News: Top 13 Google Insiders to Follow on Google+

As Google+ is still in its Limited Field Trial phase, joining can feel quite lonely. You can't exactly get all your friends and family in during the brief periods when the invitation system opens up. You can, however, add several interesting people to your "Following" Circle to keep up with developments as they happen.

Here is a good list to get you started.

Google+ & Google Team Members

These are the men & women behind Google+. They are your best source for interesting pro-tips and updates as new features roll out to Google+. All of them are accessible, and some have even been known to respond to comments and questions in real-time. Just keep an eye open for the public Hangouts they start. They tend to fill up quick!

• +Vic Gundotra - SVP Engineering, Google+
• +Yonatan Zunger - Chief Architect, Social
• +Bradley Horowitz - VP Product Management, Google+
• +Eric Cattell - Technical Lead of the Social Graph Team
• +Joe Rideout - Product Manager, Google+ Mobile
• +Natalie Villalobos - Google+ Community Manager
• +Brian Rose - Google+ Community Manager
• +Chris Chabot - Google+ Developer Relations
• +Andy Hertzfeld - Software Wizard - Designed the initial "Circles" prototype
• +Brian Swetland - Senior Software Engineer, Android Systems Team Lead
• +Chee Chew - Engineering Director
• +Sergey Brin - Cofounder of Google
• +Larry Page - Cofounder of Google
• +Matt Cutts - Head of Webspam at Google

The Digerati

The men & women behind your favorite websites. They tend to break stories about tech innovations and influences on the web before it hits the blogs. Many of them have been starting interesting discussions on Google+ about what it means, how it'll work out of beta, and how real users can get the most out of Google+ in their lives.

• +Bryan Crow - WonderHowTo, CTO
• +Kimberly Lau - WonderHowTo, Director of Curation
• +Brad Fitzpatrick - Overall hacker (LiveJournal, Six Apart, Danga, memcached, MogileFS, Perlbal, Gearman, OpenID, PubSubHubub, Golang...)
• +Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook Founder/CEO (He hasn't actually posted anything publicly yet, but he's got the most followers out of anyone.)
• +Evan Williams - Twitter Founder
• +Tom Anderson - Everyone's Friend on MySpace (In my opinion, he's got a lot of interesting and smart things to say. Definitely one to watch.)
• +Robert Scoble - Rackspace / Tech Blogger (This guy is everywhere. Another one to watch.)
• +Michael Dell - Dell Computers
• +Scott Hanselman - Microsoft Principal Program Manager
• +Kevin Rose - Digg, Diggnation, Revision3, Milk
• +Bill Gross - Idealab
• +Craig Newmark - Craig's List
• +Amit Singhal - Google Search
• +Ben Huh - I Can Has Cheezburger? FAIL Blog, The Daily What, etc (You may not think LOLcats can lead to intelligence, but Ben Huh's got the goods.)
• +Bijan Sabet - Spark Capital
• +Tim O'Reilly - O'Reilly Media
• +Anil Dash - Blogger, Director, Founder
• +Fred Wilson - Union Square Ventures, Blogger (A VC)
• +Om Malik - GigaOM
• +Danny Sullivan - SearchEngineLand
• +Leo Laporte - Podcaster (TWiT)
• +Pete Cashmore - Mashable
• +Rand Fishkin - SEOMoz
• +Joshua Topolsky - This Is My Next
• +Vanessa Fox - Nine By Blue, Google Webmaster Central
• +Andrew Shotland - Local SEO
• +Michael Arrington, +Alexia Tsotsis, +MG Siegler, +Erick Schonfeld, and +Jason Kincaid - TechCrunch
• +Jack Herrick - wikiHow
• +Jason Calacanis - Mahalo
• +Adam Pash - Lifehacker
• +Seth Godin - Squidoo
• +Gina Trapani - ThinkUp, Lifehacker

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