Google+ Rolls Out Verified Profiles, Still Struggles With Real-Name Policy

William Shatner, rejoice! Earlier today, Wen-Ai Yu from the Google+ team announced with a post on Google+ and an accompanying YouTube video that the social network now boasts ‘verification badges’ for celebrities, public figures, but also people who have been added to an (undefined) ‘large’ number of Circles, with the promise to expand the verified profile system in the near future.

This is in line with an earlier report from CNN’s Mark Milian, who caught wind of Google’s ‘celebrity acquisition plan’ a month ago.

The badges are basically grey Twitter-type check mark that expand to say ‘verified name’ when you hover over them (see screenshot of my profile – I’ve apparently been added to enough Google+ Circles to make the list). People who don’t yet have a verified profile should ‘hang tight’, Yu says.

Things that are not clear:

- How celebrities and public figures are being asked by Google to verify their identity, although the CNN report mentioned that one option that was being considered by the Google + team at the time involved asking a celebrity to fax a copy of his or her driver’s license.

- Exactly how large the number of circles on has to be added to needs to be, and why some high-profile users seem to have fallen though the cracks. It doesn’t make any sense to give me a verification badge but not people like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (he’s the most followed person on Google+, ironically) and entrepreneur celebs like Kevin Rose and Tom Anderson.

- If there will be a dedicated page listing all verified profiles (or at least those of celebrities and public figures) so people can discover more people to follow, particularly when they’re new to Google+

According to a tweet from Louis Gray, who has just been hired as Google+ evangelist (update:but only starts next Monday), there may well be no plans to build a ‘default’ (aka suggested user) list based on which profiles are verified by the Google+ team and which are not.

Meanwhile, the debate about the real name policy on Google+ rages on. Joining the social network requires mandatory real name and gender disclosure, and Google has already suspended accounts because it believed users were using a pseudonym.

These days, when Google finds that a profile name does not adhere to its policy, users are given a 4-day grace period to change it before they get booted off the social network.

Power user Robert Scoble this morning sent an open letter to Google’s Vic Gundotra – and published it on his Google+ profile to boot – providing several suggestions for change to the real name policy, which Scoble says is not being enforced fairly, or properly, and causing distraction.

(Hat tip to Michel over at WebSonic)

UPDATE: Google says that it is continuing to roll out verification badges, and since we wrote this post both Zuckerberg and Anderson have been verified.

Android Devs Can Now Start Optimizing Their Apps For Google TV

Last fall, Google made its first attempt to take over your living room with the launch of Google TV — a platform that merged the web with television content to create an experience promising to usher in a new era of convenience and interactivity.

Unfortunately it’s been mostly a dud thus far. The platform’s overly-complex user interface and content issues (some major channels specifically block access to their websites from Google TV devices) has led to weak adoption. Google is reportedly working to give the platform a major revamp, and there’s at least one more bright light in its future: soon, Google TV will support Android applications.

Now, Google’s been promising that the platform would be receiving Android support ever since it wasfirst announced, but up until now there hasn’t been a strong indication as to when that’d actually happen (the most specific Google’s gotten has been “summer”). Today, we’re one big step closer to seeing that promise come fruition: Google has just released a preview version of a Google TV plug-in for the Android SDK.

This doesn’t mean that you can install Android apps yet. Rather, it means developers can start to tweak their existing Android apps for the so-called ’10 foot experience’, so that their apps will be ready once the Google TV update does ship to users.

5 Things I Learned at MySpace that Could Help Google+

This is just a guess, but I'd bet money that feel like their heads are going to explode. Anyone on the G+ team who really cares about G+ is probably getting very little sleep, and are annoying their friends and family with their one-track G+ minds. There's been such an amazing amount of feedback, the Google+ team can't help but be overwhelmed--and what we see is just on the site and in the press. Imagine what's coming into that 'send feedback' inbox that's at the bottom of every G+ page?

At MySpace I tried to digest that "inbox" and "community" by myself, and that worked pretty well for a few years. It was a little easier back then, but today's G+ users are an entirely different breed. There are a ton of early adopters, technologits on G+ -- and they've all been through the social networking ringer before. G+ users are offering powerpoint slideshows, illustrated screen mockups and long-winded essays on what needs to happen. There is genuine, high-quality thinking going on in the "free advice" that G+ is receiving from the global community. How can the G+ team cut through the noise and decide what's important? (Especially when there's some really high quality noise being directed Google's way.)

