Blog Entries for July 25, 2011

By Elysa Vreeland, Posted in In the News

Welcome back football! The NFL Season will commence as the lockout ends! For over five months fans have been wondering if legality issues within the NFL would interrupt a much anticipated football season. Had the NFL lockout continued not only would fans be devastated, but a reported $160 million would be lost in the hosting cities of the NFL teams -- A devastation to sports fans and the economies of these areas which seemed likely before today's announcement.  NFL commissioner Roger Goodell assures... read more.

• July 25, 2011
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By Mary Manzo, Posted in Google Articles

Google announced today that they will be publishing a regular quarterly, a "thought experiment" that will allow others to gain insight on stratagems carried out by Google and why and how those decisions come about. This new experiment is known as the Think Quarterly. The first was actually published back in March of 2011 but that edition was only meant for a small number of UK partners and advertisers. Google along with other industry leaders will be discussing particular ideas that inspire trends and b... read more.

• July 25, 2011
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By Zack Levine, Posted in Google Plus

Whether Google+ will eventually overtake Facebook and Twitter as the king of social networks is still very much uncertain. This much, however, is already known: in terms of growth rate, it is absolutely smashing them to pieces. The chart below, posted by Google's Leon Haland on Google+, shows just how quickly Google+ is growing compared to the rises of Facebook and Twitter. As one can see, it took Google+ only twenty-four days to reach twenty million users. It took Twitter 1,035 days to reach the same nu... read more.

• July 25, 2011
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