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Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by gravitronic »

Like any social network, the more (time & posts) you put in, the more you get out of it.

I don't think I'm alone when I say my aptitude for social networking is burnt out and way passed the "love" stage. It makes it hard to go into this site with a fresh mind to discover any of it's cool nooks and crannies that separate it from Facebook.

That being said I think there's still room for invention in the space. I was quite pleased and excited with turntable.fm (and now that I can use it in Canada again I am excited again). Maybe I'll end up using the "hangout" feature.

tl;dr don't really need another means to ignore my long-lost highschool friend's all-important status updates

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by brudgers »

patio11 wrote: post #18

I do not have a Google+-shaped hole in my life right now. If a) it starts to matter to non-technical Internet users and b) they tie it into search heavily (which is the Google go-to playbook for promoting properties of strategic importance), I will start caring with alacrity.

hole.Google+-shaped = circle

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by JiPi »

Might fail, might succeed...only time will tell! It isn't a Wave 2 that no one will understand, but still have rough edges, bugs, no API (no integration with apps besides official one), nothing major that could make ppl move from Facebook, might be hard for casual user (think your father and mother) to get a Google Profile as Hotmail users...etc!

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by jarin »

JonnieCache wrote: post #139
JonnieCache wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, add the guardian to that. I think most outlets are talking about it. Suspense is all very well, but Google really need to let us in soon or they're going to miss out on the wave of free hype. Anyone who fancies sending me an invite, my email is jonnie at cleverna dot me

I've been sent an invite, thanks to whoever sent that, but it turns out I can't use the damn thing because I have a google apps account set up for my domain, just like everyone else here probably does. Plus requires a google profile in order to use it, and Apps accounts can't have profiles. Apparently someone from google has said this will be coming "soon." WTF google? Hasn't it occurred to you that the set of power…

You need to set up profile switching.

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by jarin »

gravitronic wrote: post #141

Like any social network, the more (time & posts) you put in, the more you get out of it. I don't think I'm alone when I say my aptitude for social networking is burnt out and way passed the "love" stage. It makes it hard to go into this site with a fresh mind to discover any of it's cool nooks and crannies that separate it from Facebook. That being said I think there's still room for invention in the space. I was qui…

I've gotten a lot of business from my long-lost high school friends (and long-lost high school enemies too), so each trivial status update is like a precious little gem to me.

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by olsonjeffery »

personalcompute wrote: post #23
JoeyRJ wrote: post #12

From what I can see (From demos, no invite yet, got one? :( ) Google got alot of things right that Facebook got wrong. Mostly concerning privacy and sharing. Now, like most people say, Facebook has all these settings to share stuff with the people you want to share with, but my problem is that the whole security settings thing is a MESS! If google can do that right, while providing a better android app than FB does,…

Can't invite you w/o contact information. Add an email to your bio.

ahoy-hoy. would greatly appreciate an invite from anyone who can spare it, thanks. email in bio.

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by programminggeek »

I got an invite and I have to say that Google has a GREAT start here. They are doing a lot of smart things like making the UI very clean and nice. It isn't nerdy at all. It looks like a product that is trying to win at being a social network, not at trying to be search advertising or a "twitter killer".

It's as if Google realized that they succeed when their products are genuinely good, not just "good enough" and pushed out to Google's massive user base via their massive advertising platform.

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by dilap »

It's hard for me to imagine it having much mass adoption -- it's just too similar to Facebook, and its killer-feature, Circles, is of dubious value to the non-OCD, non-geek set (do normal people care about sorting their friends into various groups?).

That said, a la the XKCD comic, I could see it being personally useful to me as a way to stay in touch with people who refuse to use / have left Facebook, but have no such compunctions for a Google product. I.e., I could see it becoming a place where the "cool kids" hang out.

I'm curious what Google's response will be if G+ only gets a limited amount of adoption. Will they just give up on it, like Wave, or will they keep pounding away & improving it?

It's been noted that today's Google is like yesterday's Microsoft, incredibly aggressively moving in on any perceived threats, but yesterday's MS would keep iterating an unpopular product until it was successful, whereas Google seems to be taking the "keep trying shit until we have an instant hit" approach. (Perhaps they were spoiled by search & gmail, where they were able to introduce truly game-changing improvements over the status-quo.)

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by edcrfv »

nopinsight wrote: post #117
colinplamondon wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't be concerned because Google is competing. Be concerned because everyone I've talked to agrees that Sparks sucks, and is by far the weakest part of Google+.

Can you please elaborate on this? How does Sparks suck? It's gonna be great to know some more details so we can avoid bad design decisions and possible product failure. Your comment would be appreciated.

It throws up a bunch of content out there when I choose a spark. I don't know how they rank the content or how relevant it is to my spark. For example, I tried "Soccer" and it threw up a bunch of results - one them was a link to http://kelviniransomes.blogspot.com/2011/06/eastern-district....

I'd imagined that when you add a spark, you get a bunch of stuff grouped under various categories and various types of information like News, Companies, Products, Blogs, etc. And in case of Soccer, I'd have wanted to see scores, league standings, etc. Basically be intelligent about the topic.

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