Hurrah!
Originally shared by Natalie Villalobos
Beyond thrilled to announce a slew of new Google+ features today AND we are now in Open Beta!
::cue music:: I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day!
Introducing the stars of our show…
1) Open Beta – This means invitations are no longer needed – 18+ only.
2) Search in Google+ – Organizing the information within Google+ and making it easy to discover content you’re allowed to view! Find people, posts, and hot topics!
3) Mobile Hangouts – Now you don’t have to tell your friends “Oh dang, that party last night was killer!” Now, you can party with 9 friends in real time via your mobile phone! (Available on Android devices to start)
4) Hangouts with extras – A preview of new features including named Hangouts, note-sharing, screensharing, and Google Docs collaboration!
5) Hangouts On Air – Tune into a live public stream of a Hangout inside the Google+ stream and once you’re “On Air,” up to 9 others can join your hangout, and anyone can watch your live stream. (limited number of hosts at start)
5) Hangouts API – The world is your oyster with the Hangouts platform – we’re releasing a basic set of APIs today!
6) Mobile has too much good stuff so I made them a section (see below)!
Mobile is rockin’ out – here’s what’s new
1) Renaming Huddle to Messenger – the evolution of something great!
2) Set your profile photo from any photo of you on your phone, tagged of you, or in the cloud – because you express yourself anywhere, at anytime.
3) +1 comments and see who else +1’d a comment (coming soon) – Yay!
4) Move your Google+ app to your SD card (Android only) – Yay!
5) Improved +Mention support – we’re always looking to make your experience better!
6) Send a photo in Messenger – making conversations richer!
7) Granular push notification options – so you see just what you want!
8) Receive and participate in Messenger, Post to Google+, and receive Google+ Notifications via SMS (US and India only) – Yay!
9) Playback user uploaded videos (not just YouTube videos) in your stream and share videos that have been uploaded via Instant Upload (Android only) – because we’re always wanting to share those cool vids our friends share with us!
Would love your feedback in the comments below, and as always, I love +1s and +mentions so I know how you’re feeling.
HOORAY!
here is the Official Google Blog post http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100.html
