Google plus comes to Windows Phone 7

Google is a company that has repeatedly proved itself in every arena, except social networking. After the Google Buzz debacle, Google has tried to redeem itself by launching the Google+ social network.

Google + is Google's attempt to ace Facebook and Twitter. It has tried to compete with these two by providing the Google+ app on almost every smartphone platform. It has already unveiled the Google+ app for the iPhone and Android phones and the Google+ app for Windows phone 7 release next week.

The Google+ app for the Windows Phone 7 is not much different from the Facebook app for the same platform but it does offer some advantages.

Unlike Facebook, where you cannot edit a post after you have posted, the Google + app on your windows phone provides you the ability to modify a post even after sharing it. It has enhanced integration with Google Chat. It has fixed one of the major issues with Facebook, which is its photo-sharing capability. One can instantly upload photos with Google+. Unlike Facebook, you can update Google+ right from your home screen. In addition to that, it also keeps a tab on the user's location and provides advanced privacy settings. As a Google+ user, you can customize everything as per your own usage whether it is notifications, account settings or anything else.  

Google+ has an edge over other social networks as it offers the ability to use applications such as Google Docs and calendar with its circles.

You can also switch this application off on your Windows Phone 7 according to your own convenience.

Google+ has already generated a storm in the market. Its availability on the Windows phone 7 makes it even more popular and provides a win-win situation for both.

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Google Triples the Speed of the +1 Button

The +1 button is about to get a whole lot faster, thanks to an update Google rolled out on Tuesday.

“We’ve begun to roll out out a set of changes that will make the button render up to 3x faster on your site,” software engineer David Byttow said in a blog post. “No action is required on your part, so just sit back, relax, and watch as the button loads more quickly than before.”

In addition to the speed boost, Google also introduced new code that speeds up the +1 button via an asynchronous code snippet. The code allows a web page to load with the +1 JavaScript code in parallel. The result is another improvement in page load time. The code is available on the +1 configuration page.

The +1 button is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Like Button. Since its launch, it has quickly gained adoption, and one report even claims its more widespread than the Twitter Tweet Button.

Intial Version Of Business Profiles for Everyone in next few months.

Christian Oestlien in his Google+ post mentioned that Business Profiles will be open for every one in next Few Months

A few weeks ago we mentioned we would be doing a test of business profiles and asked people interested to apply. Believe it or not we actually had tens of thousands of businesses, charities, and other organizations apply to take part from all over the world. Many of you have reached out to me personally through Google+, e-mail, chat, and even other Googlers. Thank you. Your response has been humbling.

With so many qualified candidates expressing intense interest in business profiles, we've been thinking hard about how to handle this process. Your enthusiasm obligates us to do more to get businesses involved in Google+ in the right way, and we have to do it faster. As a result, we have refocused a few priorities and we expect to have an initial version of businesses profiles up and running for EVERYONE in the next few months. There may be a tiny handful business profiles that will remain in the meantime solely for the purpose of testing how businesses interact with consumers.

In the meantime, we ask you not to create a business profile using regular profiles on Google+. The platform at the moment is not built for the business use case, and we want to help you build long-term relationships with your customers. Doing it right is worth the wait. We will continue to disable business profiles using regular profiles. We recommend you find a real person who is willing to represent your organization on Google+ using a real profile as him-or-herself.

All of us on the Google+ effort are delighted by your engagement with this project - thank you all for taking the time to apply and offer such incredibly useful feedback. Keep it coming!

Iphone App Must Be Version 1.0.1.1809.

Via Punit Soni  described the Problem With The App:

We discovered an issue with the version of the iPhone Google+ App that was on the App Store. When we launched, the App Store started serving a previous test version of the App which didn't have the stability and fixes that the latest version had. It started serving the correct version a little later. If you downloaded within the first 1 hour 40 mins, you may have downloaded the older test version.

