Back to all blogs

Google+ is shutting down early after second bug is revealed

Google has announced that it will be shutting down the Google + social network much sooner than planned after a second bug was discovered that revealed millions of customers’ private data to software developers.

In a blog post published on the 10th December 2018, Google confirmed that approximately 52.5 million people were affected by a bug in a November software update.

The latest bug allowed profile information not marked as public to be accessed by software developers.

Google said that the bug was discovered as part of their standard ongoing testing procedures and fixed it within a week of it being introduced.

Google said that they have no evidence that no third party compromised their systems and that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for six days were aware of it or misused it in any way.

Google disclosed a similar bug in October 2018. The bug was discovered in March 2018, and a report in the Wall Street Journal says that Google did not disclose the information sooner because it feared regulatory scrutiny.

This is the second privacy issue in two months and Google have announced they will shut down Google + in April 2019, rather than their original plan of August. API access for developers will be shut down within the next 90 days.

In the beginning, there was the word – how to create a winning keyword strategy for SEO from scratch

In the beginning, there was the word – or the keyword. Your keyword strategy is the bedrock of your SEO strategy. Before you get stuck into creating SEO content you need to have a well-thought-out and documented keyword strategy in place. So, how you can create your own winning keyword strategy for your SEO efforts? We will show you in this article.

5 Ways to Boost Member Engagement Through Web Design

Communicating information with your members is very important to ensure they renew their own membership as well as encouraging new members to sign up to your organisation. The way you communicate information is through your website, so you need to be sure that your members find using your website engaging. To tie in with our forthcoming seminar “Boost Member Engagement with a Custom Website Strategy”, we’ve identified 5 tips to increase engagement of your users and the sign-up of new members through excellent web design.

Does your membership website engage your members?

In the world of digital marketing, ‘engagement’ means the way in which visitors interact and respond to your membership organisation’s website and other online materials. Variables such as, how long users are spending on your site, where they are going, which pages and how many pages they look at, and how quickly they leave all tell us a lot about your website’s engagement. In this article, we look at a few things you can do to build member engagement.

Blog

Google+ is shutting down early after second bug is revealed

You may also like...

In the beginning, there was the word – how to create a winning keyword strategy for SEO from scratch

5 Ways to Boost Member Engagement Through Web Design

Does your membership website engage your members?

Some of our work

Northern Rail

AAPT

London Overground DART

Venus Business Communications

Omni Partners LLP

We'd love to hear from you!