Google+ After two weeks

Google+ has exploded in terms of users in the two weeks that it has been available. Though it is still invite only, it has attracted more than 10 million users. More than 1 billion items have been shared on Google+ already. Google+ added $20 billion to Google’s Market cap.

 

They say Google+ is not really about social. Watch the pics https://plus.google.com/photos/100238778462210489846/albums/5629087019815403777

 

Some say its just a facebook clone. This user explains why G+ is not a FB clone. https://plus.google.com/#112626028132643666125/posts/51pdcHohscF 

 

What the problem with G+ is? Too geeky. Too few females. http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/statistics . However, the ratio of M vs. F has improved from 87% male a while ago, to 74% now

 

 

"What Do You Love?" by Google

WDYL.com is a website rolled out by Google which shows A Range Of Google Product Results On One Page.

Here’s the site itself: http://www.wdyl.com/

 

Here is the quick introduction video.

 

 

This seems like an User Experience experiment, as they mash up different categories of search results on one page. Looks nice, though.

Windows Phone 7 Mango new Features.

Having played around with Windows Phone 7 Mango for almost a month, I’ve found the beta release to be stable and pretty functional. Following are the features which I liked the most and proved useful to me.

 

• Call Log History.
• Location checkins
• Conversation view in email clients.
• Batter saver
• Windows Live Messenger and Facebook chat along with switching between SMS and Facebook chat.
• Bind Local Scout and Music Search.
• Redesigned Music and Videos hub
• Improved Call screen
• Now playing lock screen
• IE9 with HTML5 support
• Sharing links from IE to facebook and windows live.
• Autofix pictures
• Multitasking and background tasks
• Visual Voice Mail
• SMS and Mail dictation
• App search
• Unified Inbox
• Inbuilt Twitter and Linked In support
• Video Full screen Mode and Video dragging bar.
• Outlook OOF setting
• Task switcher
• Image search
• Bing Vision
• Voice search

and lot more will be updated soon. Mango build is one heck of an update. Stay tuned for this fall.

Facebook Video Chat

Facebook announced a new feature to their site which involved video-calling and group chat in collaboration with Skype. This new feature involved giving current Facebook chat users the ability to video call their friends. They will be rolling out these features automatically over the next few weeks. If you don’t want to wait for these products, you can get it now. http://www.facebook.com/videocalling You can also create an ad-hoc group by adding more than one Facebook friend in the Facebook chat interface.

 

Click on the name of contact you want to chat with and then click on the Video calling icon in the chat window. You will be prompted to download a plugin for your browser. This is only a one-time process, so you will be able to video chat in the future without having to install this plugin again

 

The other feature announced was the ability to find people to chat with easier. Given that you have the available screen space, you can now see a ‘buddy list’ of Facebook friends. This will allow you more easily find the people you want to chat with.