Google+ What's Hot, Ripples & Creative Kit - New Features Introduced

Google+ has rolled out a bunch of new features in their quest to make the experience of using Google+ better by the day. These features include 'What's Hot on Google+?', 'Google+ Ripples', 'Google+ Creative Kit' and 'Google+ on Google Apps'. Let's check them out one by one to see how they are useful to us.



Google+ Circles works as a group monitoring service that lets you concentrate on the updates of friends you are most concerned about. But for some users what matters is acknowledging the latest happenings or latest trends spreading like wildfire throughout the world, just so that they don't miss out on something really interesting. This purpose is served by this new feature, 'What's Hot on Google+?' It is available on the stream and all you have to do is click on 'What's Hot?' in the left sidebar. See this Google video for more on this:

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The next feature is, 'Google+ View Ripples'. This is an experimental feature that let's users watch how the posts they share publicly on Google+, flow across the community through this visualization tool where you can scroll in on the timeline at the bottom, stop by to zoom in on certain events, identify top contributors etc. You might find it a bit complicated at first, but then try playing with it. Go to a public post of your interest and select 'View Ripples'. Here is a demonstration:

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Then we have the Google+ Creative Kit (using the services of Picnik that Google acquired last year) for editing photos online. .Well, we had it already, but now they have introduced certain powerful tools that makes it easier to give the extra effects to your photos without much hassle. Along with the basics of crop, exposure and adding text, you have tools to give the 'sepia effect' or the 'dreamy-feel' to pep your photos up.

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And lastly, we have the latest and should I say most awaited addition to Google+. This networking site is now available on Google Apps. You can use it for your organization, school or college and get access to the same features that every Google+ user has. More about this on #-Link-Snipped-#.