The recent Google+ iOS update that saw the company pushing out sweeping UI and design changes, not to mention a handful of new features, has finally hit Google’s own in-house OS. Google+ v2.6 for Android brings a brand new, photo-centric UI as well as redesigned +1 buttons in an effort to make the app easier to use/share content, and of course to simply look nicer. Under the hood, Google has brought several new features to the table including: improvements to video...
One of our biggest gripes with Google+ to date has been that every conversation we’re having or comment received, opening the dedicated app or viewing the actual web page is needed to respond. Replying by email was not supported — until today. A new post on the Gmail blog highlights the new reply-by-email feature, ending many months of sadness, despair and outright insanity that we’ve had to endure. It’s worth noting that you can also read and +1...
Facebook’s “Facebook for Every Phone” featurephone app appears to beginning some Instagram-esque inspiration by way of two new photo filters — Black & White and Sepia — that can be applied to uploaded photos. Though, how reliant the featurephone app was on Instagram’s recent $1 billion acquisition by the social networking giant is uncertain as a spokesperson speaking with InsiderFacebook stated that “no one from the Instagram...
Take a trip around the web searching the word “Klout” or phrase “Klout score” and you’ll find a nation divided. One side you’ll find people constantly dashing from one social network to the next trying to pump up their Klout score. On the other, you have a (usually) very vocal group decrying Klout’s uselessness and irrelevance. Whichever side you find yourself sitting on, know that Klout is just another online service to rank a...
The ever popular Instagram for iOS has apparently been well received on its newly supported platform, Android, as TNW is reporting a new milestone has been reached — 5 million! That’s a great sign for Instagram. After numerous hiccups and bugs cropped up over the first few days on the market (and continue to exist), it’s good to see that the bad PR surrounding any lingering incompatibilities isn’t hampering Android users’ curiousness. At this...
