It looks to me like it will have decent potential once all Google's services get integrated it in. So you can post stories from Google News and Google Reader, share Google Docs with a circle, create a circle based on a Google Group and all its members automatically get added... Oh well, until then, we can just indulge in the "Ooh Shiny!" mindset. http://gplus.to/nwbrown
On Jul 14, 8:56 pm, Charlie Griefer <charlie.grie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is it just a case of "ooh, shiny! Google released a new toy!" or is > > there actually some tangible useful benefit to a developer being on > > G+? > > Not to get too far OT here, but I think there's definitely _potential_. > > I organize my social networks the same way you do: twitter for the > programming community at large, and Facebook for family/friends (I > have LinkedIn as well, but rarely bother with that). > > G+ could potentially eliminate the need for two separate networks, and > consolidate the "programming community" and "personal" into one single > network organized by circles. > > Even within Facebook... there may be something that I want to share > with friends, but I don't necessarily want my Mom to see. G+ would > handle that nicely, by letting me share something with everybody in > the circle that's called, "People who are not my Mom". > > Obviously the big question is going to be whether or not everybody > else migrates over to it... and I do agree that right now there's the > shiny novelty factor, but I do think it has potential to be a > legitimate and efficient one-stop-shop for social networking amongst a > variety of social groups. > > -- > Charlie Grieferhttp://charlie.griefer.com/ > > I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love > my wife. And I wish you my kind of success. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
