Google Plus

Google's social offering is finally here, but is this too much data in the hands of one company? Facebook has a chunk too, but if you use G+ with an Android you're matching your location to your web search history - all this on top of what they already collect.

Aside from that major privacy concern, it is easy on the eye and dead easy to get going. The settings are, as usual, cryptic. Id like to see a more detailed settings panel, given that integration is so widespread on this platform - I'd like to fine grain privacy as much as possible.

I did like the circles feature. I dont use Facebook because it is so impractical in handling 'groups within groups' - G+ nailed it IMHO.

If none of this bothers you and you want an invite, pm me your email and I'll invite you....

What do you 'guys' make of it? Anyone given it a spin yet? It'll be intersting to see the API and apps that come from this, given that the platform has an integrated shopping cart and other goodies.

 

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I find the idea quite interesting,... largely because I think Zuckerberg needs crashing, and also because I quite like the Google open source/freeware ethos.

 

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In days of old (being the late 90's in this instance), The true sub-culture of the internet would have never swarmed to generate a "Monopoly" for any individual and/or company. The concept would of been too "Authoritarian", however since the internet has matured (or suffered a form of Electronic Divergence where the once clear and fertile lands have been over shadowed by conglomerate weeds and there is "no requirements" met for a person to be a user of the internet.)

...It can safely be said that you can pick any social network you want, as long as it's made into a standard and supported by everyone. (This has been the main thing about the FB community, Google might attempt this since obviously if they can push their Android systems with the capacity to access their social site, they've got a sporting chance of a takedown on FB)

Obviously though does this mean sites like Bebo and Myspace are no longer contenders, or are they going to have to reassert how to brand and/or affiliate with various other avenues of technology prior to FB identifying them.

If a Platform API could be established which was an Industry Standard which all the social networks could use (Basically an Open-Source Core for data handling and distribution which can then have different flavours build upon it, much like how flavours are built around the linux kernels), then all of them could coexist without problems, people could just choose where they want to keep their information and that info (to an extent) could be ported to the other sites rather than having 5 different social sites all containing the same profile data with different passwords etc.

Of course that means yet another project entirely unless one of the contenders actually picks up the ball.

 

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I've been on for nearly a week now. It's pretty interesting.

I'm not all that in to Facebook really, so I can't do any in depth comparison, but it seems this will integrate things in a more sophisticated way. Doing a 'hangout' session is cool, you can all watch a video at the same time, etc. Seems easier to sort your friends into groups and keep them separate. Also it incorporates with all of Google really well, including Youtube, email, and Apps and all.

Might be a flop like Wave or Buzz, we'll see.

 

Wave could of been re-energised, what Google might of initially seen as a failure on their part probably should of been turned over to an Open-Source community, perhaps given to the Transhumanist community to utilise as a way of getting people together to "cross the chasm".

 

Whatever happened to diaspora? Weren't they proposing an open protocol for social networks to share info?
I really hoped then they'd get it right and even tried to get a beta invite.
I still think there is space for an open player in the social scene, but 2 years in closed beta may be too long.