Over at TechCrunch, Ingrid Lunden’s posted a brief article, featuring 180 slides from Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, about Instagram’s early development & tech scalability hurdles.  (You can check out the full slide deck below.)
Like many tech startups, they started with an idea, but no real tech development experience.  Unlike many startups, their company was wildly [...]

By Tim Kassouf
G.1440’s Tech Staffing & Recruiting team has always been focused on helping Baltimore’s IT professionals reach new heights in their careers, and we’re excited to announce another step towards that goal.
We’ve partnered with Udemy.com to offer exclusive discounts for several online training courses, covering some of the most in-demand topics in technology, design & [...]

By Tim Kassouf
Setting up an official page for your business on Google’s emerging social network is a great way to position your organization to take advantage of the momentum that the search engine giant is putting behind it’s latest social venture.  Luckily, Google’s made a streamlined & simple process for setting up new Google+ Pages! [...]

By Tim Kassouf
It’s official – search giant Google has created a home for businesses & organizations (and other non-human entities) on their growing social network, Google+.
We’ve anticipated this for quite a while, but the move was made official yesterday on Google’s Official Blog.
There’s nothing monumental here – Google+ Business Pages are largely indistinguishable from Google+ [...]

Google announced yesterday that social networking features from Google+, the search giant’s growing social network, will now be available to business via their suite of enterprise collaboration software, Google Apps.
This doesn’t mean that businesses can set up an official business page on Google+.  That’s been promised by Google and highly anticipated but nothing in the [...]

I read somewhere that Google Plus will be an online marketing tool for Google’s primary search-driven businesses, and that the search engine’s social networking venture is ultimately about much more than just growing web traffic to Google Plus.  Actually, I wrote that, back in August – luckily, Google’s continuing to prove me right!
Google has already [...]

According to Reuters, Google has acquired the grandfather of restaurant reviews, Zagat, for an undisclosed sum.
Google has long made user ratings & reviews a part of Google Places, but the appeal of Places was mostly the tie-in to reliable location-based searching, maps & directions via Google Maps.  I still expect that as Google Plus weaves [...]

According to the LA Times, Business Review website Yelp.com is putting an end to its “daily deals” offering.  Yelp’s move comes just as Facebook killed it’s own “Facebook Deals” service on Friday.
Checkout the full story here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/08/yelp-cutting-back-its-daily-deals-effort.html

Well, it looks like the folks over at Gizmodo and Wired have gotten official word that Google is looking at ways to use the data from the +1 button to re-order search engine rankings.  This probably shouldn’t be a major headline, though, since we’ve been expecting Google to use it’s new social networking toy to [...]

Back in March, we looked at Facebook & Google’s expansion into local web marketing but it looks like Facebook’s “me too” strategy hasn’t paid off… Facebook Places & Facebook Deals are being scuttled.
The massive online social network is constantly looking for new ways to monetize its huge base of online users, and two of the [...]