a niche that is not fully developed yet. Google representatives have told me that +1ing a page does not increase it’s rank, but only adds annotations that tell you that your friends or a number of people have +1′d it. Calling it a game changer is premature and ridiculous.
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Search results may attract brands but do they attract people? No.
Mashable asked Brogan about what makes Google+ a different kind of social network, what has worked best for brands on the platform so far, and for his advice on developing a Google+ presence.
?Brands should strongly advocate the individual employees as well as the brands on Google+.?
Facebook overtook MySpace because MySpace didn?t make it exceptionally easy to connect with people ? Facebook did. This battle is entirely different as Facebook have completely grasped and nailed the concept that Google are still trying to understand.
How many different brand representatives did you interview for the book? What was most surprising to you about the way they are using Google+?
Brands can share better than on Twitter, because the visual appeal of Google+ pages encourages more clicking. Brands can host hangouts and have deeper interaction than on Twitter. Because Google’s search features are far more robust than Facebook, the opportunity to prospect and find more potential community members is much better.
Google is the biggest search engine in the world. If any product which comes from Google mean people expect some thing from that. Google + business book is also one of that.
I spoke to a handful of people representing brands, and did a lot of research on others. Probably the first and most interesting surprise I had was how often Michael Dell, Chairman of Dell Computers,diddy beats by dre headphones, uses Hangouts to communicate with people live and in real time on the site. Beyond that, I wrote the book in early days, so the case studies were still developing.
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But how long was it until Facebook became mainstream?
Sorry @chrisbrogan, but I disagree with you on this…
December 15, 2011 05:24:42 Reply 1 Flag this comment Steve Fitzpatrick Follow
What is the most creative or effective way that you’ve seen a brand use Google+?
The reality is, that’s the ONLY activity going on with Google+.
December 14, 2011 23:51:32 Reply 1 Flag this comment Michael Lombardi Follow
December 15, 2011 05:32:26 Reply 0 Flag this comment Luis Fernando Rosero Follow
Again…find me just ONE period of time…hell,beats by dre kobe bryant headphones, even just ONE week…where Google+ traffic increased on its own. By that I mean, it increased even though there was no specific reason for it to. (meaning, you can’t count the first few weeks in June/July, or the few weeks after the invite system was dropped in September or when Apps users and brands were allowed on) Don’t bother checking. Because you won’t find any. Because that is just it. Google+ has NEVER seen traffic increase via word of mouth.
December 15, 2011 01:07:55 2 Flag this comment Jonathan Morris Follow
Google+ = Clean, intelligent discussions
Facebook = Messy, stupid discussions
Who’s fault if that you add every idiot on this planet? Of course if you add everyone that you do not know and his uncle, you are going to get spam. When you get the request to add, look at their profile and figure out if it’s worth it to add them or not. Another option is add everyone into a circle and follow them for a while. If they start spamming just remove them. Very easy to manage.
December 15, 2011 03:23:20 Reply 2 Flag this comment Gabriel Braun Follow
December 15, 2011 00:32:09 0 Flag this comment CoyDavidsonCRE Follow
Most people use social platforms to address their primary social needs – mainly connecting and talking with people.
Facebook never had those problems, even in the first 6 months. And they certainly have never seen a 50% traffic decrease twice in their existence.
There is still not a big enough reason for many social users to invest their time on G+. Privacy? User experience? Functionality? Not even nearly big enough reasons.
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I think the amount of posts will grow with the release of more api’s! When tools like hootsuite en (tweetdeck?) integrate it, it will become al LOT easier to share to facebook en google+ at the same time. This will drive xtra traffic en users to the site.
Chris makes some convincing points about Google+. I just reached out to a social media expert and asked the question. What about Google+ and should I be paying attention to this social platform since its Google ? I got a yes from Monica McPherrie and now a yes for Chris Brogan. Thanks
I like the feel of Google+ and believe it certainly meets my needs (as a one person company) better but how do we get from where we are? I developed a decent sized and useful Twitter network in three months. Very few people in UK use Google+ and those that are interested don’t use it because no-one is out there. Given Facebook does the same thing for many people, I don’t think it will just grow organically/by word of mouth as quick as it needs to.
