This afternoon I was asked to give comment to a Time magazine reporter on Google's recent decision to start personalizing some ads in its network -- namely, that you will start to see Facebook-like names and thumbnail photos in advertising throughout the Google network. While some people might think, 'Oh great, that's all I need,' we have Facebook to thank for the concept of social advertising and Sponsored Stories. What was once creepy and annoying is so ubiquitous that most consumers will … [Read more...]
Google Enters the Social Enterprise with Public Debut of Google+ For Businesses
Hate it or love it, Google+ launched June 2011, and some consider it a strange anomaly in the social networking space. Though cheered and supported -- unlike its previous social/collaboration products like Google Wave and Google Buzz -- Google+ has yet to reach the audience sizes of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. However, today's Google Enterprise blogpost and subsequent TechCrunch story reveal that Google may be finding another fit -- and revenue model -- for the fledgling social network: … [Read more...]