What's next for the new Google+ social network? If Google acts on its users' requests, the ability to export data from Facebook to Google+ might be one, as well as an app store.
And one user already acted on his own request: a Chrome extension to export Google+ Stream posts to Facebook and Twitter.
From there, Google+'s innovation comes in the form of how these circles of friends interact: video, mobile group chats, sharing and discussing content only within a circle that has a shared interest, and so on. What has Google dreamed up that Facebook, after several years in the big leagues, hasn't? We found six big ideas that may very well rock
As Facebook’s network has grown, the service has morphed from being an intimate place to share and comment on links and pictures with friends into a almost fully public existence on the Web.
Will Google+ attract people who are tired of networking with everyone — their bosses, in-laws, ex-flames and students — in the same place?
When Google announced its "field trial" of Google+ this week, many wondered if the search giant had finally crafted a successful social tool or whether it would fizzle like Buzz and Wave. That remains to be seen, but at this point, it appears that many tech-savvy early adopters are at least eager to try it out: invites are now closed.
is the search giant's most ambitious attempt to break into the social networking realm, currently dominated by Facebook whose users spend 700 billion minutes per month on the site. While this project is not yet complete and accessible only by invitation, it has spurred high expectations and big interest and China has already banned it as of today.