Google Plus, Google+, G+, imply Google Project

(Answers in English because all references are in English - Mostly)

Introduction 



Google+ briefly

Service

Google+ (Google Plus or Google Project)

Logo de service

Adresse (url)
https://plus.google.com/


Historique
Google launched the Google+ service as an invitation-only "field test" on June 28, 2011, but soon suspended early invites due to an "insane demand" for new accounts. On August 6, each Google+ member had 150 invitations to give out until September 20, 2011, when Google+ opened to everyone 18 years of age or older without the need for an invitation. It was opened for a younger age group (13 years or older in US and most countries, 14 or older in South Korea and Spain, 16 or older in the Netherlands) on January 26, 2012. Google+ is available as a website and on mobile devices.

Before the launch, Google referred to Google+ as Google Circles, a name alluding to its emphasis on organising friendship information. Google+ is considered the company's fourth foray into social networking, following Google Buzz (launched 2010, retired in 2011), Google Friend Connect (launched 2008, retired by March 1, 2012) and Orkut (launched in 2004, as of 2013 operated entirely by subsidiary Google Brazil). Sources such as The New York Times have declared it Google's biggest attempt to rival the social network Facebook, which has over 1 billion users. [1]

Principal concurrents
The service competes with Facebook, Twitter and other social-media sites [2]

Interface

Interface [3]

Langues de l'interface

You can use Google+ in any of the following languages:

Afrikaans, Amharic , Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Lat. Am.), Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian,  Urdu, Vietnamese, Zulu.
Did they miss any language?


The language preferences you set will apply to all Google properties. Since Google products aren't available in all languages, you can select languages in the order of which you most prefer to use. These preferences apply to all Google products, not just Google+. For example, let's say Nadia's native tongue is French but she also speaks English. She sets her preferences to display French for all properties, or to display English if French isn't available. [4]


Hébergé ou à installer
Hosted,  but possible to install applications on the mobiles, tablets (Androïdes, Iphone, Ipad, etc).

Interface en français
Yes.

Mode d'affichage
Web and mobile

Fondateurs
Google+ (Google Plus) is a social networking service operated by Google Inc, which was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It was launched on June 28, 2011 in an invite-only "field testing" phase. [5]

Adresse de l'entreprise
Googleplex, Mountain View, California, U.S [6]


Page Facebook et page Twitter
Google+Facebook allows you to see your Facebook stream inside Google+.
Simply Connect to Facebook, and get all the updates on your Google+ Facebook tab. [7]

Google+Tweet  integrates a full featured twitter client inside your Google Plus Account!
Just sign in with twitter and your dashboard will look like this. [8]
In addition to many other ways (widget-JavaScripts). [9]

Utilisateurs

Types d’utilisateurs visés
Google+ Social network target all persons with the age of 13 and above.
On January 26, 2012, Google opened Google+ to teenagers. The age limit had previously been 18, but Google Vice President for Product Management Bradley Horowitz announced on Google+ that users as young as 13 would be allowed. [10]

In Addition, “Google may have found a way to challenge not only Facebook, but also LinkedIn: Its new Google+ social network will apparently evolve in a way that allows businesses to build profiles and interact with the public”. [11]

Nombre d'utilisateurs [12]
It is the second-largest social networking site in the world, having surpassed Twitter in January 2013. It has approximately 359 million active users. As of May 2013, it had a total of 500 million registered users, of whom 235 million are active in a given month.
Early adopters of Google+ in mid-2011 were mostly male (71.24%), and the dominant age bracket (35%) was between 25 and 34.
An August 2011 survey estimated that 13% of U.S. adults have joined Google+; it was projected to have 22% of U.S. adults in a year.

