Is your inner artist screaming to come out and play? Explore the Google+ Creative Kit!
There are so many options available to spruce up your photos; options like saturation, exposure, contrast, rotate, crop, cross process, text, decorative items such as speech bubbles, beards, and the list goes on.
Here’s a quick tutorial to add rounded corners to any photo in your Google+ photo album. Continue Reading…
The social networking site has appealed to people of all ages and all professions, yet none can benefit in quite the same way as writers. Google+ has many features that seem to be designed specifically for writers. Now that many businesses are realizing the SEO value of good writing (despite the fact that good writing should be appreciated regardless of SEO), the demand for writers is only increasing. It seems that Google+ caught on to this slowly emerging trend and added in features just for writers.
Below are a few of the Google+ features that writers, especially freelance writers, can use to help land those high paying freelance gigs:
You can have live video conferences with up to 10 people, FOR FREE! Want to know how others are using Google+ Hangouts? This is the granddaddy of all lists! Continue Reading…
If you’re as obsessed with Google+ as I am, you probably find yourself scrolling down your stream long enough for it to stop automatically loading more. When this happens, it’s good to know that you can give your scrolling finger a break thanks to a nice little feature that allows you to instantly scroll to the top of your current page with one click.
All you have to do is click on Google’s navigation bar that follows you down the screen. You can click anywhere within the grey space that is not already occupied with a button, link, or search bar.
Here is an image that highlights the clickable area:
Since the launch of Google+ back in July of last year, only adults over the age of 18 were allowed to sign up for an account. All that changed on Thursday when Google engineer Bradley Horowitz (Vice President Product Management for Google+) announced that Google+ is now officially open to teenagers!
In addition to this, new privacy and safety features have been implemented to make sure that teenagers will have a safe sharing environment.
From Bradley Horowitz’s post:
Whether you’re a critic or a fanboy (or girl), there’s no denying that Google+ is growing at a record pace. Based on last weeks announcement that they hit the 90 million user mark, it looks like they’re set to hit 100 million users in no time!
You may have seen the infographic that compared how quickly Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ reached a user base of 25 million. It gave a great visual of just how quickly Google’s new social network grew in it’s initial launch compared to the other networks. But, we here at GPlusTuts have a new infographic for you:
Now that Google+ has passed 90 million users, I decided to create an infographic that showed the timeline of how long it took the major networks to reach 100 million users. Now, being that Google+ has yet to officially reach 100 million users, this can only be a projection of what could happen. However, I’m confident it will be pretty spot-on.
Vic Gundotra (Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google) recently revealed that Google+ has now surpassed 90 million users. Being that the social network is now only 6 months old, these stats are mind-blowing!
In Vic’s post, he also revealed some other interesting statistics. However, he didn’t just list out the statistics in a boring old text-only update. Oh, no, good ol’ Vic (and his Google+ team) revealed the stats in a way that could only have been done on Google+. Check out the post for yourself, or just read below for a summary of what was announced.
Despite not having released the full API yet, there have been more than a dozen Google+ apps for iPhone that have showed up in the App Store. From posting to multiple social networks to importing photos, these apps can do a lot!
I’ve gone through and picked the best of the best. These iPhone apps are great for Google+ newbies and junkies alike, and will definitely add a little spice to your mobile Google+ experience. These apps cover publishing across multiple social platforms, photo importing from one service to another, and dating. What?! Yes, you read that right, there’s a Google+ dating app!
In true Google fashion the company released their newest innovation on Tuesday with “Search plus your world“. The backlash it caused is not a surprise as this update has officially started the impending Google+ domination countdown.
First, lets talk about what Search plus Your World is, then we’ll get into why it changes everything (again) and what it means for businesses, brands, and you. Fair enough? Great, let’s get into it:
Google+ released an update for it’s iOS devices on Monday. That’s always exciting for me, no matter what the update, but this update was exceptionally exciting with the addition of being able to start a Hangout from the Messenger feature!
Before the update, you were only able to join hangouts that were already going on. You couldn’t initiate one yourself. Well, thanks to this update, you can officially use the Messenger function to start a hangout with anyone in your circles. Here’s some screen shots:
