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Despite Google's muscle, G+ is still largely irrelevant until they release a third party API (unless that is also party of the brilliant strategy and I'm just n

by j_col 14y ago

Despite Google's muscle, G+ is still largely irrelevant until they release a third party API (unless that is also party of the brilliant strategy and I'm just not clever enough to work it out).

cheald 14y ago
No write API means that literally everything I read on G+ was typed by a human. I really, really like that.
- j_col 14y ago
  Facebook and Twitter have become part of the fabric of the web because if their open APIs, which have greatly helped their widespread adoption. There are many non-write use cases, for example auth. Seen "Sign-in via Google+" implemented anywhere?
  - cheald 14y ago
    Yup. In fact, I've implemented it. :)
    - j_col 14y ago
      Care to share?
      - cheald 14y ago
        Sure - http://mashable.com/login/ http://mashable.com/login/ Implementation docs are at https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2 https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2
        j_col 14y ago
        Nice! Thanks for sharing (sorry, don't read Mashable so missed this).