-
Google launches Google+ for Social Network as a blockbuster challenge to Facebook
Posted on June 30th, 2011 No commentsGoogle has recently launched the so called field-trial-period Google+ Project for invitation-only users to smooth out the rough edges of this project. The Google+ project is the latest attempt of Google to get involved in the social network right after its frustrated Google Buzz, and has been considered as a big blockbuster challenge to Facebook.
Currently, this new service is only available to a limited number of people selected. Yet once it opens to public, it would be proved to be a popular and challenging rival to Facebook. Ever since the trial Google+ project launched on Tuesday, the Google+ has received both positive and negative critics from public. You can find the related critics in the end of this post. Before that, let’s get to know what this new service provide for us or the important features included to challenge Facebook.
1. Circles
From the Google+ Project home page, “You share different things with different people. But sharing the right stuff with the right people shouldn’t be a hassle. Circles makes it easy to put your friends from Saturday night in one circle, your parents in another, and your boss in a circle by himself, just like real life”. You only need to drag the proper people from the recommended list, either from your Gmail or your Google Contacts, to corresponding circles. The interface is quite simple and visible, yet somewhat interesting.
2. Sparks
Via Sparks, you can just input one thing you are interested in, and then Google would help you find out various related things you might be fond of in different aspects. Sparks would find as many related featured interests as possible for you to watch in your spare time.
3. Hangouts
This is an interesting feature that may really threaten Facebook with its capability of up to 10 people’s mashup of video chatting through Gmail. The operation for this is also quite simple and easy: firstly start a hangout and then invite friends from your circles or individual ones.
4. Instant Upload
For Android phone users, this is a really great feature to save time of uploading your pictures or videos recorded with your Android phones. Instant Upload feature would automatically help you upload your recorded pictures and videos to Google+ and save in a private album. You could choose to share with your friends or not.
5. Huddles
The Huddles is in fact a group messaging app which could be used among Android phones, iPhone, and SMS with your circles.
Still, there are many other features on Google+ Project, like Stream, Notification, etc. Gundotra, one of the Google+ project engineers, said “It’s a social circle. We don’t believe it’s a social network.”
Related readings:
Google+ Social Network: Hands-On First Impressions
Google+: What the Critics Are Saying About the New Social Network
Useful tools and guides for Google Android devices
How to convert DVD to HTC Flyer to freely watch DVD on HTC Flyer
How to convert Blu-ray to HTC Flyer tablet to watch HD Blu-ray on HTC Flyer
How to Convert Video to Flyer for Any Video Playback on HTC Flyer
How to Rip DVD Movies for Mac and then Play on HTC Legend/Hero
займ на карту rusbankinfo.ru
-
How to Begin Google+ – 10 Useful Tips for Google+ Beginners
Posted on June 14th, 2011 No commentsGoogle has recently launched its social network platform Google+ for users, which people in the world all think is a strong competitor to the present social network giant Facebook. Today, we are not going to talk about the advantages or disadvantages of Google+ and Facebook. We just take a review on how to begin Google+ when you have received the invitation from Google. The below is a slideshow made by Kristin Burnham, a PCWorld writer. Let’s just learn something from this.
You just got your hands on a Google+ invite–but what next? Check out these 10 tips to get you started on Google’s new social network.
The Background
Google Plus (aka Google+), Google’s new social network, might offer the right mix of sharing and privacy to woo you away from your Facebook account. If you don’t know how to use it, though, it’s just a confusing mess of circles and contacts. So we’ve assembled a few tips to help you get started.
Tip 1: Mute Annoying Post
A post you commented on could quickly become popular and suddenly you find responses to it are spiraling out of control. Fear not, Google+ has a “Mute” function. To stop receiving updates from a post and remove it from your stream, click the arrow at the top of the post, then select “Mute this post.” To un-mute it, follow the same steps and select “Undo mute.”
Tip 2: Keyboard shortcuts
Google+ has designed a number of keyboard shortcuts that let you quickly maneuver through your Google+ stream, as well as format your posts using bold, italic and strikethrough fonts.Tip 3: How to Claim a Vanity URL
Unlike Facebook, Google+ does not yet offer vanity URLs, or a shorter URL that you can use to point others to your profile. Enter gplus.to: a service that shortens your Google+ URL into something more simple.
Visit the site, choose a shorter username. then copy and paste the string of numbers identifying your Google+ page. This will create your vanity URL: gplus.to/yourusername.
Tip 4: Double-Check With Whom You’re Sharing
Sometimes it’s easy to forget who you’ve put into which Circles. If you ever have doubts when posting an update or sharing a link on Google+, click on the “Limited” link at the top. You’ll see photo icons for each of the people who will be able to view and share your post with their connections.
