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Google+ visits down, but the party ain't over yet

by Ronny Kerr, July 28, 2011 | Comments

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Fab.com reports that Google+ traffic referrals bested Twitter, a third of the way to Facebook

The word around the Web on Google+ right now is that the Google+ party is over, exactly one month after the social network first opened up to a trickle, and then flood, of early adopters. But it’s just not true: Google+ is far from dead.What’s mostly fueling the (now, negative) hype is a report from online intelligence service Experian Hitwise ...

Google+ for iPhone should have awed, but it bores

by Ronny Kerr, July 20, 2011 | Comments

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The new social networking site might be a darling now, but it can't ride the hype forever

On the left, the main menu of Google+ for iPhone. On the right, the main menu of Facebook for iPhone. (Almost makes me want to believe that the only reason Google+ feels so good is that we just need a change of [aesthetic] pace. Those icons are so nice!) No, but really, Google+ launched on the iPhone yesterday and, after ...

An ode to independence from Facebook

by Ronny Kerr, July 4, 2011 | Comments

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Facebook hits its 700 millionth member, Myspace dies and a new social Google is born: where next?

Happy Independence Day! Continuing an age-old tradition, we patriotic Americans spent the weekend stuffing our faces with hot dogs, staring at firework explosions in the sky and spending a little quality time with family and friends, all to celebrate the day this country declared its independence.But, over the past week, I’ve been celebrating my own unique brand of independence: independence ...

MySpace history: A brief walk down memory lane

by Ronny Kerr, June 30, 2011 | Comments

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How a little social network named Facebook sucked a stale website dry

So this is what it looks like to stop mattering: I made the chart above by compiling statistics across a wide variety of sources, including the official Facebook timeline and archived media articles from the past seven years. The data available is wildly fragmented, so specific data points should each be taken as an approximation, though the overall trend is ...

Social Sense: My favorite Korte/McClure demos

by Ronny Kerr, April 8, 2011 | Comments

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AngelPad unveils 13 startups, 500 Startups shows off 22; here are two of the super social media ones

In the past two weeks, we’ve seen over 30 startups lift, ever so slightly, the wraps off the products they’ve been building at two young but respected incubators, AngelPad and 500 Startups. We saw businesses working on online dating, augmented reality, career matching, news and media, and much, much more, and, as many have already noted, all look promising.For this ...

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