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The Google+ API Is Released
An anonymous reader writes "Developers have been waiting since late June for Google to release their API to the public. Well, today is that day. Just a few minute ago Chris Chabot, from Google+ Developer Relations, announced that the Google+ API is now available to the public."
I can't wait to see all the interesting ideas developers have for using this read only API.
Google+ didn't bring the gamechange.
It's a ghost town.
You can see Linus Torvalds and the Google Twins there, but hardly anyone else ever posts. And they don't much either. Linus' last post is 9/6, and Sergey's is 8/28, and Larry's is 8/13...
Google needed more than a convention hall. It needed to emcee the convention. Now we have an API, and maybe some people to P it, nobody to A it.
If you're not going to use the word "fuck" in plaintext when you're pseudonymized, then why the fuck do you care if you use your real name or not?
Just because they don't post to you doesn't mean they don't post. I have hundreds of posts, but each one of them is private so my public profile looks empty. I don't know anyone who makes public posts. That's kind of the entire point, which you appear to have missed.
The media hype made it seem more important than it really was. Same happened with Wave.
...if they ever got around to fixing google apps so it worked with google+. Instead, all we ( us google apps users ) get are false promises...when we get anything at all.
Can anyone recommend a decent competitor to Google Apps?
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
Games on G+ can also reward you for spamming/recruiting your friends. Angry Birds on G+ for example will keep levels locked until you and your friends have a cumulative total of stars to unlock them, so naturally you want to get more people playing. Another game lets you ask for hearts to continue gameplay and equally you can donate hearts. The difference here though is people in your circles will not see all this game stuff unless they are also in their games stream.
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Not to mention, the spec for JSON fits on one side of a business card, readably.
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It's a ghost town to you perhaps but way not for me. I spend more time on Google+ than I have done on FacePlant... I mean FaceBook.
I was hoping that Google+ would be the next best thing, and pop the bubble that is FaceBook. but its not going to happen, most people that would have wanted to move, tried G+, and left sin no one was there and the people who haven't heard about G+ don't care enough to switch. So unless the new API can cook my dinner and wash my clothes and give me a hand job, there is no reason to switch since all the people i care to talk to (and allot of people I don't) are on the FB, ill just stay until it becomes myspace.
Facebook was too fat and happy. I would say more facebook features rolled out in the few months since G+ came out, then in years prior (no randomly re-organizing the interface to annoy your users does not count as a feature). Honestly I think if facebook did like microsoft and went by a hold the course, send out some bad publicity strategy, google would have rapidly overtook them. Googles biggest weakness is every way they inovate the social network side, facebook rapidly copies. Facebooks newer system for groups, now allowing public feeds etc... Everything google does, is quickly copied and mirrored, facebook knows google is not one to play the patent/cheat card, and facebook is going to keep using that to their advantage.
erm. I see scads more content on g+ than on facebook --OR-- on slashdot. And it's actual useful interesting stuff.
IT LAUNCHED TWO FUCKING MONTHS AGO. You know what my facebook wall looked like two months after launch? Nothing, because I hadn't signed up for it yet. Also, the facebook wall didn't go up until 7 months after launch. 10 months it had 1 million users. Two months out, google+ has 10 million users.
Anyway, I see facebook making changes in response to the competition. Not fixing all gripes with it of course, but changes are being made to the... er... "game" as it were.
(By the way, let's not start using the term "gamechange." Sounds too much like some douchebag marketing suit talking.)
You are following the wrong people. I follow people on G+ that post like 10+ times daily. If anything they post TOO much.
Look, you can't really compare the timelines between Facebook and Google+. Facebook has been around for almost a decade, and when it came out it didn't have many competitors, the whole social networking concept was new and experimental. Now Facebook is the established brand in social networking - pretty much invented the market - and it's going to be incredibly difficult for Google to topple it, even if the numbers show it to be oh so much more successful in the short term than Facebook was when it started.
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
I don't want to mix my real life info like my name, and professional experience, with stuff I would not want a future employer to see. Hence the need to compartmentalize the data under different account names. Since Google+ does not allow that, I'm not interested in using it much.