Google+, the social network that Google launched two years ago to compete with Facebook, has never had real success in this sense so Google, to make it more attractive, has transformed it into a web application that, at least as an aesthetic and usability, it's absolutely sensational. The latest Google+ restyling has oriented this social network more towards photography sites like Pinterest than towards Facebook, abandoning to challenge it frontally.
In fact, Google+ incorporates Picasaweb and really becomes the best site to create personal, public or even private photo galleries .
UPDATE: The Google+ photo section has been separated and made an independent service called Google Photos
Very quickly, by opening the new Google+, from today you will notice that the sidebar has disappeared, that the minus is pop-up and disappeared and the interface is now full screen, ready to shrink or expand depending on the size of the screen and of the browser window.
The new Google+ layout is not divided into two columns like that of Facebook but into three, with a remarkable aesthetic.
Unlike before, GTalk will not automatically upload to Google+ also because it has been replaced with Google Hangouts, the chat and video chat app from Android, iPhone, Chrome and Gmail as well as on Google+.
The button at the top right allows you to make the Hangouts contact list appear or disappear.
The new Google+ is cleaner, made up of postcards and each new update is a separate postcard from the others.
At the top there are links to the different environments, to open the photos, the profile, the homepage etc.
Moving the mouse to the top left instead opens the sidebar to explore the different areas of Google+.
Note that the games section will soon disappear because it is rarely used (instead, Facebook is one of the most used parts).
As mentioned above, however , the best part of Google+, in addition to Hangouts, is the truly remarkable section of Photos .
In practice, a system called " Automatic composition of Google Photos " has been implemented which, based on the number, type and quality of the photographs uploaded to the site, improves them, applies effects or creates fun mosaics or animated images .
When the right set of photos is uploaded and detected, the auto-edit feature will create a new composite photo that will be added to the collection.
The photos that are reworked are recognizable by a symbol at the top.
Who has an Android smartphone or an iPhone can activate the automatic online backup of the photos taken with the mobile phone thus avoiding losing them in case of loss of the phone or breakage.
Google Photos also displays the photos that had been uploaded to Picasaweb (which no longer exists) now fully integrated into the social network.
When you upload a photo, Google+ automatically improves them with a self-enhancement feature.
In essence, unlike Facebook which always makes changes that are often useless only to improve what already exists, Google+ this time radically changes its purpose, becoming primarily a website and photo app that competes with Pinterest, Instagram and Flickr to become the place online where you can upload your albums and create photo galleries.
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