Designers are Talking about Google+ The Complete Video Guide To Google+ Everyone is talking about Google+ right now and since more and more people are signing up and adding us to their circles each and every day, we thought there was no better time than now to put together a guide about all the features of Google’s new social network. Google has released a number of how to videos for Google+ and outside sources have also put together their own videos, explaining the new social network and its implications. Here we have compiled all of these videos into one, easy-to-digest post. Check out all the videos and then let us know what you think of Google+ in the comments below! Rocketboom: Google + Rocketboom just released a video of their take on Google+. NMA: Google plus one takes on Facebook NMA World Edition released a funny animated explanation of Google+.
The Google+ project: A quick look And now we move on to the Google+ videos that Google put out. The Google+ Circles Circles are the heart of Google+. The Google+ Hangouts The Google+ Huddle The Google+ Sparks. There is no official Google+ API, but there IS unofficial API. Inside The Google+ Engine Room | Dr Dobb's Journal. “Google + a Facebook Killer?” Question Answered. Alltop - Top Pluserati News. Asking Twitter To Commit Suicide With A Google+ Dagger. Sometimes, it’s easy for power users to get drunk on that power. I’m as guilty of this as anyone. When I constantly bitch that my Gmail account is SO DAMN SLOW, I forget that I also have a full 20 GB of email — something which Google PR always kindly reminds me is not normal.
(And I came up with my own solution — quitting email entirely.) Robert Scoble is perhaps the consummate power user. Every time a new service launches, he quickly friends or follows as many people as he can, testing the limits. Then he inevitably bitches when limits are hit, or the service doesn’t work well with that many connections.
Anyway, Scoble is the king of power using a product to its breaking point and then complaining about it. In a post entitled, “Google+ has made Twitter boring, here’s what Twitter should do about that“, Scoble goes on a long-ish rant about what features Twitter needs to add immediately to compete with the just-launched Google+. Twitter is not Google+. “First Experience” This. Google+: Fastest growing social media platform in history - San Diego Social Media. The Great List Of Chrome Extensions For Google Plus. There is a very useful collaborated document being developed for users to get started with Google Plus.
A Collaborative Document: (or how 120+ people wrote a book at the same time) is a shared file on Google docs and is being written/edited/modified while I am writing this. Oh, talking about books, check out a free ebook I wrote for google chrome users – 100 tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and Chromebooks So, when I was making a list of Google Chrome Extensions for Chrome, 1. I could make it easily 2. I could get you the best because these were picked by a large number of Google Plus users, most of them early adopters. So, here goes. Thanks everyone who made this awesome document.
Replies and more for Google+Surplus Features: * Post or respond from within the pop-up * Desktop Notifications * Notification sounds * Switch between multiple Google accounts Annotations(?) Color Bar Changer Features: * Changes color of Google Plus bar to green, pink or blue. Google Plus is Eating Startups. Google Plus, the ambitious company-wide social network launched late last month, was reportedly built in secret over an extended period of time by scores of engineers and social software designers brought into the company through a campaign of heavy hiring.
The scope of Plus's ambition is far from fully realized, though, and apparently the expansion of the team isn't complete yet either. This morning a well-backed little startup called The Fridge announced that it has been acquired by Google and will close its group sharing app up to work on something similar at Plus. It was the second little startup like it to be acquired by Google in the last two days: yesterday YCombinator alum Scoopler/Just Spotted announced the same thing. Did these little startups show promise and get multi-million dollar signing bonuses, effectively, as acquisition/hires? "Right now, Google Plus is asymmetric," Fridge founder Austin Chang told Business Insider. Features. Why You Can’t Circle Everyone Back On Google+ Four Eyed Forums - Powered by vBulletin Boundless free snapshot hosting - No register required! Anche per te battisti mn thrift stores aruba photographer photography lobster picture recipe bakery san diego city of glendale water department Free Image Web host - Free Persona Hosting At no cost Image Hosting, Photo sharing & Make sales.
