CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-01-27 17:21:15 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

PublicCircles now with AutoComplete Search

Now we have autocomplete search. To find the circles you are in, you do not have to know your 21-digit google id number. Now you can use autocomplete search to get the number and do the search.

At the moment the search is case sensitive, so please write your name as in your profile.

Happy searching 
#autocomplete #search #publiccircles
http://publiccircles.appspot.com/ 

2012-11-21 22:07:24 (4 comments, 5 reshares, 15 +1s)

Public Circles just got an update - travel back in time

Some bugs fixes and switched to a newer version of Bootstrap.

Daily Circles are now available for former dates and you can travel back in time. Check it out.

http://publiccircles.appspot.com/

2012-04-05 06:57:10 (10 comments, 3 reshares, 19 +1s)

Small bug fixed on Public Circles
sometimes it could happen, that the Daily Circles page showed an empty result. This happened, when we computed the wrong date for generating the daily circles page.
The problem came up after implementing the additional feature, that a Daily Circle page could be called with a different date. If you have for example a Daily Circle like this one and you want to check, what was in this circle the day before you can now use the date as an additional parameter on the url.

Snapshot from the day before (yesterday)
http://publiccircles.appspot.com/dailycircle/siegfried_hirsch-google_services

Snapshot from 2012-04-02 (2nd of April 2012)
http://publiccircles.appspot.com/dailycircle/siegfried_hirsch-google_services/2012-04-02

2012-03-29 21:06:41 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 18 +1s)

Do You Want to Create Your Own Daily Circle Page?

We are not ready yet, but preparing everything on http://publiccircles.appspot.com to make it possible, that you create your own daily magazine pages from shared circles.

No yet ready, but if you are interested, please fill out the form and as soon we are ready, we let you in as beta testers.Please include or Profile ID or Name, otherwise we can not inform you.

2012-03-22 21:45:05 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Public Circles Update
Minor updates for displaying the members in a circle and bugfixing. The Curator of the compared circles are now more prominent above the differences.

How do you like the compare function for two circles. Have you been able to test it.
What could be made better?
What do you like or dislike?

2012-03-20 22:57:10 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 12 +1s)

Compare two public circles

_it is a new feature of +Public Circles _

http://publiccircles.appspot.com/page/cmpinfo

2012-03-18 21:18:00 (8 comments, 27 reshares, 20 +1s)

Public Circles Database and Daily Circles Update
Hey there,
we have just updated the site - check it out - some new features and sadly the links for the old Daily Circles are gone, but the new version is online.
http://publiccircles.appspot.com/
So if you had a Daily Circle that you have really liked, let me know and I just will set it up again.

What's new?
- new homepage with latest added public circles and latest Daily Circles
- more information about the public circle with lots of new links
- Authors page
- View circle with members
- alle circles of author
- all circles with author

More to come soon

If you have ideas, questions, tipps or bugs, please let me know here or at my profile +Siegfried Hirsch

2012-03-08 12:05:24 (10 comments, 5 reshares, 22 +1s)

#circleshare #googleplustip #googleplustips #jaanatip

Google+ Pages and interesting people

Take a look at the people inside: http://www.circlecount.com/sharedcircle/?id=z12jz3oxfn30wlgku22celljpvm0wvzfs

Get started / Newbie or Goobie circle!
Here I have combined my Google+ Goodness circle with some great G+ Pages and more people:
If you know of more useful Pages to add, give me a shout in the comments! :-)

2012-02-28 17:16:11 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

The Daily Plus Listing
There are thousands of shared circles being circulated on Google+. Wouldn't it be great if you could read the posts from these circles like a newspaper, as opposed to watching them fly by your stream in real time? Also, wouldn't it be nice if you could test drive a shared circle before adding it? I definitely recommend checking out +Siegfried Hirsch's The Daily Plus Listing! Currently the page only has a handful of circles, but it's a really nice way to follow your favorite circles and to find new circles.

Below I have provided four shared circles and links to the associated Daily Plus pages. Please note that the page has to pull in all of the posts, so it may take a second or two for all of the posts to show up.

