Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web. Update: For our international readers, this post is also available in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. - Ed.
Among the most basic of human needs is the need to connect with others. With a smile, a laugh, a whisper or a cheer, we connect with others every single day. Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools. In this basic, human way, online sharing is awkward.
We’d like to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software. +Circles: share what matters, with the people who matter most Not all relationships are created equal. It’s sloppy. From close family to foodies, we found that people already use real-life circles to express themselves, and to share with precisely the right folks. The web, of course, is filled with great content—from timely articles to vibrant photos to funny videos.
Could Become Fastest Growing Network in History. Bill Gross is the founder of prolific business incubator Idealab and its Twitter app builder and buyer Ubermedia; he's wrangled with Twitter headquarters over access to the Twitter API and reportedly tried (unsuccessfully) to outbid Twitter to acquire leading desktop Twitter client Tweetdeck.
But can you guess what Gross is hot on now? Google Plus - the new Google social network launched late last month that's been stealing the hearts, minds and time of many Twitter power players. Today Gross wrote that he believes Plus may be the fastest social network in history to hit 1 million users and he predicts it will become the fastest network ever to hit 100 million. That's a bold prediction that if accurate could point to some serious social networking disruption. Larry Page On Google+: Over 10 Million Users, 1 Billion Items Being Shared Per Day. Google CEO Larry Page headlined Google’s earnings call today and of course revealed some interesting statistics on Google’s most recent product, Google+.
Page said the new management structure he implemented is “working together fabulously,” and helping complete Google’s goal of making “sharing on web like sharing in real life.”
Competition. Use Cases. Some issues. Features. Google+: Sharing but like real life. Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about. In life we connect with all kinds of people, places and things.
There’s friends and family, of course, but there’s also the sports teams we root for, the coffee shops we’re loyal to, and the TV shows we can’t stop watching (to name a few). Google Hires Silicon Valley Tech Blogger Louis Gray as Google+ Evangelist. Notable Silicon Valley tech blogger and startup consultant Louis Gray is finally turning his passion for Google’s products and services into a career.
Gooogle has a 'celebrity acquisition plan' Lady Gaga appears with Google's Marissa Mayer.
The singer has 11.7 million Twitter followers, but she's not on Google+. Google is working on a plan to help publicize Google+, according to e-mails Developers are devising a system that would verify the identities of public figures Google looks to be recreating the conditions that helped Twitter reach the mainstream (CNN) -- Google would like its new social network to be well-known in Hollywood circles. To that end, the Internet giant is drawing up a "celebrity acquisition plan" to help publicize Google+, its 3-week-old social network, according to Google e-mails reviewed by CNN. As part of this initiative, Google is beginning to devise a system that would verify the identities of public figures who sign up for the service, said Brett Schulte, a Hollywood consultant and organizer of social-media gatherings called Tweet House. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment.
Being "verified" on Twitter has become something of a status symbol. The Google+ Ecosystem is Slowly Expanding – Even Without an API. Google+ doesn’t currently offer an API, but that isn’t stopping developers from trying to offer Google+-related apps and services.
Given how fast Google’s new social network is growing, it doesn’t come as a surprise that developers are working hard to get a head start in developing services for it, even without Google’s support. Over the last two weeks, we’ve seen an explosion of activity around offering Google+ services. These range from basic services that let you customize your profile picture to basic stats services and more complex web apps that crawl public Google profiles, index them and make them searchable.
Google+ Added $20 Billion To Google’s Market Cap. How much is social worth to Google?
Investors added $20 billion to Google’s market cap the first week after the launch of Google+ on June 28. A Morgan Stanley downgrade on Friday, brought the total down to $15.8 billion because of doubts whether Google will indeed be able to capitalize on new products such as Google+. But somewhere in between there, give or take a few billion, is how much more the market thinks Google is worth than before the launch of Google+. On June 27 (the day before the announcement), the stock closed at $482.80. It rose to a high of $546.60 on July 7, for a $20.6 billion gain to its market cap (with 322.25 million shares outstanding). Of course there are other factors at play here (the health of Google’s core search business, the overall market, etc.).
Bravo, Larry Page. Google+: The Complete Guide. Using Google+?
Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. Guide updated January 18, 2012 Google+: It's the hot social network on the block. In just a few months, Google's competitor to Facebook and Twitter has amassed more than 40 million users, and its growth hasn't stopped. Google+, however, isn't the easiest thing to understand. A recent change new and old Google+ users should take note of is Search Across Your World launched on Jan. 10, 2012. The Google+ Song. The Top 100 Google+ users.
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