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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Google+ : new social network review

It’s been only a week of Search Engine giant Google’s social networking service Google+ in the market, and already the buzz regarding the service is soaring. The insane response that the service got when it was launched in the market made a lot of tech buffs like us take their time from everything else and have a look at the service, and hence we created our Google+ profile and started exploring the service, which although is in its Beta stage, but looks rather promising.
So, here is our experience of Google+ so far.
First a caveat: The Google+ service still is in its early days or as we know Beta version, and hence our current experience could vary drastically with the ultimate experience that we all might have when the service is launched with all its features.
(Oh, and by the way is you are looking for a Google+ invitation, then we are sorry, you will have to wait.)


Review:
Google+ till now is a very much “beta” service, and hence suffers form some — expected, from a beta service — bugs, enigmas and oddments. And that also could be because the people who currently are using the service are all major social media geeks.
This is the reason why any sort of comparison of Google+ with the existing social media giants like Facebook, Foursquare or Twitter, seems pretty irrelevant or as we like to call it nuances. But at the same time, it’s always better to have the geeks try Google+. Afterward, as the service is available in full fledged manner, less-geeky or layman users can make the most of the process. So it’s better as for now to keep the expectations modest, and just hand around.
The key components for the Google+ mobile applications are the free Google+ Android app, obviously and the mobile web app, which can be accessed through the mobile browser on most of the web-enabled handsets.

What we like:
If we are asked what we liked about the Google+, from the top of the mind we will say the Google+ Android app. But that’s not it, there are some other things that we liked about the latest social networking service from search engine giant Google.

Some other things that we liked about the Google+ is the fact that we were able to categorize our contacts using its “Circles”, which are groups that we define, and can share stuff only with the “Circles” that we intend to share or even with all of them. The sharing stuff included photos, news, videos etc. So, overall we were more than happy with the “circles”, and the best thing was that this functionality was also available for the Android app without any sort of difficulty.

In addition to “Circles”, there is the “Hangouts” feature that allows you to have video chat with 10 people at a time. Now, that’s pretty big, considering the fact that none of the social networks as for now have succeeded in doing that, and that we all love to “Hangout” with our pals. The video chat functionality has not been seen in any of the social networks, but we have heard that Facebook will be making an important announcement on 6th of July, 2011, Wednesday, and on the basis of the rumors floating around we guess that its browser based Video Chat feature supported by Skype. So, it’s pretty obvious that the Google+ already has started affecting its rivals and has given them something to think about.

What’s We Didn’t Liked:
One of the things that we didn’t liked about Google+ is one of its prominent part apps “Huddle”, which is featured on the home screen.

As far as we know, the “huddle” is believed to be the Google+ substitute to group texting services. It will allow the groups defined by the users to summon on-the-fly personal discussions like deciding where to meet or things like that.

We were able to use the Android app for initiating a huddle and invite a lot of friends. Though, there was a restriction that the user joining huddle should also be using the Android app. We think that Google+ users should be allowed to participate in a huddle using the mobile Web.

Verdict:
Finally, just as we said, Google+ still is in its Beta version, and considering that and taking into consideration that its respectably functional, engaging and interesting we think that the service has what it takes to keep make us using it.

At the same time, we also would like to appreciate the user interface of Google+ — Mobile and Web – for being cleaner, more visceral, more captivating, more comprehensible, and less potentially deceptive than Facebook’s. In addition to that all it offers a huge potential for connecting with all the Google services, that we are already using: Gmail, Google calendar, Google docs and several other.

source :http://www.etechreviews.net/google-review/

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