For the past 12 weeks, Google+ (Google Plus), the new
social networking project by Google, has been in a limited field trial, and
only invited guests have been allowed to participate in the project’s
development. As of today, Google+ moves from field trial to open beta, and
anyone can join and connect with the people they care about.
Google+
was designed to make sharing on the web more like sharing in the real
world. Recognizing that not all relationships are created equal, the Circles
feature allows users to selectively share information with different groups of
people.
Some other primary features of Google+ include: Hangouts,
live group video chat with up to 10 people; Stream, the place to see updates
from contacts in Circles; and Mobile, location sharing, group messaging and the
option to immediately upload pictures taken on your Android device.
In the short time since the Google+ project was launched
(June 28, 2011), over 100 improvements to the product have been made. That’s
8-9 product enhancements each week!
In addition to today’s consumer launch of Google+,
additional features and enhancements were announced. They include: Enhanced
Search in Google+, Hangouts from your Android device, streamed Hangouts On Air
and Hangouts with extras, so you can easily collaborate with others through video
chat using Google Docs or a sketchpad.
Intel and Google recently announced that they will work to
enable and optimize future versions of Android for Intel’s family of low power
Atom processors.
This means that future versions of the Android platform
will support Intel technology in addition to other architectures.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
