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[Bapun]

RE: google + is now open to all

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[ssparikshya]

RE: google + is now open to all

added u in my circle

 

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[Biswajit.HD]

Google is getting ready for businesses to start jumping aboard its Google+ social network. The social network Monday began to roll out Google+ Pages to help businesses create a presence on the social network platform for connecting with their users locally and worldwide.
Vic Gundotra, Google senior vice president of engineering, wrote in a blog post that users can add businesses to their circles, recommend them with a +1 and connect with business team members personally in Hang Outs.

"For you and me, this means we can now hang out live with the local bike shop, or discuss our wardrobe with a favorite clothing line, or follow a band on tour," Gundotra wrote. "Google+ Pages give life to everything we find in the real world. And by adding them to circles, we can create lasting bonds with the pages (and people) that matter most."

Google+ engineers appear to be gradually rolling out the new Pages. While some organizations, like the band Coldplay, already have signed up, not everyone can. Some users clicking on the link to create a business page receive the prompt, "Google+ Pages isn't ready for everyone," and asks users to "check back soon." Gundotra said in his blog post that everyone "will soon be able to join."

Google released its social network last June and a month later was asking enterprises and organizations to back off from using the site for business purposes. "Right now, we're very much focused on optimizing for the consumer experience," said Christian Oestlien, a developer on the Google+ project, in a video blog posted last summer. "But we have a great team of engineers building a similarly optimized business experience for Google+. We are very excited about it and hope to roll it out later this year."

At the time, Google also put out a call for businesses that would be interested in acting as a test group so Google engineers could see how users want to interact with companies. A matter of days after that post, Google said it was accelerating its efforts to develop a business version of Google+. The company also noted that "tens of thousands" of businesses had signed up to be part of their test group.

In Monday's blog post, Gundotra did not say how the company had optimized Google+ Pages for business use. Google has not yet responded to a request for more information. (view embedded video below for a sampling of Google+ for businesses)

Despite the lack of details, Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group, said this is a good move for Google+. "It's high time that Google delivered on the promise of a more business-oriented social networking mechanism," Olds said. "This is one area where they can get a jump on Facebook and make a name for themselves."

Many businesses and organizations use Facebook for marketing purposes, but the social network isn't optimized for them, Olds said. Monday's announcement could give Google+ an advantage in the lucrative enterprise market. A group of businesses, including Macy's, Pepsi, Toyota, Angry Birds and Zen Bikes, already have set up business pages on Google+.

"With Facebook, companies are using mechanisms that are really designed and geared to individuals," he added. "While they're making it work, they'd probably be better served with tools that are designed with companies in mind. Google+ can get the jump on Facebook if they can put together a set of tools that make social networking easier and more effective for businesses."

source : pc world

 

[Biswajit.HD]

Google Plus, the search engine giant's social network, has now crossed the 40 million user mark. This statistic is all the more impressive considering the timeframe in which this was achieved: Google+ was initially launched in June 2011, in a beta format, and it only recently opened its doors to the public in September 2011.

If you still can't appreciate this statistic, consider the case of Facebook: one of the world's largest social networks, which was founded in 2004, it took three years to gather a user base of 25 million - it achieved a user base of 50 million users in October 2007. Of course, it could be pointed out that the respective periods of time when these competing social media services were developed were also vastly different: in 2004, the concept of social media was just in its infancy as opposed to 2011, when it has grown to become an almost integral segment of the online world.

This is the second record that Google Plus has achieved - back in August, the Internet's giant's social network was the fastest to attract 25 million unique visitors, in less than a month since it initial launch. These numbers are definitely impressive, but they don't tell the whole story - many of the Google+ users are reportedly not that active.

It's left to be seen whether there will be a clear winner in the social media arena, as on the one side you have Google Plus, with its rapidly expanding user base, and on the other hand, there is Facebook, which already has a massive 800 million user base worldwide. And more importantly, it will depend upon which of these two companies can push forward their respective advantages to outdo the other. Things could also end up in a stalemate, with neither company being able to best the other. From a consumer's point of view, the continued competition can only benefit the end user, and that is always good news - a case in point would be Facebook tailoring a number of it's features to 'compete' with similar features that appeared in Google Plus, such as 'Circles'.

source : pc world

 

[Biswajit.HD]

Google has started pushing its Google+ social networking service further into Gmail with new features that let users add to their circles directly from their email accounts.

It works like this: If you receive an email from a user with a Gmail account who also happens to be a Google+ user, you will be able to add them directly to your Google+ circles straight from your email. You will also see their latest status update on Google+ on the right side of your email. Gmail is also integrating Google+ into its contacts application as any updates that users make to their personal information on their Google+ pages will automatically sync up with the contact information you have for them in your Gmail contacts folder.

Additionally, Gmail users will now have the option of directly sharing any pictures they send and receive on Gmail on their Google+ pages. So instead of merely having "view" and "download" options when you get a picture through email, you'll also be able to click "share" and put the picture directly onto Google+.

Google says it will be rolling out the Google+ integrations into Gmail over the next few days. Google has been making quite a few changes to its always-popular Gmail system lately, as the newest version of the software gives users more power to customize how Gmail looks on their screens. Among other things, Gmail users can now resize their label and chat windows and expand the size of their inbox emails to make for a less-cluttered inbox. Google has also introduced a Gmail app designed specifically for iPhone and iPad users and was pitched by the company as something "designed to be fast, efficient and take full advantage of the touchscreen and notification capabilities of your device" while also representing "one more reason to switch to Gmail."

source : pc world

 

[Niraj Rathod]

Google Plus, the internet giant's social networking platform, which was launched in September, has touched 62 million users.
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[Biswajit.HD]

Google+ membership is accelerating, and the young social network is now adding 625,000 users a day with over 62 million in total, a researcher has estimated.

Paul Allen, a founder of Ancestry.com and FamilyLink.com, wrote earlier last week on his Google+ blog that the network will hit 400 million users by the end of 2012, as the number of daily sign-ups increases. Facebook currently has over 800 million users.

"It may be the holidays, the TV commercials, the Android 4 signups, celebrity and brand appeal, or positive word of mouth, or a combination of all these factors, but there is no question that the number of new users signing up for Google+ each day has accelerated markedly in the past several weeks," he wrote.

Some of Allen's previous predictions have been too aggressive, though he says he is adjusting his model as official numbers are released. In October, he estimated that the site had 50 million users, a week before Google Co-Founder and CEO Larry Page said it had 40 million.

To make his estimates, he uses a list of common surnames with census data for what portion of the U.S. population they represent. He then searches on Google+ to get the number of accounts with each name, then multiplies out to get a total "population" for the site. Allen's method, however, says nothing about how active users are or if they're active at all.

Allen predicts the young network will hit around 65.8 million users in January and 85.2 million in February.

Facebook has dismissed the threat from Google+, but has also mimicked the site, including revamping friend lists to be more like Google's circles earlier this year.

source : pc world

 

[ssparikshya]

Now all are allowed to join google +

today i had registered for google +
and am successfully done
all though not given any fake age
so enjoy !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Niraj Rathod]

RE: Now all are allowed to join google +

i am already there since google+ testing with limited members