Privacy, contact updates added to Google+ | Social Media | Macworld. News July 13, 2011 03:11 PM ET Computerworld - After promising earlier this week that changes to Google+ were coming, Google is making good on that vow with a privacy update and a new contacts tool. "Responding to more feedback! " posted Vic Gundotra, a senior vice president of social for Google, on Google+ late yesterday. The comment follows a post that Gundotra wrote early Monday.
"Lots of criticism for Google+," Gundotra wrote at 2:05 a.m. EDT Monday. Today, he pointed to two changes. "We've been listening to feedback from our users who want more flexible ways to find their friends on Google+," wrote Rohit Khare, a Google product manager, in a blog post. Khare noted that the new uploader tool is designed to avoid mixing up users' imported contacts with their other Google Contacts. In a video post, Khare said that when the tool is available, users will be able to download their contacts and then, under Circles Editor, select Find and Invite. 12 Most Important Things Google Must Get Right w/ G+ Google has rocked the Social Media world with the introduction of Google+, aka GooglePlus, #G+. Or have they? I believe that IF Google gets these 12 things right then they will Crush It. Disagree? Better be able to defend your comments at the end. Bring it strong. 1.
Honor Privacy Google has already found and fixed one privacy problem. 2. NO, do not just rip-off (cough) Facebook’s groups. 3. Google, I’ll mention it here, WHERE IS SEARCH?!?!?!? 4. I’m not feeling it. 5. Love the Hangouts! 6. You get what you pay for and some of us already would pay for ways to record Hangout in a Webinar type format. 7. Want me to live in GooglePlus? 8. (stifles back a scream, takes 10 deep cleansing Yoga breathes) PLEASE figure this out!
9. Yes, I have signed up for the Beta of Business Pages. 10. GooglePlus team? 11. GooglePlus does NOT mark the resurgence of Blogger. 12. Other GooglePlus people, see something I missed? G+ Bridging Together Too Irreconcilable Worlds. Continuing further with that series of blog posts on the topic of Google Plus, I thought I would move ahead today and share a third one, which I thought was going to be, originally, the last one for now, but then again things have come up and there will be another one that I will be sharing next, where I will talk a little bit about the topic of Circles and share a couple of thoughts on how I am managing them and their flows.
But for now I will spend the next few minutes talking about what I would think is the killer feature from Google Plus, at least, one of them, that you hardly ever see on any other social networking tool out there on the Social Web and which I think is probably going to be one of the main key success factors from G+: bridging together too irreconcilable worlds. Ray Wang already hinted it earlier on today on a recent tweet that I thought captured it, half way through, very nicely: “MyPOV: The thing that #googleplus #google+ has right is the Unified Communications. Google+ Won't Kill Facebook or Twitter, Google Has a Bigger Agenda. One of the effects of Google+'s controlled roll out, primarily to tech geeks and Social Media nerds, was an avalanche of "Google+ will be a (fill in the blank) killer" posts. Twitter - dead! Facebook - dead! Twitter and Facebook - dead! I've tried to hold off on such pronouncements because, A) that's the easy way out, and B) nobody knows what effects exactly Google+ is going to have on the online media habits of millions of people.
Let's not forget, while 10 million users in just a couple of weeks is impressive, it's still a relatively small sample size. Others have looked to dissect Google+, such as Ben Kunz, writing for Businessweek.com, who hailed Google+ for its lack of game mechanics (a point which I, and others, disagreed with in the comments section). Rather than examine Google+ on the micro level, my thoughts lean towards the macro. While I think Google+ is a fine platform I find myself gravitating towards it because of the little red box in the upper right-hand corner. Impressions of Google Plus. Google launched its new social media site (though they refer to it as a sharing site) Google+ this past June 28 as an invite only. You also need to have a Google account as well. There are now over 10,000,000 users and growing quickly. It is considered to be a rival of Facebook. A big way it differs from Facebook is you can add someone as a contact to any of your Circles without them adding you as a contact.
