Google has added a ton of awesome new features to Google+. Not all of them are well known though. Take the Google+ Photo Search feature. Google already guesses what you are talking about in your posts and adds tag to your posts automatically (we have shown how you can turn that off here). You can now search your photos more conveniently on G+. Just type what you are looking for and Google will do its best to find photos that match your query.
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Google launched a new layout for Google+ just recently. Let’s just say not everyone is happy with the new Pinterest-like design. To be fair, Google does allow you to go back to a one-column design if you prefer to use the site that way (see above). That is not perfect though as it has a lot of whitespace. The folks at gHacks have shared a great tip that shows you how to make your posts wider: [click to continue…]
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Google+ has a brand new user interface. Not everyone is a fan of all the updates Google has delivered. But they are here to stay for now. Those of you who have been using Facebook and Pinterest recently are going to find the experience on G+ a tad bit familiar. The user interface, photos, Hangouts, and many other areas on the site have been upgraded. [click to continue…]
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Continue ReadingGoogle has been pushing Google+ hard in the past few months. Many webmasters are now adding Google+ Sign-In to their sites (the Verge being the latest one). Google+ Sign-in is also helping sites get more of their visitors to install their Android apps. Seth Sternberg, Google’s product manager for the Google+ platform explains:
When we launched Google+ Sign-In, we wanted to bridge the gap between desktop and mobile by allowing web users to instantly download a site’s Android app with just one click using our over-the-air install feature. Since launch, we’re now finding that 40% of people who are offered to install a website’s mobile app, accept. This is a significant benefit for consumers, who can now easily access their favorite sites on the go, and developers, who are experiencing greater mobile usage.
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Continue ReadingGoogle is about to lunch a new interface for Google Maps. The new Google Maps will be more Google+ friendly also. You will soon be able to restrict local search results to places recommended by your Google+ circles.
The new interface will be more mobile friendly, putting emphasis on the map instead of other elements. We will have to wait a few days to see this update in action.
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Continue ReadingGoogle has now made it easier for you to track the amount of free storage you have left for your Google services. It is now offering 15 GB of unified storage for free to use between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ photos.
separate storage doesn’t make as much sense anymore. So instead of having 10 GB for Gmail and another 5 GB for Drive and Google+ Photos, you’ll now get 15 GB of unified storage for free to use as you like between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos.
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Many top blogs and social media “gurus” wrote off Google+ when it was launched. The community has proven those folks wrong over the past few months. Google has been improving Google+ a lot to get more people active on it. Data by Nielsen now suggests that Google+ users spent only about 7 minutes a day on the site in March. The same data points to Facebook users wasting 6 hours and 44 minutes on the site. [click to continue…]
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Google has launched yet another new widget for its social network. You can now add photo spheres to your website using the widget. As long as your photos are hosted on Google+ or Picasa, you are covered:
We just launched a new Photo Sphere viewing widget that you can add to ANY website. Check out this example by +Colby Brown (http://goo.gl/BbEpS) and see instructions here: https://developers.google.com/panorama/web
A pretty neat update if you are a photographer. It is pretty easy to implement too.
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Have you ever provided tech support to friends and family members over the Internet? Hangouts Remote Desktop is a cool application that lets you control other people’s computers and help them out:
For those of you who play tech support for friends and family, there’s now a Hangouts app to make things easier — powered by the same technology behind Chrome Remote Desktop. [click to continue…]
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Google+ Comments for WordPress Plugin
by Panah on May 7
in Google Plus News, WordPress
It did not take the good community behind WordPress a whole lot of time to come up with a few Google+ Comments plugins for WordPress. Google has not released an official one yet but you can use the Google+ Comments plugin to make your website Google+ friendly. What’s neat about this particular plugin is the fact that it adds tabs for Facebook, Disqus, and WordPress comments to your website.
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