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Why Twitter is Trying to Turn Itself Into Facebook

Convince & Convert

Today, Joel discusses various aspects of Twitter, including changes that seem to be moving Twitter away from a unique user experience to more of a Facebook user experience. Even though Twitter owns Vine, it’s exciting to see its own native video platform coming to life, similar (again) to Facebook.

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The Truth about Google + for Business (and Content Marketing)

Convince & Convert

Tweetable Moments They’re not going to take away the aspects of the social layer; Google+ is Google. The world’s foremost Google+ authority will give us his thoughts on the strangely unsubstantiated Techcrunch article that prematurely announces Google+’s demise in the wake of Vic Gundotra’s departure.

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. No slaving over list creation (Twitter), or slogging through the mine field of clicks and sketchy instructions for creating your own groups (Facebook).

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. No slaving over list creation (Twitter), or slogging through the mine field of clicks and sketchy instructions for creating your own groups (Facebook).

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

Since I originally published this post, you’re seeing Google do a lot of the things I predicted. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. Thanks for the traffic! – Jay).

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Facebook Partners With Skype to Unveil Awesome New Video Calling Feature

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It was a big news week for Google last week, and the announcement of its new Google+ social network had a lot of us wondering, "How will Facebook respond?". Facebook unveiled its new partnership with Skype to launch a new video calling feature within Facebook , which has already begun rolling out to users.

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Is Blab the Savior of Podcasting and Online Radio

Convince & Convert

Blab is either “what Google Hangouts could have been, if Google would have continued to iterate.” It’s a fair question to ask, “If Blab is so similar to Google Hangouts (and it is), why didn’t Google Hangouts move the needle on podcasting in any significant way?” But maybe, just maybe, Blab will change that?

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