The Google spaceship seems to be altering and tweaking components on a daily basis – and today is no exception. Mat Honan over at Gizmodo has learned that it is no longer possible to log into two or more Google accounts simultaneously – which can be pretty counterproductive for those who run more than one account for various reasons. Luckily, as with most limitations set upon us, there are a number of ways to circumvent the problem and have your multiple accounts running seamlessly. Firstly, and most obviously, you could log in through different browsers. Fire one account up in Firefox, and [...]

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As you may remember, we recently launched Sports Fan 4, a sports site focused on delivering Boston sports news and opinion with the voice of a fan. We launched the site on March 31, 2009 and kept our expectations reserved. While we felt we had a great team of writers for the site and knew that there is no satiating the thirst for sports talk in the City of Boston, we also knew from past experience how tough it is to get a new site up and running. Well, a few days ago Google updated their public Page Rank for the first time since we launched SP4 and low and behold we were ecstatic to see we were [...]

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Google+ is the fantastic new social networking service that lets you keep friends, family, and business contacts separate. Now that Google has cracked open the floodgates a bit and invitations are easier to come by, you might wonder how to get the most out of the service initially. You can check out first look video of Google+ right here:Here are 20 tips to help you be productive using the service without spending hours learning the ropes. 1. Send a private message You can send a message to just one person or a handful. Click in the Stream box and type your note. Now, remove the Public group [...]

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Regular readers of this site know how much we’ve talked about Google+, Google’s new endeavor in the social networking world, in the last few weeks. If you’re wondering how well it stacks up against Facebook, this infographic will help.  As you can tell from the image above, the authors of this infographic at TechnoBombs went fairly in-depth into the feature set of both social networks and have made the assertion we had previously made: Google+, although not extremely innovative, has managed to take features from other social networks and made them better. There are other occasions [...]

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You can invite anyone you want to Google Plus (Google+), invite as many people as you like. Anyone you put in your “Add circles or people” field will get an invitation to join up. The only catch is they must have a Gmail email address. Other users will get a link to view the conversation or post. Below are a few screenshots of me inviting myself to Google Plus (Google+) to illustrate the two steps.1: Enter a message and someone’s gmail address.2: Click “Share”

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Good news, jetsetters — those of you relying on Google Maps Navigation will now find it even harder to wean yourself off of it. Not like we’d ever recommend that, though. The navigators in Mountain View have just updated Google Maps for Android to v5.7, and while it’s just a point update in terms of numbers, there’s a healthy chunk of new material here. For starters, there’s the addition of added Transit Navigation (Beta), which brings GPS turn-by-turn (or in this case, stop-by-stop) navigation to public transit systems in 400+ cities worldwide. It’ll tap into [...]

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In what has to be somewhat embarrassing for Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed user on Google+, according to the Google+ Statistics counter. The Facebook CEO has 21,213 followers, compared to the Google CEO at 14,798, Google social czar Vic Gundotra at 13,783, Google co-founder Sergey Brin at 11,629, blogger Robert Scoble at 11,389, Google spam avenger Matt Cutts at 9,153, TWIT founder Leo Laporte at 7,566, Google’s Bradley Horowitz at 7,187, TechCrunch’s MG Siegler at 6,579 and blogger Gina Trapani at 5,649. Google+ Statistics creator Boris Veldhuijzen [...]

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Another Google+ tip. Chrome extension, to be precise. You can now add a small notification checker extension in Google Chrome which displays your new notifications number and will take you to Google+. Not just this. This extension now also supports desktop notifications and sound. Google+ Notification Checker is a very simple Chrome extension that displays the number of unread notifications in Google+.   Download Google+ Notification Checker You can download this Chrome extension from here: Download Google+ Notification Checker

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Google’s new dark bar when combined with your Google+ profile could become very powerful from where you can check your notifications, share new updates, photos, videos or access your settings.When working, like when writing an important document in Google Docs, the red notifications box in the new Google bar might get a bit distracting. If it does for you, you can easily turn them off when using Google Chrome.   Hide Google+ Notification from Google Bar I have come across a Chrome extension that lets you hide the red notification box from the new Google bar. A very simple Chrome [...]

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 Google uses your +1′s and other profile information to personalize your content and ads on non-Google websites, including applications or other clients. You can choose to disable this option and see the non-personalized version of content and ads. If you disable +1 personalization, you will not see +1 recommendations from people you know when visiting those sites.   How to Disable +1 Personalization on Non-Google SitesClick on your email address in the new Google bar. Go to “Account settings” Under Google +1, click on ‘Edit’. Select the second option ‘Disable’ and [...]

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