Google Apps Enterprise Users Now Have Google Plus Functionality

Great news for Google Apps business customers, despite some already having had the new functionality of Google+ available on their app dashboard.

Nevertheless Google today has provided the full functionality of Google+ features available for Google Apps Enterprise users.

As a result, Enterprise users now have enterprise-grade functionality and controls using Google+ on their accounts.  The new functionality for businesses now includes:

• Post Sharing Control using Filtered Privacy.


• Google+ Hangouts.


• Controls for Google Apps administrators, capability to control set sharing defaults for posts on different teams, among others.

Google+ will also be included for standard users of Google Apps, it will become available next year.

Twitter Planning Platform Structural Improvements

Following a recent article, it is apparent that twitter is planning many changes at its core platform. As a result this means, that the web technology is always evolving and competing for better ease of display for its users and more notably to advertisers and marketing companies. Twitter has already implemented media rich tweets, however not to the extend it is now planning.

The aim seems to be to please advertisers and thus increase profitability, the main development is being directed to producing rich media kind of expandable widgets that are called cards, an example can be seen here.  Twitter is now preparing and engaging with developers so that apps can be built using this new functionality and as a result embed cards to be displayed.

There are existing twitter applications where these "cards" may never be displayed, examples are Tweetbot and Flipboard. It can then be concluded that these apps may have to stop operating. It then follows that for this apparent reason, the Flipboard CEO Mike McCue has recently resigned from the Twitter board.  There are many interesting developments currently happening at twitter so we do recommend to read the full story here.

Goodbye Google Places, Welcome Google+ Local

Google has made changes to google places, it has now merged with google+ its features. As a result, the new pages will now appear with a "Local tab" furthermore circles now include reviews and recommendations filtered from people within circles. In terms of innovation, it means that the traditional static places now becomes dynamic with real-time reviews which includes a rating star for businesses.

The outcome from this change means that now Google+ becomes a local search destination, which contains more powerful and interactive content with extra functionality when compared to Google.com. It can be argued that this innovation, can be similar to Foursquare functionality where users are able to filter results with predefined selections, which also includes circles. As a result, the search outcome will show a place that has been highlighted by friends. This includes reviews and posts, it is possible that later extra functionality could be included such as check-ins.