Mashable: What’s In a Name: Google+ Is Your Plus One

What’s In a Name: Google+ Is Your Plus One

9 hours ago by Jennifer Van Grove  http://mashable.com/2011/07/09/google-plus-plus-one/30

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Google+, the long-awaited and highly ambitious Circle-driven social network from Google, has a clumsy name. It’s a search-unfriendly and seemingly unfitting moniker for the world’s next great social network. So, why this bizarre name choice?

At launch, Google+ project co-leader Bradley Horowitz told AllThingsDthat the name denotes how the product will make every other Google product social. “It’s almost the smallest modifier on Google itself that you can imagine,” he said.

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That small modifier carries one huge meaning. It’s not just Google any longer, it’s Google plus you, where Google becomes your plus one for the web...  

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5 Essential Tools for the Mobile Journalist

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Mashable – The Social Media Guide

The multi-function playground that is the smartphone has shrunk the capabilities of a van-sized 1970’s news team into the pocket of a single reporter. Today, front-page news can stream from any individual with a cell phone camera and a Twitter account, as it did during Iran’s election protests last summer. Today, major news outlets, such as CNN, have crowdsourced parts of their newsroom to locally-savvy citizen journalists, often armed with little more than a camcorder.

In addition to the standard smartphone equipment, such as a camera and social networking applications, we’ve compiled a list of five additional tools that can help a single journalist rival a fully-functional news team. With these tools, a mobile journalist can record data, edit clips, and broadcast polished stories as events unfold.
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