{"id":10421,"date":"2011-09-20T23:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T23:09:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-20T23:09:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T23:09:43","slug":"Google-social-network-opens-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10421","title":{"rendered":"Google+ social network opens to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Google opened its Google+ social network to the world on Tuesday, dropping the need for an invitation to join the Internet giant&#8217;s rival to Facebook.  &#8220;For the past 12 weeks we&#8217;ve been in field trial, and during that time we&#8217;ve listened and learned a great deal,&#8221; Google senior vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra said in a blog post.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re nowhere near done, but with the improvements we&#8217;ve made so far we&#8217;re ready to move from field trial to beta&#8230; Anyone can visit google.com\/+, join the project and connect with the people they care about.&#8221;  <strong>The announcement came as part of a list of the 10 latest improvements Google is making to the social network it launched in an invitation-only test format on June 28.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enhancements to Google+ included letting members take part in video-chat &#8220;Hangouts&#8221; using camera-enabled smartphones or tablet computers, or broadcast video presentations to groups of watchers using &#8220;Hangouts On Air.&#8221;  Google said it has also woven its Internet search expertise into the social network by adding a query box.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Google+ is still in its infancy, of course, but we&#8217;re more excited than ever to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software,&#8221; Gundotra said.  &#8220;Over the next day we&#8217;ll be rolling out all of these features globally,&#8221; he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Finally, some better choices.  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