This could be amazing. According to Google’s Eric Schmidt, every product on Google will eventually move to support some of the Plus infrastructure, such as Circles.
I think Paul Allen summed it up best:
This is breathtaking. I have already built 54 circles. I can imagine being able to instantly share anything I find on Google News, Google Reader or YouTube (or any any web site that I access with Chrome or my mobile phone) with any of my carefully designed Circles. This is a knowledge worker’s dream. The signal to noise ratio in our various streams will improve dramatically.
Not only will this make those other products more useful to us Google+ users, but it will drive more of those users to try out Google+. It really seems like a brilliant move from Google. What do you think?
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I think this is a great move. Similar to Facebook, Google is trying to keep the traffic in their own ecosystem, boosting advertising potential. I already love the Spark’s feature and can’t wait to be able to share these things with my friends, family and co-workers. It is an exciting time to be a Google early adopter
Exactly. Not only will it make things easier for Google+ users, but actively promoting Google+ on huge sites like YouTube should only help the engagement of it.
It still has the same problem as facebook’s group options. (which were once easy to get too – much like most of fb once was!!) People cba to put people in groups – it needs some sort of how do you know this person auto filters. or invisible people tagging!
I’m already seeing a flood of useless links on g+ – people are posting the same as on twitter/fb except on g+ the articles are coming up huge!! instead of a small thumbnail or a shortened link.
That’s the beauty of g+ (and Facebook and Twitter, for that matter). If they’re continuing to post “useless links”, stop following them.