Mode D'utilisation
You have to have Google Account.
Google+ is utilised through the Stream Layout [12.5]
Think of Google+'s Stream as your control center. This control center includes:

• A profile image
• A Welcome page that is basically a Google+ cheat sheet
• Circles
• Content from people who aren't in your Circles, marked "Incoming"
• Notifications of people adding you to Circles or mentioning you in posts (this also shows up in the Google universal navigation bar)
• Sparks
• Google+ Hangouts
• Four navigation icons: Home, Profile, Photos, and Circles.
• Suggestions for people that you might want to connect with

This service functions with Internet (dialup, DSL, etc) and at the same time 3G and Wifi networks (mobile).

Commentaires
Yes

Annotations
Yes

Forums de discussion
Google+ Help Community. (https://plus.google.com/communities/)
Google+ forum (http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!overview (read only for the time being)


Messagerie privée
 Yes. Through SHARE (private circle!) and its integrated utilities, e.g. GMail, sms (mobile), hangouts, Messenger (mobile), etc

Nombre de pages visitées mensuellement

Google+ total US visits reach more than 49 millions in Dec-11, biggest month till date & up 55% compared to Nov-11 (according to — Experian Hitwise (@Hitwise_US) January 2, 2012)

As you can see in the graph below, the service is experiencing exponential growth. This new data makes it seem even more likely that Google+ has already reached 62 million users, as we reported last week. TNW Editor, Drew Olanoff believes that Google isn’t officially sharing it’s numbers because it doesn’t need to impress investors or partners to keep pushing forward. [14]

Quantité de contenu
The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around the world and to process over one billion search requests and about 24 petabytes of user-generated data each day. [15]

Vie privée
The parameters of privacy also make it possible to hide the members of a circles as those of which they belong. This system replaces the typical “list of friends” of other sites like Facebook.  [16]

Courbe d'utilisation

Frais d'utilisation

Free of charge.
Some Google services are payable like advertising, shopping, etc. Google Revenues (advertising and other) – Google revenues were $13.11 billion, or 93% of consolidated revenues, in the second quarter of 2013, representing a 20% increase over second quarter 2012 revenues of $10.96 billion. [13]

Appels gratuits

Using Google Hangouts, Messengers (MOBILE).

Publicité

Google Plus Button G+.

For now, the launch partners are WordPress and TypePad, with pilots to come that include About.com, wikiHow, skillpages, and examiner.com.

Send Messenges, Hangouts invitations, and Emails.

 

Contenu

Contenu ou lien vers les contenus

Google+ Profile

Types de contenus

Three types; Audio, Video and Text.

Contenu créé par l'utilisateur

The user has the possibility of writing texts to make comments and share it.

Options de partage

The option of sharing is offered with other users in order to have their contents text and video shared by the means of group sharing (circles).

Privé ou public par défaut

Public.

Options de droits

The specific elements to the profile can be changed and shared through the option public and private. This is done through management of group's circles.

Filtrage ou modération

Use a hashtag to search for content
Filter the search from your circles etc

 

Interactions between users

Commentaires

Yes

           

Forums de discussion

Google+ Help Community. (https://plus.google.com/communities/)
Google+ forum (http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!overview (read only for the time being)

Messagerie privée
 Yes. Through SHARE (private circle!) and its integrated utilities, e.g. GMail, sms (mobile), hangouts, Messenger (mobile), etc

           

Tagging et organisation

Tagging

Using Hashtag.

Origine des ressources

All resources are subject to Google's Terms of Service or Product Policies.

Therefore Copyright infringements and resources origins are user responsibility.

Tagging simple ou indirect:

Both using Share(simple)  and Re-share (Indirect-share the same resource).

Modèle d'agrégation:

Google Buzz

Widget (javascript) [14]

Google+ announces integration with content aggregation app Flipboard [15]

Qui fait le tagging?

