Hangouts

Hangout simply put is video chat on steroids. You can do collaboration, business meetings or just hang out with your friends. It is my plan to do this with the group soon when we’re all at home or elsewhere.

Google Plus Photos

Upload and share photos with others easily. The drag and drop interface make share a truly seemless experience. You can post photos to your stream or share with a single Circle. You can also do a photo post directly from your phone. More on photos

Google+ Bar

The Google+ bar, which appears at the top of Google products, is your connection to Google+. You can share what’s on your mind, view your Google+ notifications, access your profile, or jump to a variety of other Google products. For instance, to get to Google+, all you have to do is click +[your first name]. More…

Stream

Stream is the space where all of the share content is displayed. Both yours and content that is shared with you by others. Text, links, pictures, video and location markers are all there. All about the Stream

Introducing Google+

Google+ is the new social networking tool from Google. Google+ actually is many products that are integrated with each other. Circles – Cirles is the G+ contact manager, making it easy to control who sees your content. Stream – The Stream is the place to have meaningful conversations. A space where people share there content.

Google Music

The war to be the best streaming music site is on. In April the announcement of Amazon’s Cloud Player and last month Google’s cloud based music service Beta called Google Music. I sign up for Cloud Player. I also requested an invitation to the Google service last month and just got the invitation today and…

Gmail

Gmail is the core of the Google applications. This web based mail application is easy to use yet very powerful. This month we will learn the secrets of this powerful tool.