While it seems somewhat ludicrous to be picking holes in the business plan of a huge global success story like Google, their unveiling of their new Chromebook Pixel - a touchscreen laptop - certainly raises at least small questions relating to the direction they are headed.
Day by day Google have started to release all the animals in the zoo to hassle the SEO world. This has become one of the hot topic among all most all the people in the marketing process. Indeed this is a huge impact and a challenge.
Its been a while since rel="author" and rel="me" tags are in talks around SEO related sites and people. With the buzz I also couldn't resist it for too long and I just added them in my sites, just around 2 weeks ago. And, here you go it's working now, if my website appears on google search, it shows my author photo too. How cool is that? And it was so exciting for me to see that. After this it has already improved my visitor count.