Test post to see if it shows in Google Buzz stream.

We need a stream pause feature.... !

This currently feels like... a social network within a social network because of Buzz being separate from it yet still attached to our profiles. Wonder if Buzz will go away because of this.

Great. I get a new TOY here, and a HORRENDOUS storm came up and I had to shut down in the middle of everything.

Ok, I need to know how to filter THESE in gmail. Buzz was easy, but notifications from here... I'm trying to figure out. Suggestions?

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This bears repeating... you have control over others' ability to see your circles. View your profile, edit it (top right button) and unset the checkboxes.

(as originially talked about by +Brett Slatkin )

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Hey guys...we have worked hard on the mobile apps but we still have a long long way to go. These are early versions...watch about bigger things.

I am confident we will make your mobile social experience awesome. But we will need you help along the way...

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Hello folks. As someone paranoid, I wanted to be clear about a setting that's important to me.

You can change it so all of the people in your circles are private to you or just to your circles.

1. Click on your name next to your picture
2. Click edit profile on the top-right
3. On the mid-left, click "In <yourname> circles"
4. Uncheck the boxes (to be totally private) or change the top option to "your circles"

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Ben Parr is hanging out. https://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/hangout/739abbcd18a5d84b5e1806a6133b9906fdde2063

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Joshua Talley is hanging out with 2 people right now! https://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/hangout/739abbcd18a5d84b5e1806a6133b9906fdde2063

Hangout needs to also include "Audio only".

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There's a ton of stuff in Google+ ... if you're the kind of person who likes a tour and reads the instructions (Hi, Mom!) you can always click back to the Welcome tab to go through the welcome videos. The Welcome link is just under your name on the left.

There's also a lot of help documentation and deeper videos. On the top-right of the screen is a gear icon. Click that and then "Google+ help"

Love the Disable Reshare feature. That solved a problem I had that I had to solve myself except for one exception. I shouldn't have to disable it to keep blocked people from resharing. Heh.

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Google+ mobile app has check-ins you can share to your circles.

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Another great feature: "View profile as" to see how other people would see your profile

That's also one of the most useful features of facebook *ducks*

Celebrate the Fourth of July With Healthy Recipes

Android vs. iOS; who has the best security? – Android and Me

Did Microsoft Buy Skype To Spy On You?

Need the ability to reorder or by alpha, our pinned sparks' categories.

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Just got an email that the Google Buzz Beta group will be closing. Guess that means the nearing end of buzz and movement to Google+.

I just "reshared" shared a post here, and you don't get notification on your post of the reshare/share that I did so. Also... the POST of the reshared share isn't linked back to your post either. One more thing - I also shared a post that was set to limited. That shouldn't have happened.

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Some useful-but-maybe-not-obvious features of Google+:

* In your stream, "Incoming" means "other people who are sharing with me" -- people who aren't yet in your circles. You can browse through it to see people who have added you.

* "Notifications" gives you the same sort of stuff that you can see in the notifications menu in the top right. (The one that turns bright red when you have an update -- not yet available in all countries) Who's added you, when you've been mentioned in a post or tagged in a photo, etc. Also, that menu at the top? Very useful.

* "Sparks" lets you get cool content relevant to your interests. Random side note: While debugging the system, we often used "Chocolate Cake" as a test interest. It turned out to be a really distracting interest.

* Hangouts are more awesome than you may suspect, because they require so little work.

* You have to click on the "Chat with people on Google+" link to enable chat within Google+ (long story as to why), but then you get IM functionality.

* The mobile app has two features of surpassing awesomeness: Huddles and Instant Upload. Huddles are everything that messaging was supposed to be but never was -- group of people, persistent conversations so you can keep chatting with people, a hell of a lot faster delivery than SMS, etc. Instant upload means that you will never have photos stranded on your phone again.

* The delete circle animation is enough fun that one is tempted to create circles and delete them just for the heck of it. Andy Hertzfeld FTW.

I'll probably think of more of these later... there are a lot of features in here, and there are even more on the way. This is called "The Google+ Project" for a reason; the future is bright and exciting.

