So you already have a Google Plus account and so far feeling good about what you’ve found and played, however there is something within yourself keep dragging you back to Facebook, that’s a normal situation, since it’s been years you are attached with it willingly or unwillingly.

If that is you are experiencing right now, I have a solution (or may be make a situation worse for your future decision to Google Plus) to cure your Facebook environment homesickness, simply go back to Facebook OR bring Facebook interface to your Google Plus page.

Yes you can glue Facebook to Google PLus, wait it is not synchronizing purpose, but installing Facebook-like design to your Google Plus, exactly like this one:

Yes that’s Google Plus, and want to have it’s set to your page? Then you need a browser app namely UserStylish (visit the page here). And it’s supporting Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, once you have it installed to your browser, then load your Google Plus Page and see the magic it brings to your page.

Remember it is a browser app, it appears to browser you use ONLY. Do you like it?

And go to the page if you want to create Google Plus badge and page.

See you in the next posts.

Why use Google plus anyway? When we have Facebook, and other similar networking medias? The answer is totally depends on what kind a person you are and what do you need from a social network. Those names basically brings a similar utility — is connecting people for their own benefit — however, in the process it’s not that simple.

I am not using social networking site simply to tell my friends what breakfast I ate this morning, or my 1 years old nephew is able call my name. That’s not my jag, at least sharing the so-called trivial updates is not my particular concern — in fact I personally don’t like Facebook because is full of uselessness and the greatest time-waster there has ever been.

Therefore I’d rather to stick in Facebook page rather than my profile page, to be engaging with all people who liked my Facebook page.

So now back to the first question? Why do we need Google Plus, what it’s offering to make it’s worth a try or hooked on it?

Google+ is more about encouraging its users to build the intellectual discussions among the people with similar like, to share ideas and content, and this is easily achieved with Circles. For internet marketers and bloggers, the circles is your wish comes true and Google plus is more accommodating for branding yourself and SEO speaking, it’s included factor to rank your site.

And as for privacy, I know it’s internet, you guard your own pricay, however it would be generous if the social network takes this one seriously? That’s what Google PLus offers.

Google plus provides environments for their users to pushes the constructive dialogues up — not life events, let alone updating your no body cares activities. And Google Plus is less spams media so far, I rarely see a short sentences which simply saying “Nice one!”, which will make the updates look inferior.

Verdicts to use Google PLus or Facebook:

Well here is a quotation from Google Plus sound engineer from Trinidad, Giles Pettipher, I consider the most presented to differs between Facebook and Google+:

“Facebook and Google are two completely different things for me,”. “Facebook is a way to interact with friends and family. Google+ is a way of finding fascinating content I’m interested in very, very, easily, that I wouldn’t even have thought to go looking for.”

Or if can short the quotation to be simpler is: Mind numbing (Facebook) vs intellectu­al stimulatio­n (Google PLus). Also read this post: 5 Google plus features facebook should have will make you see why Google Plus is superior on those aspects than Facebook.

If that so, I go with Google Plus. Have registered yet? You have not, then head to Google Plus and create Google Plus badge and page.

Credit picture: Firm Media.

I have decided to exclusively create a Google+ page for this blog. And I am happy for the decision because from now and forward my blog will be accessible everywhere — from Facebook, Twitter and now Google +.

But among the three services, as a blogger like me and for those who want to build a brand for himself, Google + page is way better compared than Facebook page. Currently I am a full time blogger and marketer, consequently my strategy is finding specific audience that will help me to increase traffic to grow my sale rate.

And Google + makes it amazingly easy with the “feature”, all I need just categorize the Google + listed friends and then they are listed based on Circles names. And in the next episodes I find people that talk or searching something related to what I am selling.

Therefore if you are a blogger and marketer seeking to increase targeted traffic to market your products or products you are affiliated with, then creating a Google + page must be in your must do list.

You can create your page easily without hassles and in this post I want to share tutorial to create your Google plus page and then create Google badge to be placed in your blog easily.

