Manage

• Circle management in-dash allows you to create, edit and remove circles
• Add and remove people from your circles
• See comments on posts and save to a stream
• Search public posts and save to a stream

Engage and Collaborate

• Post public updates or to select circles
• See public user activity
• Pop-up user profiles and company pages
• Share saved search and comment streams with team members
• Assign messages to team members for follow up

Post Securely and Measure

• Privacy features allows you to select whether you want to post publicly or to specific circles
• View users who +1, share and comment on posts
• Measure results with five Google+ analytic modules in-dash
  • People who add you to circles (growth)
  • Posts (per day)
  • Aggregated comments (per day)
  • Aggregated +1′s (per day)
  • Aggregated reshares (per day)

Ninety-eight percent of both the members of the Golden Generation (ages 67 and up) and Gen Z’ers (ages 18 to 22) who use social networking sites are on Facebook. And no age group dipped below the 95% mark.

At Friday’s Mashable Media Summit, Facebook’s journalist program manager, Vadim Lavrusik, explains how the social network’s new features can help journalists.

via What Facebook’s New Features Mean for Journalists.

At Friday’s Mashable Media Summit, Facebook’s journalist program manager, Vadim Lavrusik, explains how the social network’s new features can help journalists.

via What Facebook’s New Features Mean for Journalists.

In the next week, we’ll be making some highly requested changes to Google Reader. First, we’re going to introduce a brand new design (like many of Google’s other products) that we hope you love. Second, we’re going to bring Reader and Google+ closer together, so you can share the best of your feeds with just the right circles.

Official Google Reader Blog: Upcoming changes to Reader: a new look, new Google+ features, and some clean-up.

Occupy Wall Street has an IT department. The movement’s technologists, like their park-squatting counterparts, are a decentralized group. But they’ve independently started hackathons this weekend in New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

Even before the first protester showed up at Wall Street on
via Occupy Wall Street Hackathons Want to Build a Better Protest.Sept. 17, a group of people had started working on the movement’s technology components . The so-called Internet working group has held meetings that covered how to edit the site openly, how to run the Twitter account and what server space to use. It’s not necessarily the most organized operation, but it’s becoming more so.

Applications for new gTLDs will be accepted from 12 January 2012 to 12 April 2012.

The first ones should be operational by late 2013 according to the current roadmap.

ICANN board members voted 13 for, 1 opposed, 2 abstain on the first day of its international pow-wow in Singapore. Earlier this year, the organization’s board entered into a contract with ICM Registry to operate a .XXX top level domain name for adult websites and whatnot.

Currently, there are 22 generic top-level domains, including .com, .org and .net.

via ICANN To Expand Top-Level Domain Names, Applications Start Jan 12, 2012.

After many, many years the new “Duke Nukem” was launched – and many critiques were really desastrous. So the head of the Redner Group twittered very angry:

But Web 2.0 doesn´t like gagging. It was a real avalanche of angry reactions from users followed by a real intense media storm. Redner apologized: “I used a public forum to voice my complaints and I know better. I poured my soul into the project and when I read the review I felt like a father trying to protect his son. In hindsight, I should have approached the writer directly.”

But too late: Quickly following the media storm today, 2K issued a statement: “2K Games does not endorse or condone the comments made by @TheRednerGroup and confirm they no longer represent our products. We maintain a mutually respectful relationship with the press and will continue to do so. We don’t condone@TheRednerGroup’s actions at all.”

Censorship is a mission impossible in the age of “Web 2.0″. Lesson learned?

Redner Group Loses Biggest Client Over Tweet | Digital – Advertising Age.

Full Article on Mashable: Saudis Use Social Media To Document Campaign for Womens Right To Drive.

Further information via World Map of Social Networks | Vincos Blog.