Google+ Events integrates with Google Calendar, has support for beautiful themes and it's not just about creating events. The most interesting feature is called "party mode" and it automatically brings together all the photos taken by the guests. "Once you've enabled Party Mode on your mobile device, all of your new photos get added to the event in real-time. And as more guests turn on Party Mode, more pictures will instantly appear to fellow invitees. In this way Google+ Events gives your party a visual pulse; we've even added a 'live slideshow' you can proudly project during the event," explains Google.
When the event ends, you can see everyone's photos in one place and filter them by popularity, the photographer or the tag. It's a great way to manage your photos, but the guests need to have Android phones and install the Google+ app.
Speaking of the Google+ app, it's now available for tablets. Right now, you can only install it if you have an Android 3.0+ tablet, but the app will also be available for the iPad soon.
Google says that more than 250 million people have upgraded to Google+ and the number of active users is 150 million. The active users spend about an hour per day at google.com and 12 minutes in the Google+ stream. Launched one year ago, Google+ seems to be pretty successful.
Google has done it brilliantly. Though sadly, most of my friends are hooked to Facebook Events and they are unlikely to use this one. Let's see if I can push them to use it with an upcoming beer meet!
ReplyDeleteThe good part about G+ Events is that you don't need a G+ account. You can invite your friends by E-mail and they'll have access to the Events page as normal. This may sway them to join our side. ;)
Deletewell the problem is that the entire web seems to have an account on facebook. having 900 million plus users has its advantages!
DeleteYes their the slight problem of a lack of friends on Google plus but then Google have add a ticket seller function i can easily see Google selling discounted tickets through Google plus
ReplyDeleteYes their the slight problem of a lack of friends on Google plus but then Google have add a ticket seller function i can easily see Google selling discounted tickets through Google plus
ReplyDeleteWe tried out Google+ Events today. Read our howto and review about Google+ Events at our blog: http://bit.ly/N6HtrI
ReplyDeletei really love this article.
ReplyDeleteBeginners Guide to Google+
A big gripe we are experiencing here is that no-one can comment on a comment. Quite frustrating as that's actually the basis of a social network, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteI am just wondering..
ReplyDeleteWill all this set of services be available WITHIN Blogspot pages? Because THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!!!
No one still has a hangout or a Party mode in their gallery pages. I haven't seen anything like that with jQuery or CMS as well