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In spite of its considerable flaws, a new study finds we can’t get enough of Facebook, but I’m hoping Google+ has the chops to make a serious run at it.

Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.

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With Google Plus, it’s time to start taking Google seriously as a social networking competitor.

Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.

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When Google Executive Wael Ghonim was arrested and detained by Egypitian police, it put a Google employee in the center of the drama, and it also highlighted Google’s lack of social tools.

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I came across a Chrome extension that lets you Tweet any page as though it had a ‘Tweet’ button (even when it doesn’t). It’s incredibly convenient. In fact, you get the same Tweet dialog box you see when you click a Twitter ‘Tweet’ button (as opposed to say Tweet Meme).

Go to the Tweet Button by Shareaholic page on Chrome  and follow the instructions for installing.

Once it’s in place, you just select it and the Tweet dialog pops up (like the one shown above). That’s it.  I’m sure you’ll love it as much as I do.

I’ve let another week slip by without a Friday 5, but fear not I’m back again this week and ready to roll. I had a good excuse. I spent a week on the West coast visiting the ARMA 2010 conference–that’s records managers and governance folks– and Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara. I was also hard at work on an up coming article for EContent Magazine on the connection between content and location.

While I was away, Facebook came up with a new messaging system. Doesn’t it seem like they have a new announcement every week? They are beginning to remind of me of Google in more ways than one. Speaking of Google, they quietly released a new service, much like Yelp, that lets you rate local businesses. I will try to post something on it next week. Then there a couple of upstarts: Path, the so-called personal social network and RockMelt, the new socially aware browser.

Anyway, here’s this week’s Friday 5:

• Facebook’s New Messaging System Explained [VIDEO] – Mashable.
• RockMelt promises Facebook-linked web browsing on Chromium – Electronista.
• Google Hotpot: Social Layers Or Reinforced Box? - Outspoken Media.
• How to Control Your Privacy With Foursquare and Other Geoloaction Services – Social Media Examiner.
• Path — Introducing The Personal Network – Path Blog.

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Another week passed by and Facebook and Google manage to dominate the social media news. First we had Facebook announce its relationship with Bing and its integration in Skype. These are hard relationships to ignore, but Google, not to be outdone here made two big announcements of its own: First all it gave Marissa Mayer was promoted and put in charge of location and local services, this is the same area covered by the Facebook-Bing deal.

Secondly Google announced monster third quarter earnings, and CEO Eric Schmidt made it clear that Google was going to be getting much more social too.

Let’s not forget that Microsoft also launched Windows Phone 7 this week too.

Without further adieu, this week’s Friday 5:

• Schmidt On Social: “We Want People To Be More Logged Into Google.” – TechCrunch.
• Why blogging still matters – O’Reilly Radar Blog.
• FourSquare Co-Founder Sees Credit Card Links, More User Rewards in the Future – DailyFinance.
• The Fallacy of Twitter - Lubor on Tech Blog.
• When Social Sites Get Anti-social - Internet Evolution.

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Seems to me Facebook made an odd choice when it chose to hitch its wagon to Microsoft Bing, but time will tell.

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As rumors flew on Sunday of a possible Facebook phone, I couldn’t think of a worse idea. Much like Google, a software company built on an advertising model, Facebook doesn’t need its own phone. It needs to work on everyone else’s phone.

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In a post this week on FierceContentManagement, I explain how the Google Angstro purchase last week could be an important piece of the upcoming Google social networking tool: Google Me.

Read my full post on FierceCM.

I wrote about Paul Adams’ presentation on social networking best practices on FierceContentManagement. The presentation could provide some insight into what Google’s social networking tool could look like.

See my full post on FierceContentManagement.