Google New Visual Google Plus Features Google Plus got a few more fun features today in addition to workplace ones. There's a new feature called What's Hot that surfaces popular posts (don't call them "trending"), and a very cool visualization tool called Ripples that lets you watch Plus conversations flow out across the network. These are neat ways to track social activity that… Social Jon Mitchell View comments
Music SoundCloud Launches an iPad App The social audio sharing site SoundCloud upgraded its iOS app today, adding a tablet-friendly UI for iPad users. The app lets users find and listen to tracks, comment on waveforms, connect with others and record audio using the iPad's microphone. Most of the functionality from the service's Web app is here. If you've seen the SoundCloud Mac App… Play John Paul Titlow View comments
Analysis How Deep is Amazon's Love for HTML5 in Kindle Format 8? Last week, Amazon announced its principal format for electronic books distributed to its new Android-based Kindle Fire series of full-color, touchscreen tablets would "support," to borrow Amazon's choice of verbs, HTML5. Kindle Format 8 (KF8) will replace the Mobi 7 format that Amazon acquired through its purchase of Mobipocket in… Hack Scott M. Fulton View comments
Google Google Plus For Apps Users The day has finally come. Google Plus is now available for Google Apps customers. Apps administrators can now manually turn on Google Plus for their organizations. The welcome change will roll out in the "next several days." Google Plus for Apps users will have the same feature set as the public version, and Apps organizations themselves will… Jon Mitchell View comments
Analysis Dropbox for Teams Not Ready to Take on Box.net Dropbox has been testing its Dropbox for Teams service for some time, but the other shoe has finally dropped. The company formally announced the service today, which looks a lot like standard Dropbox with corporate billing tacked on. Good news for companies wanting to offer Dropbox to employees, but is it up to competing with Box.net? Drobox may be… Joe Brockmeier View comments