Top three Google Plus features:

Hangouts – Probably the killer app, a video chat with 10 friends (or strangers) about a very specific topic. Video automatically switches to the person who’s talking (or typing the loudest!)

Circles – Not all friends are created equal (especially online acquaintances), so you can organize your friends into groups. Only you can see your group names. Best of all, friends can belong to multiple circles, so you can share based on common interests, such as “Golf” or “Tech” circles.

Privacy Built-In – You can broadcast posts publicly like Twitter or share privately with only your family circle (more like Facebook) — you get to choose. It isn’t all or nothing like Twitter or Facebook, you can share a family photo one moment and publicly post an industry tip in the next.

A new option coming from Google this time for moving over those old SWF Flash Ads to HTML5:

Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads).
Swiffy currently supports a subset of SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0, and the output works in all Webkit browsers such as Chrome and Mobile Safari. If possible, exporting your Flash animation as a SWF 5 file might give better results.

What’s the catch? Well, unless your animation is fairly old and basic, don’t expect much. Actionscript 3.0 has been around for a while now (and is fundamentally different than 2.0). Flash Player 10+ is the most recent version of the SWF player, so it is at best 2 full versions behind.

But it is hard to complain… you don’t need your original project files to make it work, and you could potentially have working HTML5 files without any real extra work.

Since Flash Player was rejected by Steve Jobs, Adobe has been working to save Flash Professional (and sister product Flex). Adobe’s goal is to make it possible to create HTML5 “stuff” in Flash Professional. Ideally, the code output will actually be human-readable and editable, though probably not as elegant as if the HTML5 was done by hand.

“Wallaby” is the codename for an experimental technology that converts the artwork and animation contained in Adobe® Flash® Professional (FLA) files into HTML. This allows you to reuse and extend the reach of your content to devices that do not support the Flash runtimes. Once these files are converted to HTML, you can edit them with an HTML editing tool, such as Adobe Dreamweaver®, or by hand if desired. You can view the output in one of the supported browsers or on an iOS device.