Tip 5: Tag Someone in a Post
Lady Gaga Stared a Commercial for Google Chrome with her New Single “the Edge of Glory”
Lady Gaga builds one of the world’s largest fan bases by using the web to talk directly and openly to her community. And just a few days ago, Google released a Chrome commercial, staring Lady Gaga and her Little Monsters, singing and gyrating their way through her latest single “The Edge of Glory”.
This 91-second film celebrates Lady Gaga’s special and unmediated relationship with her fans, the Little Monsters. The ad is intended to illustrate the power of the web and its creative new modes of interaction, which is exactly what Google wants to showcase for Chrome.
The entire project, from Lady Gaga’s shoot in New York City on May 8th to shipping materials to the television networks for air, took 10 days. Several hours after the release of her latest single “Edge of Glory” on May 9th, fans began uploading videos to YouTube, making the song their own by dancing to it, singing it and playing it with all kinds of instruments. Lady Gaga then posted a message on her website asking for more videos to be used in the film project. Then hundreds of videos were uploaded from fans. Editors in the editing room were putting uploaded videos into the film in real time as fan videos streamed in. The film was completed on May 18th in time to air during Lady Gaga’s performance on the season finale of Saturday Night Live, and to also live on the web forever.
Related readings:
Click for the Lyrics of “the Edge of Glory”
займ на карту rusbankinfo.ru
Google released Android 3.1 OS and Music Beta at the opening day of Google I/O Developer Conference 2011
In the remarkable Google I/O Developer Conference 2011, Google does not disappoint anticipants with their new and upgraded products and services. At the opening day of this remarkable conference, Google released several long anticipated products and services, including the Android Honeycomb 3.1 and the Music Beta by Google.
Honeycomb is Android’s specific tablet OS which has been considered fairly well, but indeed need updates to be perfect. This new Android Honeycomb 3.1 will fix some of the minor problems we had with Honeycomb, like not being able to scroll through recently-opened apps or not being able to re-size widgets.
Music has long been a weakness of Android’s–its stock music app is jarringly bad, both ugly and confusing, and without a native music purchase system like Apple’s iTunes or Microsoft’s Zune. Music Beta by Google (or, Google Music) is a Cloud music service, which is not a store like iTunes, or a subscription service like Rdio or Rhapsody, but more of a specialized chunk of online storage. You upload your music (20GB, at first) to this storage locker online, and then can access it from your Android device–as long as you have an internet connection.
Other new things of this conference are just like what I predicted before. The Ice Cream Sandwich plays an important role in this conference. One we did not expect to emerge is the Android@Home, an open-source project that’ll let developers create home automation apps with any appliance that’s plugged into an Android@Home receiver. Google also announced the Android ADK, a sort of collection of tools to allow hackers and developers to make new stuff with Android and an Arduino microprocessor.
The conference is still on the way, and we think that there must be more new surprises to be announced. Just wait for the latest news about the conference.
займ на карту rusbankinfo.ru
What would Google I/O Conference 2011 bring to the world?
Just like the Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, the annual Google I/O Developer Conference is also getting great concern from people all over the world. And this year, the Moscone Center of San Francisco would be the one of the most shinning places of the year, for this year’s Google I/O Developer Conference is going to be held here today, and the conference is just hours left to get started.
The 2011 Google I/O Developer Conference will gather together more than 5 thousand people from more than 60 countries and regions. It will include more than 110 conferences and 261 keynotes. 152 partners of Google plus two bloggers will take part in the conference. The 2011 Google I/O Developer Conference has become the biggest annual conference of Google so far.
For such a big feast of technology, all people could see the countdown table on Google I/O official home page. And at the same time, the Google I/O home page would become the platform to show the conference videos, conference introduction, software downloading, and even the place to communicate with attendants after conference. The exciting moment is coming, and what Google is going to bring for the world this year?
Most of the technology sites and blogs are abuzz with the ‘expected launches’ of various products and services from Google. Here I have listed some long anticipated products or services that may be launched in this annual conference:
Google Chrome operating system: been anticipated for long. As the rumors on Chrome OS surfaced few days back, we can expect Google’s announcement about the Chrome OS.
Google Music Beta: just like the Amazon Cloud Music service, allows users to store music in cloud and enjoy through browsers.
Android 2.4 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system: it may add some features of Honeycomb to the Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS.
Other products and services anticipated to launch may include: some additions to the 2010 Google I/O Developer Conference released Google TV, Google Buzz, Google Me, Buzz, +1, Offers, etc.
Anyway, these are just our anticipations towards the Google I/O Developer Conference 2011. There are no official comments from Google and we have to wait for the latest news about this annual conference.
займ на карту rusbankinfo.ru
Recent Comments