Here's a few things I'd do right now, if I were Google. 

Social Networks Fight

Google Responds To Microsoft’s “Gotcha”: They’re Diverting Attention With A Trick That Failed

This back and forth between Google and Microsoft is getting good.

Yesterday, Google wrote a post calling out Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, and others for using “bogus” patents to try to kill Android. Some of the patents Google’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond mentioned included the ones Microsoft acquired from Novell (not to be confused with Nortel, which happened later). When Microsoft saw this, two senior officials took to Twitter to effectively pants Google. You see, Microsoft had tried to get Google to partner with them to buy the Novell patents — Google turned them down. And Microsoft had the email to prove it.

But there was an obvious reason for this rejection, which Microsoft conveniently left out, Google now says.

Drummond has addressed the pantsing incident in an update to his original blog post from yesterday. He kicks the update off with:

It’s not surprising that Microsoft would want to divert attention by pushing a false “gotcha!” while failing to address the substance of the issues we raised.

But then comes the substance:

If you think about it, it’s obvious why we turned down Microsoft’s offer. Microsoft’s objective has been to keep from Google and Android device-makers any patents that might be used to defend against their attacks. A joint acquisition of the Novell patents that gave all parties a license would have eliminated any protection these patents could offer to Android against attacks from Microsoft and its bidding partners. Making sure that we would be unable to assert these patents to defend Android — and having us pay for the privilege — must have seemed like an ingenious strategy to them. We didn’t fall for it.

So what Drummond is saying is that Microsoft’s offer to team up with Google to buy the Novell patents was more or less a trick. By teaming up on the Novell patents, Google would have them, but they wouldn’t have been able to have been used to protect Android, because Microsoft would have had them too.

Should Google have just gone along with that anyway, since ultimately Microsoft did get them (along with Apple, Oracle, and EMC)? You could argue that. But fortunately for Google, the courts intervened in that deal and made Microsoft sell off the patents they bought and made the others in the group license the rest, Drummond notes.

This may go a bit deeper too. It’s conceivable that Microsoft knew Google would never go for this joint-acquisition plan, but offered it anyway so that when the DoJ did look into the deal, Microsoft would point to the offer sent Google’s way. These companies are very smart and calculating, don’t put something like this past either of them.

In his original post, Drummond said that the DoJ was also looking into the more recent Nortel patent acquisition by Microsoft, Apple, RIM, and others. Clearly, Google hopes the same type of thing will happen here, but that’s still being decided. While Apple was cleared by the DoJ to buy the patents ahead of the auction, Microsoft could face a similar ruling as the Novell situation since they already had a licensing agreement on the patents, just as they had on the Novell patents before they tried to buy them. We’ll see.

More importantly, this battle is not going to end anytime soon. Novell was part one, then things intensified significantly with the Nortel auction, part 2. But part 3 should be the most intense yet, as both Google and Apple are going after the InterDigital patents. The Nortel patent purse had over 6,000 patents, but InterDigital has over 8,800. If the winning bid on Nortel was $4.5 billion, InterDigital should be well north of $5 billion.

Google Threw A Punch, Microsoft Fires Back With A Missile

Earlier today, Google came out swinging. Seemingly sick of being continuously slapped in the face by the patent issue, Google’s SVP and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, wrote a blog post calling out several of Google’s rivals for attempting to use “bogus patents” to destroy Android. Chief among the rivals called out was Microsoft. Drummond noted that the software giant had been getting in bed with other rivals to hurt Google.
Among the accusations was that Microsoft teamed up with Apple to buy Novell’s old patents, implying that they did so in order to keep them away from Google.
Microsoft didn’t take too kindly to that remark.
“Google says we bought Novell patents to keep them from Google. Really? We asked them to bid jointly with us. They said no,” Brad Smith, Microsoft General Counsel tweeted out in response.
Damn. Shit just got real.
Just in case that wasn’t enough, Frank Shaw, Microsoft Head of Communications, followed up with the real heat-seeker. “Free advice for David Drummond – next time check with Kent Walker before you blog. ,” Shaw tweeted, referring to another Google SVP and General Counsel. Attached to that tweet was the picture of an email Walker apparently sent to Smith on October 28, 2010. It reads as follows:

