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Notice how people are starting to use Google+ as blog posts? It even looks like a blog post. If only the URL's looked a little bit better, it would be perfect.
by nextparadigms 15y ago
Notice how people are starting to use Google+ as blog posts? It even looks like a blog post. If only the URL's looked a little bit better, it would be perfect.
And I agree with him. So far I love Google's unifying strategy, not only through deeper integration but through having similar, more streamlined design as well. And I feel this is just the beginning. I think we'll see a lot more of it this year.
- StavrosK 15y agoI thought of using it as a blog, but the fact that the "posts" are in the same stream as the "tweets" and generally everything else makes it less useful than a dedicated blog. It could definitely replace tumblr, though.
- adamokane 15y agoMaybe it could replace Tumblr for you, but my impression of them is that they're building a platform for "creative" people... I don't think Google will touch that anytime soon.
- jamesbritt 15y agoNotice how people are starting to use Google+ as blog posts? It even looks like a blog post. If only the URL's looked a little bit better, it would be perfect. I just did that, then found that "public" didn't really mean public; the post was still only visible to people with Google+ accounts. Oh well. I then copied over to my actual blog. But I would like to have a true public option even if it only meant read-only of such posts.
- nextparadigms 15y agoMaybe that's because the service itself is not public yet. It's still in private mode.
- icebraining 15y agoI don't have a Google+ account and it's visible to me.
- jamesbritt 15y agoVery interesting. Whatever link I initially grabbed to test in another browser gave me a page that said a Google+ account was needed. But just now I looked at the post and noticed a dropdown-arrow next to it which revealed an option to get a link. That link is indeed publicly visible. Also insanely long and ugly, but whatever, it works.
- jcitme 15y agoThat's because Google is changing an insane amount of crap during the field test. It should be public when plus finalizes...
- Apocryphon 15y agoI think you just have to be logged into Gmail or another Google account to see it.