Although Google+ is still only a few months old, there seem to be plenty of people willing to write it off as doomed, or close to it. Is Google+ fatally flawed? As he puts it: Although Google seems determined to keep adding new features, I suspect there’s little it can do to prevent Google+ from becoming a ghost town. MORE >>

A few weeks ago, I wrote “ 10 Simple Google Search Tricks ,&# prompting countless readers to send in their favorite ways of finding info using the serach behemoth’s service. You can use more than one wildcard in your search query, too, although the more you use the harder you’ll make it for Google to return a good result. MORE >>

Last week, Google rolled out a beta of its highly-anticipated new social networking platform, Google+. But having played with Google+ over the last few days, I think that it may find a home in a somewhat unexpected market: the workplace. Hangouts, Google+’s killer app for remote teams. MORE >>

For many of us, “meeting hell&# is a perennial and ongoing problem, sapping both productivity and morale from our work days. What would Google do? Google’s  Marissa Mayer was recently  interviewed by Business Week. Mayer’s six key principles for running productive meetings are: More on Google. MORE >>

Google Docs users unite! Most of us who work with Google’s online suite of productivity applications have or will at some point get frustrated with Google Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations et al. ” This is a theme in Google products: They sometimes come off as being made by engineers for engineers. MORE >>