Google Play Store People: seeing friends buy things

Starting this week you’ll begin to be able to see a new section in the mobile (and eventually the desktop) version of the Google Play store. This is People, and … Continue reading

Hangouts 2.0 for iOS brings visual refresh, video messages, and stickers

Google has just announced the 2.0 of their Hangouts app for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch. Sporting a new look and feel as well as big new features, this version … Continue reading

Google Admits Google+ Was Just A Ploy To Track Your Behavior Online

Google Admits Google+ Was Just A Ploy To Track Your Behavior Online

As a social network, Google+ is just a bunch of empty circles spinning in a barren wasteland. But Google could give a fuck if consumers prefer Facebook. What the $400 billion data vacuum really wanted, reports The New York Times, is to track everything you do online and sell that personal information to advertisers.

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Google+ scores HDR Scape and Zoom for photographs

Google has slowly but steadily evolving Google+’s photography-centric features, the latest of which includes two much-anticipated additions: HDR Scape, which brings single-click tone mapping to images via Google+ on the … Continue reading

Google Chromebox for Meetings aims to usurp enterprise with Chrome OS

Google has revealed Chromebox for Meetings, it’s attempt to further push Chrome OS into the enterprise by offering a simpler way for multiple people to collaborate. Offered as a $999 … Continue reading

Facebook turns 10 – will it make it to 20?

Facebook has turned ten, and though the terrible teens are still a few years off, the predators are already circling. The social site celebrated its tenth birthday in a fairly … Continue reading

Ricoh Theta camera update brings spherical image uploading to Google Maps and Plus

Spherical panorama images have become a popular stitching activity among photo-takers, and as a result some smartphones and applications have cropped up that can make them. The process can still … Continue reading

Obama hosts real West Wing “Big Block of Cheese Day” across social

Fans of the West Wing – and of getting greater insight into how the US government ticks – will be excited to hear that today is Big Block of Cheese … Continue reading

Google+ Explore turns misunderstood network into social Reader replacement

Google has added a new category view to Google+, effectively turning the contentious service into a socially-curated news reader to take on Flipboard, Pulse, and others. Dubbed Google+ Explore, and … Continue reading

Gmail is down, it’s not just you: Google+ as well [UPDATES]

This afternoon Google services Gmail and Google+ appeared to be down as marked by inaccessibility by the masses starting in at around 1PM CST. While the beginning of this inaccessibility … Continue reading