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You lost my “Recommend” at TMZ.

So basically it becomes Android = Google+ | iOS = Twitter | Facebook Mobile = Facebook Mobile … unless they strike a really great deal with Microsoft (they already have a good relationship) & it becomes Windows 8 = Facebook

Do it! Do it! Do it!

I agree someone else should be speaking in his videos but c’mon it’s not NEARLY as hard as trying to listen to Dong Ngo from CNET. MAN is that a pain. I skip those first looks just because of his heavy accent.

Even if they bought plus.com & it redirected to plus.google.com it’s the convenience that matters. It should just be available to people. There’s really NO reason their shouldn’t be a simple URL for people to go to. Honestly to defend it not having one is kind of crazy. EVERY major website has one … YouTube.com for example. It should just be there, no question.

It’s not that I think people care in the sense of “oh I wish it had a simple URL” it’s more-so a convenience people are accustom to. Not having this convenience is a psychological hurdle. People don’t really like typing subdomains, just as they never really like typing http://, because it can be confusing, so browsers made it so you didn’t have to. It’s a necessary convenience you should bestow upon whomever uses your service. It makes NO sense that they don’t have one.

1. I’ve used it.. I don’t see value in making it something I do frequently
2. I’m not Google+ “sufficiently” because most people I remain social with don’t use it regularly either. The only people I know that use the site are Blogs, Bloggers & Techies. No one is sharing life’s interactions or happenstances & it’s boring without this social aspect.

Hangouts is NOTHING MORE than a video chat service. Be real.

Barack Obama is all about capitalizing on every Social Networking site, it’s Politics & Publicity; it says nothing about the site itself. I’m sure Google were the people that came to HIM with, “hey we need the publicity, you think you can answer some canned questions in a video chat on our service?”

It is ALL novelty.

Facebook is just staying on top of things. They’ll have an alternative ready. It doesn’t make it the future of social communication or any less novelty.

Webcamming is NOT the future as much as movies in the past tried to make it seem. At least webcamming in this form. This is NOT going to revolutionize social networking. It’s a novelty feature.

I’ve said this before, if you need Ads to promote your social network, you’re doing it wrong. NO major social network has ever needed Ads (Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Tumblr, Twitter). They all succeed thanks to word of mouth & their simplicity. If you need to make a slew of Tutorials on how to use your social networking site, you’re doing something wrong.

But it could be simpler. It makes sense to make it simpler. Most people like simplicity. It’s really not that straightforward to most people. If you took a poll & ask people if you had the option to access your Google+ account by typing plus.google.com or plus.com, which would you most likely type, I’m sure the results would surprise you. If people would prefer the simple URL, give it to them, that simple.

They don’t have to offer anything Google+ can’t … Apple isn’t really about outdoing someone in features as much as they are about outdoing someone in terms of the experience people have using their service. This is where Apple would likely shine & where Google would try to catch up.

It’s all timing, unless the Facebook bubble never bursts, Apple would just need to deliver when the time is right & with something that’ll be an obvious choice for people to adopt.

I’m thinking a lot of media integration (far better integrated than with FB) & a UI that I can’t yet to put in words. I’m just saying, I wouldn’t put it past them. It may not even be in the back of their minds, but, watev’s. I think it just makes sense.

I’m aware me.com is being moved to iCloud. That’s the point! They’ll now have a domain being used only for @me.com addresses. I’m expressing their opportunity to do more with the domain & how it makes perfect sense for a domain like ME.COM to become a social network. It’d be remiss if they just let that domain sit stagnant.

ME.com is accessible from any browser. iCloud accounts are open to everyone. They COULD make a ME App cross platform. You’d initiate all of these things from the App. Ping isn’t great in its current iteration but it’s a step toward something more. Their closed ecosystem really hasn’t limited them much. It’s made more & more people but into them. They’ve opened their ecosystem in many ways as well. From iTunes (hate it or love it) to the architecture Google Chrome is built on. Integrating all of their services into a social network seems logical, if done right.

I have little doubt that if they’re even considering doing this, they are taking their sweet time with it. I wouldn’t expect something of the sort anytime in the near future. Like I said earlier, it’s ALL about timing. Google+ got the timing & some aspects of their social network very wrong. They have a knack of doing things like that.

Apple, on the other hand, has a knack of taking their time, seeing where the market flows & then capitalizing on what others lack or fail to implement well enough. I’m just saying, stay tuned. Facebook’s bubble will burst in a couple years & when it does, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Apple fall into play.

ME.COM … it’ll use iCloud accounts which are open to everyone. The Apps may be iOS only but the site would be universal.

A rude, noisy or violent person.

Orkut.com …. and no that really counts for very little. As of now it looks like an option for Google users. A way to expand the crappy profile they had prior to Google+, not a site that they should consider their go to social networking place.

Mark my words. If ANYTHING or anybody takes down Facebook it won’t be an IPO or Google+. It’ll be Apple.

You look at properties like me.com, iCloud, Facetime, Messenger, Find My Friends, Ping, GameCenter, iTunes, Apple TV, iOS devices, recent acquisitions & more and you have yourself what could and may potentially be major competition waiting for the right moment to pounce.

Google+ will never be a serious competitor to Facebook until it has a dedicated simple URL (ie. Plus.com).

Novelty features. I don’t ever see the world adopting hangouts as the go to or leading method to communicate with one another. It’s cool. That about it.

The government has a very tight web around what you think you know. If they’re telling you they’re doing this, just imagine what you don’t know.

HAHAHA! Got it now! What a riot!

I initially felt like “damn, this is a long ass Sony Xperia Preview!” and then.. I got it…

Oh.. I guess you forgot the punchline.

That coating kind of creeps me out. I want many rounds of testing done to figure out if it’s really safe.

..it’s paint.

Best Buy needs to scale down & restaff 95% of it’s workforce, including management.

Apple needs to introduce pre-orders for Apps like they do for music & film. Example, having an App developer finish & submit their App to Apple far enough in advance to go through the approval process & setting a date for it to be downloadable to the public. Apple could then have a Coming Soon section where you can pre-order & watch a preview trailer. This could really drive sales. I don’t know why this hasn’t been done yet.

I loved and hated my G1 with so much fervor.. ah the memories.