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Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by chime »

aesthetics1 wrote: post #21
aaron-lebo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are some of the parts of G+ that you particularly like?

Location sharing in realtime is one feature my wife and I still use to keep track of each other. Even if I can't answer the phone (in a meeting, didn't hear it go off) she can take a look and see where I am. Hangouts is great. Remember that Hangouts launched as a part of Google+ before breaking out. Ironically, Google+ Photos is also one of my favorites. If you snapped photos on a vacation, you may return to find tha…

> Location sharing in realtime is one feature my wife and I still use to keep track of each other...

iOS users can use the "Find My Friends" app for the same purpose. It is a huge time saver (and safety tool) for my wife and I. I don't like calling her when she's driving to ask how far she is from home. One quick look at the app and I know when it's time to get the baby ready for dinner.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by detaro »

saurik wrote: post #17
drivingmenuts wrote: post #14

How many photo products has Google had? Have any of them been successful?

I thought people liked the Picasa app? (But then again, I never used it myself ;P.)

Picasa was nice, and back when it did offline face recognition that was a unique and valueable feature.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by jaredsohn »

prawn wrote: post #24
c5karl wrote: post #15

How much longer before they kill Picasa and Picasaweb, which just provide a different UI (and different editing software) for the same archive of photos?

I have never seen Picasa used for anything but spam. Can't think of anyone I know who actually uses it properly.

I converted my parents over to Picasa when it came out and they still use it; they don't have interest in moving family photos over to the cloud.

I am assuming that your comment re: spam is about is about Picasaweb (it doesn't make much sense to me for users to submit spam into their own desktop software). Perhaps a reason for this is that it mostly gets used by people who started with the desktop software and those people keep the photos private so that the only photos seen in public are spam?

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by tdicola »

jonursenbach wrote: post #29
tdicola wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can they bring Google Reader back now? I'm still bitter about it being killed to focus on Google+. Now that Google+ is dead in the water it makes the decision to kill Reader even worse.

Why? Reader was in maintenance mode for years, and companies that appeared when it disappeared have gone above and beyond what they offered. See: Feedly.com

Feedly has improved a lot but it still doesn't display feeds as densely as Reader did and I feel a lot slower getting through a lot of feeds. Searching for articles was fantastic on Google Reader, but with Feedly it never works. Maybe I need to pay to enable search? Ultimately search 'just worked' on Google Reader and never works for me on Feedly.

If Reader was in maintenance mode then that's even worse to have killed it. It didn't need new features or major work and had a devoted and loving following. It just needed someone to make sure the lights stayed on.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by dragonwriter »

aesthetics1 wrote: post #8

I imagine in the coming months (years?) we will see Google transition away from Google+ as a catchall platform, and back to standalone solutions similar to their offerings from the pre-Google+ days. A bit off-topic: I think it's the right move for them. Google+ was (and still is) a pretty cool platform. It has a lot of neat features that existing social networks lack. Facebook just somehow holds on to their userbase…

> I imagine in the coming months (years?) we will see Google transition away from Google+ as a catchall platform

Way to predict the past. Google's been doing that for years; its been widely noticed since Hangouts was spun out.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by vowelless »

aesthetics1 wrote: post #8

I imagine in the coming months (years?) we will see Google transition away from Google+ as a catchall platform, and back to standalone solutions similar to their offerings from the pre-Google+ days. A bit off-topic: I think it's the right move for them. Google+ was (and still is) a pretty cool platform. It has a lot of neat features that existing social networks lack. Facebook just somehow holds on to their userbase…

> Facebook has turned into a pretty strange place compared to its early years. I don't see much but 'news' posts, spammy pictures/articles, and clickbait ("DOCTORS HATE HIM, CLICK TO SEE WHY!").

I've noticed facebook groups are replacing email forwards to some extent. Some of my friends have joined various groups (fitness, religion, science, etc) and I constantly see them 'sharing' various soundbites, very similar to how I used to get email forwards a decade ago.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by erichurkman »

chime wrote: post #31
aesthetics1 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Location sharing in realtime is one feature my wife and I still use to keep track of each other. Even if I can't answer the phone (in a meeting, didn't hear it go off) she can take a look and see where I am. Hangouts is great. Remember that Hangouts launched as a part of Google+ before breaking out. Ironically, Google+ Photos is also one of my favorites. If you snapped photos on a vacation, you may return to find tha…

> Location sharing in realtime is one feature my wife and I still use to keep track of each other... iOS users can use the "Find My Friends" app for the same purpose. It is a huge time saver (and safety tool) for my wife and I. I don't like calling her when she's driving to ask how far she is from home. One quick look at the app and I know when it's time to get the baby ready for dinner.

And the 'notify me when…' feature is pretty handy for departure times from work or school.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by yellowapple »

prawn wrote: post #24
c5karl wrote: post #15

How much longer before they kill Picasa and Picasaweb, which just provide a different UI (and different editing software) for the same archive of photos?

I have never seen Picasa used for anything but spam. Can't think of anyone I know who actually uses it properly.

My grandparents still rely on it exclusively for local photo storage, and use Microsoft's OneDrive for actual sharing. I've been gradually coaxing them into the idea of using Google's stuff for sharing instead of Microsoft's with the expectation that Picasa will someday start pushing daisies and a migration will be needed, but that hasn't happened yet.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by zatkin »

>"They already made us abandon our "picasaweb" stuff for Google+ Photos. Killing off Google+ Photos sends the clear message "do not rely on Google for your photo storage needs". Not that shuffling gigabytes of photos around every couple of years isn't fun but, well, it isn't fun."

From the TechCrunch comments.

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