One big missing feature for me is the wall post from Facebook or the @at message from Twitter. I didn't realize at first how much I use the 'open direct message' features on these other networks until I started messing around with G+.
Google+: A few big improvements before the New Year
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#12Volume sliders for circles is something I've wanted for a while. My wife and parents are posting to Google+ now, but sometimes I miss their posts. Now I can pump up the volume on my "Family" circle to 11 and I'm more likely to see their posts.
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#13One big missing feature for me is the wall post from Facebook or the @at message from Twitter. I didn't realize at first how much I use the 'open direct message' features on these other networks until I started messing around with G+.
you start your word with + and you will get a autocomplete that works like @ at twitter ;-) Also hashtags are now supported.
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#14One big missing feature for me is the wall post from Facebook or the @at message from Twitter. I didn't realize at first how much I use the 'open direct message' features on these other networks until I started messing around with G+.
I have no experience with how Facebook does it, but I find myself sharing a lot of things with just a single user on G+. Then we discuss it.
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#15I might have missed it, but I cannot believe they haven't implemented "nicknames"/pseudonymes yet. I thought they had promised it a while ago. How long till we see it? I'm usually not the paranoid 'Google-has-all-your-data-be-afraid-of-your-data-on-the-Internet' type. But nicknames would be cool. There's so much more to "me" than my Google+ profile, thank you very much.
You can already specify your nickname/pseudo in your profile, im not sure if it carries any specific meaning in the app yet.
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#16I can't find them right now, but I remember reading a blog post or two complaining that manually dividing your contacts into Circles (and maintaining those Circles over time) was bad/useless busy work to force on users. I wonder if this Volume thing will feel like just another micro-managing necessity that makes it worse.
But I'm glad to see that they've added lots of features - like multiple admins for brand Pages, which was a big complaint during the recent brand Page rollout. Google is clearly listening to its users and trying hard to compete in the crowded social network environment.
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#17Why can't they just use up/down vote on a post and determine these numbers automagically rather than have a user enter a value for each "circle"? I mean it seems analogous to the problem of spam filtering except that you have a weight function now instead of a binary 0/1.
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#18One big missing feature for me is the wall post from Facebook or the @at message from Twitter. I didn't realize at first how much I use the 'open direct message' features on these other networks until I started messing around with G+.
You can share directly with one user on G+, either privately (just make them the only person you share with) or publicly (share with them, plus the "public" circle.) Either way, they'll receive a notification message that you've shared something with them, and it will also show up in their stream. It's a lot easier than, say, Twitter DMs, where they're a totally out-of-band message.
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#19Still no write API, wtf?
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#20I really, really, really wish the Google+ Desktop site worked on my iPad like /most every other non-Flash site on the 'net./ It's so bloated with heaven know's what (JavaScript?) that all I get is a tantalizing preview of G+ before Safari crashes. Even regular Google crashes Safari if I'm logged in on my iPad (thanks to the new Google Bar?). G+ is the last 'Desktop Only' website I use. (Outside of work, at least.) This makes it considerably less useful for me.
I'd even be happy with a native iPad app, as long as it supported some of the 'desktop only' features like Shared Circles.