Is Anyone Using Google Plus?

Is Anyone Using Google Plus?

Google Plus, the red-headed step-child of social networking sites — celebrated its first birthday a few weeks ago. In the past year, they have released some pretty cool updates, like the recent Events feature — and yet I’m still not convinced it’s a competitor to Facebook. And maybe that’s because it’s really not a social network at all. Google’s Vic Gundotra said as much when he recently told the blog...

Read More

Google Lets You Record and Share Videos With Your Circles on Google+ (and more)

In the past few days Google has rolled out several new features and enhancements to Google+. Here are a couple that caught my interest. One of the newest (and I think coolest) new feature on Google+, is the ability to record and share videos of yourself directly from your webcam. In a post yesterday on Google+, Shana Glitnik, an engineer on the Google+ Photos team, says to get started you just click the video icon in the share box and choose...

Read More