It was hard to miss the news that Google announced yesterday around Google+.

If you did and you really don’t have time to sift through everything, Google’s Aygul Zagidullina captured notes in very short bullet point format that makes it quick and easy to consume.

So for those that missed it, here are her notes:

Latest Google+ stats:
20 launches in the last 4 months
540M active users across Google
300M active users in the Google+ stream
1.5B photos uploaded every week to Google+
20x increase in Google+ video uploads

Google+ Hangouts:
Location sharing (text Hangouts)
Animated GIFs (text Hangouts)
SMS support (text Hangouts)
Plan > promote > manage (video Hangouts)
Auto awesome (video Hangouts)

Google+ Photos:
Google+ Gallery “Moments that matter”
Full-size backup on iOS
1000 more words in computer vision photo search
Search images in your library or across your circles
Auto enhance: low or high and on album-by-album basis
New Snapseed filter: HDR Scape
New Nik Collection feature: Analog Efex Pro
Two new awesome effects: action, eraser
Auto awesome movies (auto and manual flows)

Of course, they did this all during a black out, as Vic Gundotra said on Google:

Here is one video of one of the awesome new features:

For some more images and details on this Google+ update, which is filled with new stuff, see the links below.

Forum discussion at +AygulZagidullina, +VincentMo and +Google.