Google+ was a quirky social site that no one really thought they needed, but I'll always be grateful to this dying platform for helping my find my voice, my community, and my dream job.
Google+’s planned consumer shutdown is coming up in just a few short months. Here’s what to expect when the that fateful day comes on April 2.
Google+ just suffered its second major data leak in less that two-month’s time, and as such, Google’s decided to shut down consumer access to it four months sooner than originally planned.
From 2015 to March 2018, a security vulnerability exposed info for hundreds of thousands of Google+ users. Google chose to not disclose the breach and is now planning to shut down its failed social network.
For those of you that still use Google+, the platform's Engineering Manager recently teased that a "brand new version" will be launching in the coming days.
If you've been noticing that your Google Contacts aren't syncing properly, here's how to get everything working again.
According to Google+ Product Manager John Nack, RAISR, Google's machine learning image processing technology, will be rolling out more broadly over the next coming weeks.
This is everything you need to know about Google+, in one handy guide. Google+ is the social backbone of the Google platform and a pretty decent social network for the millions of users who inhabit it. Thanks to its ties to Hangouts, Google+ can also become your own personal podcast, meeting space, or impromptu concert. Google+ Photos's freedoms and features have attracted...
Polls are a nice, easy ways to gauge opinions. Politicians are always using polls to assess voter — and donor — opinions. Google Opinion Rewards pays us for answering their short polls. Here at Android Central, our weekly polls are one of the many ways we try to see what you, our readers, think about Android and the burning questions of the day. But what about when you want to get some...
The memories you capture with your smartphone don't have to disappear when something bad happens. There are many photo backup services available to Android users today. Almost all of these services rely on offering a small amount of storage in a cloud backup somewhere, and when you take a photo or record a video that data is sent off to be stored until you need it. While each of...
Policing comments in a mostly anonymous system is almost impossible, so Google tried to fix things. YouTube is an amazing platform where anyone with a camera and an internet connection can publish videos for the entire world to see for free. From the absolute novice to the professional production studio, YouTube is an invaluable resource for getting video to your users. More than...
Google has taken your data out of the individual silos you signed up for and created something bigger, but it's up to you to decide if that's good or bad. When the service first launched, Google+ was described by its creators as a social layer for all of Google's products. This meant you could invite people to a document from Google Drive, check your notifications from Google Play...
Some areas of Google+ are great for immersing yourself in a topic, but it's easy to get overwhelmed when the signal to noise ratio tips. Once you gotten yourself settled in to Google+, by which I mean your account has been completed and you've either located your current friends or gone out to find some new ones through Google's recommendations, it's time to really make the service...
Photos can make or break your experience on social media. While text may be the way we primarily communicate online, when we add visuals to our words, social media becomes a lot more fun, a lot more addictive, and to an extent a lot easier. After all, a picture says a thousand words. Communities like the Art of Bread probably could still capture interest and share recipes with text...
The Google+ homepage — called the stream — can be somewhat unpredictable at times. That label at the top may say All Circles, but posts from your communities and from complete strangers — in the form of Extended Circles or Hot and Recommended posts — wind up here, too. It can be wild, it can be unruly, or — even worse — boring if you don't have your stream set up right. But with a few...
Circles — like Google+ itself — are often misunderstood. See, on most social media platforms, lists are something of an afterthought. You follow someone and then you add them to a list through the profile options or some similar method. On Google+, your lists — called Circles — are front and center. Anyone you follow must belong to one of your circles, and you can add them to more than...
If you already use Google, making the jump to Google+ is surprisingly easy. In several subtle ways, you probably are using parts of Google+ already. Your Google+ profile goes a lot of places. It ties into the Google Play store, putting a name and face to your +1s, ratings, and reviews. It ties into YouTube, tying together your comments and allowing you to reply to subsequent comments...
Google's plans for total web domination have been scaled back to a simple, powerful social network with no shortage of killer features. Social behavior is a strangely integral part of the Internet as we know and use it today, and in many ways it has been from the very beginning. Message boards, IRC channels, image hosting sites, and email have always existed as important social...
Sharing app links is easy — especially via Google+ Apps in Google Play are plentiful, and when you get right down to it, finding good apps can sometimes be a bit like finding a needle in a haystack, or a diamond in the rough. And diamonds are awesome, so you should share them with your friends when you find them. Sharing them on Google's own social platform Google+ is a little easier...
Google just brought over its Auto Enhance feature that debuted with photos to videos. The feature isn't enabled automatically for all videos, but with a single click, you can allow Google to use its algorithms to fine-tune your videos. The feature will work on the Google+ Photos app on Android as well as on Google+ for Mac, Windows and Chrome OS. In the Android Google+ Photos app,...