The New and Refreshed Google+ Makes Facebook Look Tired and Old-Aged
Google+ , now with more than 170 million users, is Google’s social layer, designed to deliver social experience for users of its web assets such as Search and YouTube. Since its launch at the end of last year, the Google+ team has been releasing and refining features in hyperdrive mode, in their quest to deliver new ways of sharing the right things with the right people . Now, they are rolling out a brand new batch of super-impressive upgrades. Bigger pictures, videos Google+ is popular among photographers. Enlarging the photos seems to bring out the best in good looking photos (obviously). Each photo/video comes with conversation “cards” (for friends to comment) and activity drawer (to highlight community around the content). Better Navigation Google+ calls it Navigation Ribbon, which basically is the navigation shortcuts. Currently, navigation appears as a sticky top bar. Coupled it with Google’s black bar, Google+ users are seeing two layers of sticky bars. This enhancement is ...