Google+ is officially dead... but you may still be able to download your content

As promised, Google has now closed down Google+, the social networking experiment that just never really took off. If you try to access the site -- or use the mobile app -- you'll be advised that 'Google+ is no longer available for consumer (personal) and brand accounts'. Google gave fair warning of the impending closure, telling users to take advantage of the option to download their data before it was deleted forever -- although the Internet Archive said it would try to backup as much as possible. Now the closure has actually happened, it seems that there is still time… [Continue Reading]