Google+ Beta Now Open To All, Hangouts Coming To The iPhone

Google announced a number of significant Google+ improvements today, claiming that they would bring Google+ Hangouts to mobile phones, including the iPhone (and probably the iPad 2 and iPod Touch).

Google also announced that Google+ is now open to the public, no longer requiring invitations, and unveiled a new Hangout feature for broadcasts, providing a new method for sharing live streaming announcements such as keynotes.

Personally, I’m pretty sure that Google+ is all but doomed as a social network, but it will be interesting to see how the world reacts now that it is open to one and all.

J. Glenn Künzler

Glenn is Managing Editor at MacTrast, and has been using a Mac since he bought his first MacBook Pro in 2006. He lives in a small town in Utah, enjoys bacon more than you can possibly imagine, and is severely addicted to pie.