So Google+ was in a trial/invite-only period for about the last three months, but as of today Google+ is open to the public and since its trial period there have been many improvements for Google+.  We follow the Google+ blog and we thought we’d pick out some of our favorite improvements for Google+ made in the month of September and share them with you.

Improvements for Google+ | +1 Button for the Mobile Web

One of the coolest improvements for Google+ was made on September 1st and its going to be something that you’ll want to add to your mobile marketing campaigns, its the Google +1 button for the mobile web.  What’s the +1 button?  The +1 button allows you to recommend certain businesses and websites that you’d like your friends to see.  This improvement for Google+ will allow folks to make recommendations on their smartphones while they’re on the go.

Improvements for Google+ | Google +iOS App

If you don’t know about the Google +iOS App?  Basically its how you can use Google+ on your mobile phone, much like what you already do with Facebook.  Unfortunately on its launch there were a few glitches and limits to what you could do with this App.  Well on September 6th, they launched a new Google +iOS App that allows you to do even more from your phone including resharing posts.  This is one of the best improvements for Google+ they’ve made this week.

How do you reshare a post?  Just press Share this post from the More Actions menu.  Pretty simple huh?

Improvements for Google+ | Photo Album Lock

Have you ever been annoyed with people reposting pictures from your photo albums onto their personal profiles.  This has been a major issue on both the Facebook and the Google+ platforms, but not anymore.  The guys at Google were brainstorming ideas for improvements for Google+ when they decided to create a Photo Album Lock.  Basically what a Photo Album Lock does is allow you to limit how you share your photos.  Now you can put a lock on certain albums disabling others from sharing them on their profiles.

Improvements for Google+ | Hangouts

Here’s what Chee Chew (great name by the way), an engineer at Google+ had to say about improvements for Hangouts.

for signers there are two categories of things that we’ve been working on.

first and foremost, we’ve been aggressively improving the video quality and stability. it’s still a huge challenge to transmit 10 video feeds to 10 end points, potentially all around the world. we still have lots of improvements we want to make. but i hope you see a substantial improvement in video stability in the past several weeks. this will be a never-ending effort. without improved video quality the next thing doesn’t matter.”

http://www.google.com/support/plus/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=release_notes.cs&rd=1

Improvements for Google+ | Google+ APIs

And here’s what Google+’s Chris Chabot has to say about Google+ APIs (Application Programming Interface).  If  you’re not a programmer this might not knock your socks off, but it will for you techies.

I’m super excited about how the Google+ project brings the richness and nuance of real life sharing to software, and today we’re announcing our first step towards bringing this to your apps as well by launching the Google+ public data APIs.

These APIs allow you to retrieve the public profile information and public posts of the Google+ users, and they lay the foundation for us to build on together – Nothing great is ever built in a vacuum so I’m excited to start the conversation about what the Google+ platform should look like.

Please follow the link to the blog post to find out what exactly we’re launching and you can find the technical details on how to use this on our new developer site.

Improvements for Google+ | The Skinny

So that’s whats been happening as far as developments in the world of Google+.  I’m sure that there will be many more improvements for Google+ to come in the near future, so stay tuned!

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