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What do Google Plus user outrage over Shared Endorsement ads and Reddit's Silk Road community have in common? A misunderstanding of the public Web.

Google Hangouts once lived in Google Plus, but it's broken out into its own stand alone app. It has tons of potential, but doesn't quite live up to them yet.

Google Plus got a huge update on the web earlier this week, and now the Android app is getting its own revamping. New photo and location features lead the way.

For all the beautiful, innovative updates Google+ keeps pushing, it can't get me to use it. Why?

Social media data gathering has been made even better for companies as Gnip gains access to six new public APIs, enriching their social reporting even more.

The Reader will exist no more by July 1, but what's the real reason why Google is killing a product that's never made money in the first place? According to a former Google Reader manager, it might be because of Google+.

Google+ has new updates to talk about including a local 'Reviews' tab, cover photos that fill up a screen, and an About section that's easier on the eyes.

Vic Gundotra, a top-ranking engineer at Google, teased in a recent Google+ post that new Nexus devices will feature some big improvements to camera quality.

Following his February 12 State of the Union address, President Obama will be doing a modern-day Fireside Chat using Google+'s Hangouts.

Thanks to two new features that make Google Hangouts a lot more user-friendly to those in areas with low connectivity, users can control bandwidth settings and chat without video.

Deck out your new phone or tablet with apps to use while you're un-decking the halls and recovering from the holidays. Facebook Messenger and Skype get updates, get a new app to manage your tasks or replace your keyboard, and relive classic games like Final Fantasy and Metal Slug on new platforms.

As reports break that growing Google+ numbers are thanks to Google force-feeding users their accounts, it's time to realize that the social Web is the only Web.

Google is forcing users to sign up for Google+ when they sign up for their other services. And the strategy is working regardless of right and wrong.

Google will strike at Facebook again by launching an outside commenting system that will leverage its Google+ social network. The question is, will we want to use it?

According to the site's policy, Google can pull your picture based on its interpretation of "mature or offensive content."

Google+ may still be a tiny social networking service compared to Facebook, but one watcher forecasts Google+ will reach 400 million users by the end of 2012.

Google's ready to kick off 2012 with a renewed interest in the social enterprise market, which means the Google+ upgrades will be fast and furious.

Google has begun to roll out a number of new features to Google+, including a Circle prioritization tool, multi-manager support for Google+ Pages, and a revamped Photo Lightbox with new tagging functionality.

With countless numbers of search terms flowing through Google's search engine all the time, the company likes to compile the most popular search terms each year and publish the Google Zeitgeist.

Google+ traffic is finally on the rise again, but the numbers are far below what it saw during its peak at the end of September.

Microsoft is working on its very own social network that is it currently calling Socl, but that name may change. Socl looks like a couple of social networks you know and love (or hate), but offers a couple of new features that people should enjoy.

Google releases the source code for the newest version of Android named Ice Cream Sandwich. While this doesn't mean that Android users can put Ice Cream Sandwich on their phones today, it is the first step in the long process from software to phone.

A new makeover that integrates Google+ has been spotted and is likely to hit YouTube in the future.

Diaspora co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy has passed away at the age of 22.

Next week Google is primed to make what looks to be a music-related announcement. Fingers crossed, we'll finally have an MP3 store that syncs with Music Beta and Google+.

Facebook is nearly an agreement with the FTC to change the default privacy settings on all Facebook accounts. The agreement will also open up Facebook to 20 years of privacy audits.