Likes UP: Google Plus Game Changer Google+ is the social backbone – O’Reilly Radar Excerpt 1 : Social backbone services Which services will the social backbone provide? We can extract these from those provided by today’s web and social software applications: Identity — authenticating you as a user, and storing …

11 Things You Don’t Know (But Should) About Google+ [Cheat Sheet]   see blog.hubspot.com for details by clicking on the image for full story #LikesUP

  Welcome to Google+ Social Statistics http://socialstatistics.com/     Now tracking 79,412 Google+ profiles This won’t last for long…   #LikesUP

Likes UP:  “Likes” Replace “Diggs”?   On TechCrunch posted on September 23rd, 2010 by Alexia Tsotsis Built by former Scribd developer Ed McManus, Facebook “Like” aggregator TheLikestream launches today after six weeks of work. Capitalizing on the waning appeal of Digg post-redesign and the popularity of the Facebook “Like” button, …

  Google Loses Access to Twitter Stream, Suspends Realtime Search Realtime search was suspended after Google’s contract with Twitter for access to the full feed of public updates passed its expiration date on July 2, 2011, according to information Google shared with Search Engine Land. The original Twitter search agreement …