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Jul182011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Get the Vanity URL for Google+

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Article first published as Get the Vanity URL for Google+ on Technorati. Are you also missing vanity URLs for user profiles with Google Plus? Well unlike Facebook and Twitter, Google+ doesn’t offer vanity URLs for user profiles. The reason Google+ doesn’t use vanity URLs is because those could lead to spammers figuring out the email addresses of millions of Google+ users (since by default your Gmail username is linked to your Google Profile for e.g. http://profiles.google.com//). Note: If you are still willing to use your Gmail username as vanity URL click here Even in Facebook it is the same, I mean your profile username is your email ID with @facebook.com following your username. However, it seems that after being caught with Google Buzz privacy nightmare. Google is t...

Jul172011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Get Vanity URL for Google Profile

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It seems to be a little known fact, that old Google Profile users who had activated to use their Gmail username in their profile address already has sort of a vanity URL for their Google Plus profile. For example, the URL showing up for my profile in my browser is https://plus.google.com/101396322906779742823 and that’s the one I’ve referenced in other places. However, turns out that my Google Profile address – the one I’ve had for years – does work, too. So the shorter and speaking pointer to me on Google+ is: http://profiles.google.com/anchitpandey or http://www.google.com/profiles/anchitpandey. By default, it links to your posts tab. You can, however, attach whatever works on the longer version and it’ll work here, too. So http://profiles.google.com/anchitpandey/about will lin...

Jul72011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Google Plus vs. Facebook

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Article first published as Google Plus vs. Facebook on Technorati. Like all the other Google lovers I was also very excited when I heard that Google had launched its own social network, Google Plus. I tried hard and somehow managed to get an invitation. This was very exciting for me as I was looking forward to it as an alternative for Facebook. I posted an article on Google plus discussing its features. However, soon after creating a profile and looking into all the options and features of it, I started missing applications that I used to enjoy at Facebook. Frankly these applications were proven to be at best time killing applications and many times they simply saved me from getting bored. Except few of the features like Circles, privacy settings and editing a wall post, I didn’...

Jul42011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Google+ Shortcuts!

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Like everything else Google+ also have some shortcuts to make things easier, and luckily after working on Google+ for quite a while I found some of the tricks that would be helpful for you to get used to it. I’m sure you will love these! Here you go: Press Tab + Enter to post a comment To make your text italic: _?italic text?_ To make your text bold: *?bold text?* To strikethrough text: -?strikethrough text?- To link to a person in a post or comment: @electronicgurudev or +electronic gurudev Press “k” to move yo the Stream Press “j” to move down the Stream

Jun282011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Explore Google Plus

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Google with the launch of its brand new social project Google plus has indicated its intentions to grab share in the Facebook's social network of more than 500 million active users. Will it work? Not sure but it looks like the best version of social that they have ever done (as compared to its much hyped Google Wave and Buzz). They have put together a core group of social products and a new navigation bar that integrates sharing and conversations into every single Google Product. Alike Facebook, Google has also focused on Privacy Settings, and emphasizing that Google plus will let users to bifurcate what they want to share and with whom they want to share. The design and UI is much better than normal Google products, but it still retains the elegant & “normal” Google look with ...