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Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
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Re: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
#52Google does not seem to own circles.com. I wonder if they are planning on using google.com/circles or maybe another alternative domain.
I usually don't like how every google product is just a subdomain or a folder of the google.com domain. Products with runaway success need to have their own domain. Can you imagine if Facebook was at microsoft.com/facebook? Or Twitter was at google.com/twitter? That would seriously slow down adoption.
Re: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
#53Facebook can already do this and it's called 'Lists'. (Account/Edit Friends/Create a List). You just put your friends in 'Lists', and then each time you want to post something but show or hide it from certain Lists you can click on the padlock icon and choose 'custom - edit' and type in the name of the List before posting. This applies to both wall posts and photo albums. Problem is I guess the average Facebook user…
I've been looking for a big improvement to Lists for a while now. The way it works now makes it almost useless. I want to be able to easily post a message or comment without hundreds of people seeing it. I want to post a message in context and only the people who would be interested in it would see it.
Re: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
#54I'm a member of a few private Google Groups, and I hope this works out as a viable replacement. It would be nice to expand private groups beyond just discussion and have the ability to share photos, documents, and other media.
Re: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
#55In my daydream this is identi.ca compatible. And that again would mean OStatus "protocol" combatible.
What ever it is, competition is always good.
Re: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
#56That is exactly what I needed in my life...another social network! I had a feeling something was missing and now it's obvious that it's the lack of enough online 'social networks'..
Re: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
#57Appleseed has used friend "Circles" to organize friends since around 2006. Good to see this idea catch on. ;) Here's to hoping Google's social network has some solid federation features baked into it.
Okay, I'll bite.
Tell me why I should use appleseed instead of using facebook.
Re: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
#58I think the only thing we need is a kind of Github to create, maintain and follow the information (links, texts, docs, etc) we are interested at. Similar to wikipedia, without formatting boundaries. We need both chaotic and programmable collobration platform to access and eleminate information.
Re: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook groups seems to me like an after thought. On the other hand if Google builds something which has the privacy and groups built right into the core, it will make a different experience. Whatever it is, they certainly have the reach which other start-ups like The Fridge might not have.
Agreed that they seem an after thought, but with the talent they are acquiring and the resources at their disposal, I can't see anyone beating Facebook on a features basis. They might on a privacy basis, but I'm not sure Google has a lot more confidence in that respect than Facebook.
I think you're underestimating the potential in building a new social network with the concept of firewalling groups of contacts at the foundation of the infrastructure.
For example, if friendships in this new system cannot exist in the data schema without being part of a group/circle, this would have profound effects on any ecosystem built on top of it, extending right up to the broader U[I|X] level.
You could compare this to how facebook built their whole success on the concept of activity feeds, which was arguably their killer feature over myspace. Myspace did have similar functionality, but it was tacked on in the way that groups are tacked on to facebook.
Hopefully google can kill facebook by building their offering with privacy groups right at the core, and layering everything else on top of that.
EDIT: I think what I'm trying to say is that privacy has massive potential to be a core feature/selling point in and of itself. It could also potentially form the foundation of a more successful social networking platform/ecosystem full stop.
Re: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
#60Social is to Google what search is to Microsoft.
This comment is to parent what Social is to Microsoft ;)
Seriously talking, it seems like you are underestimating the value of search to Microsoft.