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Larry Page to Google staff: Your bonus is tied to Facebook envy

Social media strategy at the point of a gun

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Larry Page has worked out who at Google is responsible for its long string of failures in the social media space: everybody. Page is tying a proverbial lamb chop around the neck of its new social thingy, "Google +1", in the hope that the dogs will pay it some attention.

According to Business Insider, Chocolate Factory boss Larry Page has made 25 per cent of staff bonuses contingent on social media success in 2011. The company-wide memo was sent on Friday.

Employees – including those with no involvement in the company’s social media products – must test them and provide feedback, the memo reportedly said.

The memo also reportedly demands employees to adopt a kind of Amway model, pushing social media services onto family and friends in case it can hit upon a product that doesn’t suck, doesn’t blow off its potential customers with privacy invasions, and doesn’t raise howls of laughter among media and reviewers. ®

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Argh

Trying to think of a good way to segue this in without it seeming forced, but whathehell..

..am I the only one sick to death of the social media crap that is drowning Google Maps for Android? I don't care about bloody Latitude and co, why can't they break it out into an external addon, like they did street view?

End of rant. Sorry.

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Larry Page = PHB?

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-07-09/

Sums it up better than I ever could.

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Really?

Are you kidding me? My reaction to this Larry Page initiative is "-1"!

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