Since 2007, I have been quite active on Facebook — alongside about a billion other people and counting! — to keep in touch with family, friends and with work colleagues spread all over the world, especially considering the kind of work I was doing before starting this Internet venture.

However, in the past couple of months, I have started to immerse myself in that other social network — Google Plus.

G+ will play a large part in the social media website project that I have been describing in my first few posts here.

One cool tech thing that can be done with G+ posts is to embed them outside of the Google ecosystem itself — which Google makes really easy to do cuz this draws people back into the Google-verse. To interact with these posts – to comment or to follow the author – one has to have and be signed into a Gmail account.

So, here’s my first of what will be ongoing Google Plus embeds on various topics that attract my interest (other than social media, which will be the focus of my other developing website project):