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Google turns inwards

• wccrawford 15y ago
  Cripes. It's not a closed system. The Send To functionality will work with ANYTHING. That's about as open as you get without going open source.
  • EwanToo 15y ago
    The Send To functionality is pretty crippled though, for example you can't add a comment as you share it, and you can't (as far as I can see) tell what you've sent over time? All it does is open a new window in your browser with a URL for the relevant service, with a couple of variables set. So yes, Send To will work with pretty much anything, but it also does almost nothing.
    • wccrawford 15y ago
      Sure you can. The other service will both let you add a comment and track what has been sent over. Of course, that's only if the service has been programmed for it. G+ already is. G+ handles that on Google's side, and the other service would have to handle that on its side. Why would Google store stats for you about some competing service, when that service can do it just as well?
  • beej71 15y ago
    You're right that "closed" is far too strong of a word, since you can easily share outside of Google. But the new Reader is definitely not what it used to be in the "open access" department. The old way: people who wanted to follow me added my Reader feed to their RSS reader. They use their RSS reader. The new way: I add G+ users who I think want to follow the things I share to my tech-related circle. They use G+. My target audience is limited and disempowered. I'll try it for a bit, but likely I'll ditch G+ for this use and find another RSS posting service. Google could fix it by adding "public circles" and RSS feeds of those circles.