Social Media, in my opinion, is not just a passing fad any more. Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Instagram and many more such socially interactive services are now being used by millions of people. And it has gone well beyond being just about people and big brands. Increasingly there is a whole cottage industry of home-based businesses which uses Social Media as primary means of interacting with, and securing, more customers.

Google has started to revamp its services, bestowing a better Google+ oriented layout and user interface. Yesterday Google updated Google Reader and today the new look for Google Mail is available for all. You can switch to the new look today which will be forced in the coming weeks so it’s better to start adapting to the new design from today.

Windows Live SkyDrive is Microsoft’s service that lets you store any file virtually on an online folder which has a capacity of 25GB. The service is free of charge and you can then access the folder from anywhere, from any PC or Mac. Microsoft has introduced the future of cloud storage but there isn’t a proper guide on how to access the drive from Windows 7 Explorer, well here we have it.

This is a simple method by which you can mount your SkyDrive into My Computer just like a mapped network drive and then you can access it using Windows Explorer (My Computer). Here are a few things that you’ll need the following:

• A PC running Windows 7
• Internet Connection
• Windows Live ID
• Windows Live ID Provider from here
• SkyDrive Simple Viewer for WebDAV from here

It seems like it’s all in a day’s work at Google! Apparently, CEO Larry Page has expressed his extreme satisfaction with Google+’s performance, along with several optimistic figures.

According to the CEO, there are over 10 million users that are on Google+ and over 1 billion items that include photos, video and status updates have ever since been shared from it’s inception over 3 weeks ago.

Larry’s new strategy is clearly working and is clearly promising as the company has today posted the highest revenues ever, totaling at at staggering $9.03 billion. That’s about a 32% increase over the last quarter!

Even I am surprised to hear about the 10 million mark as Google+ has been invite only the past weeks and I too had got my own account a week back thanks to the huge demand. Eventually the demand for invitations had became so intense that Google had started throttling them to compensate the huge load on their servers. But thankfully now everyone can join in the service and add their families and friends into their respective Circles+ and share information and communicate with them as they like.

Google+ has an android app but it still lacks a proper iOS app for the iPad / iPod Touch / iPhone 4 so users of said Apple devices might have trouble uploading lots of pictures to their Google+ accounts, with a free app from the app store you can now upload MULTIPLE pictures to your Google+ account until the official Google+ App comes to the Apple App store.

If you haven’t heard about the new video calling feature on Facebook, you’re not alone. This bombshell of an announcement almost went unnoticed. There was nothing on Facebook regarding this. Or maybe it’s accidentally revealed before it was suppose to? Who cares. The point is  you can get it working right now with a few clicks!

Google’s spanking new social network is the place to be these days, at least on the internet that is. However to the dismay of many, it’s still invite only and so far only a few lucky have had a chance to experience it first hand. Lets face it, if you aren’t on the Plus, you’re not considered cool enough.  According to Google’s Dave Besbris they’re currently throttling invitations. What does that mean? It means if you sent bulk invitations they’re most likely to be purged in the whole throttling process. So if you want to invite that special someone, then send him/her the invitation only because chances are it will be successfully received this way. Here’s a direct quote of what Dave, who happens to be the engineering director of Google + had to say

Google Plus - stylized as Google+, is all the Buzz right now (pun intended). However, the service is invite only for now, so you’d have to snoop around your social Circles to score an invite.  But what if you already have an invite for the desktop and want to use it on your phone? Well then you have two options – an HTML5 based mobile version for Android and iOS devices and a native Android app with additional features.

Unfortunately though, the Android app isn’t available worldwide right now so you’d have to aquire it via other means. Here’s what you can do to get your hands on the official Google+ app if its not available in your market.