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The headline says "Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+", but actually most of these features are about making your Google+ experience better, not your gm
by v21 15y ago
The headline says "Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+", but actually most of these features are about making your Google+ experience better, not your gmail experience better. In other words, this smells more of corporate policy than product improvement.
- joebadmo 15y agoNot sure how you're coming to that conclusion. It gives you G+ data when you look at a contact in Gmail. It automatically updates your contacts' info. It seems like a really good set of pretty obvious integrations that makes all of the products better, to me.
- jsnell 15y agoMore data is not necessarily better. This just destroyed the usability of chat. And I care about chat a lot more than G+, so if one of the two needs to go, it's going to be G+. For this to not be a major regression, at least you would need to be able to limit the import to only to some circles. It would even fit in better with the Google+ ideals of treating different groups of "friends" differently.
- joebadmo 15y agoCompletely agree. I assume that's coming. It's another obvious use of Circles.
- tonfa 15y agoYou can select which circles appear in chat (but only from the G+ chatbox as far as I know).
- jsnell 15y agoAh, under "privacy". Not exactly the most intuitive process, but at least it's possible. Thanks!
- joebadmo 15y agoI just tried it. Changing it in the G+ chatbox also changes it in gmail. Which is good, because I use the gmail one (since I have gmail open all the time) and not the G+ one.
- zapf 15y agoAm scared of the potential surprises that'll come along. I shared a google map (you know those created your maps things) and I didn't realise that it showed up on my g+. All I thought was, wtf. I shared it from google maps and didn't have any intention of whatever circles it went to, to know about it. Super confusing and worrying.
- fpgeek 15y agoI'd say being able to search Gmail by Circle is pretty clearly an enhancement to Gmail, not an enhancement to Google+..