Brad –
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you — I came down with a 24-hour bug on the way back from San Antonio. After talking with people here, it sounds as though for various reasons a joint bid wouldn’t be advisable for us on this one. But I appreciate your flagging it, and we’re open to discussing other similar opportunities in the future.
I hope the rest of your travels go well, and I look forward to seeing you again soon.
– Kent

While it’s only one instance, this really does undercut Google’s entire argument. Google was attempting to set up a pattern of Microsoft teaming up with other Google rivals to damage them. But the first instance listed was actually the result of Google turning Microsoft down, as the email shows. That does not look good for Google.
Does that mean Google’s totally wrong and Microsoft is totally right? Of course not. But it sure makes Google look pretty stupid. And it reinforces something that many observers think about Google’s position here: that they simply weren’t taking the patent situation too seriously until recently, and now they’re all up in arms about it.
God I love it when Google and Microsoft take these fights to the streets.

There Is One Thing Missing From Google’s +1 [OPINION]

The search giant’s social media initiative, well covered by this outlet, represents a big change in thinking. The concept, revolutionary enough, is that instead of trusting a search engine’s algorithm to deliver the most relevant search results, one should trust their friends’ preferences, along with the preferences of all other searchers.

Both concepts are viable today. Generally speaking, Internet users are well accustomed to receiving recommendations from friends, solicited and unsolicited, and then acting on them. We are also largely comfortable trusting the feedback of strangers, whether they tell us a book on Amazon is worth reading, a hotel on TripAdvisor is clean, or a restaurant on Yelp has the best lobster frittata you’ve ever tasted.

A big selling point of sites like Amazon, TripAdvisor and Yelp is the input of millions of consumers. If those sites relied solely on algorithmically generated recommendations without consumer input, they might not be nearly as successful. Yet with search, we are so dependent on the algorithm. Search is so complicated that an algorithm better know what’s more relevant, or all hope is lost. Why trust our friends and strangers when we can trust the masterwork of the world’s best engineers slaving away for over a decade?

With +1, Google told us to change. This process of change has three significant challenges:

• We must notice that the results are different. After a decade of habitually scanning headlines and brief textual synopses, it’s hard to notice anything else.
• We must act on a +1 listing, which then brings up some information about Google Profiles and a whole new system that for many will be an added hindrance. The beauty of search to date has been its simplicity for the users – enter a query and click a result, ad infinitum.
• We must notice the +1 votes from peers and others, realize that these are different, and act on them accordingly.

Google+ Users Are Nearly All Male

Here’s an interesting tidbit from the Google+ stats trackers: Three quarters (or more) of Google+ users are male.

SocialStatistics, a third-party site that gathers data from select profiles, pegs the percentage of male users at 86.8%, whileFindPeopleOnPlus, which curates information from about a million users, says men constitute 73.7% of Google+.

FindPeopleOnPlus also discovered that 95% of the Google+ users who say they are “looking for love” on the site are male. Some 25,000 users in their sample identify themselves as single, versus 19,000 married and 12,000 in a relationship. The vast majority of the million users sampled don’t say what they are.

With around 60% of users identifying themselves as web developers or software engineers, that paints a fairly stereotypical picture of Google+’s userbase: nerdy guys who have deep understandings of technology and who don’t mind killing some time setting up Circles of friends.

It’s true that the early adopters of any new technology are usually male. But Google+ will have to appeal to a mainstream audience if it’s to reach mass adoption anytime soon. Consider the gender breakdown for Google+’s biggest competitor, Facebook. The social network is close to a 50-50 split between men and women. And some of Facebook’s most addicted, most enthusiastic users are women.

Meanwhile, Google is about to stop requiring users to input their gender — meaning we may get less accurate stats as time progresses.

Get Ready for Google+ Games

It looks like Google has some big features planned for Google+, including a Google Games product.

Engadget dug up some interesting pieces of the Google+ code. Specifically, I was interested in the references to “Google+ Games.”

The references to game invites and Google+ Games seem pretty clear. And while Google could always choose to scrap a Google+ Games product before its launch, we don’t think that’s what will happen here. The reason being Zynga, the creator of FarmVille, CityVille and many more social games.

Google invested more than $100 million in Zynga last year. The investment was designed to be part of a larger partnership, sources have told us. That partnership, we believe, will culminate with the launch of Google+ Games. And you can bet that Google+ will prominently feature games from the social gaming giant.

