On the Seventh Day...

sabbatical
Pronunciation: s-bat-i-kl
Function: adjective

1 : of or relating to the Sabbath &; sabbatical laws&;
2 : of or relating to a leave granted usually every seventh year (as to a professor) for rest, travel, or research

While my post title might imply the first part of the definition, the real reason is closer to the second.

I've got bigger fish to fry for the moment.

Nothing groundbreaking or monumental. Just stuff that needs tending which means something has to give.

Which will be my posting here and here.

I've been sporadic at best lately anyway.

Hope I have something cool when I come back to posting regularly.

You can still find me here. Or even Google Plus me!

And no, it won't be in a year, despite the definition- it just seemed apt to describe what I need right now.

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Google Plus: A little experiment

I should have been giving Google Plus a little more attention in the first month of service.
It still feels very much like it is reserved for the special people, but that's probably a good thing.

I've decided to experiment operation out of Gplus primarily for the next week.

I set up my feed to head over to Facebook and Twitter. I will still address stuff that is in those places as if I were still posting from there, but I am going to try to do all the posting from Gplus and see how it works.

You can selectively send posts from Gplus to Twitter and Facebook, but I don't want to worry about that. I generally share tech and specific stuff to Twitter and more personal stuff to Facebook, so that might get a little dicey.

Thoughts? How can you keep the fans on either more popular site happy, while integrating Gplus?

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Nibbling at Facebook: G+ Slow and Steady

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I finally got my Google+ invite. (thanks @timarthur!)
So far so good. Is this what Twitter was like in the early days or FB back when it was .edu only?
Great product without people to populate it?

I mentioned yesterday that Google doesn't have to KILL Facebook. Folks finally seem to be coming around to this logic.

Yes, they basically copied the ideas and improved them based on what people DIDN'T like about Facebook. Is it enough to hurt/kill Facebook?

Insanely doubtful. But they don't have to. I was reminded of the riddle/question "how do eat you an elephant?" as I pondered why folks kept suggesting that Google could not takedown FB with G+.

Even if it was their goal, there is no magic bullet for them. Nothing particularly original is going to change people's minds. Facebook was once in a generation- just as Google was for search, but Google has done other things that people like.

Will the loyalty work? It might considering the suite of products that actually make up Google plus. Also, it will integrate eventually with virtually every thing else they do. Even if you don't love Google, do you know anyone who doesn't use SOMETHING Google is involved in?

No, they just need to eat away at the elephant that is Facebook. Marketshare does NOT have to be absolute like so many seem to be treating it in this discussion of Google v. Facebook.