Staples is doing it RIGHT on Twitter!  read more about how they’ve gone from nowhere and screwed UP to doing a great job!

Staples on Twitter: They’re Doin It AWESOME.

Here comes Google Storage on the “cloud”

Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor ‘Google Storage’ At I/O.

This is pretty cool! About time we get analytics with socialthis.com sharing!

Introducing Social Reach and Audience Indexing – Make your Social Content Count « ShareThis Blog.

Wow. where have I been? I have never heard of this happening… interesting… anybody else ever hear of this?

A Google Places Help thread reports some business owners complaining that their business listings on Google Maps continually gets hijacked by competitors. One person said, “on almost a daily basis my client's listing gets hijacked.”

via Google Maps Hijacking Getting Out of Control?.

Ok Google made this change on the SAME DAY I was doing a seminar with a company to explain how to best use Google Webmaster Tools… and I was thrown for a loop briefly before figuring out how they combined a bit of Google Analytics into it… this is cool. Be sure to read the article!

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Top Search Queries is now Search Queries with Average Position and Stars.

WOW! I would not have thought that Google would be come Big Brother and not the Federal Government!  Facial Recognition might be the passwords for the future!

Mr Schmidt said: “Facial recognition is a good example . . . anything we did in that area would be highly, highly planned, discussed and reviewed. When you go through these things, you review your management procedures.”

via FT.com / Technology – Google debates face recognition technology.

This came up with a client awhile back as I recall as he wanted to split up a massive spreadsheet that he know wanted to carve up and send just certain sheets for that person to work on… well that was a year ago… but now it is possible! Thanks Google Docs!

Official Google Docs Blog: Copy sheets from one spreadsheet to another.

Hmmm this will make things easier for submitting sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools for sure!

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Sitemaps: One file, many content types.

Ummm DUH. I probably have a 4 to 1 ratio of girls to guys as friends in Facebook. This trend is obvious and has been trending this way for some time.

Globally, women demonstrate higher levels of engagement with social networking sites than men. Although women account for 47.9 percent of total unique visitors to the social networking category, they consume 57 percent of pages and account for nearly 57 percent of total minutes spent on these sites. Women spend significantly more time on social networking sites than men, with women averaging 5.5 hours per month compared to men’s 4 hours, demonstrating the strong engagement that women across the globe share with social sites.

via comScore Finds Social Networking Sites Reach Higher Percentage of Women than Men @SEWatch.

Hunch. Really. Check it out… looks neat. Have linked it to my Facebook account and will be reporting back on it soon.