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How to embed a Google+ post into your blog post or website - and what happens when you do

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This article explains how you can put a Google+ post (your own or someone else's) into your blog or website, provide the post was shared publicly on Google+. Recently, Google+ announced a couple of new features.   One of them, embeddable posts, has a lot of potential for bloggers. Look what s/he said on Google+ Embedding a Google+ post into a blog post is an example of the "look what he/she/I said over there" approach to linking blogs and social-networking sites . It gives people who are reading your blog up-to-date information about how many other people have plus-1'd the linked content, and an easy way to interact with it "over there" themselves - without leaving your blog. Why would you want to do this? The short answer:  Because you want to write about a Google+ post, and give your readers an easy way to +1 it or comment on it without leaving your blog. The long answer:  Because blogs are better than social-networking sites for developing ideas your id...

How to show pictures from Google Plus in any website

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This article shows how you can make a slideshow of all the photos from an album in your own Google Plus Photo collection, which can be shown on a website or blog. Sharing a photo album from Google+ Photos Google's help-pages note that you can share a Google Photos album using a link - and is a good option for showing your photos to people who are outside of Google+. But what are the options if you want to show a Google Photos album, not just an individual picture, in your blog or website? Put the link in your website. But that just gives bland, boring text, like click here to see my photos. Put one picture in your website, labelled "click this photo to see the rest", and link it to your Google Photos album. But that just shows one photo - and it takes people away from your website when they go to view your photos. Load each photo from the album individually to your website. That's fine for 2-3 or even 10 photos. But what if you've got dozens or even hundreds - ...