Google+ Adds 9 New Features, Opens to the World

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Sep 202011
 

 

 

Look out Facebook, here comes Google+. After three months as an invite-only service, Google+ has thrown open its door to the world and rolled out a slew of new features. The announcement comes just days before Facebook’s annual f8 developer conference and seems clearly aimed as a shot across the social network giant’s bow. Let the social wars begin.

Of course Facebook has already weathered at least one of Google’s attempts at a social network, the now marginalized Buzz (two if you include Wave). But this time around Google has done more than roll out a Facebook clone. As part of Google’s attempt to carve a unique spot for Plus, the company is rolling out several new features, including mobile support for the Google+ video chat feature known as “Hangouts.”

via Google+ Adds 9 New Features, Opens to the World | Webmonkey | Wired.com.

Google’s Gripe Against Paginated Content

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Sep 162011
 

Google is giving preference to single-page versions of a web page as opposed to component pages that contain only a portion of the information, forcing the user to click to “next” and load another URL.

Paginated content, in other words, can be counted as another factor it likely considers in search rankings.

via Google’s Gripe Against Paginated Content – MarketingVOX.

Google Rolls Out a Developer API for Google+

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Sep 162011
 

 

 

Today Google launched the beginnings of an API for the company’s Google+ social network.

APIs allow outside developers to connect with and build applications on top of web services like Facebook, Twitter and now Google+. In fact much of the success of Twitter and Facebook is a result of both services’ developer APIs. If Google+ is to have any hope of catching its competitors it needs a strong API.

via Google Rolls Out a Developer API for Google+ | Webmonkey | Wired.com.

YouTube’s new effects menu makes everyone a video editor

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Sep 152011
 

 

 

The new suite of tools allow you to manipulate your videos in a number of ways including color correction, image stabilization, music audio track switching, and it offers a nice menu of filters to enhance the look of your videos.

via YouTube’s new effects menu makes everyone a video editor | DVICE.

Google Integrates Google+ Sharing into Maps

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Sep 152011
 

 

 

Specifically, Google has added support for +snippets in Maps. +Snippets, which rolled out in August, adds a link, description and thumbnail to whatever webpage you want to share to Google+. When you click on the “Share” button on the black Google+ bar, the share will be populated with a description and image.

via Google Integrates Google+ Sharing into Maps.

Google brings flight search into the Jet Age

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Sep 142011
 

 

 

Google debuted its long awaited flight search Tuesday, achieving Concorde-like speed in returning airfares to would-be flyers.

The new search, powered by the data and algorithms it got when it bought ITA Software for $700 million in April, can be found directly at Google.com/flights, or in its usual results when a user types in a query such as “flights from lax to atl.”

via Google brings flight search into the Jet Age.

Google buys Zagat, in original-content gambit

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Sep 082011
 

 

 

Google today acquired Zagat in an effort to bolster its local products with the restaurant rating service. More notable is that Zagat is a content company.

In a blog post, Google said that Zagat will “be a cornerstone of our local offering.” Zagat is best known for its original reviews and rating service.

There are a few key elements to the Zagat purchase:

• Google will build out its local coverage and have reviews in more than 100 cities.

• Google is showing that it may actually have to own some content instead of merely aggregating it.

• As Robert Scoble noted, Zagat’s reviews are social-friendly and play in with Google+.

via Google buys Zagat, in original-content gambit | Digital Media – CNET News.

Adult Internet Users Are Socialites, Study Finds

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Sep 062011
 

 

 

According to a new study, 65 percent of American adult Internet users have interacted on a social media site like Facebook, Google+, or LinkedIn, supporting the often cited importance of social media marketing.

The social networking report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been asking adult Internet users in the United States about social media site visits since 2005 when just 8 percent of Internet users 18-years-old or older had visited one of the sites, compared with 65 percent just six years later. What’s more, for the first time, more than half of all American adults — Internet user or not — has visited a site like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google+.

via Adult Internet Users Are Socialites, Study Finds | Practical eCommerce.

Could Google Fast Flip Have Survived on Tablets?

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Sep 062011
 

 

 

Fast Flip is one of nine in a batch of products to be discontinued from Google Labs. The company announced it would shutter Labs experiments shortly after releasing its second-quarter earnings results in mid-July.

Other Labs products Google will shut down:

Aardvark: Social search product that helps people answer each others’ questions.

Desktop: Gives instant access to data while online or offline.

Fast Flip: Provides a faster, richer news content browsing and reading experience.

Google Maps API for Flash: Allows ActionScript developers to integrate Google Maps into their applications.

Google Pack: Makes it easy to download and install a package of Google and third-party applications.

Google Web Security: Protects against web malware attacks.

Image Labeler: Helps people explore and label images on the web.

Notebook: Helps people combine clipped URLs from the web and free-form notes into documents they can share and publish.

Sidewiki: A browser sidebar that lets people contribute and read information alongside any web page.

Subscribed Links: Enables developers to create specialized search results that were added to the normal Google search results on relevant queries for subscribed users.

via Could Google Fast Flip Have Survived on Tablets?.

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