Top 10 Most Followed Google Plus Brand Pages !!

Google plus brand pages has been launched on 7th Nov this year and is received well by various organisations and websites and the reason is that Pages for Google Plus also boast some advantages when it comes to search-engine optimization.

Here we have a list of top 10 most followed Google plus pages according to Social Statistics.

Although Android is the Most followed page on Google Plus and have 130241 followers whereas Facebook Most liked page is Facebook itself and have 56,131,564 likes till the post was written.

Still, A long way to go for Google Plus.

Google+ Brand Pages: Multi-Admin Capability Coming Soon, Before 2012 !!

Google+ will allow multiple admins to manage a brand page “before 2012,” Kristoffer Sorensen, said on in a live Q&A on Wednesday. Kristoffer Sorensen is a Google marketing strategist.

Currently, brand pages can have only one admin. This is something really annoying if a page is managed by more than one person.

Google+ post 

Multi-admin feature is surely gonna help Google+ brand page as this facility is something that Facebook pages already have and till now Google plus don't.

Another missing feature in Google plus Pages is that they can't be merged but two Facebook pages can be merged. Let's hope for this feature in future.

What else you are hoping from Google plus ?

A Brief History Behind Google Doodles !!

Over the years, Google doodles have made searching on Google more fun and enjoyable. When doodles were first created, nobody had anticipated how popular and integral they would become to the Google search experience. Nowadays, many users excitedly anticipate the release of each new doodle.

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How did the idea for doodles originate?
In 1998, the concept of the doodle was born when Google founders Larry and Sergey played with the corporate logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. A stick figure drawing was placed behind the 2nd "o" in the word, Google and the revised logo was intended as a comical message to Google users that the founders were “out of office.” 

While the first doodle was relatively simple, but the idea of decorating the company logo was well received by users.

Over time, the demand for doodles quickly rose Worldwide. Creating doodles is now the responsibility of a team of talented designers.

If you love Google and have designed your own doodle than you can submit it to proposals@google.com.

See How Many People Googled 'Sushil Kumar' after he Won Rs 5 crore on KBC !!

Larry Page passes Mark Zuckerberg as Most Circled person on Google+ !!

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is no longer the “most-circled” person on Google+. That honor now rests, more appropriately, with Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page.

                    

• Larry Page has now more than 602233 followers. 
• Mark Zuckerberg, despite having never posted on Google+, has of 599098 followers.

This is the outcome of criticism of Google Executives for not using its own products. Its only after that Several Google executives began posting more frequently and publicly to Google+ .

Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt also joined Google+ earlier this month.

A YouTube Video Leaked Showing Gmail 's Makeover !!

                       

A Youtube video leaked on to the Web (subsequently deleted but since reposted) shows off the new interface for the Web giant's email service. Jason Cornwell, a user experience designer for Gmail, walks viewers through the major changes ahead.

"Oops, you weren't supposed to see that," Google representative Andrea Freund told CNET. "Stay tuned, we'll be sharing more info on Gmail's new look soon."

The new look is designed to be cleaner, simpler, and more intuitive, he said. One of the biggest changes is that the Gmail window will automatically adapt to whatever size the user chooses.

Conversations have been redesigned to "feel more like a real conversation," he said, noting that user profile pictures have been added next to their comments, similar to how many instant messaging and chat applications work.

Google is making the size of the label and chat areas on the left more flexible, he said. "Even if you do nothing, Gmail adapts to you," he said. Gmail has also overhauled search to make it more customizable.

Google engineer faces no punishment for blog, posts more

The Google engineer that ranted on the differences between how Amazon ran the company and how Google runs itself has apparently not faced consequences for the post. In his post, he basically took on Amazon leader, Jeff Bezos equating him with a tyrant, saying that he could analyze a proposal like no other, and guess what, he's back with more. The engineer's name is Steve Yegge and his post went viral even though it was only intended for internal purposes. He thanks Google for not punishing him when that happened. He wrote in a new post, "Amazingly, nothing bad happened to me at Google. Everyone just laughed at me a lot, all the way up to the top, for having committed what must be the great-granddaddy of all Reply-All screwups in tech history."

No punishment for the truth teller

In fact, the higher ups have taken the issues he brought up to heart, but not in the negative way one would imagine they would. They're taking into account what he's written and attempting to figure out some of the issues he brought up, especially about Google's lack of a platform. Vic Gundotra, Google's VP of Social commented on the blog post saying that it was definitely a bad move on Yegge's part but it also allowed the world to look in at Google and see how they work as a team. Yegge himself said that he feels guilty about the post and that it was definitely a bad thing for him to have done. Yegge, however, promises to write more stories on Jeff Bezos's tyrannical behaviour as and when he finds the time, as he has years of experience dealing with the Amazon leader.

