Google+ Rolls out New Features this Week

A quartet of new features will be rolled out this week for users of Google's social network, Google+.
The service is making what is says are improvements in how Google+ handles material in news feeds, notifications, and photo views, as well as better management of business pages.
One of the new features allows you to control the "volume" of your main news stream by managing the flow of posts into it from your "circles." Using a slider control at the top of a circle, you can determine how much of that circle will be displayed in your main feed. For example, you can chose to show most of the posts from the circle, fewer posts from it or cut it off entirely.
"That way you’ll never miss a post from that special someone, and you can tweak these settings to form your own 'perfect stream,'" Google+ Vice President Bradley Horowitz writes in a company blog. How perfect you can make your stream, though, is not readily apparent because the slider control doesn't appear to be a very precise tool for controlling the flow of information from a circle to the main stream. And while the new control may make missing a post from that "special someone" less likely, it could increase the likelihood of missing an important post from a circle that you're throttling.

A quartet of new features will be rolled out this week for users of Google's social network, Google+.
The service is making what is says are improvements in how Google+ handles material in news feeds, notifications, and photo views, as well as better management of business pages.
One of the new features allows you to control the "volume" of your main news stream by managing the flow of posts into it from your "circles." Using a slider control at the top of a circle, you can determine how much of that circle will be displayed in your main feed. For example, you can chose to show most of the posts from the circle, fewer posts from it or cut it off entirely.
"That way you’ll never miss a post from that special someone, and you can tweak these settings to form your own 'perfect stream,'" Google+ Vice President Bradley Horowitz writes in a company blog. How perfect you can make your stream, though, is not readily apparent because the slider control doesn't appear to be a very precise tool for controlling the flow of information from a circle to the main stream. And while the new control may make missing a post from that "special someone" less likely, it could increase the likelihood of missing an important post from a circle that you're throttling.