Google continues to grow their fledgling Google+ social network by introducing their first 16 games, designed to segregate all game notification so they don’t go into your news feed. You only see the game spam if you choose to go to the game page. Facebook responds by increasing the amount of space allocated for games, and increasing the amount of notifications that games and pump into users’ feeds.
Ecreative Internet Marketing had our summer picnic last Friday: grilling outdoors and playing games. And now we have pictures of exactly what it looks like when a pack of internet marketers and web developers try to play outdoor sports. It may not be pretty, but it was darned fun!
Twitter has just announced the ability to upload images directly into Twitter, without the need for a third party image hosting service. The images can be uploaded straight from your timeline by clicking an icon in the tweet box, and appear in the right sidebar when someone clicks on the tweet. Twitter says that in the coming weeks it will also be implementing user media galleries. Find out how it works and what the privacy features are.
A new survey shows that Google+ is on track to be the second largest social network within 12 months, beating LinkedIn and Twitter. The survey suggests that Google+ will be second only to Facebook, and that the new social network will negatively impact Facebook — eating away at Facebook’s users. Compared to Facebook, Google+’s users are younger, better educated, more male and more single.
A Berkeley team has uncovered that a dozen ISPs have been hijacking search traffic for profit… and databasing all customer behavior. When users search for specific terms in search engines, the ISPs intercept that search and send the user to a third party marketing agency to earn commissions on the referral, rather than showing the search engine results page.
