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The Google Plus Unofficial Blog
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How to add Google +1 (Plus One) in your site or blog
Google announced in March the appearance of your button "+1", as an alternative to the "Like" and "Follow" buttons present in Facebook and Twitter. This button enabled Google to have a voting system that allows you to recommend content to other Internet users.
Google describes the +1 button is shorthand for "this is pretty cool" or "you should check this out.", as its described on their Google +1 page. The +1 button acts as a recommendation vote that can help others on the web find the best stuff when they search.
Google has now more than 10 Million Users
The recent unveiled social networking Google+ has reached more than 10 million users. Despite shutting down Google invites shortly after a few hours, the network has been growing at least 1.5 million a day for the past 2 days.
After Senior Vice President of Google, Vic Gundortra said that they had to shut down the invite mechanism due to insane demand, Google decided to go back to closed tests.
Google Plus Screenshots - second batch
Added a new batch of Google Plus screenshots. Google provides a clean and smooth interface for Google Plus, following the minimalist approach that characterizes every applications they make, with plenty of white space and very few design distractions.
In terms of usability, it presents very easy navigation and well chosen icons. Its learning curve is very short and after minutes exploring it, you should get the hang of it.
Click here for the new screenshots
You can look at all the screenshots in our Click here for the screenshot tour page.
Google Plus Screenshots
Google has just unveiled Google Plus but it seems the average user will have to wait to have his own account. After being accessible for a few hours Google Plus is closed for a few number of users.
In the mean time have a look at some screenshots we have saved for you.
Facebook making it hard for users to export their data due to Google+
Facebook is making it hard for anyone to export their friend contact information into Google+. Facebook is shutting down third-party services that made it easy to bring your Facebook friends into Google+.
Facebook has blocked a Google Chrome extension called the Facebook Friend Exporter. Facebook has also changed its OAuth 2.0 API in such a way that it suddenly removed email addresses from the queries without warning. Other data can still be exported, just not your friends email addresses.
We’ve seen Facebook play these tricks before because they don’t want to help jump start competing services, nevertheless it shouldn't be so hard to export friends since Google already has their Gmail service and there are other services like Yahoo mail and Hotmail that lets you export your contacts.
Google shuts down Google Plus invites
Google Plus was open to all for a few hours, after its opening on Tuesday. Initially, every one had access to 15 invites. Now invites are cancelled.
As tweets and blog posts about invites populated the net, there were so many adopters that Google had to back its plans and go back to closed tests.
Vic Gundortra, Senior Vice President of Google wrote on Google + “We've shut down invite mechanism for the night, ... Insane demand. We need to do this carefully, and in a controlled way. Thank you all for your interest!”
The buzz was so big that lots of sites were selling Google Plus invites, including eBay.
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Google Plus: First Impressions
Google has just just unveiled Google Plus, its ambitious social network platform that takes at at Facebook dominance. We have tested some of its features and would like to share our first impressions:
Presentation: It follows the minimalist approach done by Google, with plenty of white space and very few design distractions.
Usability: Very easy navigation and well chosen icons. Its learning curve is very short and after minutes exploring it, you should get the hang of it.
Google announces Google Plus, takes aim at Facebook
Google announced today its new social network called Google Plus, taking aim at his most important rival,Facebook.
The big announcement was made on Google's Official Blog in its article entitled: Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web.
Trying to break the social market for years, Google Google has been unsucessfull in his previous attempts,namely Google Wave and Buzz. Many have been speculating when Google would launch his own Facebook-style social network site, especially after Google rolling out its +1 button and subsequently rumors such as Google Me!
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July 13, 2011 by Miguel Cordeiro