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Go to https://plus.google.com/settings/plus to change your email settings if you're finding Google+ emails are too spammy (you can get there by clicking the gear at the top right corner of the page). By default it's set to email you for everything, so you'll probably want to narrow it down to important alerts, or none at all since you'll be notified by the bar at the top anyway.

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Erica Joy is hanging out. https://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/hangout/c17d9d12db034ba3a55255037f2f4c3f759fa203

For the time being, posts posted to LIMITED (Privately) CAN be reshared. I suggest if you don't want this you immediately go to the post and disable resharing via the dropdown. This should be automatic though so I reported it. OR.. at least give that option at the time you post.

PLEASE hit the Send Feedback, bottom right of your Plus screen and RALLY behind "NO resharing" of Limited (Private) Posts! Anyone can currently reshare to the public ANY of your limited private posts. This is currently allowed by default! I do not trust posting privately to circles until this is resolved.

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A couple of people have asked about importing facebook contacts. Sadly we cannot do that, however there is a workaround:

* Import Your facebook friends via Yahoo:

http://www.ymailblog.com/blog/2010/03/facebook-friends-meet-yahoo-contacts/

* Then connect your yahoo account to Google+ here:

http://plus.google.com/circles/find

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If you have an Android phone this hotness is for you: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.plus&feature=search_result

First Look at the Google+ social network: The Top Secret Demo | MediaFile

Strange - I joined the new group today too (The google plus group) and I can't view any of my other groups in the MY groups tab. It's as if they don't exist. I can only access them (and not this new one) from More.. groups. So it's like there are two different group areas as well. Yet.. the url link doesn't imply that.

What Tau Sounds Like - Happy Tau Day !

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If you have used the hang out feature.. and used Skype, then it's as obvious to you as it is to me that Microsoft got screwed and Skype is as done dry and crispy as that turkey your aunt baked uncovered frozen for 9 hrs, with nothing but a couple of sprays of Pam. I'm just saying.

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If G+ was preparing itself to open up to the world, my most important feature request would be:

Synchronize "Google Contacts Groups" with "G+ Circles" or at least to be able to import them to "G+ Circles"

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I love that I can @ reply anyone by either their name, email or phone number. This is awesome!

I love the big + Google+ in my tab for this page. With all these tabs open, it's not hard to find my way back because of this!

Went to a blogger post and forgot - My Google's AWESOME black bar doesn't show on those. :(

I really really really want my black Google AWE.SOME bar showing on every web page now. Wondering how I can make that happen.

The backdoor into Google Plus. lol They are trying so hard to peek in and loving what they see so far I think.
https://profiles.google.com/jblossom/posts/MT3HPXjh4Ta

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http://xkcd.com/918/

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Anyone have an iPad to help with this?

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While Google+ on the iPad looks nice and feels nice, it seems to be lacking in some functionality. I can't figure out how to repost or if it's even possible to do.

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There was no way easy way sharing your Google+ post with Twitter/Facebook. I created this simple Chrome Extension that will add a link to each post so you can share with other social networks.

First Facebook Scam for Google Plus Invites? No clue how to report it since I disabled my Facebook months ago.

http://pastebin.com/4HRpam21

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For the iPhone users, while we wait for Apple to approve the iOS app:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/google-plus-iphone-web-app/

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This bears repeating... you have control over others' ability to see your circles. View your profile, edit it (top right button) and unset the checkboxes.

(as originially talked about by +Brett Slatkin )

Google Swiffy converts Flash to iPhone, iPad friendly HTML5 - Google, News ...

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Finally got a chance to write my first post on Google+. Great work on the first day, guys. Looking forward to more.

I can't seem to send a Feedback on one thing. Maybe I'm just not quick enough to catch it (my notifications jump back up when I hit the Send Feedback feature) but I sure would like to see the plus one capability on the notifications of a post with comments that I read as well.

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If you're feeling lonely on Google+ or your stream is sort of stale, try this: go to Circles -> Find and Invite -> people you may know on Google+. These are people already using Google+, so expect them to be pretty active with posts. Some of them you may already know, others you may just find them interesting enough to follow (double-click on their card to see their profile).

Here we go....

