What is Google+?

Unless you have been marooned on an internet-less island, chances are you have heard of Google+. It is Google’s attempt to foray into the social space by “making sharing online more like sharing in real life”. After a string of failed social products like Buzz and Wave failed to, Google seems to have come up with a winner in Google+. Though not an immediate threat to Facebook, it does show potential by means of some fantastic features.

Google+ Features

So what could Google+ possibly offer that we haven’t already seen in Facebook, Twitter or any other networking site? The coolest thing about Google+ is its potential to create a real-life social experience on web. With features named so, like Hangouts, Circles etc, Google+ attempts to be a spill-over of real social life onto the web.

1. Circles

The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has made it mandatory for all government authorities to abide by the new Kuwaiti-expatriate employment ratio, reports local daily. In order to create public sector job opportunities for Kuwaitis, the new Kuwaiti-expatriate employment ratio increase the percentage of Kuwaitis working in the public sector to 90 per cent of the total workforce, with only 10 per cent of expatriate employees allowed.

Local daily reports that CSC has rejected requests from some public sector bodies with separate budgets to be exempted from the new regulations. These authorities which requested the exemptions include Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), Kuwait Airways Corporation (KPC), Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK), Public Authority for Social Security (PASS), Kuwait University (KU) and Public Investment Authority (PIA).

The assistant undersecretary for External affairs Major General Anwar Al-Yassein has announced a decision banning smoking at public utilities in Kuwait International Airport, reports local daily.

Parliamentarian Dr Yusef Zalzala has commended the decision. MP stressed that non compliance of the law by officials- especially security and customs officials at the airport encourages ordinary individual to violate the law

Seven people were referred to the Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh Police Station for violating no smoking ban inside the Kuwait International Airport. They were caught red-handed inside the ‘Arrival’ lounge at the airport during a surprise inspection campaign, reports local daily.