Google+ has an obvious advantage in search results, presents unique opportunities for brands and is backed by deep pockets, he argues. And all of these factors make it a social media platform that will stick around in a big way.
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December 15, 2011 00:17:40 Reply 1 Flag this comment VidarSilentGod Follow
What about the opportunities for brands on Google+ is different than those on Facebook or Twitter?
The title of your book says that “Google’s Social Network Changes Everything.” Can you be more specific?
December 15, 2011 05:26:41 Reply 0 Flag this comment russwebt Follow
Probably once Google Drive launches, the first true Cloud OS. Once that becomes reality I think you’ll see more of the “mainstream” realizing the value of Google+
I hit refresh 5 minutes later and all those common interests have changed. Location is different.
?Google+ posts sent to “public” rank fairly well in Google search results. You can’t get that with Facebook or Twitter these days.”
In my view, G+ and Google’s continuous learnings to improve their search engine creates a win-win scenario. More effective search listings and better quality ads for Google.
News story: Google+ has more spam than Myspace with less attractive bots.
This notion that people shop based on what their friends to..or even worse…what people who like the same things that they do, is absurd. Just because I like bicycling, does not mean I want to buy the same computer that someone else who likes cycling does. And I certainly am NOT in the minority on this.
quite right– “A few months of Google+ compared to a handful of years of Facebook is not a decent comparison.”
And, the amount of time spent on-site is an important metric in how advertisers / brands are evaluating where to invest their advertising budgets in social networks.
I actually quite like Google+ – it doesn?t mean it?s a game changer in though.
There are other reasons why G+ may struggle. One large reason is businesses have been investing a lot of time and money to work out how to benefit from the Facebook platform. For the businesses that did figure it out they’ve no doubt calculated the critical mass required for a return on their investment.
G+ is clean, integrated and really powerful. But it’s behind in so many ways because they weren’t first. It’ll take years for migration to become effective.
I’m really impressed with how Intel has built specific sharing circles for the different types of content they intend to share, but if I could only choose one, I really like how The Corcoran Group showcases all kinds of interesting things around New York City. They make their page so interesting that you just have to check in quite often.
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December 15, 2011 02:10:55 Reply 0 Flag this comment Robert Scortt Follow
::cough cough:: YES!
Which brands do you consider to have the top Google+ pages?
No, it’s not. Google+ is not going to work. Sorry. There is zero enthusiasm behind it. In fact, social media is pretty much dead. Old media has won again.
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Vinoth…don’t blame the site becuase you and your friends are stupid.
But here I am, commenting on spam central, so… I suppose my view on the matter is a minority.
I don’t think Google+ will wipe out Facebook or Twitter. But, I think it poses a greater competitive threat to Twitter than to Facebook. Relative to Twitter, Google+ offers more flexibility with the length of your comments (e.g., a way to provide more detailed context) and with who you broadcast/share information (e.g. limited sharing versus completely public).
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I think Google will win it, just look at them like claws that hold the world up to almost no one escapes from them.
It will be interesting to track over time for Google+ versus Twitter the following metrics: the number of users and the amount of time people spend on each site. My hunch is Google’s numbers for these metrics will continue increasing (and Twitter’s may decrease or flatten). And, that may indicate Google+ is stealing users (and time spent on site) away from Twitter.
December 15, 2011 05:02:53 Reply 1 Flag this comment Amarendra Hota Follow
For sure!
If it is “who you know” the n Facebook wins hands down. Google can CLAIM to have 40 million users, but the fact remains that despite that claim of having more than 1/20th the users of Facebook, it still yields less than 1/100th the clicks to websites that Facebook does. That is a HUGE discrepancy. Of course, the reason for this is that of Google+’s 40 million sign ups, less than 5 million have stuck around.
