Google + went live for the masses today (assuming you got in before the system stopped taking new users), meaning that the search giant has taken
another stab at social networking — and at staving off the threat of Facebook.
Not exact matches
The
social - media network is once again taking a shot
at Snapchat, this time with another
stab at its struggling Slingshot app, the new and improved Slingshot 2.0 (free, available for iOS and Android).
Catholic agencies have sometimes made a
stab at including priests, but usually only for special «moral» services or as regular
social case workers.
Despite the usual strained
stabs at topical
social significance, Frakes maintains a brisk pace, staging the battle scenes with panache and undercutting the absurd techno gibberish with crass but leavening humour.
Obviously a
stab at the state of the sensationalist, entertainment first, state of modern cable news, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues might actually provide a valuable
social critique, amongst its many, many, tasteless jokes.
Barnes & Noble is also taking a
stab at building its own
social network among Nook users called Nook Friends.
In 1987, the United Nations Brundtland Commission took a
stab at it, saying
social and economic development is sustainable if it «meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.»
It also took another
stab at adding a
social layer to the platform.