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Summify - 40 Google Plus Tips for Newbies Ok, so at this point, we are all newbies at Google Plus, right? At least if you got in recently via a Google Plus invite. At this point I’ve spent a decent amount of time with it and have concluded that Google has finally made a positive mark in social networking. It’s still early, but there is a lot of excitement around Google+ by those who have jumped on early, and for good reason. Google has launched a social network with several features designed to leapfrog its competition. 40 Google Plus Tips for Newbies Last Updated August 18th, 2011: Replaced tip #22 (old) with a fresh resource on changes on Google plus. July 20, 2011: Added a video in the advanced tips section informing readers how to share a link on Google Plus as their currently isn’t an easy way for website owners to offer that option for readers. *A word about updates to this post. [/unordered_list] [/toggle] Friends First thing you’ll likely want to do is add some friends right? Tip #1: Adding Friends from Suggestions. Circles

Google Plus Tips & Shortcuts “the motherlode of Google+ tips for all y’all suckas that don’t know…” – Donny Rhoades I figured it would be useful to put all of the Google Plus tips and shortcuts I have found thus far in one handy place. Please add any additional tips you discover in the comments. NEW! Tips Last Updated:9/1/11 7:08am PST - Google+ currently does not support “entities” that are not people, but they will in the future (see this discussion between Danny Sullivan and Brad Horowitz). - You have to click on the “Chat with people on Google+” link to enable chat within Google+ but then you get IM functionality. - When chatting to people you can drag the top of the chatting box to resize the chatting window - Go start a chat on Google Talk on your phone. - +Everything:This extension adds the Google+ bar to all websites. - +1 Button: Plus one every page you like with only one click, directly from omnibox, without any annoying popup - Color Bar Changer: Changes color of Google Plus bar to green, pink or blue. - New!

Google+ Now Lets You Upload Address Books From Outlook, Your Mac, And More Googler Paul Linder just pointed out that there’s now an option in Google+ for users to upload address books in order to find and invite more friends to join the company’s brand new social networking service. As Vic Gundotra added shortly thereafter, this is a fairly big deal. We heard the address book importing feature was coming, but it looks like it was just added a few hours ago. Look for a link that says “Upload address book” (because why complicate things) here. To be clear, this is different from the one-click contact importer for Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo users. Also, there appear to be some bugs, but I’ve noticed that the Google+ team is following all feedback closely and aims to quickly finetune the new feature.

The Plus Project: Third Iteration Google+ Approaches 18 Million Users [REPORT] Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. continues to set records as the fastest-growing social network in history, but Google's social juggernaut is beginning to show signs that it's losing steam. Ancestry.com co-founder Paul Allen (not to be confused with the Microsoft co-founder of the same name) posted his most recent analysis of Google+'s growth on his Google+ account Tuesday. "Last week we saw two days where more than 2 million signed up in a single day," Allen said in his post. Why is Google+'s growth slowing down? Allen estimated that Google+ hit the 10 million user mark sometime on July 12 or 13. Graph via Paul Allen's Google+ page

Plus Extract - TOP G+ PHOTOS Why Plus Extract? Flickr has its own way of finding and presenting the TOP shots daily. The same is true for 500px, for Smugmug and for many other websites, which are popular among photography fans. So we tried to make the Google+ photography paradise even better. What is Plus Extract? It's your DAILY dose of TOP Google Plus photographs, which were chosen by an algorithm that combines automatic steps and manual curation. This means that the DAILY TOPs are NOT based solely on popularity, and users with a small number of followers have a chance to be featured in the TOP. We use Google+ API for the automatic steps; Jarek Klimek is responsible for curation and communication with the authors. We strongly respect the authors and their rights. Read FAQ » How is Plus Extract connected to PhotoExtract? The Plus Extract daily tops are independent from other PhotoExtract functions. Plus Extract Features

The top 10 features missing from Google Plus Google+ has captured the attention and the imagination of the technology world. But, it's easy to forget that it's still in closed beta. Here are the top 10 things that need to be fixed or added. There's a lot to like about Google+ and it has the potential to make a major impact on the future of the Internet. After just two weeks in closed beta, it already has 10 million users. Still, it's far from perfect. 1. On Google+ it is a lot easier to find friends and people to follow than any social network that has been built so far. 2. The +1 button allows you to give the thumbs up to really good Google+ posts and updates. 3. One of the stickiest issues Google needs to figure out is the Share functionality. 4. By default, the big Stream (and the Circle streams as well) are sorted by relevance and popularity, based on the number of +1 votes and shares, so that the most interesting stuff rises to the top of the Stream. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Also read

Gabriel Vasile - Google+ - 6 GOOGLE+ DIRECTORIES TO HELP YOU MAKE MORE FRIENDS These… Preview: Google+ Mobile The Google+ Mobile App for Android is surprisingly mature at this stage of the game. BYTE -- It's bad form to roll out a new service without some kind of mobile app available. As expected, Google rolled out a mobile app with its beta of the Google+ social network -- an app for the Android platform. BYTE took a long look. Google was wise to launch this app along with its limited-use service. The service will need debugging from every direction before a mass rollout. Excepting an issue with photos I'll discuss below, the app ran smoothly on both phones. On launch, the app presents your choice of Stream, Huddle, Photos, Circles or User Profile -- each selectable via a large icon. The Stream view is a miniaturized version of the full website. Here's a stream view with posts and comments. Notifications are confined to notification-only pages. The mobile app aims to allow sharing of photos you take with the device. The pencil icon brings up a text box for sharing posts, location data or photos.

Google+ for iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4 on the iTunes App Store