I’m with you Coy. If G+ was going to change EVERYTHING, you would think that they would have at least changed SOMETHING besides where geeks go to talk to other geeks about what’s going on in geek world. I think G+’s biggest plus is the search capabilities as Brogan pointed out, but shouldn’t it already be changing the game? I’m not sold. My friends aren’t there and I rarely feel compelled to log in. Each time I do, I’m reminded why it’s been so long since I’ve checked it, b/c NOTHING GAME CHANGING IS HAPPENING.
December 15, 2011 00:09:32 Reply 1 Flag this comment Prof_Ants Follow
Absolutely. I wrote about 200 pages of more specific. But for you? I’ll boil the ocean: Search is probably the biggest reason it changes everything. Second, a very wealthy company (Google) is pushing Plus to be a very powerful effort to change the way we share information on the web. They’ve spent money on commercials during many mainstream events, and they’ve changed up many of their disparate applications and processes to point harder toward Google+. They’ve really quickly moved towards building a social backplane that is a lot more functional than any other social network.
I’ve used Amazon Cloud since its inception without flaws; Apple’s is a joke, we’ll see how Google Drive is but I’m not gonna recloud my music since it’s on Amazon Cloud for free.
December 15, 2011 00:09:21 Reply 2 Flag this comment fritzcharleston Follow
Interesting assessment of the importance of Google+
I don’t have words to describe what kind of an asswipe I think Chris Brogan is.
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The value proposition is the suspicion that there might be favorable search rankings involved. Nobody gives a crap about circles, hangouts or anything else
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I like Intel, Corcoran Group, Alure Home Improvement, Red Bull, Ford, and Kodak.
sounds logical but apprehensive on the time required
don’t forget the doctored animated gif’s with the G+icon slapping the facebook icon
December 15, 2011 01:39:53 Reply 0 Flag this comment Mahei Foliaki Follow
Most people easily escape from them. Other than Google.com for search, the vast majority of people don’t use ANY Google service. Nor do they expect to. Google is a VERY distant third place or worse in pretty much every market they are in other than search/advertising. They get their asses handed to them by Yahoo in every single area but search.
No…and only one idiot claims it is.
?Brands should strongly advocate the individual employees as well as the brands on Google+.”
I really like Brogan. He treats the pro Apple, anti Google, pro Facecebook Mashable tech blog as it deserves to be treated: as a biased tabloid.
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I thought Google Plus was finally going to get big with the general public when a whole bunch of my daughter’s college classmates signed up all at once, saying that they were fed up with Facebook. Well, NONE of them used their G+ accounts after that; Facebook got its act back together and they all stayed there. I’m not saying this to predict the future; I’m saying this to report a stall.
G+ certainly has potential: the convergence with search, different platforms and mobile is exciting. However, it’s just too incomplete at the moment. It feels too rushed to market. There are also way too many things that suddenly break and then you discover the joys of Google customer service, which is a serious PITA. One to watch definitely but not one to bet the farm on just yet.
I have been waiting for Google to do this for ages & love to be in the vanguard of band pages. I certainly don’t fall into the stereo type of user – I am female, British living in Europe, 60+, have a tiny company, okay I am more tech savvy than most, but why should that stop me! Anyone who is not deaf, dump & blind can see the potential of this just for the search kudos alone. Maybe it is the general mainstream reluctance of the new or laziness of Facebook – it ain’t broke, don’t fix it scenario, but G+ is here to stay & will be +++++ take it from a dedicated Google Girl & Facebook ignoramus (I have tired with FB usually end up throwing my hands up in frustration!)
December 15, 2011 08:27:46 0 Flag this comment Jonathan Morris Follow
I remember when Facebook first launched in 2005. It was an instant hit. Of course it’s grown exponentially since then, but when it first hit college campuses it spread like wildfire. G+ has no wildfire effect among any particular demographic. None of the features that differentiate G+ (hangouts, circles, etc.) from Facebook have been game changers. Until they introduce something that makes the MASSES check their G+ account before they brush their teeth in the morning, Google will remain a lackluster party with shiny television commercials.
December 15, 2011 09:59:47 Reply 0 Flag this comment RobertPickstone Follow
Not unless they can interest the mainstream, they have not done it yet, they may at some point but I expected more at this point. Wait till its out of beta, wait until they introduce brand pages, what’s the next wait till?
Brands should strongly advocate the individual employees as well as the brands on Google+. There are restrictions to what a brand page can do, so the opportunity is to have really strong personal brands do some of the heavy lifting in building community. Scott Monty at Ford and Jennifer Cisney at Kodak are great examples of this.
“Everything?,” we asked Brogan. He assured us, rather indignantly, that he hasn’t made a mistake with his book’s title.
I’ve got people adding me left and right on Google+. All of it spam. It’s amazing really. As an example, one of them adds me, he/she/bot lives in the same area as me and has a few common interests. I think to myself, “Wow! Neat! A like-minded person,beats by dre sale!”

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Should brands approach their presence on Google+ differently than how they approach it on other social networks? And if so, how?
Here’s a question: how many people don’t use Google to search for information online?
One of the big pluses he says is the search factor and how people’s posts are ranking high. Mark my words, this won’t last long. Google’s just danglin’ the carrot.
Google has existed bfor almost 6 months now…and for almost 4 months of that time, they have seen a VERY sttep decline in traffic. That NEVER happened to Facebook. In fact, that has never happened to ANY site that is successful in the long run.
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Really? We shall see.
It’s pretty easy to explain. Google+ posts sent to “public” rank fairly well in Google search results. You can’t get that with Facebook or Twitter these days. If almost 70% of people start their online trek to your website via search, then that’s fairly self-explanatory. Second, Facebook works on a “closed” and insular “who you know” model, whereas Google+ works on a “what you’re into” model. It’s much easier to prospect in B than A.
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I believe the killer feature of G+ is handouts, especially since it has recently introduction of “On Air”. This feature posses a threat not to Facebook, but to WebEx and GoToMeeting platforms. Features like broadcast to thousands, dial-in numbers and automatic YouTube archival. This introduces a new element to social (Free Social Broadcasting). The applications are too numerous to cover (webinars, live concerts, live podcast, etc, etc.)
Agree with both responses. ‘Messy and stupid’ discussions you’re referring to are often the inevitable result of mass uptake.
Facebook was perfectly civil and intelligible when it was restricted to universities. Don’t blame the platform for it’s users.
There is simply NO WAY to spin July/August and October into a positive for Google+. You simply do not lose 50%+ of your traffic on TWO separate occasions and still say that people are interested.
This guy here? Not a geek.
December 15, 2011 09:06:37 0 Flag this comment Alan KAlawak Follow
I have to say I agree, I wrote a blog post on ‘Why Google+ Must Not Be Ignored’ just less than a month ago and it’s messaging is similar – What do you all think?
It is simple…TWICE not Google+ has seen a decrease in traffic of more than 50%. (First in July/August and then again in October.) That is unheard of to happen twice for any site that is successful. IT shows that it is unable to keep users coming back after they check it out. That is also why Google+ has NEVER seen a period of growth that wasn’t directly related to some desperation move on Google’s part. There has been only 3 periods of growth. (Something like 14 out of 26 weeks have seen a decline.) The first one was when it debuted. It lasted about 3 weeks and was followed by over a month of sharp decline. So they got desperate and dropped invites earlier than they wanted. (Since their previous desperation move of making it VERY easy to invite up to 150 people with one line didn’t result in any increase at all) The big arrow on the Google search results page helped get the second period of growth. But THAT was only about 3 weeks as well. People joined simply because they saw that arrow and didn’t know what it was. And when they joined, they didn’t stay. (Those people are not coming back, by the way.) That 3 week growth period was followed by ANOTHER month of steep decline. So they opened it up to Google Apps users and then brands and saw another brief increase before the current period of decline. At NO point did traffic increase just naturally through word of mouth or simply interest. And say what you want about it being new, but 6 months is more than long enough to have at least ONE period of growth where there is not a specific reason for it.
