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* Google continues its prime directive. At the high level, this is a strong move for Google, they continue to aggregate other people's social content, and become the intermediatry. This helps them to suck in Twitter, Flickr, and any-other-data type as the APIs open up, giving them more to 'organize'. This is Google acting on it's mission to the world. * Privacy woes will scare consumers -yet adoption will continues upward. For consumers, the risk of privacy will continue to be at top of mind. Although the features allow for sharing only with friends or in public. expect more consumer groups to express concern. Overtime, this will become moot as the next generation of consumers continues to share in public. * Buzz could have faster adoption rate than Twitter. For consumers, this could potentially have more adoption than Twitter as Gmail has a large footprint Google told me it's tens of millions (active monthly unique). Of course, most Gmail users likely aren't Twitter users, but there could be a large platform to draw from. * Physical businesses lose more control over search strategy. For small busineses and retailers, this will impact their search engine results pages, as a single top 'buzzer' could cause their content to be very relevant, if that person was relevant, then their influential content could show at top of SERP pages. Expect Google to continue to offer advertising options now around buzz content -fueling their revenues. * A direct blow to Facebook, they must accelerate go to market. To Facebook, this is a direct threat, these features emulate Friendfeed and the recently designed Facebook newsfeed. Expect Google to incorporporate Facebook connect, commoditizing Facebook data as it gets sucked into Google and displayed on Google SERP. * Great for Twitter now -yet painful in the long term. This is good for Twitter in the short term, as it'll amplify tweets, and suck them into a new system and give additional

Online Video Watchers Prefer Google Sites Google Sites accounted for 13.2 billion videos, or almost 40% of total online videos viewed in December 2009, according to earlier comScore Video Metrix data. YouTube.com accounted for nearly 99% of all videos viewed at Google Sites. Hulu ranked second with more than 1 billion videos viewed, an all-time high for the property, representing 3% market share. Microsoft Sites ranked third with 561 million (1.7%), followed by Fox Interactive Media with 551 million (1.7%) and Yahoo! Sites with 539 million (1.6%).

Buzz is working as intended. Google wants data quality. We immediately filter out completely all the noisemakers who bring no value to the table.

Nielsen recently released a new report that officially documents what many of us already know, just never substantiated through data. According to a study published at the end of January 2010, Nielsen observed the online social activity of consumers around the world and discovered an 82% increase in time spent on social networking sites in December 2009. On average, users spent more than five and a half hours on popular networks such as Facebook and Twitter in December 2009. In December 2008, users clocked just over three hours on social networking sites.

Now, new data released by Facebook and third party researchers show just how influential Facebook has become in our daily lives. Combined with several critical adjustments to how Facebook publishes "news" and intersects with other sites, the state of Facebook is mind-blowing. And important for business. Here's 11 things about Facebook that you need to know:

"Using estimating tools for your cleaning business provides numerous benefits that will simplify the management process, saving hours of your valuable time and putting money back into your pocket. With an innovative cleaning application, you can stay on top of all management duties with ease, from cleaning CRM to cleaning invoicing and more.   Considering the vast amount of innovative technology available to cleaning business managers today, there's no reason why you should have to calculate quotes or send invoices the old-fashioned way. Computer-generated clean estimates are not only super-fast, but also reliable and accurate. Continue reading for more information on how an estimating tool will take your cleaning company to the next level.   ESTIMATING TOOLS IMPROVE ACCURACY AND PROFESSIONALISM   There are many factors to consider when calculating cleaning estimates. If you're making those calculations by hand, you may easily leave out an extra laundry charge or the cost of cleaning windows by accident. You're only human, after all. With an automated estimating tool, quotes will be calculated accurately, each and every time. The online calculator is consistent and precise    to bring greater professionalism to your business.   To use a cleaning application or janitorial management application for generating quotes, you'll input information for individual jobs to ensure that each charge is fair. The calculator for a residential estimate differs for a commercial, or janitorial, estimate so you can calculate costs depending on the type of cleaning company you operate.   For all estimates, you'll make changes in these sections to ensure accuracy for all quotes:   The square footage of the space to be cleaned The frequency of the job, whether it's a one-time clean, weekly, twice weekly, monthly, etc. The type of clean, whether it's move-in or move-out, spring cleaning, etc.   For a residential estimate, you'll make selections in

Reliance Jio 4G service Launch in India is in news across all geographies for all good news. They claim that they have the best network, best pricing, best content and now they claimed that they acquired 16 million user within first 30 days of service launch.

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A new eMarketer report shows that the number of Baby Boomers embracing social media, especially Facebook, jumped drastically between 2008 and 2009.

A new eMarketer report shows that the number of Baby Boomers embracing social media, especially Facebook, jumped drastically between 2008 and 2009.

Crimson Hexagon analyzed the content of more than half a million tweets following the iPad announcement. While the results aren't shocking, what it boils down to is that the Twittersphere is split straight down the middle. Forty-eight percent of tweeters reacted positively, while the remainder - 52% - had less than stellar things to say about the iPad. It's a virtual tug-of-war.

Article by Jay Baer about looking beyond the big five on social media.

I like Jay's stuff. He brings up an interesting point. It seems that most monitoring systems only pull back data from more popular networks. What do you do to monitor your brand or your own name on other less popular web properties?

Alexa: Too often, dubious numbers Compete: Good UI, questionable data Google Ad Planner: Some unique twists Google Insights: Numbers normalized for search Google Trends: For broad information gathering EMrush: Most accurate of the bunch uantcast: Nifty Media Planner Tool