We doubt it will be long before we learn more about Google+ Games. Zynga is expected to file for its IPO in the next few days, and we bet there will be a few references to what kind of partnerships it’s exploring with the search giant.

Google+: The Numbers Driving Its Growth [STATS]

New data from Experian Hitwise shows that Google+ is growing fast, thanks to a young demographic and lots of traffic from other Google properties.

The web analytics firm has released its first set of data regarding Google’s new social network. Although the data only extends to July 16, it provides a detailed picture into the numbers that are driving Google+’s growth.

Here are some of the most interesting stats from Experian Hitwise’s report:

• As of July 16, Google+ is the 42nd most-visited social networking site in the U.S. and the 638th most-visited site on the web. We suspect that Google+ is even more popular now and will gain steam when it opens to the public.
• According to Hitwise, Google+ had 1.8 million total visits last week, an increase of 283% from the previous week. Google+ has grown by 821% from the week ending on July 2, the first week Google+ was made available.
• 56% of Google+’s upstream traffic came from other Google properties last week, with 34% of that traffic coming from Google.com. And 37% of its upstream traffic came from search engines, while 21% of its traffic was driven by email.
• Google+ may not be as much of a sausagefest as some early estimates claimed. According to Hitwise, 57% of visits to Google+ were from males for the four weeks ending on July 16. That doesn’t mean that 57% of its users are male, but it’s a sign that previous estimates were off the mark.
• Google+ is dominated by young adults. Its biggest age group for the four weeks ending July 14 was the 25-34 age bracket, which accounted for 38.37% of all visits. The week before, the entire 18-34 age bracket made up just 38.11% of total visitors.
• Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco are the most dominant metropolitan areas driving traffic to Google+. Other areas with a higher proportion of visitors to Google+ than the general online population include Bowling Green, Kentucky, Portland, Oregon, and Bend, Oregon.

The truth of the matter is that none of these stats are official and Google+ is still very new — so it’s anybody’s guess as to how accurate these figures are. Still, we think the company’s numbers make sense. While Google+ is gaining in popularity, it is still minuscule compared to Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Tagged or even MySpace.

Google’s Facebook competitor may have 18 million users, but it still has a lot of room for growth. 

Google to Businesses: Don’t Create Google+ Profiles Yet

 Google has revealed that it is working on a Google+ experience for businesses and is asking brands not to create Google+ profiles just yet.

             In a post and accompanying YouTube video on Google+, Product Manager Christian Oestlien says that the Google+ team is working on creating a unique experience for businesses that includes deep analytics and the ability to connect to products like AdWords. “How users communicate with each other is different from how they communicate with brands,” Oestlien argues.

As a result, Google is asking businesses to put their Google+ ambitions on hold.

          “The business experience we are creating should far exceed the consumer profile in terms of its usefulness to businesses,” Oestlien says in his post. “We just ask for your patience while we build it. In the meantime, we are discouraging businesses from using regular profiles to connect with Google+ users. Our policy team will actively work with profile owners to shut down non-user profiles.”

            Several prominent brands have already joined Google+, including Ford, Breaking News and yes,  which is now one of the top ten most popular users on Google+.
          While the new Google+ experience for businesses won’t be ready until “later this year,” the company intends to launch a “small experiment with a few marketing partners” to test the brand-oriented accounts over the next few months. It even has opened up a Google Spreadsheet where “non-user entities” can apply for the program. It’s unclear when Google will shut down non-user profiles or how the process will work.
           We’re not surprised that Google is building an optimized Google+ experience for businesses, but we are surprised that Google wasn’t more prepared for the wave of brands that have been joining its social network. The same thing happened with Google Buzz and has happened on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and countless other social networks.

GOOGLE ADDS GOOGLE+ PUBLIC POSTS TO ITS SOCIAL SEARCH RESULTS

In a move that was pretty much inevitable in Google’s overall strategy of eventual Google+  integration into most if not all Google products, the search engine has announced that it will now be including publicly shared Google+ posts in its “social search” results.

Users logged into their Google+ accounts will eventually see a “Blah blah shared this on Google” if they’re searching for a keyword that matches up with something that’s been posted by someone publicly in one of their Google+ circles. As someone who rarely paid attention to my “social search” results before, I’m pretty meh about how useful this is. But, since the “social search” results already included Twitter, Flickr LinkedIn and Quora, this isn’t at all a earth- shattering move. In fact, as Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan points out, the service may already have been live and what we’re seeing today is just the public announcement of it. Google says they’ll be rolling out the feature over the next couple days. What I’ve really got my fingers crossed for is the return of Google Realtime Search.

