# Social Media
URL: /technology/social-media

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Posts on Social Media, newest first.

- [Social Music Review: TurnTable, Google Music, and Spotify](/technology/social-media/social-music-review-turntable-google-music-and-spotify.md) (2011-07-27) - In the past 4 months or so, Social Music has been at the forefront of my day. Honestly, most of it is spent in TurnTable.fm, and with good reason! The latest wave in music apps have focused on organizing and playing music in the cloud, detaching us the tethers of the wire as well as introducing us to music we have never heard. For all you iTunes fanboys out there, this is serious competition. Gone may be the days of “syncing” your iPod to your PC. (and having to erase and restore all your device data if you reformat your PC.)
- [Google+ in Gmail = Gmail+ A Match Made in Heaven](/technology/social-media/google-plus-in-gmail-gmailplus-a-match-made-in-heaven.md) (2011-07-08) - Gmail+, that’s what it is! An amazing mashup of services. Now I can check my social media updates from Google+ while in my Gmail inbox, which is where I always am anyways. I can even read a comment and reply to it without leaving the inbox. So what do I have now? E-mail, Voice, Chat, Video Chat, Calendar, Docs, Contacts, Task List AND Social Network all on one screen? Amazing. *Clap* for Google. The integration is Seamless, albeit in order to use it you have to use Gmails newest theme (Preview). I highly recommend it. It transforms Gmail to look similar to…
- [Google+ “Nearby”, What Latitude + Buzz Should Have Been](/technology/social-media/google-nearby-what-latitude-buzz-should-have-been.md) (2011-07-08) - Google+ on Android is amazing. It has a feature called “Nearby” that lets you see a public stream of messages that are occuring near your GPS Location. I haven’t been able to find this feature on the web version (for obvious reasons I am guessing). Google Latitude used Google Buzz to pull this off, but it was much more difficult to do. You could only do it from Google Maps, and for a while only from your phone, and you would have to navigate over chat bubbles on the map to click and see them. There was also no real…

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