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Re: Google+ scores your relationships with your friends

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Post by Hixie »

esrauch wrote: post #26
baddox wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming you're not personal friends with pg, the "friend score" between you and pg should be low. This shouldn't be an "interest score," since presumably the goal is that Google+ users would establish strong 2-way relationships.

Everything that I am getting from trying out google+ is pointing to it being a Twitter killer not a Facebook killer; the lack of things like private messaging (yes you can post with only one person able to view it, but it's pretty unlikely that they would ever notice that you wrote it). The whole system is geared towards 'share to group' rather than 'communicate with individual x'; even the video chat is. I don't thi…

Isn't GMail a sufficiently powerful "private messaging" feature? You can send a message from anyone's profile if they've enabled the "Send mail" feature. Plus GMail already supports a federated protocol, so you can use this profile "send message" feature with any other mail system you want.

Re: Google+ scores your relationships with your friends

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Post by jentulman »

esrauch wrote: post #26
baddox wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming you're not personal friends with pg, the "friend score" between you and pg should be low. This shouldn't be an "interest score," since presumably the goal is that Google+ users would establish strong 2-way relationships.

Everything that I am getting from trying out google+ is pointing to it being a Twitter killer not a Facebook killer; the lack of things like private messaging (yes you can post with only one person able to view it, but it's pretty unlikely that they would ever notice that you wrote it). The whole system is geared towards 'share to group' rather than 'communicate with individual x'; even the video chat is. I don't thi…

Haven't they pushed that off to the side with huddle?

I'm slightly surprised there's no huddle interface in the browser (or I've been too dim to find it). I know it's aimed at the text message/BBM arena, but I'd like to not have to move to a different device if someone messages me.

Re: Google+ scores your relationships with your friends

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Post by esrauch »

Hixie wrote: post #31
esrauch wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything that I am getting from trying out google+ is pointing to it being a Twitter killer not a Facebook killer; the lack of things like private messaging (yes you can post with only one person able to view it, but it's pretty unlikely that they would ever notice that you wrote it). The whole system is geared towards 'share to group' rather than 'communicate with individual x'; even the video chat is. I don't thi…

Isn't GMail a sufficiently powerful "private messaging" feature? You can send a message from anyone's profile if they've enabled the "Send mail" feature. Plus GMail already supports a federated protocol, so you can use this profile "send message" feature with any other mail system you want.

Maybe it's just me, but email just feels way more formal and personal. I would have no qualms writing quick one-offs like "That was fun last night, we should do it again soon" on facebook, but I would never send an email like that.

Re: Google+ scores your relationships with your friends

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Post by cgranade »

esrauch wrote: post #34
Hixie wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't GMail a sufficiently powerful "private messaging" feature? You can send a message from anyone's profile if they've enabled the "Send mail" feature. Plus GMail already supports a federated protocol, so you can use this profile "send message" feature with any other mail system you want.

Maybe it's just me, but email just feels way more formal and personal. I would have no qualms writing quick one-offs like "That was fun last night, we should do it again soon" on facebook, but I would never send an email like that.

Maybe, however, Google is trying to change that. E-mail is a perfectly fine choice for the protocol for such messages, but the UI has to change. Look at what they've done in the other direction, brining Talk and Buzz logs into Gmail inboxes, for instance. Why not reverse that and export certain kinds of mails received in a Gmail account out to the Google+ UI?

Re: Google+ scores your relationships with your friends

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Post by jquery »

ololo wrote: post #33
jquery wrote: post #23

Not sure if this is an appropriate place to ask, but here it is anyway. If anyone has an invite, please send me one. I really dislike Facebook and want to give this a whirl.

Why do you dislike Facebook? Never understood that

I had an app with over 2 million monthly users. One day I got an email saying that one of the ad networks I was using had violated their ToS and I needed to replace them. The email said I had 3 days to do this. The cautious person I am, I turned off the ad network within 10 minutes of the email being sent.

Five minutes after I turned off the ad network, Facebook shut down my app. Users trying to visit my app saw a Facebook 404. Facebook refused to give an ETA for bringing my app back up. When it finally came back up 4 days later, its traffic was utterly crippled. Facebook never apologized or admitted any wrongdoing. They have NO respect for developers on their platform. Their platform is unstable, and if their comments at Velocity Conf 2011 are to be believed, they are proud of this fact ("we move fast and aren't afraid to break things").

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