Usability Boost for Google Plus™

Adds more contrast to the stream.
Gives you bit.ly reporting on hover of URLs.
Ability to "Star" posts to read later - currently broken feature since the new Google Bar released.

http://bit.ly/xX3zMx
Visually enhancing your stream
http://gplus.to/tworiversmktg
Putting the Plus in Google+
According to Google's official blog:
What is Google+ ?
"Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools.

"In this basic, human way, online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to fix it."
Google+ competes with Facebook for Company/Brand Pages, but also has key advantages to Twitter as a
real-time social network.
Labeled a Facebook Killer?
Key features G+ offers
Circles
Hangouts
Huddles
Sparks
Google+ vs. Facebook vs. Twitter
No one is using Google+ right?
Google+ Ripples creates an interactive graphic of the public shares of any public post on Google+ to show you how a post has rippled through the network and help you discover new and interesting people to follow. Ripples shows you:

Who has publicly shared the post and the comments they’ve made
How a post was shared over time
Statistics on how a post was shared

*Note that Ripples only show 'Public' shares.
Heard of Google Ripples?
http://bit.ly/z50tpI
What about security?
http://bit.ly/y1azco
New Google Nav Bar
Open google.com in a new tab:

Load Chrome's JavaScript console (Ctrl+Shift+J)
Firefox's Web Console (Ctrl+Shift+K)
Safari's Web Inspector (how to do that? - http://bit.ly/ztWKTd)
IE's Developer Tools (press F12 and select the "console" tab)

Then paste the following code:
document.cookie="PREF=ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds; path=/; domain=.google.com";window.location.reload();
Personal Results, which enable you to find information just for you, such as Google+ photos and posts—both your own and those shared specifically with you, that only you will be able to see on your results page; 

Profiles in Search, both in autocomplete and results, which enable you to immediately find people you’re close to or might be interested in following; and,
 
People and Pages, which help you find people profiles and Google+ pages related to a specific topic or area of interest, and enable you to follow them with just a few clicks. Because behind most every query is a community. 

Together, these features combine to create Search plus Your World. Search is simply better with your world in it, and we’re just getting started.
Search+ Announced
Twitter was integrated into Google SERPs until July 2011 (they pulled out of the deal w/ Google).

Claims that Google is abusing their dominance of search engine.

"Google+ was never looking to destroy Facebook, it has always been getting access to Twitter's real-time data stream." - Keith Kmett
Twitter is upset.
http://sgplus.me

Other Social Integrations
Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn (Paid)
Google+ Growth Accelerating. Adding 625,000 new users per day. 

Prediction: 400 million users by end of 2012.
Google+ Eye Tracking Results
How users view Google+
How Facebook is scanned
Thank you... any questions?
http://gplus.to
Get a personalized URL
Search Plus Your World
Presented by:
Keith Kmett, CUA
http://gplus.to/kkmett