Thursday, April 12, 2012

Armed with 170 million users, Google+ gets an extreme makeover

Google has announced that over 170 million people are now using its budding social network. Still just about one-fifth of the size of Facebook, Google+'s growth has been exponential since it launch last summer. How is Google celebrating their runaway success? Why, with a massive makeover, of course.

Users are waking up this morning to a drastically redesigned Google+, which Google claims makes the social network a simpler, more beautiful one. Gone are the buttons fixated on the top of the screen, replaced by a customizable application ribbon on the left-hand side, which you can drag to rearrange to make the layout truly your own.

The stream features bigger and more robust media content such as photos and videos, and streams are now organized into cards for easier viewing. With the move, Google is hoping to emphasize photo and video content. Now, where have we heard that

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