CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2012-07-24 17:35:08 (9 comments, 5 reshares, 35 +1s)

///// The Google+ World  - Google+ Visualised /////

As you know we are totally into statistics and graphs now we just made another one for you.

We visualised the profiles in our index with a publicly shown location (more than 4 million). Each of those profiles got a 2x2 sized pixel in white and each of those pixels is 10% transparent.

Then we mapped all of them on a blue background and now look, what you can see, without any borders. Since our 2x2 pixel are 10 % opaque you can see that the whiter places are the more populated once.

Feel free to reshare so as many people as possible are gonna see our Google+ World here.

We hope you like it! 


You can use the image as your background image or however you want. 1600x1200px should be enough ;)
You can find this image also here: http://www.circlecount.com/infographic/more »

2012-07-11 16:38:53 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Updated:

European Google+ Helpers circle!

People who know about Google+ in it's different aspects and are ready to share their knowledge, often in many languages.

Enjoy a lively and informative stream around many different topics!

Here is the CircleCount.com list of all the people in the circle: 
http://www.circlecount.com/sharedcircle/?id=z124tdr4wyn2gfmba04cd1ea5yric3njxj0

#Plushelp  

#Jaanatip   #Googleplustips   #circles  

2012-04-23 21:16:57 (5 comments, 5 reshares, 17 +1s)

Vote for Google+
Want a way to thank Google+ for the awesome social network they built for us? Go vote for them at the Webby Awards! http://pv.webbyawards.com/ballot/4

via +Rahul Roy

What are the Webby Awards?

--> A Webby Award is an international award presented annually by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for excellence on the internet with categories in websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile
Two winners are selected in each category, one by members of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and one by the public who cast their votes during Webby People’s Voice voting.
The award is one of the older and better-known internet-oriented awards and has come to be associated with the phrase_ "The Oscars of the Internet." -- wiki -->h... more »

2012-04-20 08:08:13 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

The Marketing Manager of CircleCount.com
(posted by +Daniel Sandstein)

Today we are very happy to introduce to you one more member of the CircleCount-Team!
+Nils Tschampel is since long time member of our team and was in incognito-mode on Google+.

He will be the 3rd official member of our team (next to +Rick Lutz and me) and will be mainly our Marketing Manager and the person who will represent CircleCount officially.
So, if you like to have CircleCount team members in your circles, follow him ;)




Hi Nils, nice to see you here! ;)

2012-04-16 20:52:50 (24 comments, 3 reshares, 17 +1s)

New feature:
Manage your favorite posts with CircleCount

Starting today you can manage your favorite (public) posts of anyone on Google+ at CircleCount.com!
The easiest way is to use our Chrome Extension, which has been updated right now for this feature to version 1.4 (see at the end of the post for the direct links).

Please check the album of this post to get a better overview about this new feature.

You can use this feature like +Rahul Roy did for his last two weekly posts (http://goo.gl/NIq4c and http://goo.gl/vtPdU), but you can also use this feature to create your own favorite posts page like:
- http://www.circlecount.com/userfavposts/107742059751171695340 (by +Jaana Nyström)
- http://www.circlecount.com/userfavposts/102377882249382281108 (by +Benjamin Cortis)
- http://www.circlecount.com/userfavposts/100152754393360938972 (by +Jacob... more »

2012-04-12 20:43:45 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

CircleCount Chrome Extension
v1.3.4.1

With the following link you can update our Chrome Extension to the new version:
https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&x=uc%26id%3Dgfehmiknpngmjkhiieampgfppicbncid
(you will be asked the same question as if you would install the extension)

We have an important bugfix for our extension. The faster everyone is using the updated version, the faster www.circlecount.com will be performant again.
If you want and think that your followers have also installed the extension, feel free to reshare this post ;)

Thanks +Mohamed Mansour for the fast help about how to force the update.

+bish s you can try to activate the hovercard-info in 1-2 days again, the server should be faster then ;)

2012-04-02 07:48:20 (51 comments, 35 reshares, 56 +1s)

The Cream of the Crop of March 2012

What's this?
On +CircleCount everyday some very interesting persons are choosen and recommended. These are persons without hunders of thousands of followers but with a lot of interesting content. You won't find silent people here leading the rankings, but interesting people that are worth to be followed.

