Remember the days when we looked to Google as a leading innovator in the online space? We still do to some degree but there is a crowded field of competitors that has been beating Google to the punch in many areas. As a result, the search giant is starting to come off as a “me too!” player as of late with Google+ being the biggest example.

Of course, anything developed to help push the Google+ experience to the world will carry the ring of “me too!” as well. The latest rumblings are that Google is developing a third party commenting platform that would compete against Facebook. This is an interesting development to us here at Marketing Pilgrim since we just moved to the Facebook platform ourselves.

The Next Web reports

In the age of “promote first to test the waters then wait until whenever to actually do something” we have the latest entry by Twitter. It has been over a month since Twitter and American Express announced their quest to get 10,000 small businesses to sign up for the program.

Well, today we get a press release, a blog post and a video all promising that things are actually happening finally … but slowly. Here’s the video.

In fact you can still be part of the 10,000 eligible businesses if you want (not getting the response hoped for maybe?). Here’s the press release call for more sign-ups.

American Express is offering $100 in free Twitter advertising to the first 10,000 eligible cardmembers and merchants who participate in this rollout. Companies interested in participating can still register via http://ads.twitter.com/amex.

Every major website has a lengthy Terms of Service policy, but how many people actually read them before signing up? Sure, they all check the box saying they did it, but I’d estimate that 98% of those people are lying.

Take Pinterest, the wildfire of the internet world. Their original Terms of Service policy included this:

By making available any Member Content through the Site, Application or Services, you hereby grant to Cold Brew Labs a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view, and otherwise exploit such Member Content only on, through or by means of the Site.