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The annual rankings by digital marketing agency Zeta Interactive measure volume (number of mentions in more than 200 million blogs, social media outlets and online posts) and tone (comparing positive and negative buzz). The Zeta Buzz score is calculated by the volume ranking multiplied by the percent positive ranking divided by 10, using data pulled since January 2011.
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I got on the band wagon this year
Twitter rocks!
Most surprising thing here? Friendster still exists.
No surprise …the tag of social war,beats by dre pro,2012 will be between Google+Twitter+Facebook+ LinkedIn….i think so…from all business and innovation perceptive……..Business pages in G+ yet to furnished with all Google products like( analytic’s, places, wallet, and future ads and also full scale developed Third part API)) then all business companies have to jump in this area and will try to interact through cool features like Hangout…because ultimately we all use Google Search and there is a business Named :SEO” which is hugely dependent on Google search 9 and now it ate huge people ) and also your company search rankings will be placed according to your G+ interaction levels , +1′s etc…..Beside this peoples communication level, interactions and discussion are lot more dynamic, interactive and thoughtful rather than Facebook and twitter without any doubt…..We know Google always came up with Groundbreaking ideas that you have to use Twice or third time in a day …so they will try hard to keep tagged in Social war with G+ and hopefully , ultimately who is going to be the beneficiary ?…Obviously ” “THE PEOPLES USING INTERNET EVERYDAY” …
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Google+ did not finish in the top 10,Dr dre beats, due in large part to its late June launch. Overall, Google’s nascent social network finished 12th on the annual list, unable to make up for lost time before its inception. The new network received 89% positive buzz, indicating it will be a strong contender to perform well in the coming year.
i think facebook should be in no1 ,everyone knows twitter cant beat the facebook ..
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LinkedIn’s second place finish, Rhee suspects, is because of the job creation hype. “This is a market where people are concerned about staying connected with professional contacts. They need to stay connected from a personal perspective.”
Facebook, the world’s largest social network, finished fourth, despite its superior size. The network had the most negative buzz of the top 10, with only 70% of discussion considered positive.
Nice!
Twitter in awesome!
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“2011 is the year of twitter,” Zeta Interactive CEO Minna Rhee told Mashable. “For culture, breaking news and celebrities it is the social network. I think that’s reflected in the much more positive tonal ranking.”
Twitter topped an annual list of most-buzzed about social networks, edging ahead of LinkedIn and 2010′s most-buzzed network YouTube.
On the decline are photo and video-sharing services YouTube (third) and Flickr (eighth), which fell behind their 2010 rankings when they finished first and second, respectively.
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The mantra of "aligning IT and business" is frequently heard. Nothing is wrong with it. But PaaS gives you not only the tools to align them but also to merge them in many places. Fine-grained metering and billing, programmatically driven usage of pay-on-demand resources put a significant part of your operating costs under direct and explicit control of your code. If you want to lower your computing costs by 10% next month, you can make a configuration change that will have exactly that effect, in the same way that you can change any other application parameter. Of course, this stricter constraint might affect the performance of your application in some way, there’s no free lunch, but the point is that the monthly cost is not a guessing game; it’s much more precisely controlled... What's true on the cost side may also be true on the revenue side. At the risk of stretching the definition of PaaS, an app store is a PaaS service, in the same way that an application hosting service is. And the line will blur. I would be very surprised if, as I type this, someone at Amazon is not working on better integrating their app store with their AWS platform, so that you deploy your app (its server side logic and its client side piece) to their infrastructure, the client side gets uploaded, via the app store, onto the user's Android/Kindle device, the server side runs on AWS and the AWS bill is paid by the app sales (hopefully with some leftover for you). And the charging model goes from one based on just app purchase to one based on consumption, as measured by the platform which hosts the server side.