You can find the Cream of the Crop daily here:
http://www.circlecount.com/daily/

Past Cream of the Crop circles:
February 2012: http://goo.gl/TWYpK
January 2012: http://goo.gl/HBdHb
December 2011: http://goo.gl/RBCpg
November 2011: http://goo.gl/x6TJk
October 2011: http://goo.gl/2xVn9

2012-03-21 15:44:31 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Utrecht was nice...

And no, I've not been searching for a dutch translator for CircleCount ;)
I'm sure, it would be faster to find in Google+ someone, right?

2012-03-16 14:51:58 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

This Input/Output game is fun!

Check out also our +CircleCount logo in the game: http://goo.gl/jZYVA ;)

#io12

2012-03-16 09:41:58 (50 comments, 0 reshares, 32 +1s)

+Jari Huomo has collected the Most Valuable Google+ Users here:
http://goo.gl/9pjKH

These users are shown on a very nice page of Jari here:
http://www.googleplussuomi.com/mvp/

And here is the shared circle filled with these great people!


And just to let these people know (though they would for sure see it in the shared circles at +CircleCount ;) (http://goo.gl/K439X) ):

+Jaana Nyström, +Gabriel Vasile, +Max Huijgen, +Denis Labelle, +Laurie DesAutels, +Jeff Jockisch, +James Lawson-Smith, +Mohamed Mansour, +Martin Matysiak, +Thomas Morffew, +Marcus Smith, +Sarah Hill, +Dolidh Young, +Anthony Fox, +Kathy Morlock, +Stefan Svartling, +Eoghann Irving, +MILOS JANATA, +rahul roy, +Dan Soto, +Lord Parker, +Michelle Marie, +Shamil Weerakoon, +Johnathan Chung, +Wes Lum, +Jacob Dix, +Mike Elgan, +Natalie Villalobos, +Bobbi Jo Woods, +Mike... more »

2012-03-01 10:20:14 (29 comments, 13 reshares, 27 +1s)

The Cream of the Crop of February 2012

What's this?
On +CircleCount everyday some very interesting persons are choosen and recommended. These are persons without hunders of thousands of followers but with a lot interesting content. You won't find silent people here leading the rankings, but interesting people that are worth to be followed.

You can find the Cream of the Crop daily here:
http://www.circlecount.com/daily/

Past Cream of the Crop circles:
January 2012: http://goo.gl/HBdHb
December 2011: http://goo.gl/RBCpg
November 2011: http://goo.gl/x6TJk
October 2011: http://goo.gl/2xVn9

This month we will mention again everyone of you.
But you can find this Shared Circle also on your profile at CircleCount.com (http://goo.gl/1n0jD)
;)

+愛蓮池 🌺, +Aaron Yates, +aastha raj, +afra nabilla, +AlexAdelman,... more »

2012-02-28 14:36:29 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

In which shared circles are you? A killer new feature by the CircleCount folks
We all have seen posts by users who are welcoming new followers and wondering who added them to a shared circle. Until now finding out who to thank for adding you to a circle was an interesting treasure hunt since Google + does not inform you when you are included in a shared circle.

The CircleCount folks are releasing a new very useful table that will inform you in which public circles you have been included. This will help folks that see suddenly increase in their number of followers understand who has included them in which circle and give them the opportunity of thanking them. This feature is available in your profile page in http://www.circlecount.com/ (Login and select Your Profile)

You can view the latest shared circles here:
http://www.circlecount.com/sharedcircles/

And... more »

2012-02-26 22:25:58 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Thanks for the hint +helen sotiriadis! Didn't know there is also a Google+ Page.

2012-02-26 22:15:06 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)

Are you from Iceland? Then you are probably on Google+!
This is the very short conclusion of our new statistic page.