Users

Accès aux étiquettes:

Google+ for business

Google hangouts

Autres aspects d'organisation

Google+ Pages provides businesses, products, brands, and organizations with a public identity and presence on Google+. Pages can currently be created for one of five categories to help guide you when signing up:

Product or Brand

Company, Institution or Organization

Local Business or Place

Arts, Entertainment or Sports

Others [16]

Possibilité de faire des collections:

Google+ Pages interact in the Google+ world similar to the way that regular Google+ profile owners do - they can add people to circles, edit their profile, share things in Google+, +1 comments and photos, and create and join Hangouts.[17]

Possibilité de coter (rating):

Yes, Google analytic

Favoris:

Button +1

Allow any Google+ user to set a Favourite Stream as default instead of the main one. [18]

Identité, Réseaux et groupes sociaux

Forme de l'identification de l'utilisateur

With the Name of the user or his pseudonym (Harry my case)

Éléments du profil

Contact Information

Name, first name, address, home country, Region, Postcode, Ville, phone number, Birth date, coordinated account, reference of the account, etc.

 Others

Introduction, Work, Education, Contributor To, Others Profiles, Places, Apps, Bragging Rights, etc.

Profil riche

Yes, he goes beyond contact information!

Réseau social présent

Yes.

Soutien à la recherche d'amis

With a search window it is possible of going to make search of persons (Home – People at the upper left menu).

Relations symétriques ou asymétriques

Both with extended circles.

Type de relation

Follow-up of public figures or private. Personal, professional relations or simple subscription.

Blogue

Google+ is a social media network where you can comment on blogs, shares them, etc. [19]

Blogger.

Fonction de groupe

Creation of Links, to pass a message, to affiliate themselves with people who resemble to them (circles), share of interests and share of contents, to create a group and to keep close with a high level of privacy, or make it public, etc.

Nombre de groupe

Unlimited

Vie privée

Options de vie privée

The parameters of private life also make it possible for each one to hide its members of its circles as those of which they belong. This system replaces the typical “list of friends” of other sites like Facebook. [16]

Interopérabilité

Liens pour quels contenus

Possibility of diffusing the text on Tweets or Facebook per third parties or widget (javasript), for example, the addition of  tweet and facebook button.

Fils web pour le contenu

Yes

Possibilité d'inclure le contenu ailleurs

Google Buzz

Widget (javascript) [14]

Google+ announces integration with content aggregation app Flipboard [15]

Interface de programmation (API)

Yes

Exemple d'utilisation de l'API

The addition of rss chanels, post to tweet, facebook, etc.

Données exportables facilement

Yes

Autres caractéristiques

Information géographique

Best Having Google Map, and Google Earth, etc.

Information temporelle

Yes. The publications are dated and easily traceable. Moreover, each publication or sharing is dated with the hour.

Autres services
All Google utilities. Applications for the mobile platforms are available through cellular.  Third parties and extensions.

 

Références utiles

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B

[2] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/12/06/google-announces-135-million-users-debuts-instagram-competitor/

[3] https://plus.google.com/

[4] https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1044955?hl=en
[5] http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_the_founder_of_Google_plus
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B
[7] http://crossrider.com/install/519-social-anywhere
[8] http://crossrider.com/install/529-google+tweet
[9] http://lifehacker.com/how-to-auto-post-to-facebook-or-twitter-from-google-wi-1352124886
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B
[11] http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Google-Will-Target-Businesses-Facebook-Audience-338887/
[12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B
[12.5] http://websearch.about.com/od/web20/p/Google-Stream.htm (This is not a joke but I figured it lately, and there is no place in sequential numbering!)
[13] http://investor.google.com/earnings/2013/Q2_google_earnings.html
[14] http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/01/02/google-just-had-its-biggest-traffic-month-of-all-time-up-55-from-november/
[15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B
[16] http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B
[17] https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1710600?hl=en
[18] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/favorite-g%20-stream/obonkiddcldghanlplbenkihpplheikg
[19] http://www.threedeepmarketing.com/2013/05/06/google-plus-powered-blog-comments-should-you-jump-onboard/

                                                                       Remis: 6 Octobre 2013 par Henry Sahyoun