I was surprised he didn't mention two-way contacts integration. I met a new person yesterday on G+ first, then in person; later that day he emailed me a doc and I was surprised to find that his name/email had not been added to my contact list from circles. This is something the facebook messages/chat integration gets right, and Google needs to figure out how to answer it sooner rather than later.
What Google+ needs to do to be awesome
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#42Number five (5) is solved by this third-party Chrome extension (works well): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hcieonlgpadegedlcp...
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#44needs nested circles
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#45The big thing that it is missing is to let me categorize my outgoing content, and let people only pick up what they want. The mechanism that I would suggest is to have what I'd call "public circles". These are circles that I have, that I can talk to, that anyone can join/leave. That way I can easily separate out content by type (eg technical, jokes, kid stories, etc), and not worry that pushing things out is drowning…
That would effectively be like a Facebook Page, wouldn't it? Believe me, you won't enjoy the signal to noise ratio within these "public circles".
I proprosed a different solution to the same problem, as explained here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2738084
Edit: On second read, I think we do share the same concept, just different naming.
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#46events? this seems like the most obvious thing missing from g+. have i missed it somewhere?
I'm thinking they don't need a separate "events" feature, but just tight integration with Google Calendar. When I can create an event in GCal and invite by Circles, etc., then they'll have a pretty slick "events" setup.
Don't forget that a lot of the appeal of the FB's events feature is seeing who else is invited, who else is attending, the whole description and possible discussion that can also occur. Sometimes details need to be organised, comments made etc... I think it would also be cool and useful when uploading pictures to be able to tag an event so there is an album which people invited to the event can see and comment.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
and let me not display comments in the stream, people are morons.
Not all people. Google has simply failed at building a quality community around Google+. Edit: actually, it's not that they "failed," it's that they've completely ignored the importance of community building. For example, the difference in quality between certain reddits is like night and day. This is all down to the way these reddits have nurtured their community and their values of quality. HN is good in this regar…
You assume they ignored. The mere fact that those high profile Googlers actually create G+ accounts tells me that they are serious about community building this time around. And they actually managed to invite Taylor Swift in.
I'm not saying they're doing an awesome job. But they do care.
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#48A really well crafted Google+ experience for the iPad would make it stand out. I can't speak to Facebook's iPad interface as I don't use it, but G+ on the iPad is pretty awesome in my opinion, just through safari. It's not a native app (through the app store), but it's a really nice just-for-ipad interface that suits me just fine. Author: have you not tried this and are therefore unaware, or do you simply disagree wi…
Facebook doesn't even have an iPad experience, it's just the normal page with a lot of bugs not appearing on desktop browsers. You can't create mulitple paragraphs in comments because shift-enter is not possible etc.
Use the mobile site, or the lite.facebook.com site instead.
Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome
#49A really well crafted Google+ experience for the iPad would make it stand out. I can't speak to Facebook's iPad interface as I don't use it, but G+ on the iPad is pretty awesome in my opinion, just through safari. It's not a native app (through the app store), but it's a really nice just-for-ipad interface that suits me just fine. Author: have you not tried this and are therefore unaware, or do you simply disagree wi…
I can't agree with you more. I don't understand why people are asking about all kinds of "apps" for tablets. In fact, the best app is really the browser given the screen size of the tablets. (Of course, this still doesn't give you some of the features like background notifications and photo uploading - but I feel these pictures are less important on tablets than on phones.)
What app developers really need to do is to make sure their websites/apps be touch friendly and work well with tablets.
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#50The big thing that it is missing is to let me categorize my outgoing content, and let people only pick up what they want. The mechanism that I would suggest is to have what I'd call "public circles". These are circles that I have, that I can talk to, that anyone can join/leave. That way I can easily separate out content by type (eg technical, jokes, kid stories, etc), and not worry that pushing things out is drowning…
That would effectively be like a Facebook Page, wouldn't it? Believe me, you won't enjoy the signal to noise ratio within these "public circles". I proprosed a different solution to the same problem, as explained here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2738084 Edit: On second read, I think we do share the same concept, just different naming.
Yup, same concept, different naming.
Yet another useful variation is the idea of a public circle which multiple people can share to, aka a mailing list. There are lots of use cases for that, but that's not the primary thing that I am missing on Google+ right now.