Google opened the gates to its social network, Google+, to everyone today and rolled out more than a dozen new features to the service, many of them aimed at mobile phone users.
For 12 weeks, Google+ has been in "field trials," Google Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra explained in a company blog. "We’re nowhere near done," he wrote, "but with the improvements we’ve made so far we’re ready to move from field trial to beta." Now anyone can go to the Google+ site and sign up for the service.
n addition to open enrollment, Google introduced a number of improvements to the hangout feature of Google+. Hangouts allow people to chat face to face through video. With today's improvements, users of Android phones will be able to use hangouts on their mobiles.
Google is also expanding the online version of hangouts. Now, through "Hangouts on Air," you can open up a hangout session and as many as nine people can join it. An unlimited number can watch the hangout session.
Hangouts is getting some extras, too. They allow you to share what's on your computer in a hangout, scribble with friends on an online sketchpad, share Google docs, and create or join public hangouts about a topic, like the collapse of your favorite sports team or raising alpacas.
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