Message via your Google Profile: Dear Linda, I am a consultant with national egovernance divison of the department of information technololgy, government of India and was wondering if you will be able to invite me into GooglePlus.my email id is xxxxx@semt.gov.in

Got two of these tonight already.

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Yay! I figured out the native Android app / account issue, apparently if you have another gmail account setup before the one that's setup for Google+, it can't see it. Therefore, it'll only list the first one and not all your accounts to select from. So what you have to do is delete that account for the app to see the account you want to attach to it. At least that's the work around for now. Annoying. This needs to get fix.

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Wow, this is an amazingly detailed chronicle of how Google+ came to be.

It recounts many fond memories for the Google+ team such as the 2010 autumn evening when +Vic Gundotra pressed the button on his laptop to send the first test invitations to Googlers. It also explains the significance of Emerald Sea, the code name for Google+.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-social

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Using the mobile Google Plus site, and can't see the Sparks or any of the other stuff -- just the stream with Incoming as the only option. Am I missing something or are those other things not in there?

Got up early to play here a few minutes before I have to get rolling. I have company coming today (and why couldn't they WAIT a few days while I play here a little more!).. So I turned on HLN half asleep as usual, and what's the first thing I hear? A short story about Google Plus!! Company is only going to be here a few hours. That's a few hours too many, today. lol

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Arrrgg, huddle doesn't let you share pics. GroupMe does. +Ewdison Then

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When I click on someone else's list of people he/she has put into circles, the popup shows them in no order that I can discern. Hope Google plans to add sorting to this (by firstname, lastname, company etc.).

I'm used to finding my older posts via Reader (for Buzz). I also follow a few Buzz streams there that I put in manually so that I wouldn't miss them. I did try to pull in my Plus posts there this morning as a test, but so far, it's not letting me. Hoping that's added also by the time it goes public.

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In case you're wondering where your Foursquare badges have gone...

So I was seriously missing my black bar every time I was on another page that wasn't a Google page. How awesome to have that every where you go on the web! (Awesome for me and awesome for Google). Now I despise browser toolbars, and won't use them including Google's toolbar, but THIS would be a browser toolbar I would install !! And I need it for both Firefox (especially) and Chrome.

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Pro tip: If you want a handy bookmarklet for taking a screenshot and sending to developers without needing to pop open the gear widget, make a new bookmark containing:

javascript:appfeedback.startFeedback(event)

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Anyone know if hangout sessions are encrypted? If so, what crypto method is being used?

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A few Google+ tips:
- You can click on profile pictures to rotate through them. Nice find by +MG Siegler on that one.
- In the stream, you can click 'j' to navigate down to the next item or 'k' to navigate up. I think it's the same keys that Gmail uses, which is probably in turn because +Paul Buchheit uses vi and created Gmail. :)
- If you're sharing a post with a small circle of people, you can prevent resharing. Click the arrow at the top-right of the post and choose "Disable reshare."

What are your favorite Google+ tips?

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Don't miss today's This Week in Google. We'll have +Vic Gundotra and +Bradley Horowitz on to talk Plus! I invited them on last night as we all hung out on Plus. Leo Laporte and +Gina Trapani will be there, of course. 1pm PST, 4p EST at

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I think +Vic Gundotra and +Bradley Horowitz might be on This Week in Google starting in a few minutes! Watch it live: http://live.twit.tv/

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How did I miss this? If only that applied to all photos, I'll gladly resize to 2048.

More free storage: Google+ provides free storage for your photos, which are automatically resized to 2048 pixels. Like Picasa Web, video uploads 15 minutes or shorter are free.

http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en_US&answer=1321133

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A few Google+ tips:
- You can click on profile pictures to rotate through them. Nice find by +MG Siegler on that one.
- In the stream, you can click 'j' to navigate down to the next item or 'k' to navigate up. I think it's the same keys that Gmail uses, which is probably in turn because +Paul Buchheit uses vi and created Gmail. :)
- If you're sharing a post with a small circle of people, you can prevent resharing. Click the arrow at the top-right of the post and choose "Disable reshare."

What are your favorite Google+ tips?

For New Users - INCOMING (left rail) are posts,etc by people who have added you to a circle that is not in one of your circles. Peek in there once in a while too!

