This was shared with me yesterday on Google+. It’s an in depth review and chat of the Google+ service moderated by Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Gina Trapani and they chat with many of the Google engineers who worked on the project. I’m very excited about Google+. It’s a game changer for so many industries, especially the ability to video chat with up to 10 people making Google+ a great tool for meetings and distance...

I sent out Google+ invites to many of my connections and I was just about to send some more out to my subscribers when Google shut down the invite process.  Most of the people in my personal facebook network are not huge Social Media users but I gave them first dibs. A few did take advantage of the early invites, got in early and are now playing around with the new service. Others with early invites were locked out when Google decided to...

I know I have stated many times in the past that I just don’t like Facebook. When it was a closed platform for only college students, facebook was a platform I trusted. It was a true gated community where you needed a college email address to get in. This made it much safer than it is today. At the time facebook had no apps, no games and no spamming problems. Privacy was not an issue. Today all I worry about is facebook and how much...

Why I Feel Most Everyone will be Embracing Social Media in the Next 5 years In my daily travels as a blogger and working in the social media world I’m always impressed when I come across someone who knows my work, has read the blog, has followed me on twitter and states they feel like they already know me. It doesn’t happen a lot but it seems to be a growing phenomena. It’s one of the few unforeseen benefits of social...

The best time of day to get a picture like this is really early am. It’s the best lighting… . . This is by far my favorite time of the year. The long, lazy Sunday’s of Summer. This was a pic I got early this morning. When I say early I mean way before anyone else got up. I’ll look back on this posting fondly over the winter and wish for summer again. Which reminds me… some of the things I am looking forward to...

Here is the current big issue on twitter: Twitter introduced “New Twitter” back in September of 2010, adding a new layout that makes finding information a lot easier. Since then twitter has been slowly moving everyone over to the new platform. At the same time twitter also gave its users the option to continue to use old twitter. Now here we are almost a year later and there are still users who do not want to change with the...

Facebook… What I consider the worst social media platform when it comes to security has just moved to “2 Step Verification” Just like Gmail did a few months back, Facebook has moved to “2 Step Verification” when logging on from a computer they don’t recognize. Unlike Gmail you don’t need a separate application on your phone to do this. I think it’s a great idea if your mobile device is always...

This is a really fast growing tech story and I mean fast! I have always monitored some of the hacker community with a wary eye and at one time was interested in blogging about Anonymous, a hacker activist group, that more recently started “Operation Empire State“, an attack on the FED that is based in NY. But lately I have been very impressed with the newest hacker group, Lulzsec. They’ve come out of nowhere to become the...