{"id":233,"date":"2011-07-13T04:32:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T04:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2011-07-13T04:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T04:58:08","slug":"google-first-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/google-first-impression\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ First Impression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with Google+ for about an hour now and here are some initial thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fantastic, simple, intuitive, very Google like UI<\/li>\n<li>Easy to find and add friends (moreover looks like Google figures out contacts through GMail, Android, Buzz, Profile etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Not sure how the circles work yet (who can see what and how much)<\/li>\n<li>Very Facebook like (with some additional circle business)<\/li>\n<li>Great integration with Picassa, Buzz and so on&#8230; (I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll integrate easily with Google Calendar etc. etc. soon)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve received notifications on several friends etc. who added me, but not sure why the &#8220;Have Shivdev in circles&#8221; doesn&#8217;t list them all<\/li>\n<li>I just need to know the rules behind how everything is being displayed<\/li>\n<li>Pretty barren at this point &#8211; Not too much activity since it&#8217;s so new<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m yet to explore the Hangout, WebCam and other conferencing features yet, but I&#8217;m pretty sure they&#8217;ll be great<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that Google has a REAL social network<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Does Facebook need to be worried?<\/li>\n<li>How does this affect LinkedIn&#8217;s Stock?<\/li>\n<li>Would Google+ be as successful as Facebook?<\/li>\n<li>Are the BRIC countries going to adopt Google+?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s not Twitter and though it addresses some of Facebook&#8217;s Privacy issues and being available on the Android Market (soon to be on all Mobiles\/Tablets if it has not already) , it&#8217;ll be very interesting to see how and if Facebook users will transition over to Google+ and what lies in its future.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and what&#8217;s Microsoft&#8217;s plan now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with Google+ for about an hour now and here are some initial thoughts: Fantastic, simple, intuitive, very Google like UI Easy to find and add friends (moreover looks like Google figures out contacts through GMail, Android, Buzz, Profile etc.) Not sure how the circles work yet (who can see what and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}