Soon after adding whopping 41 features for Google+ last week during I/O, Google has now updated its Google+ android app.  The latest update focuses on images, location and the overall stream. Like the Web version,  Google+ for Android provides users with options such as automatic photo enhancements and Auto Awesome. Google+ will automatically show you “highlights” of each photo gallery...

Google+ has gotten some design improvements to its profile section and pages just before Facebook’s news feed announcement later tonight. Not sure if they are related but the new Google+ designs make thing a little more visually appealing in terms of profile pages and other aspects of the social networking service. 1. You can now upload bigger cover images with higher resolutions. Images with resolution...

Google is probably the biggest company that has its underlying operations related to the internet. From the original search engine to Chromebooks, Google has spread out to almost every technology vertical barring manufacture of smartphones. There too, however, Google scores with Android. Google has a plethora of apps of its own and an app store called Google Play, which users download from. Google...

Hyderabad Angels, a Seed-funding group of serial entrepreneurs have chosen social job-referral company & website WhistleTalk to invest Rs. 2 Crores (US$ 400,000). Founded merely 11 months ago by Vinoo Chacko and Ajay Nema, the platform offers users to seek & match qualifications with potential job openings via Social Media websites. Users of the website can login using any of their social...

Since the Timeline feature got rolled out to all Facebook users after last year’s F8 event, brands and their agencies have being trying to figure out how to use this awesome new addition to work to their benefit. The fact that Brand pages didn’t have Timeline meant that innovation in Social Media was a little constrained because of the dated look and feel that brand pages have had since some time....

Google is very serious about improving the user experience and UI of its products. They have been pushing design changes to all their products since the launch of Google Plus so that all their services become cohesive in design and use. Youtube has always been a little disconnected from its parent company in terms of UI and UX. This is the first step towards building a Google ecosystem of products...

Its been just five months since Google+ has launched and in this time Google’s social networking/media hope has been lauded, criticized, hailed as the savior from Facebook and called ‘Utterly Confusing’. So it is safe to say that Google+ has had a rocky first five months. Facebook is the king of social networking at present, with over 800 million users, yet there is a sense of Facebook fatigue...

Facebook is constantly changing the user experience of the service over the years. But not all of these changes have been welcomed with open arms. Facebook has been facing stiff competition from Google Plus and hence they are continuously making changes to the user experience. Facebook released their new Timeline feature at the f8 developer event more than a month ago. This led to an entire series...

Google+, the Search Giant Google‘s take at Social Networking, has further expanded its array of post options. Google+ is currently being used extensively by Shahrukh Khan to promote RaOne, who incidentally is India’s 1st ‘Verified Celebrity‘ Account. Privacy, which is a major concern on other Social Networks like Facebook too, has been addressed in this change. Earlier, users...

Google is at it again – acquiring companies. Ripe after the acquisition of Zagat, a restaurant review portal, Google has turned its eyes towards Katango, a startup that automatically sorts your friends into different groups, with very little input required from the user. Katango uses a set of patent-pending algorithms to sort your friends into different lists based on your interaction with your...