It is also surprising us, but these are the numbers we have collected in our database and this is the result of ~15 million profiles in our index:
http://www.circlecount.com/statistic/countrypopulation/

Here you can see the percentage of the population of any country having a Google+ account.
Iceland is leading this list with ~29 %. With the latest (unofficial) number of users provided by +Paul Allen this means, that there are around 88,000 Google+ user in Iceland.

A few numbers:
United States: 11.14 %, hi +Laurie DesAutels
Ireland: 7.58 %, hi +James Lawson-Smith ;)
Finland: 6.94 %, hi +Jaana Nyström ;)
Canada: 6.38 %, hi +Denis Labelle ;)
Sweden: 6.38 %, hi +Maximilian Majewski ;)
Australia: 5.67 %,... more »

2012-02-23 21:26:26 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Nice example ;)

2012-02-23 20:37:54 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

HOW TO FIND AMAZING PEOPLE ON GOOGLE+ USING +CircleCount (or interesting people from your country)

I’m sure some of you don’t want to follow celebrities on Google+ just because they’re popular, but you’re actually looking for people that share interesting things for you, or even interesting people from your country.

Starting today, +Daniel Sandstein and his +CircleCount provide us a very interesting tool that I like to call “Popularity Ranking Slider” . This helps us find not so popular people that actually share very engaging content.

It allows us to filter people by number of followers. Besically, we can choose to see people that get the most feedback (+1es, reshares & comments) and have a number of followers in a range that we choose, like I’ve looked for this post https://plus.google.com/117245552213693020396/posts/AR6RAZ9DWHJ forinteresting p... more »

2012-02-22 08:49:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Ripple on the other language for Chrome, Try it out

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fiedpmeiilnjpkcldjgmodafldlngmnc
.

2012-02-22 00:05:09 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Happy Birthday Mr. Hertz!

(todays doodle, via: www.google.com ;) )

2012-02-21 20:34:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

The continents of the world in the words of Google+ Pages

Africa and Asia are Fun
(+Hot G+ & +Top Video and Gif. and +Funny Pictures & Videos & +Funny Or Die)

Australia is Love
(+Hilary Cam | Wedding Photography Sydney & +JustBusiness.co.uk)

Europe is Sport
(+FC Barcelona & +Chelsea Football Club)


North America is Sport and Technology
(+ESPN & +Intel)


South America is Community and Fun
(+Taringa! & +Memes Mania)



And here are the direct links:
http://www.circlecount.com/pages/?country=Cont.%20Africa
http://www.circlecount.com/pages/?country=Cont.%20Asia
http://www.circlecount.com/pages/?country=Cont.%20Australia
http://www.circlecount.com/pages/?country=Cont.%20Europe... more »

2012-02-14 18:20:55 (4 comments, 9 reshares, 12 +1s)

Today, we’re no longer an experimental service. We’re the largest public DNS service in the world, handling an average of more than 70 billion requests a day.

Wow!
Congatulations +Google

Are you using the Google Public DNS?

2012-02-06 21:20:50 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

CircleCount Chrome Extension v0.6 out now


In this new version you will find information about the users also in their hovercards.
After the extension is updated, you can move the mouse over a name of a person or a page on Google+ and you will find some additional information there:

This makes it easier to see some key facts about the user without having to click on the name or the extension icon in the toolbar.

Thanks to +Mohamed Mansour for the tips we needed to get this working!


Install the CircleCount.com Chrome Extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gfehmiknpngmjkhiieampgfppicbncid

After installing, rate/review it if you like:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gfehmiknpngmjkhiieampgfppicbncid/reviews

Blog-article (not more content than in this post ;)... more »

2012-02-06 19:07:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Since a page can't share a page, let me share this page ;)

2012-02-04 08:44:56 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Link to original post
Feb 3, 2012
#googlplusupdate #posts

A new long requested feature just appeared in the stream. Whenever you see a re-shared post it will now contain a link back to the original post.

the "post" in the line "originally shared this post" is the link back to the source.

It is still rolling out and appears not all over the place yet

cc: +Florian Rohrweck

2012-02-02 22:07:27 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

\o/ I guess I finally made it to Google+ today. This just appeared on my screen, while reading stuff.