Google+ 40 Million Users Have Posted 3.4 Billion Photos !!

The 40 Million users of Google+ have uploaded 3.4 billion photographs to the service in the last 100 days, the company has revealed.

"That’s a big number even by Google standards,” said Google social czar Vic Gundotra while talking with Sergei Brin and John Battelle onstage at Web 2.0 Summit.

That number is small enough in comparison with Facebook, of course. Facebook has roughly 140 billion photos in its archives, with 6 billion photos being added every month.

Facebook’s 140 Billion Photos Represent 4% of Photos Ever Taken By Humans.

But, Google+  is silently making its way.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich..

Google has officially announced version Android 4.0 alias the Ice Cream Sandwich. It's packed full of new features and has a new look, and unifies the Android experience between tablets and smartphones.

The burning question for every Android smartphone owner is — Will their Android 2.3.x Gingerbread running smartphone support the new Ice Cream Sandwich? Google stated that theoretically any smartphone running Gingerbread should ideally run Ice Cream Sandwich. However, thorough testing will reveal the limitations, if any.

Wondering which devices will get the ICS update and when? We have some of the probable answers here.
• Google has said that technically all devices running Android 2.3 or higher are eligible for getting the ICS update.
• Samsung has stated that Samsung Nexus S will be the first device to receive the ICS update by November end. We have covered the specs in the next photo in the album.
• Samsung also says that the Samsung Galaxy S II will be the next in line to receive the ICS update. We can only pray that Samsung will be kind enough to include the Galaxy S in the list of devices eligible for ICS update.
• Sony Ericsson 2011′s Xperia Line, namely the Xperia Arc and Xperia Ray will recevie the ICS update, but there is no fixed timeline for the same. The company says all eligible devices will be first updated to Android 2.3.4, only after that they will be getting the ICS update.





Like specified earlier Samsung Nexus S will be the first Smartphone to run the search giant's updated Android 4.0 OS, known as Ice Cream Sandwich and boasts a 1.2GHz dual-core processor.

In addition, the device has a large, 4.65-inch Super AMOLED HD display and a near-field communication chip to deliver support Google's mobile-payment service, Wallet.







Here are the specifications of the Galaxy Nexus,
• Operating System: Android 4.0.1 - Ice Cream Sandwich;
• Display: 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED Screen with 1280 x 720 resolution;
• Processor: 1.2GHz dual-core processor;
• Camera: Rear: 5-megapixel, Front: 1.3-megapixel for video call;
• Camera Features: Re-designed Camera UI, 1080p video recording @ 30 FPS, panaroma mode, zero-shutter lag and silly faces;
• Buttons: On-Screen Software Navigation buttons, only hardware buttons are volume rocker and the power button;
• Face Unlock: Facial recognition to unlock your phone;
• Android Beam: Uses NFC to easily share content with other Android users;
• Sensors: Accelerometer, Compass, Gyro, Light, Proximity, Barometer;
• Memory: RAM: 1GB; Storage: 16/32GB; NO EXPANDABLE MEMORY USING SD-CARD;
• Connectivity: LTE, HSPA+ connectivity, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n;
• Battery: 1750 mAh Li-Ion;
• Dimensions(l x b x h): 135.5 x 67.94 x 8.94;
• Weight: 135g
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Google Translate for Android now in 16 languages.

When Google Translate came to Android, sometime last year, it did manage to bring the ease of communicating in the language best understood with the comfort of one's smartphone. However, earlier in the year, it introduced Conversation Mode, albeit as an experiment. Conversation mode, claimed Google took routine translation to the next level. This feature allowed users to speak directly into their smartphone's microphone, and the Translate app would translate the spoken language and would read it aloud. Then, the person on the other end, would speak into their microphone and the Translation app would translate it for you and read it aloud. However, at the outset, Google had enabled this feature in only English and Spanish. 

However, now, an official post on the Google blog confirms that the search giant has added as many as 14 more global languages to the Conversation mode feature. The feature is now available in - Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Turkish, taking the total number of supported languages to an impressive 16. 

Speaking into your smartphone's microphone

The post further adds that the feature is still in its early stages, and hence issues like background noise and regional accents may affect the work of the feature. But, with more people using the feature, Google assures timely updates and improvements. The feature also allows users to correct the text they want to translate, before it is translated. For eg: words like train, drain, rain or any other such similar sounding words when spoken into the microphone may prompt wrong translations. But now, users can correct the text, if any errors occur. The update also includes a magnifier, using which translated text can be zoomed in for better viewing.

