Will Google+ Ever Get A Full Read/Write API?
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Will Google+ Ever Get A Full Read/Write API?
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#2I think it's wiser to open up slower rather than being fully open, and then be forced to do what Twitter is doing for the stability / integrity of the network. And preventing noise and low quality content just makes sense. The quality of posts I see on Facebook has been slowly diminishing over the years - even with their "improved" algorithms, even when I've unsubscribed from a lot of people who just post uninteresting things - and especially after they have started to try monetizing the feed.
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#3It'll get that about a week after they fix those silly urls.
21 digits should be enough for anyone. At least they won't run out of them in the foreseeable future.
Re: Will Google+ Ever Get A Full Read/Write API?
#4I think it's wiser to open up slower rather than being fully open, and then be forced to do what Twitter is doing for the stability / integrity of the network. And preventing noise and low quality content just makes sense. The quality of posts I see on Facebook has been slowly diminishing over the years - even with their "improved" algorithms, even when I've unsubscribed from a lot of people who just post uninteresti…
Except that by the time they open up no one will be around to actually take advantage of it. Every time I log into Google+ it's a ghost town.
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#5It'll get that about a week after they fix those silly urls. 21 digits should be enough for anyone. At least they won't run out of them in the foreseeable future.
They plan on being an active service past the singularity and perfect AI.
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#6I think it's wiser to open up slower rather than being fully open, and then be forced to do what Twitter is doing for the stability / integrity of the network. And preventing noise and low quality content just makes sense. The quality of posts I see on Facebook has been slowly diminishing over the years - even with their "improved" algorithms, even when I've unsubscribed from a lot of people who just post uninteresti…
It's been 1.5 years. How much slower can they get, especially with being so far behind the curve in launch time?
The write API is necessary for blogs to auto-post new articles to G+. Auto-posting blog entries are standard operating procedure for Facebook and Twitter and greatly assist in seeding social networks with content (which users can then comment on and like/+1/favorite).
They way I see it is that G+ is either going for something special in that they would rather see it a ghost town with no spam, than have to deal with lots of content and combat some spam.
I personally love the G+ system, but there is no way that I am going to manually post a blog article to a G+ page every time I publish something.
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#7Openness seems to be a guiding principle for Google. It seems inconceivable that they want to keep it closed to the web forever, so we can probably take their statements about protecting it until they understand how to protect it's unique attributes at face value.
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#8I think it's wiser to open up slower rather than being fully open, and then be forced to do what Twitter is doing for the stability / integrity of the network. And preventing noise and low quality content just makes sense. The quality of posts I see on Facebook has been slowly diminishing over the years - even with their "improved" algorithms, even when I've unsubscribed from a lot of people who just post uninteresti…
It's been 1.5 years. How much slower can they get, especially with being so far behind the curve in launch time? The write API is necessary for blogs to auto-post new articles to G+. Auto-posting blog entries are standard operating procedure for Facebook and Twitter and greatly assist in seeding social networks with content (which users can then comment on and like/+1/favorite). They way I see it is that G+ is either…
Remember what happened with Google Buzz? It's pretty much a mirror of a user's Twitter/Facebook stream.
My Google+ network doesn't have much activity relative to Twitter/FB but I still visit it once a day because the content is mostly unique, not the same ones I see on my Facebook and Twitter streams.
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#9Google has indicated that writing will be provided through a history api: https://developers.google.com/+/history/
History sources can be set to default to public, and will show up on a user's profile when that happens (like +1's do today) - but they won't show up in other peoples feeds unless the user explicitly shares the moment within G+.
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#10It'll get that about a week after they fix those silly urls. 21 digits should be enough for anyone. At least they won't run out of them in the foreseeable future.
Google has never really struck me as a company that has "clean urls" in it's corporate tradition. The worst offender is probably Google Maps.. I have no idea why they insist on making their own url shortener for those clusterfucks of permalinks available only through a "lab".