Google+ – Google’s Newest in Social Media!
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
After, breaking through the domains of social media with Orkut and Buzz, Google eyed towards a bigger and better leap in the direction of social media. Finally, after a long wait Google announced its third attempt of making a mark in the social world with its newest launch of Google +. Google made the entire world and social media enthusiasts turn their heads with the launch of this much – awaited top secret project.
Google+ seeks to change the way people connect online. Much different from the Facebook’s way of connecting people, this robust application will allow the users create a number of small groups, referred as “circles.” These smaller groups that are based entirely on the user’s choice will let him or her share information and other news with only the people (friends and colleagues) they choose.
Much similar to the News Feed application of Facebook, Google+ will allow its users a dashboard featuring a flow of updates from people on their network. All other activities that include sharing photos, videos, comments are categorized into streams,” with one dedicated for each Circle of friends. Users will also get to customize their security settings according to their own choice allowing some on the network with the entire profile view and limiting only the basic information for others.
A re-designed navigation bar placed at the top of the page of any Google product will allow the users to regulate the social media application. Google+ users can access their profile and check all the notifications and other news along with sharing content within their circles with this bar.
In addition to all this, Google has also launched a friend-finding feature known as “Sparks.” This feature works like a search engine for your hobbies and interests; say, you keep an interest in single malt Scotch whisky; all you need to do is enter the specific keyword in the Sparks search bar to allow Google to deliver content of your interest.
Following this feature on the line of the amazing features of Google+ is known as “Hangouts.” This particular application enables a group video chat feature. With this, the users of Google+ can form a hangout session alerting all people in the network. Friends’ can join the session free, which is open to only 10 users at one time in a single hangout.
Final in the feature list is the mobile functionality application of Google+. This feature is at present available in the Android Market and will be soon available at the Apple’s App Store. The mobile feature includes application like “Huddle” allowing group messaging and an auto-upload feature that by design adds photos and videos clicked on your smart phone through Google+ on a private folder in the cloud. This can be shared for eight long hours, the next time you log on to Google+ on a computer.
Google+ is presently active as a “field trial” period and will be made live soon for the public, as the company says.






