Google+

I've not really been using + (as I shall be calling it) for very long and the fact that I dont have many people to communicate with yet, with it being in beta and all, so I feel I can't really give a full opinion on it just yet, but it is pretty cool. I like that it's pulling information that i've given it for however many years I've had a gmail account and I trust google far more than facebook so am more willing to integrate it with everything else I use. It has some interesting stuff to it, but nothing that's made me go "Woah!" yet, though i haven't played with the hangout thing yet, not that I'd particularly use that much. It does seem like something for the geeks at the moment, which is mainly down to it being in beta, so hopefully when it comes out of that it will be much less geek orientated and hopefully it won't crash like wave did (ho ho ho).

What would be really great is to be able to migrate all your data from facebook to +, that way you wouldn't feel like you were starting all over again. I think it would also be good to be able to post to FB and twitter from +, that way you wouldn't be faffing about posting in multiple places, as tends to be the way things go. Which does make me think that what's likely to happen is people will sign up to + when it's released and then add it to tweetdeck or something like that so they can just post once and have it send to all their contacts.

With luck this will autopost to +, seeing it's a google product and i'm signed in to my google account, but I suspect it won't as there's probably a lot of work to do to make the integration work in a sensible fashion, rather than having everything you do in google post directly to + and I suspect blogger won't yet have integration to + set up to ask if you want to post it there. I'll find out soon.

I really hope that + manages to take off as I would be much happier to use it that FB and I have far more resect for google. I've already been moving more over to twitter as my desires to use FB dwindle so this feels like a vaguely logical move, assuming everyone else ends up using it.