Category Archives: communities

Happy Holidays: from Google, but for Facebook

Posted on December 30, 2009

Happy Holidays everyone. I just wanted to extend a quick holiday greeting. I’m going to borrow the holiday greeting image from Google Analytics, because I like it so much. It is from Google Analytics’ Happy Holidays post to everyone. Biggest … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, communities, news | Tagged Christmas web traffic, Facebook, Google Analytics | Leave a comment

Geolocation Coming to Facebook?

Posted on November 29, 2009

It’s funny to look back on this post I wrote just 8 months ago, about location based social networks and Google’s launch of Latitude. I didn’t even mention Loopt in the post, though at one point during late spring through … Continue reading →

Posted in communities, mobile | Tagged brightkite, foursquare, geohistory, Google Latitude, Loopt | Leave a comment

Mash Twitter Search with Google to See the Real Value

Posted on June 24, 2009

Having trouble seeing the value in Twitter search? Seems like many people are. Many people being those who don’t use Twitter, yet. Twitter comes up in conversations with everyone lately, and often the subject turns to how Twitter will monetize. … Continue reading →

Posted in applications, communities | Tagged Google, Grease Monkey scripts, real-time search, Twitter search | Leave a comment

Google Finds Location Based Social Networking (LBS)

Posted on March 21, 2009

About 6 weeks ago Google launched Latitude, a location based social networking (LBS, though apparently that can stand for “location based service” also) application (even if Google refers to it as something else). I’ve been paying close attention to this … Continue reading →