Google is making the +1 button more social with the addition of friend annotations. “You may have already noticed faces and names when you hover over a +1 button,” Google Developer Advocate Timothy Jordan said in a post on the Google+ Platform preview. “This change rolled out late last week. Now, you can make these recommendations even more visible to your users. Simply update the +1 button code, and an inline annotation will show next to the button.” The new annotations appear when a user hovers over the +1 button. Hovering over it will display a list of friends and contacts that have already clicked the +1 button for that page. Google has also unveiled new code for the +1 button that will display the faces and names of friends that have used the +1 button. This feature works much like how the Facebook Like button appears for Mashable stories, displaying how many people have +1?d the page and which friends have +1?d it. The changes are small, but they will likely make the +1 button even more sticky. The search giant will need to do more though to compete with Facebook’s button, which has become standard on millions of websitesacross the world.

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Google Adds Friend Annotations to
the +1 Button
Google is making the +1 button
more social with the addition of friend
annotations. “You may have already
noticed faces and names when you
hover over a +1 button,” Google
Developer Advocate Timothy Jordan
said in a post on the Google+ Platform
preview.

3. “This change rolled out
late last week. Now, you
can make these
recommendations even
more visible to your
users. Simply update the
+1 button code, and an
inline annotation will
show next to the
button.” The new
annotations appear
when a user hovers over
the +1 button.

4. Hovering over it will display a list of
friends and contacts that have already
clicked the +1 button for that page.
Google has also unveiled new code for
the +1 button that will display the faces
and names of friends that have used the
+1 button. This feature works much like
how the Facebook Like button appears
for Mashable stories, displaying how
many people have +1?d the page and
which friends have +1?d it.

5. The changes are small, but they will likely
make the +1 button even more sticky. The
search giant will need to do more though
to compete with Facebook’s button,
which has become standard on millions
of websites across the world.