Comments on: Google Plus: FaceBook Knock off or Something Else?

By: bryanthegrokeisenberg

bryanthegrokeisenberg — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:36:43 +0000

In reply to Scott Frangos. Thanks Scott.

By: Scott Frangos

Scott Frangos — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:01:30 +0000

Hi Bryan – Thanks for the thought provoking post and in particular the Feng Gui heat maps. Very interesting, and while content could change in Google+ I would wager that the team at Google is paying particular attention to eye flow in the UI. I mentioned your column in this post – http://www.webfadds.com/2011/07/is-google-the-nex… – Cheers

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By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:12:26 +0000

It will be interesting to see how Google+ plays out. It has some cool features but Facebook is such a monster, it will be hard to "kill" it. Google also hasn't had much luck in social, but they may have finally learned from their mistakes.

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By: BryanGroks

BryanGroks — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:24:13 +0000

In reply to jameszol. Thanks James. I am frustrated by the lack of Google Apps integration as well. But my guess is Google is going to tie everything in over the next few months. In the mean time I will use my personal gmail and hope I can sync them up in the future.

By: jameszol

jameszol — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:15:48 +0000

As a Google Apps user, I'm still excluded from all this Google+ goodness…but it appears to better reflect offline social connections & context better than Facebook or other one-off niche networks like LinkedIn. The slideshow was great, putting that into perspective for me. It makes sense. I like the all-in-one approach more than having to go from network to network to get my social fix. I can't wait to start using Google+!

By: BryanGroks

BryanGroks — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:15:05 +0000

In reply to Tim Leighton-Boyce. So very well said Tim.

By: Tim Leighton-Boyce

Tim Leighton-Boyce — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:06:00 +0000

I think you've got it right with the comparison between AOL (or Compuserve, Cix etc) and Facebook. They were pioneers and offered something new and so they prospered until people realised that there was something even bigger and better beyond those walls and came flooding out.

Facebook took that world by storm because they did the new social linking better than anyone else and (this is also a key, I think) provided a safer world of trusted identities at a time when the web at large was starting to seem a bit dangerous to some people. But Facebook was born in a time of browsers and 'web sites'. A world in which they expected to control the user interface and be in charge of making changes to the design etc.

It's true that apps and ways of using Facebook on other devices have appeared soon enough and that of late Facebook has started to spread out beyond its walls via FB connect etc. But these have been additions.

G+ has the advantage of being born in a different age and created by a company who have mobile devices at their core.

The openness is of a different order. At the moment G+ may still seem like a service we use, or a site that we visit (at least it does to me — I'm not on Android) but my hunch is that concept will disappear extremely fast. What we see and think of G+ may well soon seem as odd as remembering a world where browsers didn't do pictures and you typed a number to visit a link.

G+ has the potential in its genes to become pervasive, a thing which just 'is' wherever/whatever we're doing. I think it is, as you suggest, something 'else'.