Question - Is there an AGE limit for someone accepting an invite here? Supposedly 13 and up, right?

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Make Google+ Better! Send Feedback!

As you explore the Google+ field trial, if you run into something that doesn't work, or could work better, or is confusing, or you like, or you hate, SEND FEEDBACK!

Use the handy menu in the upper right (click on the gear!) to do this. Your feedback will help make Google+ better.

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Since Google+ doesn't have a way to find friends from Facebook and add them to your circle, no worries ... Install fb-exporter (Facebook Friend Exporter) Chrome Extension, and it will transfer all your Facebook friends (including their emails) from Facebook into Google Contacts!

Absolutely the best way to bring your Facebook friends directly to Google+ oh and btw, use at your own risks! From the 30K+ users who used it, no one got a ban notice from Facebook, but I don't guarantee that :)

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The best part of Google+ this evening is watching all the new people discover how awesome it is.

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We're slowly opening Google+ up for invites... Check out the bottom right-hand corner of your stream to see if you have invites enabled!

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Gonna try starting my own hangout at 8pm PST tonight. If you don't see it in your stream, you'll be able to find it in my profile at http://profiles.google.com/adamlasnik :-) Hope y'all join, or at least 9 of you ;)

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Microsoft Patent Will Allow Federal Eavesdropping on VOIP Services, Skype

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Invites appear to be shut down.

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We've shut down invite mechanism for the night. Insane demand. We need to do this carefully, and in a controlled way. Thank you all for your interest!

For any who wish to leave, please remember you can always exit and take your data with you by using Google Takeout.

It's your data, your relationships, your identity.

+Bradley Horowitz

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This Mark Zuckerberg account has now been disabled. ;)
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Hey, cmon guys, facebook still has farmville.

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Here’s a trick to get everyone from your Facebook social graph into Google Plus:

1. Sign up for a Yahoo! Mail account, and import all of your Facebook contacts.
2. Click “Contacts” at the top, and then “Import Contacts”. Authorize Facebook access to your Yahoo! address book.
3. Log in to Google Plus (http://plus.google.com) and navigate to your “Circles” (https://plus.google.com/circles).
4. Click “Find and Invite”, and then click Yahoo! Import your Facebook friends to the “Suggestions” section.
5. Drag everyone into the appropriate “Circle”.

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THE END OF FACEBOOK IS COMING!!!! Timberlake took an ownership stake of Myspace. ;) http://mashable.com/2011/06/29/justin-timberlake-myspace-ownership/

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Just discovered something awesome!

You can search for topics you're interested in, locations, or company names under "Find People," and it'll search people's Google Profiles for matches. Not just names. Very useful to find people to circle.

I was just forced to add to my Google Plus profile the following: (See image) I received four or five of those this afternoon.

EDIT: OH WOW..!! Guess what!!! New feature! You can edit profile/email and set it to only allow people in your circles to email you via profile ! NO MORE STRANGERS! Yay!!

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Protip: Copy one circle into another circle.
1) Go to Circles.
2) Click on a circle.
3) Click "View circle in tab".
4) On the top right click "More action" -> "Select all".
Then you can drag everyone from one circle into another circle.

Thanks +Joanna Smith for showing me how to do this.

Ummm.... What? I tried to email someone via profile (without running to my Gmail to do so).. and I get this? I haven't used the email feature in a profile in eons. Yet, I received four today from strangers? What the hell... Are my posts or comments here counting towards my message limit? Someone here want to try it and tell me if it's working for them? Regardless I'm going to report it, but still..

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You could use this to upload and share Instagram albums here on Google+

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Please welcome Search Engine Land to Google+ and add to your circle if you'd like the occasional tasty story about search!

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Ah, just discovered a cool Google+ hack: Use Google+ as your own private bookmarking service and also to jot down quick ideas and notes. How? Create a new circle and name it say My Notes . Then create a new contact using one of your other email addresses, and then drop yourself into this circle. Then share the stuff you want to this circle - web links, notes/ideas, even pictures and videos. They will all show up in your own new private circle. Anytime you want to view it - just click on the My Notes stream. And you can access it from anywhere on the web or mobile phone - with the great new Google+ App on it.

