by Erik Kain on February 8, 2012
has its very own Elections Page on its + social network. It’s an interesting project – and a helpful resource to stay up-to-date on politics while peering through a technological window into public sentiment. For instance, according to Google, Rick Santorum, “saw a surge in search traffic in all three states in the final 24 [...]
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We’ve seen YouTube hosted debates in the past. Politicians use Twitter and social media all the time to promote their campaigns or ballot fights. But Monday night marked a new digital landmark when President Obama held the first all-digital interview from the White House. The video chat was conducted via a Google+ hangout, perhaps the most [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 18, 2012
According to the Google Politics & Elections page on Google Plus, Colbert is seeing a big spike in search traffic lately. “Over the weekend we posted that searches for Stephen Colbert of the +The Colbert Report saw a 189% jump in South Carolina traffic, while +Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, +Mitt Romney and +Newt Gingrich all saw declines during the [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 7, 2011
Social media isn’t just about connecting people with people. It’s also about selling people stuff. Google’s launch of Google + Pages is an attempt to make that social network more useful for businesses, allowing businesses and Plus users to connect via Google Hangouts and to +1 businesses and so forth. Yet another avenue, in other [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 4, 2011
Kevin Fox, a former Google employee who worked for several years on the Google Reader project before leaving the company, has offered to help Google fix its popular once-social RSS service. Google stripped the site of its sharing and following functionality and redesigned it to fall more in line with the new Google aesthetic – [...]
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While everyone waits eagerly for HiveMined to launch so that we can all abandon Google, there are a few ways to make the most of a bad situation. Google Reader has killed its social functions, and redesigned Reader in a way that makes it much less readable. Fortunately there are a few hacks floating around [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 2, 2011
So Google finally went and killed off the social features in Google Reader. They also gave it a face lift, apparently in an attempt to make it look more like the new Gmail and Google Plus. Aesthetic uniformity across products makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, the new Google Reader look is ugly. Really ugly. Too much [...]
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Okay, so it’s not exactly Occupy Wall Street, and the cause isn’t quite so dire as the recklessness of investment bankers gone wild or the government bailouts, but Google Reader is being cut off at the knees, and a number of its die-hard fans (including a few I know from Google Reader) have taken to [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 23, 2011
News that Google is killing off Google Reader’s social features and integrating the RSS service into the Google Plus platform has been met with a mixture of excitement, apathy, and dread. Many users of Google Reader, such as myself, realize the importance of including Reader functionality within Google Plus. Many of us also think an [...]
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It was only a matter of time. When Google announced last week that it was killing off Google Buzz, those of us who use Google Reader began to get nervous. Would Google kill off Reader as well? Would we Google Reader fanatics be forced to use some other less interesting service? Well, the answer to [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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