What Google+ needs to do to be awesome • Hacker News Board

Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome

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Post by jonmulholland » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:27 PM UTC

corin_ wrote: post #9

A 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…

I agree the Safari G+ is pretty nicely done, TBH I'm just hoping for something cool like the Twitter iPad App :)

Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome

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Post by LordBodak » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 7:11 PM UTC

APIs for third party apps. I already use Seesmic to watch my twitter and Facebook feeds, but with G+ I have to use another app.

Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome

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Post by kelnos » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 7:15 PM UTC

matwood wrote: post #30

dododo wrote: post #6

events? this seems like the most obvious thing missing from g+. have i missed it somewhere?

Events are a specific case of integrating G+ across all google products. Once g+ gets integrated with gcal, it should only take minor changes to implement events.

Disagree on the "minor" bit -- I find Facebook's events system to be excellently done from a UX perspective. Simply making it possible to add GCal events from G+ and invite people from your circles would not do the trick.

Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome

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Post by Johngibb » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 7:47 PM UTC

matwood wrote: post #28

cycojesus wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and let me not display comments in the stream, people are morons.

Yes, I've already sent feedback asking to allow me to view/hide the comment list and disable them completely.

Sounds like a request for a Chrome extension

Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome

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Post by alanh » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 8:17 PM UTC

Note we aren’t sure if the linked Google Docs form is actually an official one from Google.

It is linked to by https://plus.google.com/105923173045049725307/posts/E3mVj6ns... Christian Oestlien, ostensibly a Google+ team member, but I can’t verify if that claim is true or not.

Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome

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Post by dr_viral » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 10:44 PM UTC

joelhaus wrote: post #56

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…

This sounds like thenextweb.com's implementation of RSS subscriptions. A modal window pops up when you click the RSS icon on the right; it says "Pick & Mix The Blogs You Want to Subscribe To". Is that similar to what you propose? I do like that. Looking forward trying all this stuff out. Hope they send more invites soon, they actually opened for about 30 minutes last midnight.

Funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-llwYjxv8Y :)

Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome

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Post by johnl » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 1:46 AM 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…

I would think businesses could use the "public circles" for event marketing and give Google an entry into display marketing.

Re: What Google+ needs to do to be awesome

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Post by btilly » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 2:58 PM UTC

johnl wrote: post #67

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…

I would think businesses could use the "public circles" for event marketing and give Google an entry into display marketing.

I hadn't thought of that, but you are right.