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Google has announced some new feature for Google Plus, what’s hot and ripples and photo tool Creative Kit.

What’s Hot:

Google+ What’s Hot shows popular google+ posts.It appears underneath new posts inside the main stream.

Ripples:

Google+ Ripples is cool visualization tool and it lets you visually follow the flow of a conversation and give some analytics.

Creative Kit:
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Google has announced a new feature for Google Plus,now google Plus is available for Google Apps customers.From google enterprise blog

“now you can manually turn on Google+ for your organization. Once Google+ is turned on, your users will just need to sign up at google.com/+ to get started. For customers who use Google Apps for Business or the free version of Google Apps and who have chosen to automatically enable new services, Google+ will automatically become available to all of your users over the next several days.”

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Google announced that SSL-encrypted search will be the default for signed-in users. https://www.google.com This change encrypts the search queries and Google’s results page. This is especially important when you’re using an unsecured Internet connection, such as a WiFi hotspot in an Internet cafe.When someone search from https://www.google.com and websites you visit from google organic search listings will still know that they came from Google, but won’t receive information about each individual query.
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Google is shutting down some of its services. Shut down product list:

Code Search along with the Code Search API on January 15, 2012.
Google Buzz and the Buzz API in few weeks.
Jaiku will shut down on January 15, 2012.
iGoogle’s social features on January 15, 2012. iGoogle and non-social iGoogle applications, will stay as they are.
The University Research Program for Google Search will close on January 15, 2012.

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Google+ rolling out a new option in Google+ settings called ‘Who can notify you’.

This setting controls who you’ll get notifications from, if they:

Share with you individually
Select ‘Notify about this post’ (when sharing to a circle you’re in)
+Mention your name
Invite you to a hangout
Invite you to play or send you messages from a game
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Google has announced a new google+ feature that allows locking and closing of comments on posts before sharing. Google has also released a new google+ APIs for search, +1s and comments for developers. The new APIs allow developers to build apps that incorporate google+ search.

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According to Paul Allen (Ancestry.com co-founder and unofficial Google+ statistician), Google+ has 43.4 million users now and Google+ witnessed a 30% increase in users in the two days following its official opening to all users over age 18. According to Hitwise,Visits to Google Plus increased by 1269% last week and received 15 million U.S. visits, up from 1.1 million.
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1.Google+ now open to everyone.No invitation required.

2.Google+ search

3.Hangouts APIs

4.Named Hangouts

5.Google Docs

6.Sketchpad

7.Screensharing:

8.Hangouts On Air

9.Hangouts on your phone

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