To check:
- Click on the gear icon on the top left of your App's homescreen and look right above the Help button, the version number of the App should be: 1.0.1.1809

- If that is not the version number, then please uninstall and reinstall by clicking on the link below:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id447119634?ls=1&mt=8

New improvement to Google+ over the next few days On Privacy Issues.

Google Plus Update On Privacy Issues Shimrit Ben-Yair Posted In he Blog Post About Public Feedback and Make New Improvements In Privacy In comming Few Days.


"Thanks for all the great feedback everyone! We're paying special attention to privacy-related issues, which is why we're rolling a new improvement to Google+ over the next few days. 


Changing your public profile picture or scrapbook photos will no longer generate a public post to the stream, just to the people you have in your circles. So only people in your circles will engage in discussions about the photos you post. 


Thanks again and keep the feedback coming!'

Finally Google+ App For Iphone Got Approved

Description
Google+ for mobile makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler. Huddle lets you send super-fast messages to the people you care about most. And no matter where you are, the stream lets you stay in the loop about what your friends are sharing and where they’re checking in.

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Dell wants to use Google+ Hangouts for customer service

Dell could soon use Google’s new group video chat platform Google+ Hangouts as an alternative to the traditional customer service call, according to the company’s chairman and CEO, Michael Dell.

Hangouts has been hailed as the next big killer app, and Michael Dell is obviously a fan as well. He’s used the video chat more than a dozen times since he joined Google+ in early July, and this Sunday, he posted the following question on Google+:

I am thinking about hangouts for business. Would you like to be able to connect with your Dell service and sale teams via video directly from Dell.com?

The reaction to his post was overwhelmingly positive, with hundreds of comments agreeing that this would be a good idea for Dell. And the idea is indeed intriguing: Some customer service needs are very similar, so having a service representative talk to a small group of customers at the same time could be more economical than the traditional one-on-one call. Using video could also humanize tech support, and group settings could even initiate self-help between customers.

One should note that Dell’s idea of launching a Hangouts session directly from Dell.com isn’t currently possible; Google+ is still invite-only, and Hangouts can only be started or joined from within the network. Google also hasn’t opened its social network for businesses yet, but the company is currently evaluating how to integrate brands and businesses into Google+.

Customer service has been one of the applications that has made Twitter attractive to companies like Comcast. Having the ability to directly talk to customers via group video chat could be the next step for many of these companies as they look for ways to take customer service beyond the traditional call-center script.

Google+ Is Built Using Tools You Can Use Too Like Closure, Java Servlets, JavaScript, BigTable, Colossus, Quick Turnaround

Joseph Smarr, former CTO of Plaxo in I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything, reveals the stack used for building Google+.

Our stack is pretty standard fare for Google apps these days: we use Java servlets for our server code and JavaScript for the browser-side of the UI, largely built with the (open-source) Closure framework, including Closure's JavaScript compiler and template system. A couple nifty tricks we do: we use the HTML5 History API to maintain pretty-looking URLs even though it's an AJAX app (falling back on hash-fragments for older browsers); and we often render our Closure templates server-side so the page renders before any JavaScript is loaded, then the JavaScript finds the right DOM nodes and hooks up event handlers, etc. to make it responsive (as a result, if you're on a slow connection and you click on stuff really fast, you may notice a lag before it does anything, but luckily most people don't run into this in practice). Our backends are built mostly on top of BigTable and Colossus/GFS, and we use a lot of other common Google technologies such as MapReduce (again, like many other Google apps do).


t first I read Clojure, which would have been a real surprise, but it's Closure, a suite of JavaScript tools consisting of a library, compiler, and templates. The compiler is a true compiler for JavaScript for making JavaScript download and run faster.  The library is modular and cross-browser JavaScript library. Templates is a server-side templating system that helps you dynamically build reusable HTML and UI elements. It's all open source so you can use it too.