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This change is even more profound than it seems. Getting transaction tracing, user experience monitoring, transaction capture, auto-scaling and all kinds of advanced platform features by default (or by just checking a checkbox) is a big improvement. But the move to PaaS will hand to developers and architects, tools that aren't even on the table today. Here are 3 examples:
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In the early age of PaaS (e.g. when Google App Engine entered the scene), you wrote applications differently for PaaS because you had to. The idiosyncrasies of PaaS were mostly driven by the need to make its delivery easy and cheap for service providers. We'll grow out of this. But we’ll do more than outgrow it by removing these constraints. We’ll transcend them. The ultimate goal of PaaS is not to get rid of the early PaaS limitation and to allow developers to do things in the way they are used to. It is to make developers write applications differently not because they *have* to but because they *want* to; because the platform services offered by PaaS are better than what developers had at their disposal before it. They’ll come with little incremental operational cost; they’ll provide access to a much wider range of services than those traditionally offered by an application server; they will provide direct control of cost and revenue parameters as part of the application logic.

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Chris, its unlikely that other vendors would claim any different; albeit there is some amount of truth to it. However, IMHO, there are still plenty of gaps, and ample opportunities to fill them!
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Like, William suggests, various tools are available today, and the success of a PaaS strategy, is being able to pick a minimal set from the choices, to solve the business need, without having to commit to a single vendor solution.
Enterprise applications are made of more than just code. The selection of the platforms they are built on is as important as their specific code and configuration. That's why "middleware" is a much broader category than just "application servers", and even "middleware" doesn't capture all of various runtimes that support enterprise applications. Just looking at the list of application-related "Magic Quadrants" offered by Gartner gives an idea of the diversity of these product categories and the difficulty of the task, for IT architects, of deciding which to use: Just for the application runtime, there are Magic Quadrants for "Enterprise Application Servers ",dr.dre beats, "Horizontal Portals", "Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms", "Ajax Technologies and RIA Platforms", "Application Delivery Controllers", "Application Infrastructure for Systematic SOA-Style Application Projects", etc. Add to this data-related platforms (relational databases, distributed databases of various forms, master data management), as well as messaging infrastructure, security, identity management infrastructure, application performance management tools and soon enough one has to decide whether to optimize for employing the right tool for every task or optimize for assembling an easy-to-manage set of tools.
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In this article, William Vambenepe takes a look at PaaS as an enabler; especially in the enterprise; that will afford business advantages in terms of cost, time to market and choice of tools.
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What is true for cooking is true for software development. Using the right tool for the job means higher productivity and a more robust, efficient implementation. But, just like cooking, there are many tools in the drawer and each one that you take out comes with its own cost.

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As of today, in most cases, in a PaaS environment one cannot use these advanced tools, because the environment is too restrictive. Today, advanced runtime services and advanced management services are used occasionally in traditional environments (to some extent including IaaS) and never in PaaS environment.
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It is my contention that the "Platform" part of PaaS refers to anything that can be programmed. An application server obviously meets this definition, but there are many other things that can be programmed. Not a day goes by that something gets an API that didn't use to have one. This opens the door to PaaS including many different kinds of hardware. It's not just traditional computers. You can get GPUs and supercomputers (both of which Amazon offers today). One day you'll get to use observation or communication satellites by the hours via an API. Or maybe wireless spectrum. You can already access logistical services (a warehouse, transportation) that way. The line will blur. Ultimately, PaaS is not just raising the IaaS abstraction level by pushing the app server into the Cloud offering. It's about making all the useful resources programmatically accessible.
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All these "right tools" exist today and are sometimes used in traditional data centers, but not as often and as consistently as they should be. Because their acquisition and operation cost aren't perceived (rightly or wrongly) to be worth the value they can deliver. Because trying them out (in a realistic way, applied to your application) is, in itself, a time-consuming effort.
I'm not much of a cook. Of the many errors I commit in the kitchen, the most common is a failure to use the right tool for the job. Not because I don't have it, or I don't know how to use it, but because I over-optimize for the post-cooking cleanup at the expense of the cooking experience. The saucepan used to boil the potatoes isn't the best tool for a sauté, but it's already out and it will do. The wooden spoon used to stir-fry vegetables doesn't make as good a serving instrument as the metal ladle, but it's already dirty so let's use it. Sometimes this make-do attitude just produces inconvenience, sometimes it leads to disaster ("I don't need to dirty a colander; I can just hold the lid against the pan and slowly pour… Oops! OK kids, we're eating pasta off the sink tonight.")
