Google, Plus a new way to share information and news
I am already pretty pleased with Google Plus.
I learned the happy news that there is an experimental version of Google's Go programming language available. I also added a decent number of acquaintances to my circles, as well as some technology gurus.
The mail thrust of the Google+ service is a stream. That is where you view what others have posted, comment on their posts, and make your own posts.
I would say it is uncomplicated but robust.
I have been using it with Safari 5 today. I imagine it works well with IE. I hear if you use Chrome you can already get some browser extensions to make the UI slightly nicer somehow. I should try it with Firefox, but have not yet -- though I expect no problems there, given what is there under its hood.
I would not torch my existing social web sites yet. I do not see anything that it directly totally overlaps with yet. Twitter is the little hummingbird of messenger services. Google+ is most useful when used with medium sized messages. Google+ streams have a strong Buzz-like feel to them, with a whiff of Waves to them as well perhaps.
Sparks are for the most part just savable searches. Handy enough by themselves and slightly handier being integrated into the social web features.
I haven't tried Huddles yet but hopefully will soon.
I am avoiding putting my precise address out there. Despite Facebook's CEO telling us there is nothing to fear about sharing all our personal and demographic information, I note he now has a stalker who has approached him at his home and elsewhere and consequently has had a restraining order taken out on him.
I learned the happy news that there is an experimental version of Google's Go programming language available. I also added a decent number of acquaintances to my circles, as well as some technology gurus.
The mail thrust of the Google+ service is a stream. That is where you view what others have posted, comment on their posts, and make your own posts.
I would say it is uncomplicated but robust.
I have been using it with Safari 5 today. I imagine it works well with IE. I hear if you use Chrome you can already get some browser extensions to make the UI slightly nicer somehow. I should try it with Firefox, but have not yet -- though I expect no problems there, given what is there under its hood.
I would not torch my existing social web sites yet. I do not see anything that it directly totally overlaps with yet. Twitter is the little hummingbird of messenger services. Google+ is most useful when used with medium sized messages. Google+ streams have a strong Buzz-like feel to them, with a whiff of Waves to them as well perhaps.
Sparks are for the most part just savable searches. Handy enough by themselves and slightly handier being integrated into the social web features.
I haven't tried Huddles yet but hopefully will soon.
I am avoiding putting my precise address out there. Despite Facebook's CEO telling us there is nothing to fear about sharing all our personal and demographic information, I note he now has a stalker who has approached him at his home and elsewhere and consequently has had a restraining order taken out on him.
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posted by John Collins at
12:35 AM
