If you didn't know that Google also owns YouTube, you'd be a bit suspicious of the interface used by Google in a new feature added to their social network allowing users to record video from their share box and post it for the world to see. Your own webcam will be your weapon here, and a rather simple interface is what you'll be using to make it happen. Once you've recorded yourself looking like a pro, you can post and share the same way you've been sharing the rest of the materials on Google+, with as many or as few of your Circles as you like.
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Google+ mobile web gets hot updates, tablet apps still nowhere in sight
Those of you participating in the social network known as Google+ over the past several months know that it can get quite addicting, and with the two value-added features Google has just rolled out for the mobile web version of the experience, surely the fun will increase tenfold. The new features include first the "What's Hot" category at the top of your feeds list. With this you'll be able to see the most shared and read items on Google+ at any given moment, this bringing the most popular bits in to your fingers at a single tap.
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Google facing EU antitrust charges at end of March
Whether or not Google is formally accused of antitrust behaviors by the European Commission will be decided at the end of March, it's been confirmed, suggesting the EU has accelerated its investigation into the search giant's behaviors online. "I will receive comments from the case team towards the end of the first quarter" EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told Reuters this week. "I do not expect anything sooner. Let us see"
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Google+ gets photo meme creation tool
Google has added meme creation tools to Google+, allowing users to easily add text to their images. Set to roll out over the coming days, according to senior software engineer Colin McMillen, the new tool simply involves uploading a picture to the sharebox on Google+ and then typing in some suitably comedic words over the top.
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Google+ faces FTC investigation over search antitrust
Google's social network, Google+, will also come under investigation in a US FTC antitrust probe, according to sources, as the Commission examines whether the search giant has improperly used its heft to squeeze out rivals. Although originally expected to cover search, the US Federal Trade Commission's inquiry will now be expanded to look at Google+, two people "familiar with the situation" tell Bloomberg. The social network, and how it now feeds into search results, made headlines last week after Google announced plans to more closely personalize users' search experience.
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Google facing renewed FTC attention over Google+ search integration
Google faces a potential FTC complaint and possible investigation over its "Search plus Your World" integration of Google+ into regular search results, with at least one US privacy watchdog saying it is weighing filing an objection with the government agency. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) flagged up its concerns with the new search system earlier today, arguing it makes users' personal data more accessible than before. "Users can opt out of seeing personalized search results," the group pointed out, "but cannot opt out of having their information found through Google search."
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Google+ Hangouts adds screen-sharing & boosts to TV-scale
Having revealed it has designs on your search results earlier this week, now Google+ has set its sights on collaborative working tools with the addition of screen sharing. The updated Hangouts - impromptu video calling held within the browser - now includes the ability to show fellow video chat participants what's going on in your screen, according to Hangouts designer Christopher Johnson.
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Google Maps app adds more floorplans; Google+ geo-game previewed
Google has pushed out its second update for Google Maps for Android in a week, with more new indoor floorplans along with various battery and location fix improvements, while previewing a new map-based Google+ game. The update follows the earlier addition of CES floorplan mapping to the app, and sees data collected using Google's Floor Plans tool pushed out into the Android software.
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Twitter livid over Google search filtering
Twitter has struck out at Google's new Search plus Your World integration of Google+ into regular search results, describing the move as "bad for people, publishers, news organizations and Twitter users." Google announced earlier today that it would be using Google+ information to better personalize search results for users, showing friends' mini-profiles, contextually-filtered topics and suggested new contacts in among the regular findings. That's obviously upset Twitter, which seems to believe it's being forced away from Google users' eyeballs.
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Google Search plus Your World pulls Google+ into results
Google has launched Search plus Your World, an awkward title for what amounts to social context in the search engine. Thanks to integration with Google+, the updated search box now pulls in photos and posts from a user's own account and those of the people they've circled, as well as making suggestions of other people they might be interested in following. The result is more tailored search results, Google says, that use the expertise and opinions of your friends to get you better answers.
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Microsoft Studios signs casual gaming deal
Microsoft's gaming arm has inked a deal with a social gaming specialist, for a multi-title collaboration that could flesh out the Windows 8 Store or even bring a Halo-style mini-game to Facebook. The agreement [pdf link] between Microsoft Studios and Arkadium will see the two work together to "develop casual and social cross-platform experiences" that will likely benefit Windows PC, tablet, Windows Phone and Xbox users.
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Google+ passes 62 million users, adding 625,000 new users daily
It may be because of the brand appeal, the TV commercials, the Android 4.0 release, or the general holiday spirit (or rather, blatant commercialism) that Christmas brings, or an amalgamation of all these factors, but there is no doubt that the number of new user signups for Google+ each day has grown rather rapidly in the past several weeks. Google+ has apparently just passed the 62 million user mark, and adds about 625,000 new users daily, according to unofficial Google statistician Paul Allen.
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