Google+ announced a new feature which lets you share your circles with others thanks to their new "Share" button. Google+ engineer Owen Prater said, "Starting today you can actually share your favorite circles with others! So if you’ve got a great Photographers or Celebrities circle, for instance, then you can share a copy with your ...

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With Tumblr getting a lot of attention recently for its rapid growth, Posterous released major update to its web service and iPhone app this week. But, its target doesn't appear to be Tumblr. It looks like the update is aimed at Google+ instead.


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Facebook just announced on its blog that it is rolling out a litany of privacy-related updates that streamline its various interfaces, simplify privacy control, and add more power in the hands of users.Facebook has always had a feature similar in function to Google+’s Circles but it has so far been underemphasized and complicated to use. It is now being moved to the forefront, with the lock button under the sharing widget getting a more verbose and prominent look. The button will now spell out e [...]

Read More: Facebook’s updated privacy controls take it beyond Google+’s Circles

Ever since Google + launched a couple of months ago we have been waiting to see what features Facebook would roll out to combat with Google’s circles feature, which was widely acknowledged as a successful new way of grouping your friends. Well, we just spotted a new feature that Facebook is testing that allows you find friends within different parts of your social graph including work, college, location, employer or hometown and you can see how these could easily be built in to new lists.The big [...]

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 techdigestGoogle+ users, who love to read and share books, can now share any book they please by finding it on Google Books.


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Today’s guest post is written by John Fitzgerald. The concept of Google+ Circles is not a revolutionary one. Many of us already use digital tools to segment our contacts and the information we share with them, including multiple email addresses, Twitter accounts, and Web sites. We share different content on LinkedIn than we do on Facebook [...]

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Are you confused about what your social media mission, goals, objectives, strategies and tactics are? If so, you're not alone. For years, many marketers have gnashed their teeth over the definitions and priorities of the various pieces of the puzzle. Personally, I have worked with companies and clients for whom strategy was paramount before any [...]

Read More: Is Your Social Media Strategy Sailing In Circles?

While there are already countless articles about Google+ and many more sharing up-to-the-minute statistics to emerge from the burgeoning network, I reserved my thoughts until now. I needed time to think about it. Part FriendFeed, part Google Buzz, part Facebook, part Google.com and all of its properties, Google Plus represents a fresh approach to social [...]

Read More: Google will not run Circles around Facebook, but it gets a +1

Even as Facebook revealed some new chat products on Wednesday, the elephant in the room was Google's latest attempt to create a social network, Google+. Mark Zuckerberg tried deflect direct comparisons by saying, "Every app is going to be social."

But he did make one remark, which suggested how he really feels about Google+ and one of its main features, Circles. Zuckerberg didn't mention Circles specifically but he did state:

The definition of groups is . . . everyone inside [...]

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Bob Caswell, a product manager at Microsoft, asked an interesting question on his Google+ stream. He asked, "What if you had the idea of Google+ "Circles" three years ago but decided to pursue other interests?" Well, maybe I'd be writing this from the beach in Tahiti? Who knows. Come to find out, Caswell did have ...

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One of the distinguishing features of Google+ is its simplicity for grouping people who you follow by simply dragging and dropping their names into circles. Facebook's Groups has the same functionality without the fancy UI, but the problem is that Groups didn't appear until after most of us accumulated dozens, if not hundreds, of friends, and it is too much work to put hundreds of friend into groups. Katango is an iPhone app that scans through your Facebook friends and automatically [...]

Read More: Katango Adds Google+ Circles Behavior To Facebook On iPhone

Yes, you read that correctly. One of the main draws to Google+ is their intuitive "circle" system of listing your friends together into groups. It's a feature that I see people repeatedly saying is one of the best things about this new social media platform. And while I agree that at first glance, the Google+ ...

Read More: Why Google+ Circles Might Suck