Google has officially launched its +1 Button browser extension for Chrome. The extension appeared in the Chrome Web Store today described as a way "you can publicly +1 any page that you're visiting with one easy click."
Two days after the horrific twin bombings and gun attacks in Oslo and Utoeya, thousands of Twitter users have begun following the chief suspect, Anders Berhring Breivik.
Google+ is currently in private beta, with users only able to access the social network after receiving an invite. Take our survey to find if you can access the site faster.
If you have access to Google+ one of the first things you will want to do is invite some friends; if you don't have an invite button you can use this trick.
You might not know it but Google has been building a personal index of your social networking connections that is so detailed it even knows who your friends are friends with.
Facebook has been stung by its own PR firm in an underhand plot to feed negative stories about Google to the press. The plot came to light after the influential US blogger and online security and privacy expert Chris Soghoian published an email thread between himself and the Facebook's PR firm Burson-Marsteller.
Google is in the process of developing a new social network called Google Circles, the search engine announced at South by Southwest Interactive today. It has long been rumoured that Google was working on one or a number of social networks and this announcement may be the result of the long mooted Google Me and Google Loop projects.