Create Google Plus Page

1. Sign up for Google plus if you have not.
2. Once your Google plus profile is up and running, then visit this page to create Google page.
3. fill your page with information needed,…etc.

Create Google Plus Badge

Once your Google plus page is online. You can continue to create Google plus badge to ease your blog’s visitors to add you to his circle.

1. Now back to your Google plus page, see at your browser address bar and copy your page ID, like this:

3. Then visit this configuration link to create Google plus badge and name your badge. And then paste page id to this form:

4. You can choose on how your Google plus badge look, Google has provided 6 variety of badge according to sizes you can choose.

5. After picking up the badge type, scroll down to grab the code. There are two codes you should place in your website template, one inside <head> before the closing </head> and the other is the button code to place anywhere on your site.

And you will find a badge like this appears in your website or of course type of button you’ve chosen:

I am not sure whether this would benefit you, but if you have an Ice Cream Sandwich-based phone in your hand now and the appearance of Google search bar on your handset’s handset is bothering you for some reason. Of course removing that app is might be your wish.

Once you’ve updated to Ice Cream Sandwich you’ll be seeing the search bar of Google spotted at the top of the launcher. This feature is not bundled by default, it can be disabled and remove from your home screen. And prefer to have a clean and simple home screen look.

There is a way for it, simply go to Settings and then Apps and continue to All and then disable the Google Search menu, afterward that bar will no longer appear.

But words of advice, disabling the Google search bar would give big effect if Google is your search engine hero, because it’s gone from home screen and then you need to open a browser to search. Well, why you want to ditch precious thing that you rely on the most?

For small medium businesses owners in India and currently don’t have websites for your companies, here is a good news for you. Google India has teamed up with Hostgator India under the campaign India Get Your Business Online to offer you a domain name plus web hosting for free, you will get .in domain name and a one whole year free hosting plan.

Not only domain name and web hosting, there many goodies offered by this program, you will also get these awesomeness:

• easy-to-build professional website
• Free 365 days support
• Free email address using Google apps
• Offer to create, host and manage your website for 1 year via toll free call
• Free coupon for Adwords advertising worth Rs. 2500 for promoting your company website.

This program is targeting 500,000 small medium business (SMBs)  throughout in India for the next three years. The reason as to why Google and Hostgator offer this was based on the fact that only about 5% company have a website among approximate 8 million small medium business.

Therefore if you want to widen your business, get more exposure and help your potential customers find you easier no matter where they live, take this rare opportunity now — visit India Get Online site to set up your free professional website!

Don’t worry after a year of free period you can cancel your subscription or continue with them!

Larry Page is Google CEO now, after the former Eric Schmidt stepped down from its position and then pointed to be Executive Chairman. Eric daily job from now and forward will be advising Page and co-founder Sergey Brin. So what is the task of Larry Page as a new CEO? He is going to be holding the responsibility for day-to-day operations and product development and strategy.

And about taking care for projects strategy like new products, Sergey Brin will be the man, with the title he always has – Co-Founder.

Is Schmidt happy with this decision? On a blog post he clarified and explained the change:

That the idea is to make leading Google as efficient as possible, and that “Larry, in my clear opinion, is ready to lead.” It’s clear the idea is to frame this as a simple organizational shuffle — Schmidt says that he, Brin, and Page “anticipate working together for a long time to come”

Google we see today is enormously different from few years ago, the company has been evolved from simply a search engine giant into operating system for both PC and devices creators, Android phone seller (Google Nexus), connected televisions. And all because of Schmidt.

So what will Larry Page, as the new CEO, bring in the coming years for Google and for us?

Google has announced the updated version of their Android Google translate app, this might be the reason for Android fans out there to feel happy they use Android devices. The current version of this translate app has the Conversation mode feature. With it, as a traveler in the are that does not speak your language, you can take advantage this app to translates your language to their language and otherwise.