While you don't have Google's stack available to you, you do have some open source options. HBase is replacement for BigTable. Then there's Hadoop MapReduce. Colossus is Google's next generation file system, a replacement for GFS. Since we don't know much about Colossus, it's hard to say what a suitable replacement would be. There's the Hadoop distributed file system HDFS. And if you are looking for some of the cloud like infrastructure glue there's OpenStack (which also has storage system).

Google probably uses a custom Java servlet container, but the choice here doesn't matter that much. Most of the work will be spawned in parallel and performed on other servers implemented in C++, Java, or Python.

Whereas most communication with Google is non-existent, the Google+ development team is noticeably more responsive, turning out visible improvements quickly and consistently. Joseph tells us why: We put extra emphasis on engineering speed/agility--we try to release code updates on a daily basis while still keeping quality/stability/latency as high as you'd expect from google. This helps us move fast and respond quickly to user feedback. We try to do a full push (almost) every day, and we sometimes sneak in patch releases too if needed. But there are humans in the loop, it's not a "auto-push if all tests pass" situation or anything like that.

For Google+'s most innovative feature, video conferencing with Hangouts, GigaOM has a good article on that stack, which is based on Announcing Google+ Hangouts, written by Tech Lead Justin Uberti. Unlike Skype, which runs on a cost effective P2P model, Hangouts is completely hosted by Google. This must cost a staggering amount of money. You are on your own here. Nobody can replace the bandwidth being donated by the Google fairy.

That's Google in a box. Then again, an ex-Googler thinks you can do better using MessagePack, JSON, Hadoop, jQuery, and MongoDB. If you can do better for a world wide base of a billion users is a completely different question.

Google CEO sharing His words On Google Plus Project.

First Time after the Release of Google Plus Larry Page Sharing His Words With Media.

"We are in the middle of our quarterly earnings call right now. Here are the remarks I just gave. One key stat: Over 10M Google+ users!"

-Larry Page
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Good afternoon everyone--thanks for joining us today

It’s exciting to be on the call today and to share directly with you the progress we have made in my first quarter as CEO

As you will have seen from our press release we had a great quarter--with revenue up by 32 per cent year on year and a new record for quarterly revenue at over $9 billion!

Google Games LOGO Found In Google+ Source Code

We Already Know that Google Games effort is 100 persent Happening.Recently TechCrunch Hav found the Link to Official Google Games Logo In Google Plus Source Code ,courtesy of a tipster. Better yet, that tipster found some interesting bits of code that reveal what could be a social gaming service.

• /_/games/getGameFriends
• /_/games/getActivities
• /_/games/postToStream

Earlier this year, the company posted a job offer specifically for its not-so-secret games project.
Here Comes The Logo

 Google has reportedly invested in numerous Facebook gaming companies including Zynga--not to mention it has already acquired gaming talent like Slide.

1-Up for Google Plus | Chrome Extension

Initial release of "1-up" extension for Google Chrome. Change your +1 icon into a Mario Brothers 1-up mushroom (and, optionally, plays 1-up sound when clicked).

SOUNDS CAN BE DISABLED!

Versions:
Changes in 1.3: Options page fix-up.
Changes in 1.2: Fixed sound for content that arrives later. Icons were cleaned up.
Changes in 1.1: Improved icons by James Woodward.

 permissions:
+ "Your browsing history" : used to enable 1-up icon only on plus.google.com (extension permission "tabs").
+ "Your data on plus.google.com" : used to insert images, css and sounds.

Google+ Developer Group Signup |Get Updates on the Google Plus From Developer Group.

Google Plus now Open the Doors for Everyone to get Get Updates on the Google Plus.We can stay Connected to the Google+ Project By filling thIs Form here.

According To Google 
"To stay updated as the Google+ project develops and get a heads up when we have more details to share about Google+ developer opportunities, sign up here. Your email will be added to a Google group. In addition, we'd love to gather more information about you".


Click here For The Form

Google+ already has 10 million users who share 1 billion items every day Confrimed By Google Plus.

