Google launches 18 new Google+ features

The condensed list of new features:

Both mobile apps:

1. profile editing

2. easier way to author content

3. subtle notice when there's new stuff to read

4. subscribe to notifications from circles

5. support for communities

Android:

6. full-size backups of your photos

7. photo spheres in the stream

8. share your mood with others

9. animated GIF support

10. birthday reminders in Google Now

11. lock screen widget

iOS:

12. swipe through photo albums inline

13. tap once to view photos in all their glory

14. subtle pan-zoom-scale effect applied to stream photos

15. longer post snippets

16. bigger post photos

17. comments that slide in underneath each post

Events:

18. send messages to specific guests

19. event creators can see who's opened their invite

20. invite people by just pasting event URL in email/IM

21. RSVP with number of guests you're bringing

22. duplicate an event

Hangouts:

23. ultra low bandwidth mode

24. improved single-person broadcasts

(source: https://plus.google.com/103541694080221120019/posts/Xt7YWmuf...)

The actual (readable) list of new features, from the official google blog post: http://gplusproject.appspot.com/tis-the-season-for-shipping

This is a perfect time for me to complain about the left-navbar on TheNextWeb. It's horribly placed right where I like to hold my mouse when reading articles (to the left of the content) -- and "eats" my scrollwheel. I hate it.

For a second I was hoping for 18+ features. That might actually get some people on Google+.

Sadly, none of them is starring / saving a post for later.

"Hangouts have been tweaked to operate smoothly on very low bandwidth connections"

I wish they would make them easier for average people to join and participate. Hangout Apps are a whole other story (most aren't even aware of, which is sad when you consider their potential).

Just 15 comments after 15 hours (before this one), and 60 points for the topic. Most of the comments are neutral to negative. So where is the market forming for Google+? It must be strong in some niches - but what are they?

When will Hangouts support 720p in both live-mode and recorded mode? Even being able to only record in 720p would be good enough for now. But showing the recorded video in 480p, as it is right now, doesn't make sense to me.

If a tree falls in a forest...

hope someday they will allow automatic RSS publishing. Just this way I'll post anything there.

besides "Google Juice" what's the point of Google+? neither my wife nor I can figure it out.

I really like the animations that Google has been making for 'pull down to refresh' for iOS in the Gmail app and now Google+ app. It's something so minor yet awesome.

I'd use it if they a) removed the real name policy, and b) unlinked it from gmail, so a ban in g+ keeps gmail working.

...and nobody cares