Google is now letting users work on a document face-to-face in a Google+ hangout.
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Some Google Apps customers have had a chance to play around with Google+ on their work accounts, but Google is taking its first big step towards making the social networking platform fully available for enterprise users.
Clay Bavor, director of product management for Google Apps, said via telephone yesterday that Google Apps has always been about collaboration.
"So when we launched Google Plus, immediately we started thinking about how to bring it to Google Apps customers," Bavor continued.
Bavor explained that the path to bring Google+ to Google Apps has followed suit of other Google products by launching the consumer version first and then tacking on enterprise-grade features and controls.
Still, Bavor acknowledged that some Google+ users were already using their personal accounts for work-related purposes. He added that at Google, his team uses the product internally to share and do video conferences, changing "the way we work."
Based on "top pieces of feedback from customers," here are the three Google+ features rolling out for Google Apps customers immediately:
- Private sharing (or restricted posts): Users can share items sel... [Read more]
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