Google+ Social Network is Here

Well they finally gone and done it. Google has announced they are gonna join the social media game with Google+. Here is a long story and a short one with the details.



Inside Google+ - Wired (Detailed story)

Google Guns for Facebook with Google+ Social Network | PCWorld



Everything sounds promising. Facebook has a pretty horrible user interface and there is no way to group friends or content. To me, reading a Facebook stream is really tough. What if I want to read just the posts from my family? My co workers? etc...



I want to control that and I want to be the only person to know how I am filtering the feed.

Updated my Story Feed

I have updated my story feed again (upper right hand corner of page). For the last few months I have been using a Tumbler blog. It works fairly well, but its not ideal. To get to the story is always two clicks. Once to the Tumblr blog, then to the story.



So with word that Delicious is gonna survive, I have switched to that. The delicious feed takes you right to the story. Plus there are a lot of nice social features by using delicious.



I am considering moving to a paid service like pinboard. Looks like that integrates really well with delicious so we will see.

Delicious Lives!

Earlier this week, it was announced that the founders of You Tube were going to buy Delicious from Yahoo for their new company Avos. Read Write Web has the details in the following story. In addition, there is a link to a story on how they use Delicious to find new stories and blogs. Definitely worth a read.

Why Every Single Person Should Take 30 Seconds to Opt-in to the Delicious Data Transfer