To protect user accounts from unwanted hacks, two-step verification is an easy way to add an extra layer of security to your Google account. Google’s two-step verification “helps keep the bad guys out of your account by using both your password and your phone.” Once enabled, anyone who attempts to sign in to [...]
Arghh! That was our reaction when Google announced the death knell for Reader as of July 1, 2013. We have literally dozens and dozens of RSS feeds aggregated in Reader, which is then used to power our research and apps like Zite and Flipboard. However, Google does not equal RSS. It simply had the best [...]
Find us on Stitcher Radio! Use promo code socialmedia when installing the app on Android or iOS. In this episode of the Social Media Minute, we discuss Google Authorship and how you can connect the content you have authored and created to the Google ecosystem. This can easily be accomplished on a WordPress or Blogger site, but [...]
For business owners and professionals, Google+ Hangouts are an easy (and free) way to increase customer engagement and build brand presence online. Specifically, Hangouts on Air is wonderful tool to take advantage of for your marketing efforts – sharing events, promoting topics you are writing about or building speaking credibility by showcasing your abilities on [...]
Google+ is the best new social network that is NOT a social network (at least according to Google executives). We love it and contrary to conventional wisdom that suggests it is a flop - we see it as an evolution of crowdsourcing of Google Apps and of search itself. Plus we really dig the Circles [...]
Find us on Stitcher Radio! See us at http://www.stitcher.com/socialmedia. Use promo code socialmedia when installing the app on Android or iOS and be entered to win $100 and more. We discussed a serious compromise of cloud security in Episode 71 of the Social Media Minute. Today we begin to explore why Google’s 2-step verification (also know [...]
