In The News: Google+, Osel's Bio-Research, Volleyball and Firefox

A lot happens in Mountain View. A lot. The city of approximately 75,000 people increases to more than 100,000 in the daytime, when people come from other Bay Area cities to work.

On weekends, attractions like Shoreline Amphitheatre, the Center for the Performing Arts and the hundreds of restaurants in the city serve as great day trips.

With so much going on and a lot of media attention focused on Mountain View, we decided to help you sort through it and compile some of the top news stories for you in one place. Feel free to add links of stuff we may have missed in the comment section below.

• Have you been invited yet? Do you want to be? That's how Google hopes to lure people to its Google+ social networking service, by making it exclusive, reports the NY Times.

• Guess who's hooked on Google+, Tom Anderson. Yes, that Tom Anderson, the former founder and president of MySpace. He shares his thoughts on Google's entrance into the social networking space and roots for its success. But he loves Facebook too. Here's his analysis via TechCrunch.

• Mountain View-based Osel Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, has helped develop a product that can produce good bacteria in the female vagina. Studies now show that bacterial vaginosis can encourage the spread of virus like HIV, reports Bloomberg News.

• Did you know that there was a Mountain View Volley Club? The team competed this past weekend in Southern California but lost to the Surf Club in the semi-finals, according to DailyBreeze.com. Good luck next time!

• Jared Wein, welcome to Mountain View! The software engineer this week blogged about his first impressions as a new hire at Firefox