Hackers to follow on G+? • Hacker News Board

Re: Hackers to follow on G+?

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Post by mkr-hn » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 12:30 PM UTC

seri wrote: post #39

It seems to me that the most active use for G+ at the moment is as a broadcasting system, very much like Twitter. Maybe Google has envisioned this, maybe not. I admit I didn't. I thought Google would have done whatever it takes to promote more intimate and private communication among close friend circles. But while G+ is arguably a better broadcasting system than Twitter, it is still broken. A tech celeb would love t…

Sounds like it would work like the feed-anywhere system on WordPress. I could grab the robotics feed from an interesting person at example.com/robotics/feed/ and easily forget that it's actually a competitive crochet blog.

Re: Hackers to follow on G+?

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Post by ccarella » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 1:13 PM UTC

wccrawford wrote: post #32

sssparkkk wrote: post #30

So, how are these hackers sharing their technical insights on G+ without bothering their real-life friends and family? That's right, they aren't. Unless you manually add all your followers to a 'followers' circle and share to that (and subsequently pollute your default stream with your followers' posts) there's currently no way on G+ to keep your technical public persona apart from your more personal, private one.

Is that really a concern? For now, their friends and family can ignore any posts they don't care about, just like Facebook. Hopefully, G+ will eventually implement tagging and people can filter out tags they don't like.

I have a very early stage startup called Subjot, with a goal to create a network that matches people with the posts they care about. We are in private beta but you can use this invite code to check it out - http://sjot.it/m0bqQy

Subjot is a microblogging site where you assign subjects to your status updates. Then instead of following people and EVERYTHING they post, you subscribe to people's subjects and only see their status updates in the subjects you have subscribed to.

I'd love everyone's feedback on the product. I think G+ is only solving the problem of selectively publishing and not of selectively subscribing to updates that might be interesting to you.

Re: Hackers to follow on G+?

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Post by dfxm12 » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 1:15 PM UTC

sssparkkk wrote: post #30

So, how are these hackers sharing their technical insights on G+ without bothering their real-life friends and family? That's right, they aren't. Unless you manually add all your followers to a 'followers' circle and share to that (and subsequently pollute your default stream with your followers' posts) there's currently no way on G+ to keep your technical public persona apart from your more personal, private one.

In all honesty, if these people really care about this, they'll have an account for their "online personality" and a personal account.

See the difference between Facebook fan pages and actual Facebook profiles. Of course, now the problem is that there is no elegant way (currently) to manage 2 G+ accounts...

Re: Hackers to follow on G+?

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Post by tanay46 » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 3:33 PM UTC

Also, here is a list of hacker news folks on G+. You can add the emails into Google Contacts and we'll all appear in find and invite or you can dd people one by one. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQACCsE19tzBjRrfgmAcU25m...

Re: Hackers to follow on G+?

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Post by NinetyNine » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:34 PM UTC

seri wrote: post #39

It seems to me that the most active use for G+ at the moment is as a broadcasting system, very much like Twitter. Maybe Google has envisioned this, maybe not. I admit I didn't. I thought Google would have done whatever it takes to promote more intimate and private communication among close friend circles. But while G+ is arguably a better broadcasting system than Twitter, it is still broken. A tech celeb would love t…

I've been working on an early stage startup which does something very similar to this, although less celebrity focused and more on common circles. It's funny actually, when Google+ happened, I figured they did exactly what we've been working on, but they didn't. Seeing as everyone on HN seems to want something like this now though, it seems to be putting a lot of pressure on.

Re: Hackers to follow on G+?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 2:35 AM UTC

scorpion032 wrote: post #17

Python and django related ones: Michael Foord (aka voidspace, fuzzyman): https://plus.google.com/u/1/114852031032123777881/posts Simon Willison: https://plus.google.com/u/1/106366615678321494423/posts Jannis Leidel: https://plus.google.com/u/1/116135559313623469613/posts Jesse Noller: https://plus.google.com/u/1/115662513673837016240/posts Brett Cannon: https://plus.google.com/u/1/115362263245161504841/posts Graham D…

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Re: Hackers to follow on G+?

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Post by bo_Olean » Sat, Jul 09, 2011, 10:35 AM UTC

Is PG in G+ ?

Re: Hackers to follow on G+?

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Post by soilandreyes » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 10:11 PM UTC

seri wrote: post #39

It seems to me that the most active use for G+ at the moment is as a broadcasting system, very much like Twitter. Maybe Google has envisioned this, maybe not. I admit I didn't. I thought Google would have done whatever it takes to promote more intimate and private communication among close friend circles. But while G+ is arguably a better broadcasting system than Twitter, it is still broken. A tech celeb would love t…

I guess the reason is that for most people, almost none of their personal friends have signed up - only their techie circles are there.

Re: Hackers to follow on G+?

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Post by michaeldector » Tue, Jul 19, 2011, 9:10 PM UTC

chrisohara wrote: post #12

gubatron wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess Google doesn't need to care about SEO

gplus.to ..although it's not run by Google. Maybe they'll end up getting gpl.us

You can use http://gotoplus.me , it's make vanity URL for your Google+ Profile like http://gotoplus.me/yourusername