1.  Extended Share: This extension lets you extend Google+ to share to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more.

2. +Photo Zoom: Provides fast and simple zooming for photos within your Google+ Stream. Just hover over the image you wish to zoom and +Photo Zoom will load the enlarged version of the picture.

3. Replies and more for Google+: It will add reply and reply-to-author buttons to Google+ comments and a number of other enhancements.

4. Surplus: Google+ Integration for Chrome.

5. Google Translate for G+: Translate your Google+ stream using integrated, inline, Google Translate support.

6. G+me: Collapses the Google+ stream while keeping live updates. It collapses posts, hides comments, etc.

7. Usability Boost for G+: Greatly improves readability on Google Plus, ability to star posts to read later and some other useful features.

8. Google+ Ultimate: This extension adds functionality and theming for the site.

9. Google Plus Directory: Find your G+ is a Google Plus person directory, where you can meet new people, start making new friend circles and more for Google+.

10. -1 Minus One for G+: Minus one (-1) button in Google+ (Post & Comment) notifications.

11. More for Google Plus: Loads more content as you reach the bottom of the Google+ page.

12. Google+ Tweaks: Tweaks to the layout and features of Google+. Full width, thumbnails only, etc.

13. Notification Count for G+: Extension for displaying unread notification count for Google+.

14. Helper for Google+: Add extra functions to Google+. Get desktop notifications on new posts. Share Posts via twitter, translate posts with Google Translate, and bookmark posts for reading later, linked #hashtags, search in posts and profiles directly from your omnibox.

15. G+ Count in Title: Adds notification count to the document title in the page tab.

16. +1 Button: Plus one every page you like with only one click, directly from omnibox, without any annoying popup.

17. Uncircle+: Google+: Find and Remove Inactive People in Selected/All Circles. Inactivity = No Public/Private Posts at all or since a chosen date.

18. +Everything : Adds the Google+ bar to all websites.

[Thanks Gabriel Vasile]

1. Facebook: 140.336 million
2. Blogger: 50.055 million
3. Twitter: 23.617 million
4. WordPress: 22.417 million
5. MySpace: 19.25 million
6. LinkedIn: 17.786 million
7. Tumblr: 11.87 million
8. Six Apart Typepad: 8.578 million
9. Yahoo Pulse: 8.397 million
10. Wikia: 7.601 million

Key Finding of the Report:

1. Social networks and blogs continue to dominate Americans’ time online, now accounting for nearly a quarter of total time spent on the Internet.
2. Social media has grown rapidly – today nearly 4 in 5 active Internet users visit social networks and blogs.
3. Americans spend more time on Facebook than they do on any other U.S. website.
4. Close to 40 percent of social media users access social media content from their mobile phone.
5. Social networking apps are the third most-used among U.S. smartphone owners.
6. Internet users over the age of 55 are driving the growth of social networking through the Mobile Internet.
7. Although a larger number of women view online video on social networks and blogs, men are the heaviest online video users overall streaming more videos and watching them longer.
8. 70 percent of active online adult social networkers shop online, 12 percent more likely than the average adult Internet user.
9. 53 percent of active adult social networkers follow a brand, while 32 percent follow a celebrity.
10. Across a snapshot of 10 major global markets, social networks and blogs reach over three-quarters of active Internet users.
11. Tumblr is an emerging player in social media, nearly tripling its audience from a year ago.

Nielsen’s Social Media Report – Q3 2011” presents a snapshot of the current social media landscape and audiences in the U.S. and other major markets. Visit here for details. (via)

1. Setting up Circles:

Google+ Circles allow you to create and share information with groups of friends just as you have in your real life social circles. Once these circles are created, it is safe to >privately share information with your circle of friends.

2. Lock down Your Profile:

By default, most of your profile is visible to anyone on the web. Unless you want to share all your information with the world, then you will want to change these settings so only your circle can view it.

3. Restricting Search Visibility:

By default, your profile will appear in Google search results. You can change your visibility under your profile settings at anytime you don’t want Google or other search engines to index your profile.

4. Locking Down Other Privacy Settings:

There are a variety of privacy related settings that are not obvious at first glance. These includes:
1. Limit who can see other people in your circles,
2. Limit who can send you email,
3. Block a user.

5. Streaming to the Appropriate Circles:

When creating a new post, you have the option to select the circles with whom you want to share the information. Additionally, by default, Google+ will remember the groups you specified in your most recent post and use those same groups in your next post.

6. Remember Your Post Can Appear as Public:

When you comment on other friends’ posts, their privacy settings may be set so anyone can see when someone comments on their posts. Therefore, your comments may be out in the open.

[Via – Zonealarm]

1. Google+ is here. What now?
2. Google+ 101 Guide
3. Google+ WTF is Google Plus?
4. Visual Guide to Circles in Google+
5. Google+ 201 Guide
6. Beginners Guide to Google+ for Social Selling
7. Google Plus Tips
8. Google+ vs Facebook for SEO
9. Google Plus: Nonprofit and Social Change Implications
10. Google+: Changing The Way We Share

[via]

1. Redirecting to the www version of a domain
2. Creating 301 redirects for a specific file or directory
3. Enable client-side caching
4. Password protecting a file
5. Hot linking protection based on file type
6. Custom 400, 401, 403, 404, or 500 error pages
7. Block users by IP address
8. Block known bad bots
9. Change default directory page
10. Prevent viewing of the .htaccess file
11. Prevent directory listing

To get started, visit at htaccess redirect and select the options that you want to create and click ‘Generate Code’ button. It will generate the .htaccess file that you can use to update your site. [Via]

One thing concerned about social networking sites, especially with Facebook is user’s privacy. This is because Facebook offers a large number of privacy related settings. This turned out to be a complicated process for many inexperienced users.

To help such Facebook users, a free service called ReclaimPrivacy will help to get privacy settings right. But this is only for PC users. If you use your iPhone or iPod Touch for accessing Facebook, the free app S.N.A.P. may be the right tool.

SNAP will scan your Facebook Profile and checks your privacy and security related settings to see what you make public and what information you keep private. After the scan is complete, the app grades you on how visible you are to the public, and then you can make necessary settings to keep your privacy safe.

S.N.A.P. also features an in depth search of your Facebook profile for any keyword. Not only will it tell you how many times the word is found, but will show you exactly where, when, and how it was posted.

You can download SNAP at iTunes Store

The application is extremely simple to use. Just run it (no installation required), enter the Twitter username of the person whose tweets you want to back up (no password is needed) and click ‘Get Tweet’ button.

The program is in its early stage. I found that the included search function is not working properly. Besides, there is no guarantee that the program can download beyond the 3,200-tweet archive limit set by Twitter.

However, this tool is the simple and easiest one for saving important twitter messages. Download MKTwitter at source.