Suppose Google rightly keeps API closed until the problem of maintaining acceptable signal/noise level in social networks is resolved. My twitter/FB stream is full of garbage (G+ is more or less OK). Not because of wrong people I'm subscribed to, but because of lack of proper filtering tools.
Will Google+ Ever Get A Full Read/Write API?
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#12Openness 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.
Google has an awful history with regards to communication with developers and communication with customers (read: very few public APIs and terrible customer service).
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#13I 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.
EVERY SINGLE TIME I see Google + mentioned, I see some user who says "every time I log in it's a ghost town." Which is funny, because when I log in I see a constant stream of activity. Google+ isn't Facebook, so it won't act like Facebook. When someone you don't really care about sends you a friend request on FB, you accept it so you don't offend them, and then you are stuck looking at their crap in your feed. Google+ has one way relationships enabled by default, so you will only see activity if you explicity follow people. I like that, because I'm sick of seeing instagram pictures of people's food.
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#14I 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.
If you don't know where to start, you might try the Hacker News Google+ community.
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#15I 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…
I would prefer not to see every single blog post from every single person I follow. I'd much rather see blog posts organically, by following people who find interesting things and then seeing the things those people found interesting enough to manually post.
Basically, I don't want to get a link from the author to her own post, I'd rather get a link from someone who read her post or article and found it interesting. I realize it doesn't involve a sexy machine learning algorithm, but it sure does work well for me.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
EVERY SINGLE TIME I see Google + mentioned, I see some user who says "every time I log in it's a ghost town." Which is funny, because when I log in I see a constant stream of activity. Google+ isn't Facebook, so it won't act like Facebook. When someone you don't really care about sends you a friend request on FB, you accept it so you don't offend them, and then you are stuck looking at their crap in your feed. Google…
I don't know when you last used Facebook, or maybe it is your lack of use that is the problem, but it filters the feed to only show you stories from people you interact with. It basically implements Google+ circles completely automatically for you. You may have accidentally turned this off, I suppose. There's an option for the feed to give everything sorted by date instead, although it isn't the default.
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#17I 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.
Look at me! I'm a ghost! Oooooooooh.
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#18I 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…
FYI, it took Facebook 2.5 years to release the first version of their API.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If you don't know where to start, you might try the Hacker News Google+ community.
Here's the link
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
EVERY SINGLE TIME I see Google + mentioned, I see some user who says "every time I log in it's a ghost town." Which is funny, because when I log in I see a constant stream of activity. Google+ isn't Facebook, so it won't act like Facebook. When someone you don't really care about sends you a friend request on FB, you accept it so you don't offend them, and then you are stuck looking at their crap in your feed. Google…
It's a use thing.
I'm following the majority of my family and friends on google plus (yes, wow, they all have accounts) and not following any of the I'm-using-this-as-a-blog accounts like hacker news, google developers, etc.
When I login, what do I see?
"Nov 15, 2012 - Shared from +1 - Public"
The previous one?
"Oct 12, 2012 - Google Mail - Public"
So I mean, it's not like no one is using it at all, but no one I care about updates from is using it.