2012-02-02 20:23:17 (10 comments, 9 reshares, 15 +1s)

The Cream of the Crop of January 2012

What's this?
On +CircleCount everyday some very interesting persons are choosen and recommended. These are persons without hunders of thousands of followers but with a lot interesting content. You won't find silent people here leading the rankings, but interesting people that are worth to be followed.

You can find the Cream of the Crop daily here:
http://www.circlecount.com/daily/

Past Cream of the Crop circles:
December 2011: http://goo.gl/RBCpg
November 2011: http://goo.gl/x6TJk
October 2011: http://goo.gl/2xVn9

This month we try also mentioning everyone of you.
Let's see if Google+ allows us this ;)

+A. Murat Eren, +Adrienne Bernakevitch Ludwick, +Agh Hamid Reza, +Agro Rachmatullah, +Aibo LiN, +Al Brydon, +Alexander Kesselaar, +Ali Adelstein, +Ali Mousavi,... more »

2012-01-31 21:32:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

my notifications are bizarre... if you're talking to me and i'm not answering, that's why.

2012-01-30 12:30:16 (2 comments, 5 reshares, 6 +1s)

We are celebrating the 10th review for our Chrome Extension with this (unusual) circle.

Those are the people who have written a review here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gfehmiknpngmjkhiieampgfppicbncid/reviews

What's so special about them?
- they are engaged in Google+, Chrome and CircleCount
- they have a Google+ account, which is required to write a review. Probably the main problem to write a review, since not everyone has a Google+ account, right? :)
- they are cool! ;)


Seriously: Thank you!
+Laurie DesAutels
+Nahlin Trond
+Marcel Weissenborn
+Egor Vyalov
+rahul roy
+Jason Housego
+Tetsuya Kitahata
+Lars Fosdal
+Lucas Wyrsch
+Stuart Williams

btw: an average of 4.67 stars (max. 5) out of 15 ratings is also great!

2012-01-27 11:15:45 (15 comments, 17 reshares, 23 +1s)

This is strange!
Can you find the error(s)? ;)

via: +Antje Schrupp

2012-01-26 21:50:19 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Europe calling: the old giant wakes up and calls on its peeps!
now that Europe shows up as the largest continent on G+ self awareness goes up and initiatives to get together flourish.
It all started this Monday with my request to post your country if you were European. I offered to circle the first 500 who would do so without any obligation to circle back. Result: we needed a part2 as we hit the 500 comments limit.

The original post was shared 225 times. You can find it here:
https://plus.google.com/112352920206354603958/posts/CdhmHGbYjgi
Part 2 is still open and can be found here:
https://plus.google.com/112352920206354603958/posts/NDAhG4fP2a7
If you didn´t do so already, post there and as long as I have spots free, I will circle you as I want to see my streams come alive during European hours.

There was a shared feeling that it would be great to... more »

2012-01-24 11:21:34 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

CircleCount.com Chrome Extension v0.5 is out now.

New feature:
You will see the increase of the follower and following numbers in the popup for the last day and the last seven days.

Thanks to +Laurie DesAutels for pushing this ;)


The extension should be updated automatically if you have installed it already.


Feel free to give a rating for the extension ;)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gfehmiknpngmjkhiieampgfppicbncid/reviews

#circlecount #chromeextension

2012-01-22 16:37:04 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

BEST GOOGLE+ CIRCLES EVER SHARED
I don't always share circles, but when I do, I make a list of the best ones

But, but... Google+ is boring. No, it's not. You didn't circle enough interesting people. Let me help you.

This list contains the most interesting circles shared and I listed them by categories like: General, Google related, Social media, Hangouters, Bloggers, Journalists, Photographers, G+ Pages, Celebrities, YouTubers, Creative people, Ladies and Men.

Take a look in the circles that interest you most and circle what's for you. If you want even more you can take a look in the Google+ Shared Circles database here: http://goo.gl/8oSmz by +Chris Porter or to look for people in the g+ directories that you'll find here: http://goo.gl/lHkIy

I. GENERAL

1. The Best Google+ Users in 2011 Chosen By Google+... more »