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Everybody wanna be a Google+ expert

• jsavimbi 15y ago
  Exactly; it's been around for two weeks and people who want to believe in what they know are testing out the waters with their theories on how Plus crystalizes the social networking landscape. Truth be told, it's an immature platform with no API, nobody is really using it for more than posting their thoughts about it and the developers at Google don't even know how it will turn out. I would strongly suggest to tech journos that they hold back on making predictions until normals start using it.
  • gaius 15y ago
    Very true; if I look at my Stream right now, it's probably 95% the equivalent of people saying "tap! tap! is this thing on?" Obviously the point of a social network is the network effect, but there are some pretty basic capabilities missing from G+ that would limit its usefulness even if it had the critical mass of users already: no events and no photo tagging. And no poking ;-)
    • ahh 15y ago
      There is photo tagging: http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1306701 http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=130670...
    • jsavimbi 15y ago
      Honestly, it looks like they made a list of current Facebook/LinkedIn functionality, dropped the childish annoyances, implemented groupings and are in the process of tying together their other services to fill the gaps that they need not build into this first version of the platform. Like ahh points out, Picasa will have tagging, I'd assume your Google calendar will provide event coordinating at some point in the future and Zynga will provide entertainment to those whose streams don't get a lot of traffic.
• orblivion 15y ago
  How is this different from say, every third Hacker News article?
  • kmfrk 15y ago
    Or comment for that matter.
  • ghurlman 15y ago
    It's not, but that's another problem.