Category: Google Plus

Google Plus displaying full-width link images

The Google Plus social network apparently has just begun displaying link images as full-width photographs — not simply as thumbnails. [UPDATE: From Saturday, March 15 through Monday, March 17 — the Ides of March through Saint Patrick’s Day — Google Plus links reverted to the old-style thumbnail images. As of today, March 18, they are…

March 13, 2014
Facebook’s Digital Unclaimed Freight Train

What will happen, 30 years from now, to the 300 million photos we uploaded yesterday to Facebook? Image Source Here’s your answer: Facebook will have them. We (probably) won’t. Facebook will have them labeled, categorized, ranked, and documented as to where and when they were taken, what they’re of, and who’s in them. We (almost…

January 13, 2014
Track Your Posts with Funky Hashtags

By incorporating unique hashtags into your social-media posts, you can track them in remarkably useful and powerful ways. With one click, you can (a) link to a given post, (b) summon up all shares and reshares of that post, and (3) collect on one page all the introductory remarks and comments belonging to those various…

December 23, 2013
Circle Sharing on Google Plus

One feature of the Google Plus social network that confuses many newcomers is “shared circles”. Heck, it confuses more than a few old-timers. And the very concept of “circles” can itself be confusing! As soon as possible, I’ll update this post with some background information on Google Plus circles — or G+ circles for short.…

December 5, 2013