Category: Google+

Posts from Google+

  • Google Cube game brings fun to learning

    A very neat idea from Google – a game to raise awareness of, and educate you about, Google Maps. Cube runs in your browser (ideally Google Chrome). You play it by completing levels that set you navigational challenges in various…

  • Bingo!

    +McKinsey & Company has a good assessment of social media in their quarterly journal article “Demystifying social media.” The chart you see here shows a visual representation of key points in the article. It’s good and something I would guess…

  • Engagement methodology evolved

    You hear often about mainstream media publishers designing a digital version of a print publication for mobile devices such as the iPad. Turn that idea the other way around – via PaidContent UK, here’s what Hearst UK is doing with…

  • The value of free internet

    One of the feaures of travel these days is the (usually-met) expectation of high internet charges in your hotel. It’s common in Europe, for instance, for hotels to charge eye-watering rates to let you get online: charges of £20 or…

  • How to hack an RSS feed from a Twitter hashtag

    If you moderate or participate in tweet chats, you know how frantic they can be. In a lively discussion, you can get a constant firehose of tweets pouring at you over the course of the chat, often an hour or…