Since its inception earlier this year, Google has made no secret about Google+ being a connecting point between its several brands and services, today's example being a tiny YouTube player in the social networking site as well as a couple of Chrome extensions that make the browser itself a portal to the G+ site. What you see below this paragraph is an example of what you'll get if you hit the brand new YouTube slider that'll appear in the upper right of your screen while you're browsing Google+. As for the Chrome extensions, you'll be able to get a Google +1 button right beside your URL bar, then a notification red square that'll link you back to Google+ right beside that.
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‘Google Plus’ Stories
Google+ adds Ripples, photo editing, and Google Apps enterprise support
Google unleashed three major new features for its Google+ social network today that include popular posts, analytics, and photo-editing capabilities. The company also finally opened its doors to Google Apps enterprise users, who have not been able to join Google+ via their accounts until now.
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Google+ pseudonym support imminent; 3.4bn photos uploaded says Gundotra
Google+ will soon enable the use of pseudonyms on the social network, Google's Vic Gundotra has confirmed, one of a number of enhancements addressing common complaints by existing users. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit this week, where he was joined by surprise guest Sergey Brin, Gundotra revealed that users' ability to use names others than their legal title would be permitted very soon, in a loosening of the previous real name ID policy. Meanwhile, Google+ for businesses and Google App support is also imminent.
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Google Buzz finally gets axed to focus on Google+
Google is doing some fall cleaning and sweeping out plenty of old experimental projects and social features, including the failed social attempt that was Google Buzz. In a blog post today, Google VP of Product, Bradley Horowitz, essentially explained that success requires focus and thought on what you work on as well as what you don't work on and therefore their decision to discontinue several products.
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Google+ adds real-time search and hashtags
Google is rolling out an update for its Google+ social network that includes the addition of real-time search and improved hashtag support. The announcement came today in the form of a video with Google's engineering SVP Vic Gundotra introducing the new features himself. Both features aim to make Google+ more easily searchable and to make the results more timely and relevant.
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus photos caught on Google+
Photos apparently taken on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus have been spotted on Google+, with two Google engineers sharing images that, according to the EXIF data, were shot by the currently unannounced handset. Stills taken by Roman Kirillov and Chris Yerga list “Galaxy Nexus” under camera, though Google+ default resizing of uploaded shots to 3-megapixels mean we can’t see the full quality the new Googlephone is capable of.
Zynga launches CityVille on Google+
The Google+ social network first rolled out games back in August but has been slow to add new titles. But with the recent opening up of Google+ to the public sans invitations, the platform may start getting more serious with its game offerings. Zynga, the publisher of popular game apps on Facebook, is hoping to transfer over that same success with the announcement of CityVille on Google+.
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Google+ membership soars past 43m says statistician
Unofficial figures suggest Google+ saw a 30-percent jump in members after throwing open its doors to registrations, with indications that the total user-base could amount to 43.4m. According to tracking data by Paul Allen (not the Microsoft co-founder), Google+ growth in the period following broad availability of the social network matched that of the very earliest days of the closed beta.
Facebook Timeline and The Cult Of Me
Mark Zuckerberg is a clever man. Facebook’s f8 expo was as all-singing – with Spotify – and all-dancing – with Hulu – as we could’ve hoped, but at its core it was All About Me. Timeline may be the natural evolution of each user’s profile page, but it’s also the perfect stage for our self-obsessed times. Don’t just tell people where you are now, but let them scroll back through the years to see how you got there.
Google+ Hangout with Black Eyed Peas will.i.am ON AIR now [see the live video here!]
As promised back when the upgrade to Google+ was made in regards to Hangouts functionality specifically, will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas is currently (depending on when you see this post, I suppose) broadcasting live. He and several of his best buddies are sitting in a beat laboratory where he’s doing some dances, posting to Google+ on his own phone (looks like a BlackBerry, shame on you!) and chatting about what they’re chatting about. It’s surprisingly entertaining, believe it or not – see it below right this second – what a wacky lovely promotion!
Google+ Invites Nixed, now open to all
After just three months of being inside an invite-only early build, Google's already massively popular social network is now open for anyone to join. That's not to say it's complete, of course, with new features added almost daily and multi-platform functionality being introduced by the week, it seems. Since the launch of the social network, Google notes that it's made 100 feature improvements, (including a few listed in this post, having been added as recently as today,) and they say they're ready to take the service to the next step. Google's top social media executive Vic Guntotra let the world know that the 100th feature added to Google+ is none other than Open Signups.
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Google Updates Hangouts to full Phone and Broadcast functionality
The folks at Google working on the social networking site Google+ aren’t messing around with that whole “plus” thing, taking their Hangouts video chat portion to a level above and beyond basically every competing service in a bold swoosh of updates today. Want to video chat via G+ on your phone? You can do that today. Want to broadcast a video for the public? You can do that today. Want to share your screen, share a live-drawn sketchpad, work with Google Docs, or name a Hangout to handle your specific needs? All of that is live today. On top of all this, Google is handing out Hangout APIs today for developers to create new and interesting additional apps that work on the Hangouts video chat platform. Wins all around!
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