How about a platform for businesses? I've noticed an emerging trend of Fortune 500 companies listing their Facebook sites in their advertisements rather than their own location on a TLD. For instance, will facebook.com/mastercard become plus.google.com/mastercard?
What Google+ needs to do to be awesome
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Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome
#32The 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 people in unwanted types of content.
You might say that I can just add people to circles that I manage. This is true, but it requires me to know who wants that content, and requires people who want it to know that they can ask me for it. Both are barriers to sharing information that I don't mind being public, but don't want to bore people who know me in different contexts.
You might also say that this is equivalent to a simple form of tagging. This is true, but I think that it would make for a simpler UI.
Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome
#33Earlier 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…
Doesn't it take more than a week to build a quality community? Seems like it's really hard to say that they've failed already.
Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Doesn't it take more than a week to build a quality community? Seems like it's really hard to say that they've failed already.
What? How does time affect the quality of a community? You could have a community of two people that cares about quality.
Anyway, I've never seen an internet community go from crap to quality, only vice versa.
Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome
#35events? 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.
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#36A 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.
Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome
#37It's always very easy to add something rather than removing.
Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome
#38Earlier 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…
I would disagree that PG has been negligent in maintaining the community here.
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#39#7 is a killer feature... that will be awesome
Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome
#40I don't like at least half of his suggestions. But some I really don't like are 3. and 6. He does mention it should be a sensible integration, but something like importing tweets and shares/comments from Facebook would be the LAST thing I'd want to see on Google+. Google+ really doesn't need that kind of integration.It can grow on its own, and it's for the best. On 6. +1's is not really an intent of sharing . It's 50…
Yep, I agree on the +1 part. Sometimes I hesitate to like things with FB because I know I'll be spamming my entire friend list. Liking is not the same as sharing.