Google has just announced new features for its social networking platform and, most importantly, they announced that Google+ is now open to everyone - you no longer need invitations from friends to sign up. The following is taken from the Google announcement:

Anyone can sign up for Google+—no invitation required. For the past 12 weeks, we’ve been in field trial, and during that time we’ve listened and learned a great deal. We’re nowhere near done, but with the...