If one applies Brooks Law then it could be said that a team of 20 Elite hackers could build it in half the time. Also if you consider how much infrastructure is

If one applies Brooks Law then it could be said that a team of 20 Elite hackers could build it in half the time. Also if you consider how much infrastructure is already in place for G+ (Accounts, Advertising, Services as Google Docs, Picassa, etc.) (which is obviously topic of this article) and that beyond front-end most of the work that probably had to be done was building circles and integrating backend infrastructure. Yes my analysis is silly - but not any sillier than that of the original author (Lets hope Google has 500 people working on it?). But just to participate in senseless speculation I foresee that Google will release development API's by November 2011. And that by summer 2012 G+ will be completely integrated into whole Google ecosystem, offering services that will completely dwarf what FB has to offer. Shameless Plug: http://www.janezstupar.com/the-facebook-dilemma http://www.janezstupar.com/the-facebook-dilemma