Inside Anon+,the world’s first anonymous social network

Earlier this week, Google banned pages related to loose-knit hacker group Anonymous from its hot new social network, Google+. Fed up with the apparent censorship, a group of like-minded hackers, programmers and other digital underground activists decided to take the realm of social networking into their own hands by creating the world’s first-ever anonymous social network. Still in its infancy (version 0.8 alpha, to be exact), the new network is currently calledAnon+, but that name will soon change, according to “Higochoa,” a self-professed hacker, Web developer and computer programmer from Galveston, Texas, who is leading a core team of 12 to 15 other developers, plus freelance specialists, to build Anon+. We had a chance to speak with Higochoa via IRC chat, and he gave us the low-down on what the team hopes Anon+ will become. Contrary to many of the reports about Anon+, the project is not being built by members of Anonymous, said Higochoa during our interview, at least not in an official capacity. The Anon+ dev team does have ties to Anonymous, but they have distanced themselves from the group because they were “getting  attacked by those who don’t like Anonymous,”

4 Reasons Google+Brand Pages Will Be Better Than Facebook

Converting Facebook’s 750 million active users to Google+ will be a long, difficult battle for the search giant.  But converting brands to Google+ will be much easier if Google+ is able to solve advertisers’ biggest problems with Facebook  such as post-click engagement tracking, paid search inefficiencies and limited customization. Advertisers drive paid media to their Facebook Pages because they want to be where their audience is, but there’s a major flaw in this strategy. Advertisers can’t track post-click engagement of non-Facebook ads driving to Facebook, and that’s a huge disadvantage in qualifying traffic and uncovering valuable user insights. Without such information, we can only guess whether media dollars are being well spent. 

         In a month or two, Google + will launch its highly anticipated brand pages. Here are four reasons why marketers are right to be excited and why Google+ brand pages will provide a better branded experience than Facebook.

How to synchronize Facebook, Twitter,Linked In with Google+?

Hope you
all got Google + account - so, what's now?
Though, you have accounts in Facebook,Twitter and Google Plus, it would be difficult to stay connected with your friends through all these social networking sites. But, how about a new chrome extension that lets you post your updates in all social sites simultaneously? Here is it!
The new chrome extension 'Publish sync' helps you to post text,photos,video,links, etc simultaneously on Google+,Facebook,Twitter,Plurk and many more. With Publish sync extension, users can synchronize various social
sites. Moreover, Publish sync also helps users to share contents on various social sites at a time. Users can share or publish content from G+ to Linkedin,Digg,Myspace,Facebook,Twitter etc.
Features:
* Support Google+,
Facebook, Twitter, Plurk
mutual synchronization.
* Support Google+ circles
*Can choose any site you want to synchronize Meanwhile, some the users told that after installing Publish sync, it automatically posted a recommendation of the extension to their Google+ pagewithout their permission. Also, if you connect this extension using your Facebook or Twitter ID, the same auto post will appear on your walls.

Google’s Facebook Copycat, Google Plus

Google appears to like crushing the dreams of soon-to-be-public tech companies. First, Google decided to take on Groupon with the rollout of its own local deals-of-the-day service. And now Google takes another swing at the social network game dominated by Facebook. The search giant announced a service called“Google+” that  promises the Web search people know and love, plus updates of what your friends are doing, thinking, photographing and sharing. If that sounds like Facebook, well, yes. Google has taken various
steps to try to meld the “I want to know what my online friends are doing” traits with the mostly impersonal  world of Web searching. (ButGigaOm said Google+ is more of a threat to Skype than it is to Facebook.)
According to the website, right now Google+ is in trial mode with a limited number of people. “We believe online sharing is broken. And even awkward,” Google executive Vic Gundotra told Gplus Forum. “Our
online tools are rigid. They force us into buckets or into being completely  public.”

How Google+ will effect SEO

The Internet is buzzing with headlines and reactions about Google's new social network, Google+. Recently launched this summer, Google+ is set to become Facebook's greatest rival yet. Considering that the new social media platform is another product that Google has under its belt, Google+ may just be more than a Facebook contender. If it really uses the power already wielded by Google, G+ may have a tremendous  impact on search engine rankings. Signs That Indicate Influence on Search Rankings Even before G+ was rolled out, Facebook and Twitter were already integrated into the search engine results pages (SERPs). In 

fact, before Google and Twitter's real-time tweet stream deal expired just a few weeks ago, the number of times a link is retweeted would directly affect how that link is indexed in the search results. 

