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It seems that every week Google unleashes more and more really nifty features for Google Plus, and they did not disappoint this week. They actually introduced 3 cool new toys this week..What’s Hot, Google Ripples, and a photo enhancement suite called Creative Kit for Photos.
What’s Hot
Google Plus now has it’s own version of Twitter’s trending topics. What’s Hot shows the hottest posts across the entire Google Plus network, not just in your circles. Whatever is being shared and talked about the most can be found under the What’s Hot link on the left side of your screen, under Sparks, as well as underneath new posts inside the main stream.
Google Plus Ripples
It’s always fun to check and see how posts travel and how things get shared. With Google + Ripples you can check a post to see just who shared it and visually follow the conversation. To see the post’s ripples, just click the dropdown options in the upper right hand corner of any post (where you would usually mute or block a post, etc) and click on “View Ripples”. From there you can see how much it has been shared and by mousing over the individual circles in the diagram can see who it was who shared it. Each circle represents another share, and the arrows show a share’s direction. A larger circle with circles inside indicates more resharing. It shows when someone shares a post and multiple people reshare that post from that person. There is also a draggable timeline slide bar at the bottom of the ripples diagram page to let you see the spread of the share by day. The “View Ripples” choice only shows up once a post has been shared for the 1st time. It even includes some metrics. This could be a really useful tool for tracking what your followers are interested in and what gets the most engagement on G+. There is also a scrollable list of shares on the right that updates as you zoom in and out of the Ripples, which makes it easy to find influential people.…
Note: Cross posted from The World According to Suze.
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