Re:A simple way Google could have avoided fucking up Google+
by rainedin on Friday April 25, 2014 @05:54AM
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I still fail to really grasp what Google+ is.
I'd actually rather a de-centralised platform. And prefer a glorious feed organiser.
Very simple open comment/status feed APIs would be more beneficial for the community at large with a pub/sub mechanism that was easy to understand and utilise.
Add an RSS feed for a news website, add a Twitter feed, or friend, add a Facebook (channel for a better word), or whatever. Organise these somehow. Integrate privacy controls. This would probably suit a next generation browser rather than an online silo.
Re:A simple way Google could have avoided fucking up Google+
by Already__Taken on Friday April 25, 2014 @07:54AM
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Yeah this is why I don't use it. I added a ton of randomers to a web desgin circle from here and reddit etc.
I must trust they suck me into a web design circle also AND then; Trust they share related content only to that circle.
What actually happens is I have a random stream of peoples kids and dogs etc as they all seem the "share with all" by default.
For example the sender can sort their messages into out-channels (as it is partially implemented in Google+ via circles) and the receiver can chose what out-channels he subscribes to (which is not present in Google+) - this is the classical publish-subscribe design pattern.
What I would like to see is a bit more - I would like the receiver to be able to also apply some additional sorting logic to the subscribed channels, and he could choose the results depending on the mood - or he could some of it also copy directly to his out-channels. In short what I would like to see is a 'social routing' - but that would probably require that the user has full control over his node.