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Are you Social Networking while on the job?

Today many employers are regulating the social networking sites they are allowing their employees to visit. However, employees are finding ways around those security blocks.   Social networking has become an important tool for personal and professional relationship building.  Most companies are .... More »

Hacker Jailed For Stealing Facebook’s Source Code Tells All, Claims Innocence + MORE - Social Media News Apr 27th

It's time for my Social Media Round-up! I've covered Adwords, Adsense and SEO a little more of late so I thought I would jump over and talk all things social for a change...I hope you like the change. Check out this topic below: - "Hacker Jailed For Stealing Facebook’s Source Code Tells All, C.... More »

Advertising on Facebook Gives Higher Conversion

Generally, Facebook users tend to stay longer within an application, this is why it has been found that advertising on Facebook gives a higher conversion rate and creates a loyal followership. It might also be because of Facebook's customizable tabs, which make it easy to add a subscribtion form, c.... More »

How Content Turns Prospects Into Customers + MORE - Social Media News Feb 18th

Here's today's Round Up on all Things Social Media! Take note of the topic below: "How And Why To Prepare Your Business For Facebook Mobile Ads" We all know Facebook is the King of Social and with their pending IPO they will have a ton of cash to do more, buy more, build more. This whole con.... More »

Social Media News Dec 6th - Google Shuts Down Several Services in December 2011

It's been a while since I've done a collection of news for the Social Media Space so today I thought I would do a Round Up of all things Social! Make sure you check out the topic: "Google Shuts Down Several Services in December 2011" There are a number of services that are impacted and if you.... More »

Google Wave and Google Buzz certainly have an awful lot in common. Wave was billed as a reinvention of e-mail, a way for individuals and corporate employees to share ideas, media, and conversation in a more intuitive format than e-mail. Buzz was billed as a similar type of social-media tool that allows for the sharing of ideas and discussion among a network.

Although it did launch an extensions feature on Friday, the Google Wave team has been very quiet since Google launched Buzz. Last year the Google Wave team said it intended to bring Google Wave into the Google Apps suite at some point in 2010, but the Google Buzz team has a comparable plan in mind for this year, and has the advantage of being borne of the same team that created Gmail, the Google Apps linchpin.

The manner in which they were each introduced to the public was very different. Wave emerged as an invitation-only service for months before opening up to a wider audience in September. By contrast, Google Buzz was available to any Gmail user upon its launch in February. The Google Buzz team admitted they took a cue from the anemic debut of Wave and adopted the auto-follower strategy that accompanied its launch, giving Buzz users a ready-made social network of their most frequently e-mailed Gmail contacts.

The Wave team just added a feature that lets Wave users get an e-mail when their Wave inbox has been updated, meaning that while the Mountain View-based Buzz team and Sydney, Australia-based Wave team aren’t necessarily in direct competition, they are certainly eyeing each other’s work.

Wave is reportedly designed around making users more productive in their work lives as a collaboration tool, while Buzz is more about “social sharing and passive sharing with people who are interested in what you think. With Buzz only a month old, and Google Wave not scheduled to open to the general public before the end of June, there’s still plenty of time for Google’s budding social-networking group to figure out how to build out the projects over the long term and how they should live together.

There’s talk that a merger might be in the works at some point, but to outsiders, the company looks like it’s flailing about in search of anything that will stick. Insiders see Google’s insistence on semi-autonomous teams that are encouraged to follow their muse as the most effective way of generating innovation at such a large company, Rasmussen said. That includes not worrying about how the project at hand will affect other ongoing projects.

Google is obsessed with innovation and it’s hard to imagine that a project like Wave, which the company chose to announce on its biggest stage of the year in 2009, can be eclipsed by a successor in less than a year, and before it has even opened to the general public.