Google has also optimized the Translate app for Android smartphones or tablets with larger screens for easy reading. Google Translate, itself offers support for over 63 languages, voice-input for 17 of these 63 languages and text-to-speech for another 24 languages. 

Receive the translated text, Japanese in this case

Google, signs off by saying that adding more language support to the Conversation mode is definitely in the pipeline. Google Translate is available for download on the Android Market. To better understand the Conversation mode feature, and see how it could work for you, watch the video below

Google Shutting Down Many Services Including Google Buzz !!

Google announced a "fall sweep" on October 14, about shutting down of several products, including Google Buzz, the company's controversial attempt at a social network.

Here’s the latest update on what’s happening:

• Code Search, which was designed to help people search for open source code all over the web, will be shut down along with the Code Search API on January 15, 2012.

• In a few weeks Google will shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+. 

• Jaiku, a product Google acquired in 2007 that let users send updates to friends, will shut down on January 15, 2012. 

• With New focus on Google+, it will remove iGoogle's social features on January 15, 2012. iGoogle itself, and non-social iGoogle applications, will stay as they are.

• The University Research Program for Google Search, which provides API access to Google search results for a small number of approved academic researchers, will close on January 15, 2012.

In addition, later today the Google Labs site will shut down, and as previously announced, Boutiques.com and the former Like.com websites will be replaced by Google Product Search.

Google signed off by saying, "Our users expect great things from us; today’s announcements let us focus even more on giving them something truly awesome."

Google+ Hits 40 Million Users !!

Google+ Hits 40 million Users within just 4 months, whereas it took other social networking sites more than 10 times the period 
Google CEO Larry Page claimed people are "flocking into Google+ at an incredible rate" as he announced the financial results for the quarter.

It still has a long way to go before catching up with Facebook, but Google Inc. is happy with the growing user base of its upcoming social network

But Google+'s membership remains a tiny fraction of that of Facebook. Facebook, which started in 2004, presently claims to have 800 million users.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Finally Joins Google+ !!

Google Executive Chairman +Eric Schmidt. has finally joined Google+. Google has been criticized for how few of its senior executives are visible on Google+.

For some reason, Schmidt’s profile photo is a picture of himself which looks like it is from 20 years ago when he was at Sun.

Any top Google exec needs to be careful what they share publicly because they do represent the company, even on Google+. But they can also take the natural curiosity people have about their lives and thoughts and use it to showcase hat Google+ is all about. If they don’t use and love their products, why should the rest of us?

Google+ Traffic Falls 60% From Post-Launch Highs !!

On 20th September when Google plus was Launched for all, Traffic spiked to 1269%. But After few days Traffic decreased by 60%.

Chitika tracked Google+ traffic before and after the social networking service opened its gates to all users.


“The data shows that, on the day of its public debut, Google+ traffic skyrocketed to peak levels. But, soon after, traffic fell by over 60% as it returned to its normal, underwhelming state,” Chitika says of its findings, as illustrated in the chart below.

Google Plus didn't worked out the way it was supposed to be. 

People are coming to check out Google plus and admiring it too but are not staying there because they already have their network build within Facebook or twitter.

For Google plus, still a long way to go.

Google Earth Celebrates 1 Billion Downloads With A New Site

As much as one-seventh of humanity has downloaded Google Earth, a technology that is only 6 years old.

The free software has been downloaded 1 billion times, Google announced Wednesday. If you’re among the 6 billion or so people who haven’t downloaded it, the app offers navigable, photographic images of the Earth, taken by satellites.

The technology was originally developed by Keyhole, a company Google bought in 2001. Upon release 5 years later, Google Earth found popularity in no small part because of its ability to be integrated into other tools and apps. (Most recently, it’s been used for advertising.)

To expand the use of Google Earth even further, Google is marking this milestone by pitching oneworldmanystories.com, which showcases stories from around the world — like that of Roz Savage, a British rower who has cataloged her more than 500 days at sea.

The infographic below from Google promotes the new site.

Click on image to Enlarge 

Chrome Set to Surpass Firefox in Market Share

Google's Chrome is on the brink of replacing Firefox as the second-most-popular browser, according to one Web statistics firm.

Data provided by StatCounter, an Irish company that tracks browser usage using the free analytics tools it offers websites, shows that Chrome will pass Firefox to take the No. 2 spot no later than December.

