Friday, December 23, 2011

Google+ wins administrators pages and volume of circles

Today Google announced that  they once again heard the complaints and requests from Google users + and will stop copying Facebook implement some of the suggestions they gave to improve social network. Besides other innovations have also been added and include a greater control in circles and some changes to the notifications that are shown by nothing more intrusive: they should be more elegant.


The volume control in a circle, despite sounding like the beginning of a physical exercise, is to determine how much you updates from people in that group appears in the main stream. Just go in the stream specific circle and slide the pin to select whether you want to see everything or just the most important updates. Or none of the updates, if you made a circle with annoying relatives, for example. In total there are 4 different options.

Another novelty is the presence of notifications more descriptive and less tedious. Before you had to guess what each one meant, except on occasions when someone adds you to a circle or posts marked with a +1. The new session of reports will show the first words of one commentary, text and name of people who shared something specifically to you and stuff.

In the list of requests that were made and more are served to improve the support pages of brands and companies. Since it began allowing such pages, Google + left only the creator manage it. Now you can choose up to 50 different people to run a page, the page builder add them by e-mail settings on the site. The notifications to specific pages were also more descriptive.

And finally, Google won a + photo gallery prettier, with a completely redesigned lightbox. Early Christmas present for those who did not like the old gallery and all your mess of links, slow, side comments and other small annoyances.

I think the changes are very welcome, but Google is not doing anything beyond what is necessary not to let Google + irrelevant.