Archive for October, 2013
Why should you take Google+ seriously
Posted by afarianc in on October 26, 2013
Google+ is the 4th official attempt by Google to get into the Social Media/Networking space. With the failed Orkut, Google Wave, and Google Buzz, Google opened the book the the Senate, House of Rep, Microsoft and Apple have all read and maybe even wrote.
So Google now read that book carefully, and then determined that it has something people can’t do without, it’s search platform, and so it is bundling the Google+ and making it a master strategy, along with YouTube, and other properties they own eventually.
Senators and Congressmen have been doing this for a long time, and we call it porkware, where you bundle the ugly ducklings along with the beautiful ones and make it a take it all as a bundle or leave everything behind type of thing. Other industries also do that, from software, to art to movies, to premium/non premium real estate space to music (Not any more, when was the last time you bought an “Album”??)
But Google Plus or Google+ graphically, boasts 400 Million+ users. When it first came out, it had a lot of people posting on it, because they didn’t want to be left behind. After a while, it lost its luster, and now with the integration into everything Google is doing, it is ready to pick up steam.
I don’t know if this is going to put a chink in the Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn armor (Yes Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn), but it sure has the best chances, compared to whatever else is out there. So I would look at Google+ very seriously, and consider making it a part of any business’s Social Media strategy.
We will see a lot more push in the coming months, now that they have worked Google+ into Gmail, YouTube and Google Search. It’s a long reaching strategy, and the Long Tail is whipping right along with it.
I now leave you with a quote from LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson) the 36th president of the United States. “If you’ve got ’em by the balls, their heart and mind will follow.”
Tweeter Stock Mistaken for Twitter stock
Posted by afarianc in on October 7, 2013
Twitter announced that it’s stock symbol will be (NASDAQ:TWTR) and then around 10:00AM EST, someone gets an idea to lookup the symbol, and finds (TWTRQ) which is for a defunct company called TWEETER (Not Twitter), and starts buying. others follow, and the stick goes from being a 1 cent stock to almost 15 cents. BTW, the “Q” at the end of a stock symbol means it’s in bankruptcy. GEN-IUSSS!!
Tweeter, had gone bankrupt in 2007. Twitter on the other didn’t even make money when Tweeter went bankrupt. Twitter only made $20-$25,000 in profits this year. (We’ll know more about the real earnings and profit after the IPO).
But that’s where the similarities will end. When Twitter launches it’s IPO, it will probably go through the roof. My opinion (Strictly my opinion) is that people will remember the Facebook IPO. It launched, went high, then crashed, then went up again, sort of like a skateboard HalfPipe. People panicked and bought, then panicked and sold, then wondered if they should have kept it, now their pulling their hair out.
This is what happens when amateurs get in a game that they don’t know how to play. So now that you know how the little horsey moves in Chess, are you a chess player? like John Pinette would say “GET OUT OF THE LINE!!!” (Minute 2:03)
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The market will show what happens today.
Diran Afarian