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I'd like to see Google+ converted to an iGoogle type homepage that could be 100% private and would have the option to completely disable the +1 buttons and trac

by dm2 13y ago

I'd like to see Google+ converted to an iGoogle type homepage that could be 100% private and would have the option to completely disable the +1 buttons and tracking across websites. It could have customizable widgets, optional social media integration, and would be a main/start/homepage for Google account users. Google+ still has potential to be great (mainly because of their huge user database and Google name behind it) if they can successfully pivot and create something that is valuable, a Facebook clone forced onto people wasn't the greatest idea that Google has ever come up with.

JPKab 13y ago
I never understood why they went for the Facebook killer when they could've easily built a LinkedIn killer instead. LinkedIn is AWFUL. It's a giant spam factory with shit features, but I actually like a lot of their employees other projects.... Anyway, Google should have users upload their resume to Google +, and then have it be indexable and searchable through the Google front-end search. It's a natural extension of the "share with Circles" concept.
- dm2 13y ago
  I agree completely about how sketchy LinkedIn seems. It feels like every action I do on LinkedIn is tracked and available for purchase. Then there was their, "send all of your email through our servers" app. A Google Professional/LinkedIn competitor would have been perfect for Google+. I would also be more willing to share with my friends and family on a site like that, so it would be a perfect LinkedIn/Facebook killer at the same time. Google+ just focused too much on sharing with friends/the world type site at a time when people are getting more cautious about sharing online and things being public. I do want a service very similar to LinkedIn but more trusted and less weird stats/data-mining, Google would be a good company to make that happen, but Google+ would need a major overhaul. (I know Google tracks everything too, but the whole "pay X dollars to see who viewed your profile" is when I made my decision to not support LinkedIn.
- ProAm 13y ago
  What LinkedIn employee side projects do you follow?
jebblue 13y ago
This is why I tend to not post much on either G+ or FB, it's a shaky moment where I'm worried, is it public, private, some weird in between state. Then again I didn't use iGoogle either, one thing that drew me to Google at the start was the daring to have a clean page, beckoning me to do one thing ... search. Maybe if G+ used color shaded divs, something, anything to make it instantly clear what is what on the page. Another thing, every time I go there it asks hey do you know so and so, no or yes, doesn't matter just take me to the main page dang it.

by dm2 13y ago

JPKab 13y ago

I never understood why they went for the Facebook killer when they could've easily built a LinkedIn killer instead. LinkedIn is AWFUL. It's a giant spam factory with shit features, but I actually like a lot of their employees other projects.... Anyway, Google should have users upload their resume to Google +, and then have it be indexable and searchable through the Google front-end search. It's a natural extension of the "share with Circles" concept.

dm2 13y ago
I agree completely about how sketchy LinkedIn seems. It feels like every action I do on LinkedIn is tracked and available for purchase. Then there was their, "send all of your email through our servers" app. A Google Professional/LinkedIn competitor would have been perfect for Google+. I would also be more willing to share with my friends and family on a site like that, so it would be a perfect LinkedIn/Facebook killer at the same time. Google+ just focused too much on sharing with friends/the world type site at a time when people are getting more cautious about sharing online and things being public. I do want a service very similar to LinkedIn but more trusted and less weird stats/data-mining, Google would be a good company to make that happen, but Google+ would need a major overhaul. (I know Google tracks everything too, but the whole "pay X dollars to see who viewed your profile" is when I made my decision to not support LinkedIn.
ProAm 13y ago
What LinkedIn employee side projects do you follow?

jebblue 13y ago

This is why I tend to not post much on either G+ or FB, it's a shaky moment where I'm worried, is it public, private, some weird in between state. Then again I didn't use iGoogle either, one thing that drew me to Google at the start was the daring to have a clean page, beckoning me to do one thing ... search. Maybe if G+ used color shaded divs, something, anything to make it instantly clear what is what on the page. Another thing, every time I go there it asks hey do you know so and so, no or yes, doesn't matter just take me to the main page dang it.