Google is famously driven by data. Until Google+ that data was about web pages, places and news. Now that Google has added people to the mix, how will they use this data? Is social data really critical to Google's mission of organizing the world's information, or is it more relevant to their business model of advertising? In conversation with Tim O'Reilly, Bradley Horowitz... [read more]

Google is famously driven by data. Until Google+ that data was about web pages, places and news. Now that Google has added people to the mix, how will they use this data? Is social data really critical to Google's mission of organizing the world's information, or is it more relevant to their business model of advertising? In conversation with Tim O'Reilly, Bradley Horowitz (Google's VP of Product Management) will talk about Google's successful social network and the long-term value that it brings to users and Google itself.This webcast is an extended preview of conversation taking place at O'Reilly's Strata Summit, September  20 & 21, in New York City. Strata Summit will look across the new economy of data, highlighting opportunities and challenges for business and society.The conversation will touch on: how the Google+ team thought about social data--design and policy principles that underly the service what Google is learning from Google+ interaction data interesting or even surprising discoveries from Google+ data analsyis challenges and lessons on the infrastructure side Register now and we'll send you a reminder before the event.