June 28, 2012 by Peter Pachal Like+1SharePin ItShareOne of the new features of Google+ that may be the most useful is Events. More than just an calendar and invitation service, Events allow Google+ users to very easily pool their event photos, displaying them in chronological order regardless of who took them or when they were uploaded.The first official Google+ Event — Google‘s Day 1 party here at the Google I/O developer conference — provided a testing ground for the popularity of the feature, and by that measure it was a smashing success. Attendees pooled more than 13,000 photos, Google’s Vic Gundotra revealed at today’s keynote.In fact, it was Gundotra who helped inspire Google+ Events, telling Mashable the idea was at least partially seeded when he was on vacation a year ago.“I went to Yosemite with two other families, both fathers and senior technology executives at another company,” Gundotra told Mashable. “We had a great four days with our children, taking amazing photos.“One of the fathers at the end of the trip said, ‘Here’s my password, here’s my email, here’s my account’ for this popular photo-sharing site
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Google+ Events: Brought to You by One Googler’s Vacation