Circles are a way of organizing your contacts. Another feature of Google+ is Hangouts. Sparks is another feature. 5 Steps Google Must Take Now To Bring Google+ into the Mobile Sphere. It is official; Google has made it in the world of social networks. After countless failures, the likes of Buzz and Wave, Google+ has hit ten million users in a short period of two weeks.
It seems that user feedback is overwhelmingly positive once you get passed the initial “I don’t get why I need this in addition to Facebook”, “Google copied Twitter”, and “Checking this out but so far, I don’t get it” updates. Of course, by now it is clear to all of us that for a social network to make it, its mobile implementation has to play a very central role in its growth. The following are five steps Google must implement immediately for its growth spurt to continue into the major leagues of Twitter and Facebook who have millions of mobile users: API: Just today we saw the first iPhone app offer access to Google+. The problem is that it is a workaround and we will not be seeing many more apps enable you to post on Google+ so long as Google does not release it’s API for Google+. Author: Hillel Fuld. What’s next for Google+ Why Google+ Is an Education Game Changer. It's been a week since I snagged a Google+ invite, and while it's fun to hit the reset button on my personal social media life, what I'm really interested in is how the service is going to impact teaching and learning.
There's a good chance that Google+ is going to become a powerful communication and collaboration tool in the classroom. In fact, it could end up being a serious education game changer. Google+ has some clear advantages over Facebook in the K-12 arena, especially since students younger than 13 can't join Facebook. Some school districts even have policies prohibiting teachers from friending students of any age, period.
There isn't (yet) any such prohibition around Google+, and because the Circles feature makes it simple for teachers to separate their personal lives from their professional lives, all the awkward possibilities of students seeing photos of their teacher from a party pretty much disappear. Stanford's B.J. How G+ became a serious Biz Tool. With Google slowly pulling all the strings together between their various products, tightening them into Google+, and giving users a more streamlined experience, it’s possible that they might have a serious contender for Basecamp and other project management tools on their hands. Of course it’s not quite there yet, there are certain features that are lacking but even as is, Google offers a great option for a new or small business that doesn’t want to spring for a paid project management suite.
You can get as creative as you want with how you put Google+ to use. Communication Google clearly has this part down. Whether it’s public communication, private messages, chat, or even video chats, Google+ has it all. You can make announcements to an entire circle of colleagues, to specific colleagues, or even share information privately one-on-one.
The integration of Google Chat into Google+ makes it easy to have quick conversations all in one place. Projects Assign Tasks Document Integration Contacts. What Google+ Means For Your BIz. With all due respect to Google, its social media efforts till date have been nothing to write about. Google Wave was a disaster and Google Buzz made a limited impact. In contrast, Facebook has gone from strength to strength and emerged as the world’s leading social network that’s fast approaching the 600 million member mark. It’s been a bitter pill for the world’s leading online search giant to swallow and I expected Google to hit back strongly. Earlier this last week, Google unveiled its latest social media offering – Google+ to the world and since then social media and technology experts have been busy churning out one opinion after the other.
Comparisons to Facebook are inevitable and many experts have been quick to claim that Google+ will dethrone Facebook as the numero uno social media phenomenon. I was amongst the quick adopters of Facebook and I’ve been a Google fan since its early days. Unlike Facebook, Google isn’t a place where you’d visit to kill time. Friend Groupings. Google+, Guess Who Gets The Rights To Your Content. July 11, 2011|3:08 pm **Update: Google+ has gathered more than 10 million members, according to independent analyst Google+ is indeed providing a wonderful approach to social networking with its fresh new tools such as multi-video conferencing, circles, and sparks that have proved to be quite useful or even entertaining.
Unofficial reports suggest that Google's userbase has reached more than 4 million so far, and it doesn't seem that the craze for obtaining an invite and joining internet's newest social platform is going to end anytime soon. However, there are some things you should know before joining and if you are a photographer don't let that hype carry you away into joining recklessly. If you are going to invest years of your comments, time, and invaluable photos then you might as well take a minute to read over some Google's Terms of Service regarding the images you upload to the system. Follow us Get CP eNewsletter ›› That's right.
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