What Google+ needs to do to be awesome

Post by deadcyclo » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:54 PM UTC

jannes wrote: post #15

Push use of Circles across all Google products; I want the ability to share a Google Doc to all in my ‘Colleagues’ circle, share a Calendar Appointments to all in my ‘Friends’ circle or send a text message from my Android handset to all in my ‘Family’ circle. Circle integration throughout Google would be a killer feature. This is the most important one in my opinion. Google+ has so much potential if integrated proper…

Post by Sayter » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:57 PM UTC

btilly wrote: post #50

seri wrote: post #45

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That would effectively be like a Facebook Page, wouldn't it? Believe me, you won't enjoy the signal to noise ratio within these "public circles". I proprosed a different solution to the same problem, as explained here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2738084 Edit: On second read, I think we do share the same concept, just different naming.

Yup, same concept, different naming. Yet another useful variation is the idea of a public circle which multiple people can share to, aka a mailing list. There are lots of use cases for that, but that's not the primary thing that I am missing on Google+ right now.

Post by joelhaus » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:06 PM UTC

btilly wrote: post #32

The 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…

Post by btilly » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:09 PM UTC

Sayter wrote: post #57

btilly wrote: post #55

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Yup. There are a lot of variations on "circles" that can make sense in different contexts. I'm hoping that Google+ adds more. Currently I'm just categorizing people by how I know them. For instance if I know them through work, which job(s) did I work with them in?

You are requesting nested circles.

Post by mindcrime » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:18 PM UTC

NolF wrote: post #46

mindcrime wrote: post #35

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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.

Don't forget that a lot of the appeal of the FB's events feature is seeing who else is invited, who else is attending, the whole description and possible discussion that can also occur. Sometimes details need to be organised, comments made etc... I think it would also be cool and useful when uploading pictures to be able to tag an event so there is an album which people invited to the event can see and comment.