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It's now been three weeks since Google launched its new social networking site, Google+. 
谷歌推出新社群網站 Google+ 至今三週了，

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The company won't say how many people have signed up, 
該公司不願透露有多少人已經註冊，

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but Paul Allen, the co-founder of Ancestry.com, shows us, gives us a rough idea of what the growth rate has been.
不過Ancestry.com 共同創辦人保羅‧艾倫讓我們粗略地了解，看它目前的成長率如何。

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This shows you back in June there was absolutely nothing. G+ was unknown. 
這個圖表顯示之前六月的時候一點都沒有成長，大家還不知道 Google+。

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By the time we move on, it is officially announced and it is really making a lot of buzz. 
隨著時間前進，Google+ 正式公開後，它確實引起不小的轟動。

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It comes off slightly a bit with the tech reviews. This is, by the way, the number of searches that there are on Google for G+.
受到科技評論影響，人數稍微下滑。順便一提，這是在谷歌上搜尋 Google+ 的次數。

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Carry on, and it goes back up again. And that's the way Google continues... the new G+ continues.
接著，數字再度回升。那是谷歌持續經營的方法，新的 Google+ 持續發展。

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What it shows us -- they estimate, judging by the number of searches, that there are roughly 10 million users of this at the moment.
這告訴我們的是，藉由搜尋次數來判斷，他們估計當時大約有一千萬個使用者。

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So, what are the key features of Google+ that everybody is looking towards?
那麼大家期待的 Google+ 關鍵特色是什麼呢？

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It really comes down to these major features.
它其實可以歸結出這些主要特色。

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First of all, you can have circles. Never mind lists and groups, you drag people into your ski, your San Diego, your family. 
首先，你能擁有社交圈。別管名單和群組了，你可以把人拖曳到滑雪社交圈、聖地牙哥社交圈，或家庭社交圈。

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You can basically get people to be where you want. It has video phone calls, video conferencing, video chat. 
基本上，你可以把大家放在你想要的位置。它有視訊電話、視訊會議及視訊交談。

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Facebook has immediately countered with something of... something similar, with Skype.
Facebook 則迅速以某種……類似的功能反擊，和 Skype 聯手。

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And, of course, it allows you to send group texts through your circle.
當然，它讓你能透過社交圈傳送群組簡訊。

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So these are the three things that really make it very different. And it's these things that perhaps have given the 10 million users the interest that they've come along with.
就是這三項特色，讓它變得非常不一樣。或許就是這些特色，讓一千萬個使用者感興趣而相隨加入。

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Eric Schmidt admits Google should have gotten into this a lot sooner, as he told us.
艾瑞克‧史密特告訴我們，他承認谷歌應更早投入Google+。

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The revolution that is mobile has just begun. In all of these countries, especially in Asia, mobile penetration is very, very high and, in fact, growing even faster. 
行動革命正開始發展。在所有這些國家中，尤其是亞洲，行動裝置的滲透率非常、非常高，事實上，成長得更快。

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And the new generation of phones is so much more capable.
新一代的電話功能更是強大許多。

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So we're going from a situation where the average citizen didn't have that much power to a point where they can know everything and they can organize very quickly. 
因此，我們正從一般公民沒什麼力量的局面，演進到他們什麼都知道、並且能非常快速組織的階段。

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And that may bring down a government, as in the case of the Arab spring, but it may also just challenge vested interests and so forth in a democracy.
他們可能推翻一個政府，就好像阿拉伯之春的例子，不過它也可能考驗民主制度中的既得利益等等。

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So does that mean the PC is dead?
那麼，這是否表示個人電腦大勢已去？

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Well, the PC will be used for things where you need to do a lot of typing, because it's hard to type on that glass screen. 
個人電腦將用於需要大量打字的地方，因為很難在行動裝置的玻璃螢幕上打字。

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But for everything else, you're going to be using a mobile device, a tablet or a mobile phone or some kind of mobile small thing that you'll carry around.
但在其他方面，你會使用一個行動裝置，一台平板電腦或一支行動電話，或某種你隨身攜帶的小型行動工具。

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They're inherently better. They're more personal. They... with your permission, they know who you are, they can make suggestions to you, that kind of thing.
它們本質上更好用，更個人化。這些行動裝置……在你的許可下，知道你是誰，能給你建議，之類的事情。

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Do you see Facebook as a major challenger to Google?
你視 Facebook 為谷歌主要的競爭對手嗎？

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Fundamentally, what Facebook has done is built a way for you to figure out who people are. 
基本上，Facebook 所做的，是為你建立一條認識大家的管道。

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That system is missing in the Internet as a whole. Google should have worked on this earlier.
這個系統是整個網路中缺少的。谷歌應該更早在這方面下功夫。

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We now have a product called Google+, which has been in development for more than a year and a half, which is a partial answer to that.
現在我們有一個產品叫做 Google+，已經研發超過一年半了，是部份解決這個問題的方法。

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But I think that's the area where I would have put more resources.
不過我認為，那就是我早該投入更多資源的領域。