So, Google+ has gone into open beta, and there have been some major improvements to google+
Here are some of the big ones from the google blog and how they will relate to gaming.
- Screensharing: for when you want to show off your vacation photos, your high score, your lesson plan or whatever else is on your screen
- Sketchpad: for when you want to draw, doodle, or just scribble together
- Google Docs: for when you want to write, plan or present something with others
Screensharing: This will be great. There are so many times when I’d like to quickly show people something on my computer, now I can. Say I have a picture that I want to share with them but it isn’t important to keep in our picasa web album. I can just share my screen with them for a minute to quickly show the picture.
Sketchpad: I’m going to have to play around with this to see if it is better than twiddla, but this might be great for quick mapping and note taking.
Google Docs: With the integration, we might need to check out using google draw again instead of twiddla, and see if it works just as good or better.
Pretty exciting, and I’m looking forward to seeing what ideas the online TTRPG crowd comes up with.
Kuunari 
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