Google Plus has been available to those by invite only for the past three months. They have just announced that the Google+ social platform will now move from “trial” to “beta” opening signups for anyone.
Along with this announcement, Google is also releasing nine more features:
- Hangouts on your phone (Android 2.3+ devices currently)
- Hangouts On Air (live broadcasting)
- Hangouts Screensharing: for when you want to show off your vacation photos, your high score, your lesson plan or whatever else is on your screen
- Hangouts Sketchpad: for when you want to draw, doodle, or just scribble together
- Hangouts Google Docs: for when you want to write, plan or present something with others
- Named Hangouts: for when you want to join or create a public hangout about a certain topic (like fashion or music or sports…)
- Hangouts APIs
- Search in Google+
- _ Anyone can sign up for Google+—no invitation required.
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