As of Wednesday, Chrome's global average user share for September was 23.6%, while Firefox's stood at 26.8%. IE, meanwhile, was at 41.7%. The climb of Chrome during 2011 has been astonishing: It has gained eight percentage point since January 2011, representing a 50% increase.

Chrome may pass Firefox as the world's second-most-popular browser by the end of the year. (Data: StatCounter.)

During that same period, Firefox has dropped almost 4% points, a decline of about 13%, while IE has also fallen four points, a 9% dip.

If the trends established thus far this year continue, Chrome will come close to matching Firefox's usage share in November, then pass its rival in December, when Chrome will account for approximately 26.6% of all browsers and Firefox will have a 25.3% share.

[via StatCounter

Google Plus Traffic Went Up 1269% Last Week

New data from Experian Hitwise show a dramatic increase in traffic over the week since the service opened to everyone. Visits to Google Plus increased by 1269% last week. The site received 15 million U.S. visits, up from 1.1 million the week before. Google Plus went from ranking 54th in Hitwise's Social Networking and Forums category to ranking 8th in just one week.

That's not all the traffic, either. These stats don't include mobile users or visits from the ubiquitous black Google toolbar. The data still show that Google Plus is disproportionately comprised of "influencers" and "early adopters" compared to other social networks, but the removal of invitations seems to have jump-started visits to the service. According to Paul Allen's estimates, which have been on track in the past, Google Plus currently has around 43 million users.

6 Reasons to Join Google Plus [funny] !!

Google Plus when came got a lot of attention but with in no time people came back to Facebook coz they find Google Plus damn Boring. But we are hopeful and there are still some reasons to join Google plus.

Reasons to join Google plus:

• Join If you have more than 24 hrs a day.

• Join If you want to experience Life on Internet before Social Networking.

• Being on Google Plus is another form of Meditation, Join to experience it.

• If you liked www.donothingfor2minutes.com than you gonna love Google Plus because it is the Sequel of  donothingfor2minutes.com.
• Join If you want to experience Static Behavior of Dynamic websites.

• Join If you are a big big fan of Google else you should not take chance. :P

via tecnica

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Now Wealthier Than Google Founders

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a personal net worth of $17.5 billion, edging out Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page for the first time, according to Forbes‘s annual “Richest People in America” list.

Zuckerberg, who was number 35 on the list last year, is number 14 on the list now, just below Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has a personal fortune worth $19.1 billion, according to Forbes.

Brin and Page each have net worths of $16.7 billion, placing them both at number 15, compared to last year’s number 24 ranking.

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz made number 91 on the list with $3.5 billion. And Sean Parker, former Facebook president, is 200 on the list with $2.1 billion.

Though none of those tech luminaries cracked the top 10, Bill Gates topped the list and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was number three. (Warren Buffett came in at number two.)

Other techies include Michael Dell (18), Steve Ballmer (19), Paul Allen (23), Steve Jobs (39), eBay founder Pierre Omidyar (50), Eric Schmidt (51), George Lucas (107) and Mark Cuban (171).

Jobs’s relatively low ranking on the list may come as a surprise to some since Apple is now the world’s most valuable company and was deemed “CEO of the Decade” by Fortune. Most of Jobs’s wealth is in the form of preferentially owned stock. He owns about 5 million shares of Apple and 138 million shares of Disney, which he received when Disney bought Pixar, according to CNNMoney.

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Google invites children from India for its Children's Day doodle

Google India has announced its third Doodle4Google contest that invites children to create doodles that will grace Google India’s homepage on Children’s Day on November 14.

This year’s theme is ‘India’s gift to the world’ and children in the age-group of 5-16 years can participate. The winning entry will receive a laptop with an year’s Internet subscription as well as a Rs 200,000 technology grant for the school the winner represents.

The bigger deal, of course, would be having their creation adorn Google India’s homepage for an entire day. 

Hit the break to find out how to register and submit your doodles.

At Google we love to play!- even with our corporate logo. To celebrate scientific and artistic achievements, festivals and historic events, we keep redesigning our logo. Google’s Doodle is an inspiration for many young children and seeing their continuous enthusiasm to contribute to the world of ‘Doodles’ said Google.

Participating in the competition is simple:

Children studying in class 1st to 10th can participate in the competition. These will be divided into three categories- 1st to 3rd Standard; 4th to 6th Standard and; 7th to 10th Standard

Last date for submissions is 15th September, 2011.

Winning Doodle will be uploaded on the Google.co.in homepage on 14th November 2011, Children’s Day and all the winners will get a Technology Starter Package. 

For information about the contest and to download/print material for use, log onto:www.google.co.in/doodle4google

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