Google Space

Google has declared that their networking-platform Google+ is strictly for people only. They have discouraged groups, corporations and brands from forming their profiles on the platform. And even went to as far as making an impression to anyone that non-user profiles will be deleted from the system. Non-profit members can still take advantage of this. All though being in an organization as they are, a good thing to note about non-profits is they are made up of individuals. They are people of the people who are there for other people.

Google+ app on iOS has been updated to include new features, like Hangouts, and the word Huddle has been changed to Messenger for chatting and  messages. The +1 has been added to the comments ( this feature wasn't there ), better notifications and now people can see maps for places where you lived or visited. Here's some screenshots :

Privacy can be an issue when it comes to social networking. Of course, most of the time, privacy breaches can be blamed on the user, not the system. Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to hide yourself from future embarrassment by avoiding that your profile shows up on search results related to your name(or completely unrelated queries!). It takes less than a minute to change the preference whether you would like to be found using search results, and here’s how:

Personally I expected Google to do that. Google has just made their ads more social  , a move   to insure themselves   because of the increasing   rumors   recently   about   the intention of   the launch of   Facebook   ad network   to compete with   Google's   network . Starting from   next October,   Google   will begin   to add the   +1   button   next to the   ads that appear   within the   interactive   sites that use   AdSense and   the user   will be able to   admire   this ad by   clicking   on the   +1   button   which   will be located under the ad. This new feature will also gain more users for Google+, because you'll need to be Signed up for a Google account to be able to use it. The question is, don't you think this's weird?, why did Google announce this feature near Facebook's F8 date?

There's no official way to import Facebook contacts into Google+, but you can add your Facebook contacts to Yahoo through Facebook Connect, and then connect Yahoo to Google+. A long way around, but it works. Log in to your Yahoo account and use Facebook Connect to attach your Facebook account. Then go to Contacts to import your Facebook friends. Here's a guide to  connecting Facebook to your Yahoo Mail account . After Yahoo has finished importing your Facebook contacts, head to the Google+  Find and Invite page and connect your Yahoo account. Google+ will import your Yahoo contacts, which should now include your Facebook friends. Alternatively, you can use the webapp  Friends to Gmail  to get your Facebook Contacts into Gmail and then to Google+. Either way, from there you can add them to your circles and share with them.

Klout , a startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook,LinkedIn, YouTube, and Foursquare, is now  integrating Google+ . For background, Klout evaluates users’ behavior with complex ranking algorithms and semantic analysis of content to measure the influence of individuals on social networks. On Twitter, Klout’s influence score is based on a user’s ability to drive action through Tweets, Retweets and more. On Facebook, Klout will examine how conversations and content generate interest and engagement, via likes, comments, and more, from the network’s 750 million-plus users. Google just  released a limited API for Google+  last week, so Klout has been working fast. It’s unclear what exactly Klout will be evaluating in Google+ behavior and use, but Klout’s founder Joe Fernandez tells me that he believes that certain Google+ power users will see their scores go up. But as with Klout’s other integrations, if you link your Klout account with Google+, your score won’t go down. Of co

Google made a  series of announcements  this morning, most notably opening up its Google+ social product to everyone as its 100th feature. Not content to stop there, Google followed up with Google+ features  101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107 …  107 being a name change for its Google+ Group Messaging app Huddle. When Google announced the Huddle product back in July, enterprise collaboration software startup Huddle — which has its own group messaging element — was like, “What gives?” and had their people contact Google’s people. Says Huddle co-founder Andy McLoughlin, “We let them know that we held the [Huddle] global trademark across all countries, so it was pretty clear that they had to consider renaming.” The Google+ Group Messaging feature is now known as, drumroll please, Messenger. Uh guys … Guys … McLoughlin told Alexia Tsotsis from TechCrunch that Google was cool about the name change and that the dispute never entered arbitration. Google was just like “ We think we should

After being invite-only for nearly three months, Google+ is opening up to everyone. Writing on its official Company blog about the 99 improvements that have been made to the product since launching, Google’s Vic Gundotra  wrote , “We’re ready to move from field trial to beta, and introduce our 100th feature: open signups.” Today’s update also comes with big improvements to Google+ Hangouts, including the ability to use them on Android devices (version 2.3 and higher). It also includes search, which is a hybrid of content shared on Google+ and results from around the web. “Just type what you’re looking for into the Google+ search box, and we’ll return relevant people and posts, as well as popular content from around the web,” Gundotra wrote. Google+ invites were in high demand when the service first launched in July, and the service attracted 20 million visitors in its first month. Since then, however, the service seems to have lost some of its luster, with a controversy around brand

Google +1 buttons are becoming more ubiquitous thanks to an update that carries them over to the mobile web. The mobile-optimized +1 button made its debut on select Android and iPhone browsers Thursday. “The button will automatically be visible to anyone on Android 2.1+ and iOS 4.0+ browsers,” Punit Soni, lead product manager for Google+ Games and Mobile, wrote in a  post  on Google+. “When you +1 something, it will be displayed publicly across the Web as an annotation on the content you +1’d.” The +1 button mobile upgrade follows recent feature rollouts, including friend annotations, +1 sharing with Google+ circles and +snippets. As of late August, the +1 button had been embedded on more than 1 million websites. Still, every improvement matters. The +1 button ties directly into Google’s social network, and a recent Experian Hitwise report suggests that the time users spend on Google+ peaked in mid-July. [via Mashable   ]

Developers, do you want to create websites and utilities based around Google Plus? Now you can with the release of a limited version of the  Google+ API . Google has released extensive APIs for many of its products, but Google+ was unfortunately left out until now. Before this release, the most you can do to integrate Google+ with your web app is to add one of those +1 buttons. Now, the API enables you to do a whole lot more with your Google+ users. Right now, the API is rather limited compared to other social network’s API. It has read-only access to the Google+ system, this means you can only retrieve elements such as profile information and activities. It’s not much, but it’s a good start for a limited (and beta) API. Facebook’s API, for comparison, allows for much more access and allows read and write access.