The Google+ for iOS app has been released [iTunes link], offering iPhone (but not iPod touch) users a native way to access the new Google social network. As with the Google+ Android app, which Google released at the service’s launch, the iOS version supports Huddle group chats along with access to the full Stream of updates and individual Circle updates.
Google+ makes demands on free time users simply don’t have, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner has claimed, going on to suggest that the new Google service will struggle as it doesn’t fit into the established triumvirate of popular social networks. Speaking at an event this week, Weiner was asked whether Google+ could coexist with Facebook, Twitter and his own LinkedIn, Business Insider reports; the CEO’s own perspective is relatively negative, claiming that “nobody has any free time.”
The phenomenon known as Spotify is sweeping the nation, and we’re right here to give you a little key to let yourself in to the boat that is the music streaming service. Spotify will give you access to thousands of music tracks on both your computer and your mobile device, and all for a low low monthly price. But what if you just want to try it out for a while? You’ll need an invite! It just so happens that we’ve got that for you right here! Head below for some sweet instructions on how to get in on the Spotify world right this minute!
MySpace founder and former president of the social network, Tom Anderson, has cautioned Google against relying too greatly on algorithmic filtering technologies in Google+, suggesting that over-reliance on such systems has left Facebook struggling to compete. In attempting to manage the Google+ “signal to noise” ratio, Anderson writes in a TechCrunch editorial, the search giant could inadvertently kill off the copious interaction that has marked the initial days of the new social network.
Early Friday saw a surge in share prices for the internet giant Google after a rather important earning’s call the day before. This Q2 earnings call saw several announcements burst forth including $9 billion in revenue, this beating their expected $8.6 billion in earnings by a significant among. This revenue growth, being a 32% jump from just last year, had investors toasting on Friday as Google shares (GOOG) jumped as much as 13.5 percent.
There is me, and there is you. There is also that guy over there. The one looking at us. He’s watching us and listening to our conversation. I have friends. You have friends. He’s on the phone. Maybe he’s talking to his friends, telling them all about us. Here are some pictures I took. Let me see pictures of your baby. Why is that guy looking at my pictures? Aren’t you creeped out that he’s checking out pictures of your baby? Maybe you shouldn’t show them to me here. It’s not very private. Why don’t we take this discussion online.
There's a terrifying robot smashing about, and it's coming to yours neighborhood! It's no Michael Jackson apparatus, but you'll certainly be doing the Thriller when you see what we're talking about. Then there's an announcement by the NYC police that they're about to get a bit more electric, Cisco's pairing with Verizon is about to get a whole lot speedier, and SOMEone had the idea to go snooping around Google's code again, this time discovering no less than a full gaming experience on the horizon! Also don't think that Spotify has gone away, it's just begun - a full ecosystem coming up!
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Some judicious digging through the Google+ code has revealed the Google Games logo, further evidence that the search giant is preparing an online social gaming system to rival Facebook’s. Flagged up by TechCrunch tipster Yvo Schaap, in addition to the logo – relatively uninspiring, but certainly in-keeping with the minimalist aesthetic at Google+ – there are also mentions of various gaming APIs yet to be implemented publicly.
During Google's rosy Q2 2011 earnings call today with shareholders, CEO Larry Page highlighted some interesting statistics on the company's newly launched Google+ social platform. Page commended his new management team saying that they worked together "fabulously" and then proceeded to extol Google+ with some very impressive numbers that show the platform has indeed been well received---and it's not even out of beta yet.
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When the new Google+ social platform was announced for beta testing over two weeks ago, it attracted plenty of interest from personal account users as well as businesses. However, the latter was denied access, told to hold off until Google was ready to roll out corporate accounts. Now it looks like select businesses will get the privilege to trial Google+ corporate accounts starting as early as next week.
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Boy what an odd morning. Confusion over who has the 4G in their pockets and who doesn't, some more legal business that everyone LOVES to hear about, and of course EA will be purchasing Popcap for more than $650 million bucks, CASH! We've got some Apple news of course on the release front (think WHITE) and Google, on the other end of the spectrum, is stopping up some circles before they start. Concrete, Nokia, and believe it or not, no Windows Phone for tablets!
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Google has blocked an ex-employee from releasing a book titled Social Circles, despite having previously approved the project, in what the company has admitted is a Google+ related decision. Paul Adams previously led Google's social research team in the UX department, but defected to Facebook after growing dissatisfied with how his strategic ideas were ignored by the search giant; while with Google, however, he wrote a Social Circles, a book translating social behavior research into lessons for designers and developers, and which Google has now rescinded permission to publish.
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