Pictured inset is my Google Reader account. I have many many subscriptions, and thousands of updates daily for Reader. I can’t tell you how much I love, enjoy, and utilize Google Reader every day. That is why I am so disappointed, saddened, upset and every negative emotion I can think of, that Google is shutting down Reader.
In a new video published today by Google, they are giving us another look at the much anticipated Google Glass. If you recall, last year Google unveiled their latest venture, Project Glass which are interactive glasses (called Glass because it’s only one lens). The video raises expectations for the new product, which could further shape next gen technology such as the iPhone did a few years ago.
Let’s be honest - Facebook Search sucks. It always has. If you are on Facebook and want search results comparable to Google’s search engine, it’s gonna happen. That is until now. Facebook is finally promising a better, more intelligent search, which is something to get excited about.
It’s been a minute since I have talked about Google+. Not much since summer has been going on with Google’s social network. They are making minor changes here and there, but as time has gone on I have seen less and less from the network. Activity such as re-shares have gone down, comments have gone down, and the amount of people that have “circled” me has slowed down.
One of the tools I use to enhance my photos before posting to Instagram, and I would say I use it about 90% for every photo, is Snapseed. It’s just an amazing app that let’s you edit photos down to every last detail. From saturation, contrast, ambiance, brightness, and filters like vintage, drama and grunge, you can do everything Instagram can do and more. It’s a powerful image editing app that I would recommend to anyone.
At Google I/O developer conference this week, there have been quite a few Google+ updates but today two stuck out the most to me. First of all, Google gave an official update to how many registered users the social network now has. Since April of this year, Google+ has grown 70 million users, up to 250 million total. That is a huge increase in just a few months.
Welp, leave it up to Google to break the mold. At Google I/O, Google demoed Project Glass again, with yet another glimpse into what Google Glass can do, and Google held nothing back with this one.
Google just launched a brand new recommendations feature for the Google +1 social sharing button. The button, which I have below this article is used to share the webpage into Google+, which is Google’s social network. It’s just like the Facebook Like button or the Twitter tweet button.
If one of the things you enjoy about Google+ is the ad-free environment, that may be changing sometime in the unforeseeable future. In what appears to be chance sighting, someone caught wind of a new job posting on Google for a “Product Marketing Manager, B2B Google Plus”.
Yikes! This is not good news for the Google social network, Google+. Games just came to Google+ just ten months ago, and now it seems there is not enough incentive for game devs to continue supporting their games on Google+.
If you use multiple social networks, and are trying to incorporate your Google+ posts automatically to other platforms like Twitter, Facebook or even Myspace, you can do it. Sit back and relax, as you post from Google+ and let it auto-feed to your other networks with this new super easy solution.
Google created a new game on it’s social network called A Google A Day, which is a daily search puzzle that is solved using nothing but Google Search to find the answers. It’s a clever way to get users to challenge themselves, and also improve your Google Search skills by learning the best ways to use the search engine.
After the changes Google made yesterday to Google+, it appears there was one more change that I just noticed. It looks like Google has gone the way of Myspace, Facebook and Twitter and is now allowing users to add a banner image to the top of their profile.
Google has made a big announcement today saying that they are overhauling Google+, to make it a better user experience with design in mind. The new design changes are rolling out in phases world wide, so if you don’t see it yet you may see it in the next few days.
Saying the Internet is huge is an understatement. With social media on the rise and sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Google Plus steadily fueling online connectivity, daily activities such as sending an email or posting a blog are going through the roof.
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