Comments on: Google +1 – another great idea by Google engineers for Google engineers.

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 06 May 2011 09:25:57 +0000

It might be a good thing to see what my friends think, but I fear that we are moving towards a social case of incest sooner or later. No step is untracked, no choice undigested by the web, filtered and set upon a robot calculation of my past.
Living in the past isn’t something you would want in live, too – would you?

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:38:32 +0000

It boggled my mind the other day when I found out a friend didn’t use gmail. “But.. what does she do?” I thought. Beyond email, Google’s just very much a log in for me that saves me re-entering my password a lot. It’s not a network, and I barely use the social features on things like reader as it is. I’ll have a look around, because it’s interesting to try new things, but I’m not sure this is revolutionary. That said, just by doing that I’m immediately going to have used it more than I use Facebook likes. The difference is this one requires explaining (I tuned out during the video – how do you view +1s?), whereas likes don’t.

Good title work.

By: Nicholas Gill

Nicholas Gill — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:46:40 +0000

Hi Mike
Good thoughts as always. Like your point around Chrome – an obvious missed trick. Also, your reference to engineers is appropriate as it’s more clunky to understand and “get” than the ubiquitous “like” which is like, totally, like easy to get for the masses. The beauty of the web today is the frictionless nature; forcing me to use Google and share only with my Google people seems a retrograde step, no? And my personal experience of Google is exactly as you say; I use gmail but the nonsense around Buzz made me close my public profile. I’m a much more innate user of Facebook and Twitter because of the ease of use, large network and connectedness. And a bit like Apple vs PC, they just happen. With Google, it doesn’t. I have to work at it. And I don’t want to.
Looking forward to you buying me lunch when you move to Gt Portland St
Nick

By: Omar

Omar — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:35:23 +0000

Google should encourage users without google account to create one, even by linking to the facebook one, like you more frequently can do on several sites that are creating your account without having to fill in a form, but just by connecting to FB account and confirming it.
The risk is that this new service will fail like many others launched in the past by google.
The SideWiki for example…. is it still working…. how many users are providing contents there?
I see +1 very similar to this.