The Google+ Project is a wide umbrella of varied social features
Move over +1 ??Google's very own social network has bubbled up to the service at long last. Called the Google+ Project, the venture seems to be a collection of standalone social features, rather than a one-stop social hub like Facebook. With the goal of making "sharing online more like sharing in real life," Google will seek to integrate this new social stuff into its body of existing online services.
Circles There were murmurings of this a few months ago, and now Circles appears to be the backbone of the Google+ project. By letting you create different filters for your online social life, Circles can "share different things with different people." According to Google, "Circles makes it easy to put your friends from Saturday night in one circle, your parents in another, and your boss in a circle by himself." Circles sounds like the biggest news, signifying a move away from both Facebook's system of public, unified online identity and from Google's own past privacy social snafus.
How Circles works
Hangouts A tool called Hangouts offers group video chat for up to 10 users. You can notify specific friends or whole Circles that you're "hanging out" and watch them pop up on screen for a mass video chat.
Hangouts are social video meeting places
But that's not all ? there's a bit more under the Google+ Project umbrella. Huddle helps you get your friends on the same page (when deciding on what movie to see, for example) through a group chat interface. A feature called Instant Upload will incorporate Circles to help you share photos and videos instantly with the right group of friends (and not with your boss or your mom). Sparks is a kind of social suggestion engine, where users can plug in what interests them and in turn recommend it to friends to "strike up a conversation."After Google's past privacy flare-ups, the company looks to be steering its social ship in the right direction.?Google users are understandably wary of socializing their existing Googleverses ? most anyone's Gmail account stores a vast array of contacts, some of which you probably wouldn't want to "hangout" with any time in the foreseeable future.
Google+ features seem geared to rein in your online social experience from the start in an organic way, so you won't have to feel guilty about that invite from your uncle or your boss idling in your friend requests folder. Of course, on?Facebook, all user interactions are funneled through profile pages and anyone wary of prying eyes must tweak the site's somewhat obfuscated privacy settings, usually blocking or limiting other users' access.
The Google+ Project is currently in an invitation-only "field trial" period, but you can?request an invitation and view an interactive preview on Google's official project page.
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