Previous estimates by tech guru Paul Allen put Google’s magical 10,000,000 Google+ milestone falling this weekend. Being “unofficial” and all, critics called Allen’s estimate a tad too optimistic. But as it turns out Paul Allen was actually a little too conservative.

Google CEO Larry Page, speaking to analysts during Google’s second-quarter earnings conference call He confrimed Google+ already has 10 million users who share 1 billion items every day, and Google’s +1 button is being hit 2.3 billion times per day.

Today Google confirmed that Google+ officially saw its 10 millionth user sign up for the new social networking service and that Google+ is now serving over 1 billion shared items per day. For a social networking service that started at 0 public users a few short weeks ago, it’s nothing short of impressive It essentially equates to accumulating 13% of Facebook’s 750 million users in just two weeks.

In mobile news: Android’s locomotive continues along with Google now claiming over 550,000 new activations each and every day. If you recall, breaking the 500,000/day milestone came just two weeks ago.

Address Book Uploader coming to Google Plus.

Address Book Uploader coming to Google+

One of the most flexible tools is an address book uploader. so that Google Plus Users Can find their Buddies Easy and fast.


This was shared By Rohit Khare In his Blog post

Post Summary:


"We’ve been listening to feedback from our users who want more flexible ways to find their friends on Google+. One of the most flexible tools is an address book uploader, and I wanted to share the good news that it will be rolling out to everyone over the next few days.
Many email systems— and even some social networks — put users in charge of their own data by helping them export their contacts in the standard CSV or vCard formats.



One thing about our uploader is that we won’t mix your imported contacts up with all of your other Google Contacts. We only store the ones that you put into your Circles.
We’re hoping our new address book uploader helps users discover new ways to find their friends. As always, keep the feedback coming, and thanks for using Google+!"


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Google Plus is now Accelerating On All Programs-Update on Business Profiles

Google, which had initially planned to test business partners on Google+ later this year but is moving more quickly with that program. A Google executive now says the company plans to announce a group of partners next week.

Christian Oestlien, group product manager at Google, wrote in a blog post Wednesday evening that the interest from “thousands upon thousands” of businesses “has got us very focused on accelerating our business plans.”

Blog Post: Click Here

According to Him
If you have not already, please be sure to submit your business for our test phase. You can apply to be a part of this test here: http://goo.gl/zq95C . We will be closing this form on Friday (July 15th) at 6pm PST. To the thousands upon thousands of businesses that applied to be a part: THANK YOU! We won't be able to accommodate everyone, but your interest has got us very focused on accelerating our development plans.

+Dennis Troper (product manager for business profiles), myself and the rest our team will focus next week on selecting a diverse set of business partners for the test period. We will be communicating with these partners next week, and will let the world know who they are soon thereafter. Please note that we are still actively closing profiles that are being used by businesses today. Stay engaged on Google+ with your personal account and continue to send us your excellent feedback. We'll continue to be very proactive in communicating with everyone around our plans for businesses.

Businesses interested in being considered for the test program have until Friday to get their applications in
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Google+ Users Genders Are Set To Become Private and The Business version of the Google Plus coming later this year

Starting this week, Google will no longer require users to state whether they are male or female. The change, explained by product manager Frances Haugen in the video above, came after users requested it. “Gender can be a sensitive topic, especially on the Internet,” Haugen says.

Users will be able to adjust the privacy setting on their Google+ profile, as they can with other personal information, like date of birth

One benefit to the change is that it paves the way for business accounts. As Christian Oestlien, Google’s group project manager, noted in a blog entry last week on Google+, “It was kind of an awkward moment for us when we asked Ford for his (or was it her?) gender!”

According to Christian Oestlien:  

How users communicate with each other is different from how they communicate with brands, and we want to create an optimal experience for both. We have a great team of engineers actively building an amazing Google+ experience for businesses, and we will have something to show the world later this year.
In simple Terms The Business version of the Google Plus coming later this year.