Why Google's "circles" are likely to fail
Dave Winer,
Scripting News,
Jul 01, 2011
I spent some time this morning exploring Google Plus - which E-Commerce Times says "could be the biggest thing in the history of social networking." It was an odd experience to log on for the first time to discover that a dozen people had already added me to their circles. Plus has a lot to recommend it, and will be amazing when they roll out embedded applications and platform features. But I haven't figured out a way to share my content outside Plus yet - there's no feed apparent, for example, for my comments and uploads (my 'stream'). And also, as Dave Winer comments here, I'm not sure I want to commit myself to sorting and organizing my contacts. "You might feel a rush to organize your friends into categories when you start to use it. But you'll give up after a dozen or so, as soon as you hit one that defies categorization. You'll say to yourself 'I'll come back to this later.' You won't."
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