+Max Huijgen's Think different: the interaction circle: http://goo.gl/lMhqy
View Daily Plus:... more »

2012-02-27 18:21:34 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Found a great resume about Daily Circles created by +Jeff Jockisch

Thanks for providing the insight.

2012-02-27 13:40:44 (11 comments, 4 reshares, 12 +1s)

Out of the box into a circle: change your G+ world!
The pegs and the holes, the ones who think different, the people who will change your G+ world

A careful selection on relevance, great posts, contributions to debate, original thought and stunning images. If you follow this circle of 200, G+ will never be boring and you are in for a stream of thoughts and beauty.

The familiar faces show up, but it contains a large number of hidden gems if you dig deeper.

As a circle needs a name: "Think different: the interaction circle" will do very well.

Update: The most interesting part is that the circle is part of some experiments: one of them is the daily update. A way to ´subscribe´ to a circle by reading all the post at your leisure. Every day you will see the complete collection on this url:more »

2012-02-22 07:13:51 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Some more updates - better image resolution on the Daily Circles and fixed some bugs for larger Circles.
The list of Daily Circles, that are published everyday are now shown off in more than one page. That way, they are easier to discover - I think.

2012-02-14 22:51:45 (6 comments, 5 reshares, 15 +1s)

Testing a pinterest like layout for the Daily Plus Circles on +Public Circles

Not yet perfect, but a little step further to a pinterest like layout for a public shared circle.

Example: http://publiccircles.appspot.com/dailyplus/z12njrjo3tawy1cao04chxzzkw2vylegp4o

If you would like your public shared circle to be included, just post your shared circle in the comments.

2012-02-13 18:54:47 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

2012-02-06 22:23:21 (11 comments, 4 reshares, 8 +1s)

Small Update to View Monthly Shared Public Circles

As the number of public shared circles grew, we had to split our listing. So now you can view all shared public circles of a month and we also include the avatar of the sharer, as we already are doing in the incircles view.

See the shared circles for January: http://publiccircles.appspot.com/201201

more to come

2012-02-04 09:40:29 (1 comments, 6 reshares, 9 +1s)

Google+ now has Finally Backlinks to Original Posting

One of the most used features on Google+ is the SHARE
Sometimes postings have a few hundred shares and there was only a link to the original profile of AUTHOR of the posting, but not to the exact shared posting.

Now a link to the original posting is included
Try it by yourself and share this posting and you will see.

It is really hard to understand, why it took the Google+ team so long to include this feature.


On Wednesday I had posted a question in the Google+ hangout but it was not answered in the hangout. Because in the Google+ API all information is available for the backlink. And now this nice makeup is there.

Thanks Google+ Team

+Andrew Brown has spotted it in a one of my share first.

PS: sorry for taking this reshared... more »

2012-01-26 22:32:06 (8 comments, 58 reshares, 30 +1s)

Find Shared Circles that include You - now even better ;)

http://publiccircles.appspot.com/incircles

To make the listing of shared circles that included You are now more readable.

We included the avatar image of the author who shared a circle and the published date is now also included. The listing is sorted in reverse order of the published date, so you can see the newest shared circle on top of the listing.

I hope you like it. But we have even more to come.

2012-01-26 17:58:25 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Find Shared Circles that include You

I was curious how some new people had found and added me so I went searching for how I could find out. It turns out there is a shared circle database that you can search for your profile id.

As much time as I spend on Google+, I am amazed at the things I miss. If I'd been following +Public Circles I would have seen it. Thanks for the work on this project guys! It allowed me to go thank a couple people for including me. :-)

2012-01-24 21:31:16 (0 comments, 10 reshares, 5 +1s)

:: 2 Extremely Helpful +Google+ Links

1.) Are you curious as to where all your new circlers are coming from? Peek here: http://publiccircles.appspot.com/incircles — insert your 21-digit Google+ ID into the search field to look-up which public circles you're in. Boom-ba-da-bing. Mystery solved.

2.) Want to find your first post from the days of beta or find out stats of what your most popular posts are without scrolling for days? Scroll no mo'! Go here: http://www.allmyplus.com/ — same deal, insert your 21-digit Google+ ID into the profile I.D. area. Ta-da. Magic appears instantaneously. I just love that ;-)

2012-01-23 12:59:56 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Did you know, that you can lookup your Google+ Pages in the Public Circles Database like any other profile? Here is the list of circles, where these nice guys have included the page +Public Circles
Thanks to all of you who have include +Public Circles in your circle sharing.

