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Google+ app for iPad available in the App Store

Offical Google Blog :: In May, we redesigned the Google+ experience for iPhone, adding full bleed photos that fall into place and bold visual elements that bring your stream to life. Today, we’re introducing new features for iPhone and an iPad app that you won’t be able to put down.

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Google+ now powering app recommendations based on what your friends use

VentureBeat :: Google+ has long been the cornerstone of Google’s big, gnarly plan to knit all its web apps and user profiles into one colossal, interconnected software suite. This matter of app recommendation is merely the icing on the cake. “This isn’t the entire Internet, it’s your entire Internet,” said Google web search chief Jack Menzel during a recent interview about Google+ data making its way into other Google products. “With Google+, we understand who people are, and we use that.”

A report by Jolie O'Dell, venturebeat.com

Local SEO with Google+

Search Engine Journal :: It’s not exactly surprising that Google recently made the widely-expected announcement that it plans to convert all existing Google Places pages into Google+ Local pages. So instead of boring you with further details on this transition, I want to jump into the meat of the issue: how this shift affects local SEO best practices.

How will Google+ Local pages affect SEO? - Continue to read Sujan Patel, www.searchenginejournal.com

YouTube to allow users to switch to Google+ identity

SiliconRepublic.com :: Having received positive feedback on a ‘Google-wide’ identity offered to new users in March, YouTube is now rolling out the ability to sync your Google+ and YouTube account identities, first in the US and then worldwide.

Continue to read Elaine Burke, www.siliconrepublic.com

Google+ at one: How Time magazine clocked up 1.2m followers

Journalism.co.uk :: Time magazine has clocked up 1.17 million followers on Google+, the social network which launched a year ago today. Time has a notable social media following, achieving the status of "number three news brand on Twitter" with over 3.6 million followers, it has 541,000 fans on its Facebook page and an impressive 35,000 followers on Foursquare.

While many news organisations have found little success on Google+, Time and also the Financial Times have both clocked up more than one million followers.

So how did Time reach that figure?

Continue to read Sarah Marshall, www.journalism.co.uk

Google+ updates events and offers Google+ for tablets

silicon republic :: Google has begun rolling out two major updates to Google+, bringing the service to tablets and adding a new events function that could blow Facebook’s event management out of the water. Having upgraded its mobile apps back in May, Google+ is now being introduced to tablet computers (neatly coinciding with the launch of its own tablet, mind you).

Continue to read Elaine Burke, www.siliconrepublic.com

Google+ hits 250m total accounts, more than 150m monthly active users

Venture Beat :: Google+ now has more than 250 million total accounts, and more than 150 million monthly active users, Google’s Vic Gundotra announced at the event. More than 50 percent of Google+ users sign in daily, and they also spend typically more than an hour on the site every day.

Continue to read Jolie O'Dell, venturebeat.com

Launching Google +1 recommendations: More relevant content surface

Google+ Blogspot :: Working on +1, we often hear people say they want to see more of what their friends recommend. Likewise, when we talk to site owners, they ask us to help them show more relevant content to their users. That's why we are rolling out a new feature of the +1 button in platform preview: when users hover over a +1 button, they will see recommendations for other great content on your site.

Continue to read Julie Farago, googleplusplatform.blogspot.ca

Bradley Horowitz: Google+, Hangouts, strategies and the recent Flipboard partnership

LeWeb London | YouTube :: Bradley Horowitz, Vice President, Product Management at Google is interviewed by Loic Le Meur at LeWeb London 2012. He shares some big news about a partnership with flipboard and hosts a google hangout for live Q&A on the stage!

Interview by Loice Le Meur, www.youtube.com

HT: Sarah Hill, KOMU-TV via Google+

Google partners with Flipboard, adding Google+ streams

The Next Web :: Speaking at Le Web ’12 in London, Google’s Vice President of Product Management Bradley Horowitz announced that it has partnered with Flipboard, adding Google+ streams in the app. The streams will launch soon.

Continue to read Matt Brian, thenextweb.com