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Google+: Google in Social Networking

Google surprised the world yesterday when it unveiled Google+, ostensibly the search giant's answer to Facebook. It's huge, it's social, and it's totally in your face, if the new Google home page is any indication. Google is clearly betting big on its latest foray into social networking, and it's making a point of highlighting many of the differences—and potential advantages—over its blue-and-white competitor...facebook !

Some of Google+'s features appear useful—for example, the Skype-like video chats (painfully called "hanging out") or the easy integration with Android devices. Others are impressive—the ability to upload reams of 1080p video rocks, and it's something that only a massively scalable company like Google could do. And then there's the perplexing stuff—the ability to integrate a YouTube video in a "hangout" is appreciated.

Among all the interesting features of Google+, one of the most heavily touted is Google Circles. Circles are what Google calls the various groups that you can organize your friends into.

Two features - Hangouts, and the automatic, unlimited photo and video uploading from Google+ Mobile - should make Google+ moderately successful.

But users used to Facebook's minimalist interface may find Google+ jarring. And, sad to say, Google's "field trial" suffered from overcapacity...

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