The mechanism is you record your words by pressing the microphone and start speaking. The Conversation Mode will then translate your word into the language of your choice. Your conversation partner will easily understand what you mean because it’s pronounced with their language, when he reply you, their words will be translated into your language. This app is definitely useful for travelers.

The Conversation Mode is an experimental feature which is intentionally created to help people connect across languages. Since it’s still in the alpha stage, means there are still rooms for improvements like factors like regional accents, background noise or rapid speech may make it difficult to understand what you’re saying.

Currently the mode only understand and understand two languages which are English and Spanish. But I am definitely sure Google is working to add more languages, and expect to see in the final version your and my language is available on its list.

Requirement to download and install the new Google Translate is Android devices using Android 2.1 and latter.

Read more about Google Translate app with Conversation Mode on the official Google Blog.

If you have been experiencing Google indexing troubles to your blog lately and as the result your traffic is decreasing, then don’t panic yet, it’s not because your blog or website is flagged, but It’s the current situation faced by many of blogs of all sizes, including the one you are reading now, yes this blog too experiences indexing problem.

My new article has to wait about 4 or 5 days to be indexed and appear on Google result since October, 19th. Then I started to search for solution and found useful discussion in Google webmaster forum about this issue.

The problem is in Google itself, not ours, currently Google having technical issues to which affecting to many blogs. And there is nothing we can do about it, since it’s not under our territory, just wait till Google engineer team fix it and it takes sometimes. Here is John Mueller explanation you should read:

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As we have known the reason behind this trouble, I recommend you to do what John Mu advice which is: “Do not change anything on your side and Google will continue to crawl and index your content eventually” – albeit not as quickly as we expect -  but it will be fixed anyway. And hope this post helps.

Have you heard the latest news about Android, no it’s not about the newest version of this OS mobile. But its logo! A shocking report from EnGadget tends to lead ones who read it to think that Android’s logo and its name, might be the result of a blatant theft of intellectual property. The old Atari game, named Gauntlet has its famous character which will be a familiar name to you and those who ever played that game, the character name is Android.

Not just the name, the look of the two almost exactly the same. So take a look of these two characters to compare:

As we look closely between these two, we’ll find the characters have two antennas on their heads, two dotted eyes and the straight line which separates between the head and the body. Of course their sizes too, as it’s clearly shown on the above picture.

How about go deeper with this old Atari’s Android evolution phases to be the modern Android logo:

So what do you think? You would be the judge!

So far Google has not thrown any explanations about these coincidence similarities, but surely, raises curiosity on what would be the explanations!

Source: EnGadget.

If your mobile device is facilitated with HTML5 compliant browser then you might like this news, recently Youtube released their latest mobile website version of Youtube Mobile Site. Since it’s the latest version which means they are more additional cool features have been added, such as; more user friendly interface, more responsive touchscreen, surely high quality video streams included too!

This newest mobile product was firstly announced and demoed at the press event on Youtube HQ in California focusing for m.youtube.com usage, which is becoming the popular “place” for mobile device to watch and upload Video to Youtube. It’s clear that the Google wants everything free or at least developed via browser, so it’s not surprising they put Google voice desktop app on delay

Back to the issue, just after the news published on Youtube official blog, people then start to compare between this Youtube mobile with iPhone Youtube app. After watching the official video demo, we can tell the different, Youtube mobile is way better in quality streams rather than iPhone Youtube app. According to Mashable the reason why Youtube for mobile is producing a lot better quality streams, because it’s designed for modern networks, while iPhone app still stuck on old stream format for second generation networks

Let’s the video demo of new Youtube new website:

Amazed? Well me too! This Google product makes iPhone Youtube app looks obsolete, doesn’t it?

If things go well in the future, I mean that the whole web is optimized for mobile displays, I believe not just iPhone Youtube app become obsolete but all of mobile client apps too. Beside we don’t need to download or install apps that do little more than re-pointing us to a mobile version of that same web site.

Via Mashable