2012-01-09 22:20:09 (4 comments, 13 reshares, 9 +1s)

New arrivals at +Public Circles in the last days

Guess it is a good idea to check the additions to the database in the last few days for some shared circles that were a good start for newbies and maybe even a good add for followers.
They have been plusoned or reshared already and this shows, that they caught some interest already.

So here we go:

Medien auf G+ circle of publisher collected in Germany collected by +Stefan Keuchel with 93 members and 27 reshares
https://plus.google.com/101607164549546362845/posts/UnMMPApHmXk

Circle Hawrz shared by +Christopher Lira with 416 members
https://plus.google.com/104857406109954440836/posts/PSzcdhs3cms

Flying Circle Hangout Innovators by +Mike Elgan with 35 members and 24 x reshared
https://plus.google.com/113117251731252114390/posts/GRFqDy6neqS
... more »

2011-12-14 08:09:40 (2 comments, 5 reshares, 19 +1s)

More than 1400 Public Circles in the database now

The database of public circles is growing and with the addition of the add circle feature it is now possible to get shared circles into the database, that otherwise have not been found by our scanning algorithm.

But I also found, that some circle sharer's are regularly updating their circles and reshare them. So there needs to be some kind of house keeping for the circles in the database.

So one of the next updates will list the circles by sharing author, so to have an overview of newer and older shared circles with nearly the same or updated content.

House keeping
One way to do the house keeping would be by allowing the authors to see their shared circles and change the information for the circle. What do you think about this?

2011-12-13 10:14:29 (2 comments, 7 reshares, 9 +1s)

New feature - add your circle to the Public circles database

Now you can add your own circles, if they are not already in the public circles database, to our database.

http://publiccircles.appspot.com/addcircle

2011-12-04 22:33:00 (9 comments, 17 reshares, 16 +1s)

How to find you Google+ ID

If you want to know, in which public circles you have been included, you need your Google+ ID. The Google+ ID is public and can be found, if you go to your profile page http://plus.google.com/me and look at the address bar of your browser, like in the image below.
Update
The ID could be used here http://publiccircles.appspot.com/incircles to get a listing of all public shared circles, where this ID has been included.
The database is not complete, but grows slowly.

2011-11-28 20:39:46 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Nice Infographic from Spring Metrics ... "Check out our new infographic to follow the evolution of web analytics – from “hits” to “engagement” to Conversions." http://bit.ly/rzwSIZ #smm #web #metrics

2011-11-27 00:20:46 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Little update for public circles database. Now +1 and sharing of the circles where you are included, is possible with the +1 button on the result page. Has now a permanent link with you Google+ id.

Hope you like it.

2011-11-18 07:20:20 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Great, the new search functionality in +Public Circles seems to be a hit. Lots of reshares happened and it seems to be really useful.

Thanks to everybody.

Having already requested more API calls from Google, until that, I just scan for new shared circles. In the future I am planing more features to check circles, authors of shared circles and so on.

2011-11-17 09:58:44 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

Public Circles grown to nearly 600 shared circles

Please use #PublicCircles to mark your circles. We regularly search for this tag to update the database.

2011-11-16 23:51:07 (5 comments, 5 reshares, 7 +1s)

Here is a very first preliminary preview of the Public Circles Database

Nearly 300 shared circles and with a little bit of information like
- circle members
- plusoners
- resharers
- comments
and some hashtags, if we have found some in the posting.
The database will update automatically, but is limited because of the API restrictions of Google Plus right now. If you want us to find your shared circle, then just use the hashtag #PublicCircles

Take a look at preview at
http://publiccircles.appspot.com

2011-11-16 13:24:20 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Shared Circles are a great way to publish your Circles to the public

Sharing Circles into the public or just to your friend circles is a great way to find new friends, interesting publishers with great content and are very easy to use.

Public Circles has started to collect shared circles to have a resource to find circles, that you can scan and follow.