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For a long time, the basic building blocks of IT have been simple: computers, storage and networking. It was the age of computer-centric IT. Everything else was the responsibility of the system administrator and out of reach for the programmer. IaaS made these resources available in a more flexible manner, but didn't change the nature of computing. In its first iteration, PaaS doesn't change the nature either, it just looks at the way people typically use these infrastructure pieces (install a database on them, install an application platform on them, etc...) and offloads that responsibility from the application owner. That has the important benefit of lowering the barriers to using the right platform tool for whatever task the application is accomplishing. But that's just the beginning of PaaS. PaaS is about to multiply the variety of IT building blocks, offering to the application owner access to resources that would be very hard, or impossible, for them to compose based on the traditional resources of networks computers and storage.
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In traditional settings, the application is confined to what happens on the computers on which it runs. There is a lot more infrastructure than just computers in a datacenter, but all that is the domain of IT administration and out of reach for programmers. The best they can do is document what network topology and load balancing configuration is desired. In PaaS, the entire infrastructure is accessible, and when that happens, you can count on developers using it in ways that will horrify traditional IT administrators. The CDN is not just an after-the-fact deployment optimization; it becomes a core part of the application logic. Even DNS, old, boring, sacrosanct, must-never-go-down DNS, becomes another programmable entity. And it is used in completely new ways as a result, as illustrated by people currently experimenting with giving almost everything a CNAME and gaining complete location transparency.
Excellent article with forward vision. The only complaint I have is William describes the goal state in the future tense. For example, "Diversity will instead be measured in the number, richness and comprehensiveness of value added platform services offered." Or, "PaaS is about to multiply the variety of IT building blocks, offering to the application owner access to resources that would be very hard, or impossible, for them to compose".
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Soon we will realize that supporting yet another language that offers the same interaction style is not a very important measure of diversity. Diversity will instead be measured in the number, richness and comprehensiveness of value added platform services offered. From map-reduce services to business process orchestration.

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Today's PaaS offerings are, with few exceptions, focused on the basic building blocks of application platforms: an application runtime ("app server"),dr dre beats on sale, a database, and an Identity Management (IDM) store. For now, the flexibility of the various offerings has been most often measured in terms of number of programming languages supported (Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript...). But PaaS changes so quickly (compare today's PaaS landscape to what it was a year ago) that the current landscape is almost irrelevant already.

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As PaaS matures, this trend will reverse and PaaS environments will be those in which users (almost) HAVE to use the right tool; where they've lost all the excuses (both of the valid and the imagined kind) for not using (or at least trying out) the full richness of runtime and management tools. That’s because the underlying Cloud operating system is built from the ground up to host these various platform services and present them in a unified way not just to the application running on top but also to the administrators in charge of maintaining them.
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In the same way that many application runtime tools are under-utilized because of the operational cost of setting them up, configuring them and maintaining them, many application management tools are also under-utilized, for much of the same reasons. So system administrators and developers scroll through various log files in scenarios where transaction tracing tools might provide a much more direct answer. They add crude browser-side instrumentation in places where network-based traffic capture can provide a rich view of the user experience and permit replay of transactions. They manually generate test transactions in places where the right tools can capture actual customer traffic, scramble confidential information and deliver a usable and realistic set of test input and output payload.
Each new tool,monster beats by dre studio headphones, when selected, brings additional features that the application can take advantage of, but also a new set of administrative tasks, another platform the administrators need to be trained on, another set of operating system requirements, additional license and support costs, another support channel, etc. That's when people start wondering whether they really need a portal or can they make do with the more basic UI reuse features of the application server. Integrated product suites from portfolio vendors alleviate many of these issues (tested integrations, centralized management, unified support...) but not all. Enterprise application platforms, like Java EE, provide a large set of features, but in many cases they provide a portable interface to infrastructure tools that are not themselves included in the platform runtime (e.g. a database). It significantly lowers the barrier to using these external tools, but from an operations perspective the cost of yet-another-tool-to-manage remains.
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