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http://phandroid.com/2011/06/30/pool-party-now-available-in-the-android-market-googles-answer-to-instagram/

Shhh... I'm working on organizing my circles before it gets out of hand. ;)

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Hidden Google+ Feature

Type a direct URL into Sparks, and it becomes a feed reader.

I checked out LostRemote.com in Google Reader, and Google+ Sparks. I saw the same items appear.

See for yourself:
https://plus.google.com/sparks/interests/lostremote.com

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Some tips for folks who don't want to be public all the time:

- Make "who's in your circles" private. Go to https://plus.google.com/me/about/edit/nv and select "Your circles" instead of "Anyone on the web".

- While still editing your profile, whenever you edit the individual fields on your profile, you can choose who can see it. I chose only to share my phone number with family for example.

- When sharing a post, choose specific circles. And don't feel like you have to do "Your circles" -- pick specific circles.

- Use "View Profile As" (after editing) to view the profile as someone else to see what they see.

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If you find yourself at a NE PDX bike bar surrounded by IPAs and *accidentally post something intended for a Circle or private as Public* the way to change that is to click the Share button below the post again and edit the levels of sharing. Don't click the Public link above the post and expect any kind of magic to happen.

Whoa..! I just went over to Gmail, Contacts, Other and all my new connections here in Google Plus are in THERE!

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It's great that the user experience of Google Plus is being so well received, and I'm happy about all the positive feedback that's been coming my way, but I'm worried that I'm getting too much credit for it, so this long-winded post is an attempt to set the record straight.

I am indeed the main individual behind the interaction design and implementation of the circle editor. I conceived, designed and implemented a compelling prototype for it almost single-handedly, and then wrote a fair percentage of the production javascript code with lots of help from my friends. I also worked on a couple of other parts of the product a little bit, but that's pretty much as far as it goes.

Steven Levy's excellent Wired article got the story right - I wrote the circle editor and then recently widened my focus to the overall Google Plus user experience. But subsequent stories jumped to the conclusion that I was responsible for the design of the entire product that we launched on Tuesday, which isn't true, but I guess it was just too good a story (about Apple design values infecting Google) for people to resist. And now some people are saying that I'm responsible for the broad visual refresh now rolling out across Google, which couldn't be further from the truth - in fact, I'm not even sure I like it.

One thing that I learned during the launch of the original Macintosh in 1984 was that the press usually oversimplifies everything, and it can't deal with the reality that there are many people playing critical roles on significant projects. A few people always get too much credit, while most people get too little, that's just the way it has always worked. But luckily, it's 2011 and I can use the service that I helped to create to clarify things.

+Shaun Modi is the awesome young designer most responsible for the visual design of the circle editor, especially the blooming circles, along with
+Jonathan Terleski, who helped refine it after Shaun departed. +Joseph Smarr also helped with the design quite a bit, and was especially valuable as someone I could rely on (along with Jonathan) to tell me when a particular aspect was good enough yet or not.

Google probably won't be thrilled about me mentioning the names of the superb developers who helped me with the circle editor code (hello recruiters) but I feel that I must mention my main collaborators here: +Owen Prater +Eric Cattell +Eric W. Barndollar and +Griff Hazen, along with Ariel Gertzenstein and Rich Conlan who helped in the early stages. And those are just the main front-end guys, there are plenty of others who worked on the shared infrastructure or the back-end that I won't mention.

And all of the above are just the people who helped with the circle editor and related UI. There are plenty of others who worked on the stream, profiles and photos, as well as the leadership, product managers and various specialists who also made invaluable contributions every day. Suffice it to say that Google Plus is the creation of large, talented team that I'm proud to be a part of, and anyway it's only the beginning, we're all excited about what it has a chance to become over the months and years ahead.

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New image added - How To Turn Off The Emails without Mute

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Pro tip. Right now your stream is ordered by most-recent comment. We're working hard on improving this, but in the mean time, if you're tired of seeing the same post come up near the top of your stream, you can click on the little arrow and select "Mute this post." This is useful for those Scoble updates...

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Great sleuthing +Florian Rohrweck: http://www.staynalive.com/2011/07/new-images-suggest-shared-circles.html