It has been almost a week since Google announced its Google+ project and if you have not heard about it, Google+ is Google Inc‘s attempt to make their network more social and make sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. Google+ service will initially be available only to a select group of Google users who will soon be able to invite others, will let people share and discuss status updates, photos and links. Right now invitations are closed as of writing this article, but we expect it resume inviting sooner.
Google has come up with a neat video explaining what Google+ is all about.
You can also take a demo tour so you can get a feel for what to expect once you are able to join the project.
The 5 major features of Google +
- Circles: You share different things with different people. So sharing the right stuff with the right people shouldn’t be a hassle. Circles makes it easy to put your friends in one circle, your parents in another, and your boss in a circle by himself – just like real life.
- Hangouts: With Hangouts, the unplanned meet-up comes to the web for the first time. Let specific buddies (or entire circles) know you’re hanging out and then see who drops by for a face-to-face-to-face chat. Until teleportation arrives, it’s the next best thing.
- Instant Upload: Taking photos is fun. Sharing photos is fun. Getting photos off your phone is pretty much the opposite of fun. With Instant Upload, your photos and videos upload themselves automatically, to a private album on Google+. All you have to do is decide who to share them with.
- Sparks: Tell Sparks what you’re into and it will send you stuff it thinks you’ll like, so when you’re free, there’s always something cool to watch, read, or share.
- Huddle: Texting is great, but not when you’re trying to get six different people to decide on a movie. Huddle turns all those different conversations into one simple group chat, so everyone gets on the same page all at once. Your thumbs will thank you.
Our Take on Google +
Google+ has already received lot of reviews and the invitation to this is in serious demand among the internet users, Google already owns two social networks: Orkut and Buzz which are both a major flop for Google from emerging to top spot on the Social Networking arena. Google + takes the best parts of twitter following popular tweeps without requesting for permission, mobile aspects and also takes the best aspects of Facebook with posting different contents (text, link, video, photo and locations) and sharing each message to a particular group of people with what is called as Circles. Though it has great things, it still needs a lot to beat Facebook as a social network, which is already close to 1 billion users itself. Having application platform for Google + will leverage Google’s fight with Facebook.
Some quick tips for Google +
- A shot way to access Google + is via this URL: http://google.com/+
- Mobile access for Google + is available from http://www.google.com/mobile/+/
- Facebook founder – Mark Zuckerberg has a Google + account and is currently the top followed person on Google +
A friend of mine has mentioned this funny comment about Google +:
Facebook is like the wife you are married to.. Over years, its known everything abt u.. starting from friends u interact with the most, apps u use, mood swings, parties,and the games you play…
Google plus is like the new hot chick in town that everyone wants to lay their hands on.. Sure, even your wife may get a bit envious about it.. but zuckerberg knows that at the end of the day, you will all come back home..
Let’s wait and see where is Google + heading to. As a social network web applications development company we are eagerly looking forward to the Google + application platform which is being hinted about by Google during their presentations of Google +
You can find our CEO on Google + at https://plus.google.com/109720424369732730442/posts
We are pleased to announce the winning of our client app Joketeller at the “Facebook Applications Challenge, Brazil edition“, it won first place (unfortunately since it is a Brazil event, the news site is in Portuguese, you can get a translation here) and the web app owner received a sum of US$ 3000 as prize. We would like to congratulate our client on this win and also kudos to our team members Mahaboob Ibrahim and Gnanaghuru that put great efforts in making it a grand success.
Joketeller is a simple app that allows users to share jokes on facebook, a user can submit a text, image or voice record a joke live from his computer under various categories and grade their jokes. Other users are free to rate, share or embed this joke on their site. This facebook app used various technologies including but not limited to PHP, Flash, Red5, mySQL, facebook API, XHTML, AJAX and CSS. Much advanced coding techniques were used to implement asynchronous voting from flash, better embed on websites and clarity voice recording live from a computer. We really enjoyed working on this project and also the winning news only adds much joy.
Though the results of this app were announced back in March 16, 2010, we were notified only today hence a late announcement. Though this facebook app was a simple one, we have done several complex facebook applications for other clients for their social media promotion, social presence and interactive social web apps. To use us for your next facebook web app project, feel free to contact our sale representative.
