The long-rumored Google +1 social layer is now reality, but one of the oddities of today's announcement is that website owners can't put +1 voting buttons on their websites or blogs yet. In case it was lost in the flurry of today's news and discussion about Google +1, you can put in a request to get notified when the +1 button(s) is available. The signup form is here: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/plusonesignup/ You have to provide an email address; including your website URL is optional. As Danny Sullivan reported earlier, it may be "a few months" before buttons are available [...]

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Nearly a year after Facebook Like buttons spread out across the web, Google has announced its own rival, the +1 button. It launches today as part of Google's search engine, allowing you to "+1" the search results and ads that you like. And in a few months, it'll be arriving at a web site near you. Is +1 (pronounced "Plus One") part of the new social network that Google's long been rumored to be building? Or is +1 simply that "social layer" that Google has said would come and isn't really meant as a rival to Facebook? Yes. Come along -- let's see how it works now, where it might go, an [...]

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