These additional results show up if you are logged in to GMail or other Google services. You may recognize a link to your friend’s blog post or someone you follow on Twitter.

Here is an example search result from my social circle:

Exploring Your Google Social Circle

Google has provided a dashboard which contains comprehensive details on your entire social circle.

From the same page you can also confirm if your content is appearing within social results.

5 Ways to Get Your Content to Appear

There are a few simple, yet important methods for getting your content to appear on social results. Follow the tips below to boost exposure to your content.

1. Setup your Google Profile and add links to your websites
   This is the most important method for having your content to appear within social circles. Simply edit your profile and add links to your blogs, other social profiles and websites.
2. Connect with people on Google Buzz
   Networking on Buzz will quickly add people to your social circle.
3. Encourage adding your RSS feed to Google Reader
   When your readers add your blog feed to Google’s RSS reader, that content has a chance of appearing in social results.
4. Add other social profile links and grow those networks
   Almost all of the social circle results I’ve encountered come from a connection on Twitter (shown in above screenshot). Add links to your YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr profiles for instant connections with your friends on those networks.
5. Email your associates and friends with GMail
   When you email people using GMail, they are added to your contacts. If those individuals also use GMail they will appear in your Chat Contacts and are further added to your social circle.

Thank you for reading. Please connect with me on Google so that I might discover your content as well!

Each city’s local section has 5 featured articles, sub-categories of local topics of interest and a full archive of articles related to the city.

For example, the San Francisco local section has a great feature on how to find the perfect location for your Bay Area startup. It includes this Google map by Posterous founder Gary Tan; a must see.

The page also includes sub-sections for the city, including Venture Capitol, Google, Facebook, Digg, startup incubator Y Combinator, Silicon Valley and other topics of interest.

I think these geo-features are an excellent idea that will become an increasing trend. They show a lot of promise towards engaging readers on a personal level which will lead to lots of referrals for Inc. Magazine.

The next step would be to integrate the local sections with popular social networks and include real-time feeds from Twitter and Foursquare.

Here is the full list of new local sections for you to explore:

• Atlanta
• Beijing
• Chicago
• Hong Kong
• Las Vegas
• Los Angeles
• London
• New York City
• San Francisco
• Seattle
• Shanghai
• Washington, D.C.

Inc. Magazine plans to include more cities in the coming months.

Excellent presentation updated with current stats and concepts of social media today.

I recommend you use Menu > Fullscreen option.

Skip to slide #30 if you already know social media is huge.

They have built a network of specialized odd-ball sites that ultimately lead back to Converse.com

The traffic is cheap, the visitor is entertained and the Converse brand extends it’s reach greatly.