I've been a fan of this project for years. I truly believe this will change the web in a good way.

Storified by Tom Critchlow · Thu, Oct 27 2011 01:08:07

The Real Life Social Network v2

Presentation at Voices That Matter Web Design Conference, San Francisco June 2010

Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good — Now For The Hard Part

Last night, you may have heard talk of a mysterious black bar appearing on the top of Google.com. Or you may have even seen it yourself. No, you weren't hallucinating. It was a sign of something about to show itself. Something big. Google+. What is Google+?

Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social

Google formally makes its pitch to become a major force in social networking with the unveiling of Google+ to a limited public beta. Some may wonder whether Google+ is just another questionable social effort by a company that??s had a lousy track record in that space to date.

Downloaded the Google+ android app, thought I'd found a way in but it's still in closed beta too... If anyone is listening please let me in!

— tomcritchlow · Tue, Jun 28 2011 12:38:00

Storified by Tom Critchlow · Thu, Oct 27 2011 01:53:14

OMG! This is huge. @googleanalytics now tracks page load speed right within your account!!! http://goo.gl/24zLC

— tomcritchlow · Tue, May 03 2011 10:34:14

All you need to do is add _gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']); to your GA call and you'll see page load speed. This is going to be killer

— tomcritchlow · Tue, May 03 2011 10:36:52

Some example uses of new load speed in GA: track load speed by page type, logged in/non logged in, geographic region and more

— tomcritchlow · Tue, May 03 2011 10:39:51

Read all about the super-awesome new sitespeed data from the official @googleanalytics blog: http://goo.gl/XHq7P #huge!

— tomcritchlow · Wed, May 04 2011 12:18:20

TL;DR - every single speaker was amazing.

Storified by Tom Critchlow · Thu, Oct 27 2011 14:12:37

well, thus far #linklove has been as sensual as the hash tag would suggest, oh, and @wilreynolds completely smashed it...today is a good day

— Jamie_Rock · Fri, Mar 18 2011 03:43:54

Jane is killing it. Cool calm excellence #linklove you can tell she lives and breathes competitive link building

— tomcritchlow · Fri, Mar 18 2011 03:00:13

wow @rjonesx is schooling me on some social media linking ideas, learning a ton #linklove

— wilreynolds · Fri, Mar 18 2011 04:08:32

Fantastic, engaging whitehat linkbuilding session from @tomcritchlow at #linklove

— TimWitcomb · Fri, Mar 18 2011 05:23:02

Wow @paddymoogan just killed it. My fingers are tired from typing/tweeting. Great social tool: http://dis.tl/excellinklove #linklove

— dohertyjf · Fri, Mar 18 2011 05:54:09

blown away by @randfish at #linklove.

— awarburton · Fri, Mar 18 2011 07:32:51

@seoforumsorg just made my day, 45 minutes of gold #linklove

— stinky_ink · Fri, Mar 18 2011 08:27:48

Presentations full of data make me one happy conference attendee @willcritchlow #linklove #worththemoney

— thogenhaven · Fri, Mar 18 2011 08:53:51

Storified by Tom Critchlow · Thu, Oct 27 2011 14:23:15

How Demand Media Used PR Spin to Have Google Kill Their Competitors

Feb 26, 2011 ... While on the content farm topic, it is worth mentioning ...

Number Crunchers: Who Lost In Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Change?

On Thursday, Google announced a major change to its search algorithm, designed to weed out shallow and low-quality content from its top search results. Content

Google's Farmer update: who was hurt the most? http://bit.ly/eqYfOa

— econsultancy · Mon, Feb 28 2011 04:23:00

the @wsj makes the rounds with comments from winners & losers in google's farmer update http://on.wsj.com/fS4Z7E

— dannysullivan · Mon, Feb 28 2011 13:58:12

Anyone hit hard by the farmer update and willing to share analytics with me? I have some theories and want to do some data analysis.

— tomcritchlow · Mon, Feb 28 2011 10:15:14