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And this is why competition is a good thing. If you read between the lines, it's clear a lot of these features are motivated by Google+'s privacy controls. Face
by timsally 15y ago
And this is why competition is a good thing. If you read between the lines, it's clear a lot of these features are motivated by Google+'s privacy controls. Facebook has even exceeded Google+ in a few areas like tag approval. What's interesting here is that people have been asking for features like tag approval for several years. Honestly, it's a no-brainer feature that has had widespread support. But it took the entrance of a serious competitor into the market to force Facebook to respond to user demands.
- joebadmo 15y agoAnd it hopefully also means that Google will feel some more urgency about iterating, too. And maybe even some incentive to figure out a better way to deal with pseudonyms. They seem to have lost plenty of good will and not a small number of users over the issue. And, I'm sure everyone has a list of features they want in G+. Ultimately, I'm still hoping for a Wave-style open standards/federation based interoperability for G+. I can imagine what a struggle it is to decide on a final feature set to actually release openly, though. And some features just seem impossible. Like tag-approval. In an open, distributed system, can you stop someone from, essentially, linking to you? That's like trying to stop someone from posting your email address, right?
- fryguy 15y agoPart of the problem I think is that when you got tagged, it showed up in your stream. If it were federated, their server could say "hey, I tagged you in this picture", and then it wouldn't show up in your stream, or when you look for photos with your tag since arguably, you would be the one serving that information.