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too early to predict, Facebook now has real money to compete. this is googles third attempt at getting traction in social networking market dominated by Facebo

too early to predict, Facebook now has real money to compete. this is googles third attempt at getting traction in social networking market dominated by Facebook. open social, google wave and now +1. Yeah this UI is slightly better, but this is a temporary craze period, they need to keep moving ahead launch usable addictive features, they need to make it a habit a addiction for its user. also need to build a usable mobile app for all the platforms,having a android only app or integration in android core would cause a large drop-off

rryan 15y ago
> [ third attempt ] Does it matter that it's the third? This one is pretty compelling. All of my friends are already on it and we're all using it regularly. Whenever I go back to Facebook, it feels old and stagnant (no dynamic updates, no video chat, no noise control, terrible picture quality compared to Picasa, etc.) > [ need to addict their users ] Hm, well what's there is already quite enough for me -- but I'm not a heavy Facebook user. It's already been leaked that they're adding games by Florian Rohrweck. > [ ui better ] Uh, as an engineer I'd say this is more than just a UI refresh on Buzz or something like that. It's clear huge amounts of work on frontend and backend went into this. > [ mobile client ] Brad Horowitz said their iPhone app has been submitted to the approval process. The Android native app is probably one of the most polished Android apps I've ever used. The mobile web-app which has everything but the Huddle was available on day 1.
X-Istence 15y ago
Google+ has already completely overtaken anything Facebook has offered me so far. Their mobile client for iPad is MUCH better than Facebook's. It remembers position in the stream when you click the back button rather than refreshing the page, it is faster and lighter weight. I've only used Google+ the past couple of days but I already am sharing more content on it than on Facebook, I can share specific content with specific groups. My family doesn't care about git, but my co-workers probably do. My boss probably doesn't care for me talking about what beer I am going to knock back a six-pack of on the 4th, but my friends sure wouldn't mind discussing that. Google's Circles has already made that much simpler. As for addicting features, faster page loads (Facebook uses a lot of JS and it can cause the page to crawl), instant updates (I was on the phone with my friend, and I heard him click his mouse and the post was already displayed on my screen), and the picture quality since it uses Picasa Web as the backend is much better than what is available on Facebook, and best of all Google seems to know how to run a CDN since I don't have to wait minutes for an image to show up. As already mentioned the mobile interface is miles ahead of what is available from its competitors, and having used the Android app I can say it is absolutely fantastic. As I am personally an iPhone/iPad user I am looking forward to seeing what the app will look like once Apple approves it.

rryan 15y ago

> [ third attempt ] Does it matter that it's the third? This one is pretty compelling. All of my friends are already on it and we're all using it regularly. Whenever I go back to Facebook, it feels old and stagnant (no dynamic updates, no video chat, no noise control, terrible picture quality compared to Picasa, etc.) > [ need to addict their users ] Hm, well what's there is already quite enough for me -- but I'm not a heavy Facebook user. It's already been leaked that they're adding games by Florian Rohrweck. > [ ui better ] Uh, as an engineer I'd say this is more than just a UI refresh on Buzz or something like that. It's clear huge amounts of work on frontend and backend went into this. > [ mobile client ] Brad Horowitz said their iPhone app has been submitted to the approval process. The Android native app is probably one of the most polished Android apps I've ever used. The mobile web-app which has everything but the Huddle was available on day 1.

X-Istence 15y ago

Google+ has already completely overtaken anything Facebook has offered me so far. Their mobile client for iPad is MUCH better than Facebook's. It remembers position in the stream when you click the back button rather than refreshing the page, it is faster and lighter weight. I've only used Google+ the past couple of days but I already am sharing more content on it than on Facebook, I can share specific content with specific groups. My family doesn't care about git, but my co-workers probably do. My boss probably doesn't care for me talking about what beer I am going to knock back a six-pack of on the 4th, but my friends sure wouldn't mind discussing that. Google's Circles has already made that much simpler. As for addicting features, faster page loads (Facebook uses a lot of JS and it can cause the page to crawl), instant updates (I was on the phone with my friend, and I heard him click his mouse and the post was already displayed on my screen), and the picture quality since it uses Picasa Web as the backend is much better than what is available on Facebook, and best of all Google seems to know how to run a CDN since I don't have to wait minutes for an image to show up. As already mentioned the mobile interface is miles ahead of what is available from its competitors, and having used the Android app I can say it is absolutely fantastic. As I am personally an iPhone/iPad user I am looking forward to seeing what the app will look like once Apple approves it.