     Now that Google+ is here, users can engage in online social activities within Google itself, although the chances of G+ beatingout Facebook and Twitter look pretty slim as of now since the new Google product is still very new. With that said, it's hard not to expect that Google + will influence a page's organic rankings, especially when Google pulled the plug on its real- timeTwitter stream feature. The +1 Button Speculations  about Google+'s search engine relevance have sprouted, but you may not speculate anymore once you've  understood Google's equally promising new tool, the +1 button. Google actually dropped an official announcement on YouTube regarding the use of the +1 button. According to the video, every time the +1 button in the SERPs is clicked, users are telling Google that that particular search result is more relevant to

the keyword they're searching for. The video also says that Google considers "+indexing pages. So, the personalized annotations can help certain sites rank higher since users will be give search matches that are more pertinent to their keywords. 

How to automatically post Google+ updates to Facebook or Twitter

Most bloggers set their Facebook pages to automatically post updates from their blogs. There are lots of applications on Facebook that let you automatically post updates from your blog to Facebook. If you have become an ardent Google+ user, you might want to post your Google+ updates to Facebook and Twitter. This can be done with a combination of a couple of applications.Facebook applications like RSS Graffiti, Sendible etc. let you push updates from your blog to Facebook pages or your profile page via the RSS feeds of your
blog. Plusfeed is a tool that gives you the RSS feeds for any Google Plus
profile.We had covered Plusfeed on Techattitude recently. Your feed URL will look like this: “http://
plusfeed.appspot.com/1072221639248386151157″.To post updates to Facebook, go to RSS Graffitti application on Facebook and authorize it to publish updates to your profile. You will see the pages you admin on the left hand menu; select the page you want to post updates to. After authorizing, click on the Add Feed button and add the RSS feed URL of your Google Plus profile onto it. Preview the Feed and finally save it. You can change the settings for the feed like its source name- source URL, Feed style, post type etc. You can also add filter to the feed, schedule it and more.
To post Google Plus updates to Twitter, you can use the famous Twitterfeed application.Twitterfeed lets you post updates to Twitter through a feed URL. Signup for an account on Twitterfeed. Go to the Twitterfeed dashboard and click on the “Create New Feed” button at the top right corner. Now give a name for your Feed (Google Plus for instance) and enter the Google plus feed URL into the RSS feed URL box. Click on the
Advanced Settings button to configure options for update frequency, post content and more. Now go to Step 2 and select Twitter(You can use Twitterfeed to post
updates to Facebook as well but it has lesser options and doesn’t post images either). You will need to authenticate your Twitter account. Once your account is authenticated,click on the Create Service Button. Now whenever you post
anything to Google Plus, it will automatically be posted to your Twitter account as well. Thus, using RSS Graffitti and Twitterfeed, you can easily post Google Plus updates to Twitter or
Facebook.

Best Google+ Chrome Extensions

If you are a Google+ and Google Chrome Browser user then you have to try these 11 Best Google+ Chrome extensions which will help you to use Google+ as a pro. This collection of 11 Best Google+ Chrome Extensions will add even more functionality to Google+. So check out the list below.

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Google+ Notifications on Desktop with G+ Notifier

Google+ is going popular popular day by day. If you are also a Google+ user, check this new free app G+ Notifier. G+ Notifier is a Windows utility that sits in the notification area and alerts you to notifications in the Google+ social network. It’s similar like GClient app that we discussed here some days back.

This new notification tool woks from the system tray and instantly pops up a message balloon when a new message or post update enters at your Google plus profile. To use it just simply download the app and extract the zip file into a folder on your computer and run the file “GPlusNotifier.exe” to start the program.

Whenever a new reply arrive at you Google+, G+ notifier shows them into a bubble pop-up message, showing the total number of items which you haven’t checked out yet.

Now to view all of these notification just click on the icon at the system tray and it shows all the latest and previously received updates from your profile. And with double-click you can open your Google+ stream in default browser.

G+ Notifier is a freeware app and works with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Both 32-bit and 64-bit OS are supported. You can download the G+ Notifier app here