Google+ streams coming to Flipboard, but what about Google Currents?

Popular digital magazine app Flipboard is getting some attention from Google in the form of Google+ API support, the company announced today at the Le Web 2012 conference in London.

The support will give Flipboard users access to content streams …

Google+ wants to be your new Flickr

Google+ is succeeding in small bursts, feature by feature. As a social network competing with Facebook it’s a flop, but its video-chat tool Hangouts is a winner. Now photo sharing is poised to be the service’s next breakout hit, thanks …

Get funded on Google+: Silicon Valley VCs are holding hangouts

Google is trying really hard to get people interested in Google+’s group video-chat feature, Hangouts. The company has brought on celebrities, political figures, and is now trying to attract its own Silicon Valley neighbors to participate on the social network …

Google+ is now coming to Google Voice

Google made a brief announcement today stating that Google Voice would be getting Google+ integration.

On the official Google Voice blog, we read that the two services will be linked by bringing information from your social Google+ circles into your …

Google+ is now allowing nicknames, pseudonyms & more

Google+ is now allowing users to bring their nicknames, pseudonyms, and other identities onto the social service.

Up until now, Google+ users were supposed to only use their given-by-their-parents-on-a-birth-certificate names, which might have worked well for a lot of normal …

Google+ steps toward web domination with automated signups for new Google accounts

Google, as it has long promised, is taking another step toward unifying all its web products under the Google+ umbrella by making Google+ a big part of signing up for a new Google account.

Today, the astute webmonkeys over at …

Best Buy and Hooked Media hold contest to find best Android game developers

Best Buy and Hooked Media have launched a competition to find the best Android mobile game developers, and VentureBeat is helping out. The Get Discovered! competition will give the winner and finalists distribution on mobile platforms, media recognition and seed …

Google+ is not a social network, but it’s not a graveyard, either

Over the past couple of weeks, the Internet’s frothy enthusiasm over Google+ has dried into proclamations of its imminent death.

Social media experts and bloggers who were one month ago hailing the fledgling service as the second coming of Christ …

Google takes the axe to Buzz and others, focuses on Google+

Google is axing a number of its limp social products, including Buzz, in favor of Google+ according to a blog post today by Vice President of Product Brad Horowitz.

And say goodbye to feeling like you have all the cool …

Dropcam makes surveillance consumer-friendly, gets $5M from Facebook investors

Smile, you’re on camera! Wi-Fi video camera company Dropcam raised $5 million in its first round of funding today led by storied venture firm Accel Partners and Google+ vice president of product Bradley Horowitz.

Many people opt to install security …

Google VP offers up fixes to Google+ name policy, debunks myths

Google has already admitted it made mistakes with its user name policy on Google+, its fledgling social network, and now we have further word on how the company plans to fix its mess.

Google will warn users with names in …

Dictionary alternative Wordnik gets $8M in funding, Google board member

The word “Wordnik“ isn’t in the dictionary. But with $8 million in third-round financing and a Google exec on its board, the company called Wordnik just might redefine what a dictionary is.

Along with the new round of funding, Wordnik …