Google+ Vs. Facebook: The War Of The Internet Titans

Some people say Google+ has it all; that it is the perfect mix between Facebook and Twitter. Below are some side by side comparisons, including privacy, chat and friends, between Facebook and Google+. Will this battle of Internet titans go the distance or will Google+ get the knockout and become the new Social Media Heavyweight Champion of the World?

Invite your entire Facebook graph into Google Plus

Here’s a trick to get everyone from your Facebook social graph into Google Plus:

1. Sign up for a Yahoo! Mail account, and import all of your Facebook contacts. Click “Contacts” at the top, and then “Import Contacts”. Authorize Facebook access to your Yahoo! address book.
2. Log in to Google Plus (http://plus.google.com) and navigate to your “Circles” (https://plus.google.com/circles).
3. Click “Find and Invite”, and then click Yahoo! Import your Facebook friends to the “Suggestions” section.
4. Drag everyone into the appropriate “Circle”. See screenshot below.

If you want an invite, please fill out this form: http://goo.gl/tG3I3

Microsoft Releases Ie9, Non-committal on Zune

For more than a decade from the mid-1990s through 2006, IE commanded an 80%-plus market share, and Microsoft did very little to improve it. But Mozilla Firefox,Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Europe’s Opera browser have been steadily eroding that dominance.

And as of Tuesday, you can download Mozilla’s Firefox 4 “release candidate” software, the latest version of the popular open source Web browser, which is nearing its official release.

“In the long term, IE9 will help stabilize Microsoft’s share in browsers, assuming they can keep up with the fast pace of research and development coming from the open-source crowd,” says IDC software applications analyst Al Hilwa.

Hilwa also notes that one of IE9’s distinguishing capabilities is the inclusion of a “Do Not Track” privacy mechanism that’s similar to a privacy feature introduced by Chrome. Microsoft and Google have taken steps to block some advertising networks from monitoring everywhere you go on the Internet, referred to as “click-stream tracking.”