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Bite-Sized Wisdom From Innovative Thinkers At Google, IBM, Airbnb, And More | Fast Company

I’m in the 2nd video. Awesome. So grateful.

David Perry from Google send me a message to attend the first virtual town hall held via Google+ Hangouts between US citizens and President Obama as a follow-up to the 2012 SOTU address. Check out the replay, titled Your Interview with the President - 2012 (by whitehouse)

Most portals show their own content above content elsewhere on the web. We feel that’s a conflict of interest, analogous to taking money for search results. Their search engine doesn’t necessarily provide the best results; it provides the portal’s results. Google conscientiously tries to stay away from that. We want to get you out of Google and to the right place as fast as possible. It’s a very different model.

Larry Page, in his Playboy interview, before Google went public

via Google: Do Yourself a Favor and Just Come Clean Already

Those that ignore social media will become isolated, invisible and irrelevant to growing segments of digital audience.

Jeff Sonderman says Social media [is] replacing SEO as Google makes search results personal

Google Currents is to Social Media as Justin Bieber is to the Beatles

What this boils down to is, Google doesn’t get social…. even when we’re talking about blogging which has been around since 2004ish.

Google Currents is a new tablet app launched today that makes reading of syndicated web content easier, faster and more enjoyable than almost any other interface you can imagine. It’s like Flipboard but for RSS feeds. People are going to love it. That’s the nice way to describe it.

You could also call it the sterilization of the social web. Just like today’s new Twitter redesign makes things nice and pretty for non-technical users - Google Currents is infinitely friendlier and more accessible than any RSS reader - even Google’s own Reader. Unfortunately, in the current application that ease of use comes at a great cost: Google Currents does away with many of the best parts of the social web. It sings a catchy tune, but there’s far less life inside the experience. It’s not just a bummer, either - it’s a threat to what’s great about blogging. …

Is Social In Google’s DNA?

by Tom Anderson

Long Before Google+, Google Declared War On Facebook....

…. with ~~OpenSocial~~ MySpace. really. but is ‘social’ in Google’s DNA even? and what 5 things can Google+ learn from MySpace?

My take: So maybe the sequel to The Social Network is “A Social Space” about a network at the height of success and how it fell? I bet that is an interesting story. Someone DM Aaron Sorkin. Tom, who would you want to play you on the big screen?