After going all in with Google+ a few years ago, there are still many remnants of those efforts. Google is finally deprecating Plus as a means to sign into third-party apps and services.

Google+ Now Open To The Public, More Mobile Features Added. Sign up for the social network everyone's been talking about. By Damien Scott. Sep 20, 2011. COMMENT. None ...

Think of the changes as the latest example of Google's campaign to create a unified social layer for all of its products. The new homepage looks a lot like Facebook, or Google+ for that matter.

According to a Google+ post made by Dan Morrill, who worked on the Android developer relations team when the mobile operating system was being prepared for launch, he drew the silly looking ...