Likes UP: Google Authorship       Long story short: if you’re looking to help your search engine rankings, you might need a Google Profile (the backbone of Google+). Who you are as an individual is becoming more important in search ranking. Google Authorship – Matt Cutts and Othar Hansson …

‎”Like” is a way to give positive feedback or to connect with things you care about on Facebook. You can like content that your friends post to give them feedback or like a Page that you want to connect with on Facebook. You can also connect to content and Pages …

Likes UP: Ask for the “LIKE” Asking Users To “Like” Gets 216% Higher Interaction Rate Not surprising we see call to action posts asking users to “Comment” and “Like” have a higher interaction rate when compared to normal text statuses posted (not including photos, links, video, etc.) What is notable …

20 Million on G+ (that’s alot of Gmail accounts) #LikesUP       It would be difficult to think of many sites that reached such a large number in such a short period of time. That said, Google does have a built-in visitor base of more than 1 billion to …

Great post from David Armano on the potential for G+. The social layer to the Google ecosystem is huge #LikesUP   Communication, Collaboration, Search, Media 1. Google Plus Isn’t A Social Network, It’s A Social Layer 2. Google Plus Isn’t A Facebook Killer And Doesn’t Need To Be time and …

Likes UP: Google Stock Goes UP and Plus.Me Acquired   Google’s Stock has gone up 27.85% since the launch of Google+   Story from the Nextweb   A bit of digging by Google+ user Mike Stenger revealed that Google, Inc. is the registrant for the domain of http://plus.me and it …

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, …