Introducing Google + project: Real life real sharing - check out Circles, Sparks, and Hangouts

Article authored by Aroune Ravi

Google+ is a sharing social networking service to the public which is performed by Google Inc. It was initiated on June 28, 2011 as a experimental phase. In the very next day many existing users were ready to invite their friends to use this service and to create their own accounts.

Google+ is used as a covering for the different Google social services such as Google Profiles and Google Buzz, but also it deliver may new features including Circles, Hangouts, Sparks and Huddles. It also used for Desktop application, Android and iOS Applications. It has got the declaration that this is the Google's biggest attempt to rival social network ie Facebook, which had over half a billion users in 2010.

Google+ Features:

Circles:

Circles provide to organize group contacts for sharing one's user information to other through multiple of its products and services.

It also provides drag-and-drop interface for the users to contact groups of their wish.

Huddle:

It is a feature available to Android, iPhone, and SMS devices for communicating with circles.

Hangouts:

At any point of time Hangouts are places which used to make easy for the Group video chat consists of maximum of 10 people participating in a single Hangout. But anyone of the web could potentially join-in into the 'Hangout' if they use their unique url of the Hangout.

Instant Uploads:

It is similar to Android mobile devices which have photos or vides to share later in a private album.

Sparks:

It is a front-end search engine like Google search, provide users to share their interested topics to others. 'Featured sparks' are also available where people find globally about topics which are interested by others.

Streams:

Using this, users can able to see updates from their circles; this is similar to Facebook’s news feed. Status update is done by users by sharing their photos and videos in the input box.

Expansive Force:

The approach of Google+ had reinitiated the design of Google's web search engine service. Once Google + is released their full version there must have much change in redesign of Google Maps, Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Advantages:

1. In Facebook, if you want to exclude people or a group of people, you have to manually exclude them. But in Google +, you have to automatically exclude them.

2. Google+ is smooth, fast and intuitive - a product that feels far more akin to the Gmail revolution

3. Google has built an adorable, innate, very smart service that's fun to use and speaks to a deep human need for transfer of personal information of communication.

4. One of the fundamental differences between Google+ and Facebook is that the connections don't have to be equivalent - you can follow somebody just like on Twitter."