Google Plus

With a number of business “going Google,” the massive search company has launched the first set of Google+ features for businesses. With this “initial set” of features now available, Google is letting all Google Apps customers get an early look at them in a “full preview mode.” This preview allows businesses already using Google Apps Continue Reading →

Tuesday, Google littered up its homepage with a Nexus 7 ad, but apparently that wasn’t enough. Google will also be displaying birthday reminders for people in your Google+ circles. Ew. Go away Google! Google’s homepage is basically an open lot that Google has been reserving for over a decade. It makes sense that Google would Continue Reading →

We’ve had Google’s Chrome browser on iPad and iPhone since June and now it has received its first update. After a recent update for the Google+ iOS app added sharing of links to Chrome, the lead feature in the new version is the ability to share from Chrome to “your favorite social network” (Google+, Facebook Continue Reading →

A few weeks ago, the Google+ team punked The Oatmeal by redirecting its Google+ profile URL to a slightly more interesting (and profanity-laden) URL. That, it turns out, was just a test for Monday’s wider rollout of vanity URLs for a subset of verified business pages and profiles on Google+. Google has already enabled this Continue Reading →

Social discovery will remake the Internet, or at least how we plumb it. Need evidence? Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google’s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsoft’s addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. Social discovery is philosophy of online search that holds that people are more likely to Continue Reading →

Google’s been adding a lot of features lately to get us to Hangout, from providing digital moustaches to scheduling virtual soirees. Now, the company’s aiming to get folks video conferencing from their inbox. That’s right, you can now start a Hangout with up to nine friends or colleagues straight from Gmail with a click of Continue Reading →

Ever since Google+ launched, one of the most intriguing projects to come out of the company’s social strategy is Google+ Hangouts. Basically, it’s a tool to broadcast live video and interact with multiple people at once. It’s a gorgeous product, and works extremely well on both mobile and desktop environments. Having said that, the folks Continue Reading →

YouTube may be looking to encourage users to use their real identities and names when posting comments on videos in the future. According to Wired, whenever you upload a new video or post a comment, YouTube will ask if it can use your real identity that has been associated with your Google+ account. Users can Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120723_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Still not on Google Plus? A lot of people aren’t, but maybe they should be.  In a new survey that measures user satisfaction of social media websites, Google Plus came out on top, while Facebook’s score was at a record low.  Google Plus’ growth has been slow Continue Reading →

Google Inc.’s social network debuted at the top spot on a customer-service index of social-media websites, including Facebook Inc., which sank to a record low in the annual report. Google+, which was started in June 2011, tied information aggregator Wikipedia with a score of 78 in the social-media category on the American Customer Satisfaction Index Continue Reading →