If you are as much a techhead as me, no doubt you'll notice that this week, the web has been all a swirl with a couple of meaty main topics.  Facebook's recent S1 filing, Google's introduction of Search Plus Your World and decision to change their privacy policy to consolidate data about you and m...

With the new introduction of  a social platform there are a number of challenges that Google currently face. Perhaps one of the greatest of these, is getting businesses to engage with people on their platform as opposed to competing platforms such as Facebook. When you have major brands and busines...

URL: http://www.google.com/producer/currents Google Currents is a new mobile centric curation tool released from Google. (Not yet available outside of the U.S. although I managed to get around it with Market Enabler. ) According to the Google mobile blog - Content on Currents is optimized so...

Remember a while back I announced that Google are experimenting with a new social layout for YouTube? Turns out you can get the new updated design before everyone else with some technical wizardry. If you want a sneak peak of the new YouTube layout before it's rolled out to everyone else -...

Google have just announced that they have rolled out a new feature for tagging friends in albums. The change replicates the feature already available inside competing social network Facebook, however Google's face detection algorithm built into the software (the likely result of an acquisition of...

According to Business Review USA, the below screenshots have been leaked online for what looks like Google's updated design for YouTube. Art Director Freddie Pierce noticed the updates, which, as you would expect offers an enhanced social media experience with Google+ front and centre.  Also ava...

Google have just released Brand Pages bringing the same functionality available for individuals to businesses.   Some of the brand pages already created and up and running on the platform include All American Rejects,  Anderson Cooper 360, Angry Birds, Barcelona Football Club, Burberry,Â...

Today's time lapse Halloween logo from Google is pretty impressive. I'm sure many of you have already sat and watched it the whole way through. This video from the Google doodle team shows just how much effort went into creating one of the most interesting doodles we've seen to date. With all th...

In the past few days, Google have introduced a brand new visualisation  and analytics feature into Google+.  'Ripples' allow you to easily see just how your message has spread across the network in a visual way. The application allows you to literally see every path that your status update has ta...

This video published from Google webmaster help on YouTube raises an interesting question. How does Google know who owns content, and what is the canonical source of it. It's a problem that many content publishers suffer from. You publish a new, unique piece of content, and the people who syndic...