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Google has released a public preview of a relaunched version of Google+, following through on promises to make major changes to the unpopular service. The site is now centred around Communities and Collections, the two most frequented current features.

Google is breaking its Google+ social network into two separate entities, Photos and Streams, Google's Bradley Horowitz revealed in a Google+ post on Sunday (via Gizmodo).

As Ello enters the social media world with enough vigor to challenge Facebook for its users, what might happen to the slumbering social giant, Google+?

After reporting a disappointing outlook in its Q4 2013 earnings call, and while executing a pullback in its services, LinkedIn remains under pressure to prove its platform against notable competitors.

As content marketing strategies continue to evolve and to demonstrate deeper sophistication, more strategists are incorporating video into their content calendars.

Jawed Karim, the co-founder of YouTube, joined the scores of people slamming Google's changes to the site, which now enforces the use of the Google+ social networking site.

Sydney - This has been rumored for a while but now it’s fact. Google will be introducing a new “user function” endorsing products, selling these DIY ads as a product. The question of fairness springs to mind, as does a risk of unwanted public exposure.

I've been following Social Media for a long time. I was on LinkediN in 2005, Facebook 2006, Twitter 2007, and Google+ 2009.

Facebook is still the top social networking site, and by a large margin, but Google's Google+ is now the second biggest social networking site.

Google Plus continues to expand its presence in the world of social networking and gradually rolling out new products onto the market to attract members.

Google has fixed a security lapse that could have allowed cyber thieves to set up a site and to impersonate the Google+ social network.

A "virtual ghost town" ? That's what The Wall Street Journal called Google + after the newspaper found that the average user spends a few minutes on the site each month when compared with Facebook.

Social media has pretty much changed the dynamics of the social web. While individual communities have been a part of the web since its inception, how the socialized web exists has significantly changed over time.

A gamer proposed to his girlfriend in Google+ via the MMORPG game "Crime City". But other people think it's just a company's marketing publicity stunt.

San Francisco - After its unveiling in June 2011 Google+ garnered a lot of attention across the web. Within three weeks the new product had gained 20 million users, with many people eager to become a member.

Now you can +1 any sort of content you come across that you'd like to recommend, with a single click of mouse, on Google's Chrome browser.

San Francisco start-up Tinypay.me launched a new free application allowing up to 50 Facebook users to video chat at the same time.

While Techvibes’ Knowlton Thomas reported that Google + reached 10 million users in 16 days, let’s not jump the gun and call Google’s latest foray into social media a smashing success yet.

The cold war between social networking sites Twitter and Facebook could be heating up as Twitter tests a 'message wall' and Facebook is expected to announce a new video chat service.