Decline as well as Myspace being sold for 37 million (I hear
Justin Timberlake is possibly taking it over and maybe
he can create original content and take artists plus celebs &
make it relevant again - time will tell) & so since I have been
a big supporter of Google Products from GMAIL, youtube,
& blogger like many of you (as well as BUZZ .. like not as many
of you) - I was super excited to try out Google+ (which might
be called googleplus in the near future as people don't like trying
to find the + sign on their phone..or even keyboards -- counter arguement is the current name is 3 less characters!)
Well I did what I could to get an invite by searching the internet
and posting comments which MANY people are still doing as I type
this. This morning (via an awesome Buzz Contact) there it was sitting
nice and shiny in my gmail inbox -- the golden ticket to Google+ and in
only a matter of minutes when I saw the Google Project which had
previously told me it was open to a limited field was showing me a
way in. . . (and yet there was no lotto money attached -- odd excitement
one may wonder?! Ed McMahon smiling down on me -
YESSSS SIR! That is CORRECT SIR!) I typed in my email
and away I went. . .
So while I was busy with a super important FLICKCHART decision
as to which movie is better -- Shawshank Redemption or Superbad ?!
[Yes you must choose at Virtual Gunpoint! Sorry @jonahhill because
in comparing the two.. your movie lives up to its name and speaking
of PLUS can you PLUS some food because it was you that taught us
that there is nothing funny about a physically fit man but I digress
and glad you will not be diabetic! ROCK ON!] -- I snapped this picture
during this difficult time and then to always remember my Google+
beginnings.. have made it my current profile picture for the world.. err Circles
that INCLUDE me to see (isn't that ALL Google+ Circles?!).
So going a little bit back -- I was a Buzz user and noticed
IMPORTANT pop up in my gmail and then noticed the +1 pop up ---
so naturally I activated +1 and said "Ahh google has their
own LIKE button which may (or may not...nahh) influence SEO and google searches but cool.. I'll go +1 stuff I like, some of my own stuff and videos to see what happens.."
But then I noticed them on my blogger posts and pretty soon on
youtube videos and knew this had to be for a reason ....
Google changed its look and top tool bar AND my google
profile via Buzz added Buzzes and +1s as options so what is
all this?! Well it was the right way to launch a social network
which is exactly what Google is doing with what I believe will
be a successful launch and site in Googleplus err google+
...the new social site from Google.
I had a pretty intense day 1. . . 1st step after basic profile info
(most picked up right from and off of google buzz) and adding
my profile picture... it was off into Google+ version of friends, family,
others divided into CIRCLES
