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Month: April 2011

Everything You Need To Know About Google’s +1

The +1 button is a shorthand for “this is pretty cool” or “you should check this out.” Click +1 to publicly give something your stamp of approval. Your +1’s can help friends, contacts and others find the best stuff when they search.

Today we’re taking that a step further, enabling you to share recommendations with the world right in Google’s search results. It’s called +1—the digital shorthand for “this is pretty cool.” To recommend something, all you have to do is click +1 on a webpage or ad you find useful. These +1’s will then start appearing in Google’s search results.

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Middle-aged? Believe it or not, you’ve never been brainier

We all worry about getting old. We all worry about getting sick. But we really worry about losing our minds. Are our brains on an inevitable downward slide?

At work, at home, with friends, I was surrounded by people who knew what they were doing. These were people, also in the thick of middle age, who, despite not remembering the name of the restaurant they’d just eaten in or the book they just read, were also structuring complex deals between oil companies on different continents, then coming home to cook complicated recipes.

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