Google Plus Ramping Up

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They tried with Buzz, they made an attempt with Wave. Finally they nailed it with Google Plus. So much so that I think Facebook should go into search. Imagine a search engine that only delivers you search results from pages and sites liked by your friends, and friends of friends.

Google+ traffic soars: 66 percent increase in nine months

110.7 million international visitors in June. In the US, traffic increased from 15.2 million to 27.7 million visitors over the same period

These numbers are going to get better. And I expect Google to keep enriching the product.

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The Olympics: On YouTube

English: 1985 International Olympic Committee postage stamp of the German Democratic Republic (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For a guy who has never owned a television, YouTube will do the trick.

London 2012
NBCOlympics.com

Streaming the Olympics: How YouTube and NBC do it

3,500 hours of live coverage from the event on the web and through native apps .... A partnership with the IOC put YouTube in charge of the online video feeds for 64 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, including India, Singapore, Kenya, Ghana and Malaysia. ...... “We are using the backbone of a pretty scalable video delivery network”

The Olympic Games are quite a celebration of humanity. I want the next World Cup on YouTube as well, live as well as archived. .

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