I've never really looked at it, but Facebook has to have some kind of public API to support mobile apps and so on, so it should be totally possible. Of course if G+ tried to do that I'm sure Facebook would block them or sue them.
Now that would be the FB killer moment imho. If you could post to, and read status updates from, and otherwise interact with your FB contacts through G+, without the need whatsoever to log into FB, then FB would be seriously threatened.
I doubt somehow that it would be feasible though.
I've never really looked at it, but Facebook has to have some kind of public API to support mobile apps and so on, so it should be totally possible. Of course if G+ tried to do that I'm sure Facebook would block them or sue them.
The problem with that theory is that Google already has a ton of services it can integrate with Google+. You're telling me that Facebook needs to develop a search engine, mapping software, e-mail server, document editors, video site, web browser and everything else that Google's already done? If that's the case, Facebook is screwed. But Facebook has the leg up at the moment because they have half a billion users already established, and 6+ years of being the premiere social networking site. Google has been a Jack-of-all-trades, doing a little bit of everything, sometimes being the best (their search engine, mapping, and Google docs), sometimes being outplayed (YouTube beating Google video before Google bought YouTube, Google Wave, etc.). Facebook is starting with a hearty advantage, which is good for them, because if Google integrates EVERYTHING with Google+, there's no way Facebook beats them on a level playing field. Having a big lead to start will prove vital.
so this is what it looks like now
http://www.rootminus1.com/admin/Rand/Untitled%20copy.jpg
see that big blacked out area on the right, its pretty much a list of post/comment/status change history for everyone you are friended with
see it in Opera, IE and FF
Wrong. Google hit an absolute home run with Gmail. In four years it has become the #2 mail service in the country. Plus, Google won the under-30 battle and made free email accounts cool. I don't know what more you expect from them.
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/stats-hotmail-top-worldwide-gmail-posts-big-gains
If anybody is in a position to understand the mistakes that MySpace made and to avoid them in the future, it's got to be Facebook. Zuckerberg admitted that if MySpace had simply copied exactly what FB was doing from 2004-2006, there's no way he could have beaten them. Same rules apply here. If Google launches an innovative feature, FB needs to clone the crap out of it ASAP.
Dang that is huge, I thought gmail was a small niche service
Unless facebook is willing to have reasonable privacy policies they're not going to be able to follow google+.
*facepalm*
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He posted that facebook will try and take the features that are good from Google+ and copy them. My point was that one of the biggest things people dislike about facebook was their terrible way of dealing with privacy. Google+ already appears to be much better. Unless facebook is willing to completely revamp the way they deal with privacy they aren't going to be able to compete with Google+ on something that many people care about.
Facebook has already made it quite clear that they don't care about all the complaints they get from their users over this so I don't anticipate they'll do much to change unless absolutely forced to.
Actually the Circles feature on Google+ is awesome. I never added my family nor my work colleagues to FB only because I didn't want them to see everything that I was doing. With Google+, this isn't an issue since you could create separate circles of people and share different things with each of the circles. You can't do this with FB.
I'm sure FB is going to copy this if they haven't done so already.
Security in Facebook is non-intuitive. This is a bigger point than it appears some posters realize. Google+ on the other hand is suuuuuuuuuuper intuitive (I don't have to use Google search to figure out how exactly to lock things down-- I did have to Google how to see my facebook page as someone else sees it).
Also-- People use free email that isn't Gmail? /mindblown (I am under 30 though).
Is google trying to ambush this project by making it so hard to get on that by the time the general public can get on those early adopters have already lost interested because nobody can get in? Who the F thought that was a good idea?
haha, it really is more hated than IRS per comment above
http://www.switched.com/2010/07/20/facebook-even-more-reviled-than-the-irs-study-says/
My issues with facebook are I don't like its founder, don't trust its privacy whatsoever at all, and it is trying to be too invasive with other sites. Its apps are to me crap and I hate seeing people's use of them popup on my status.
All G+ would need is an import feature
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Actually the Circles feature on Google+ is awesome. I never added my family nor my work colleagues to FB only because I didn't want them to see everything that I was doing. With Google+, this isn't an issue since you could create separate circles of people and share different things with each of the circles. You can't do this with FB.
I'm sure FB is going to copy this if they haven't done so already.
1. create lists
2. create status message
3. change visibility settings of status message -> customize -> add lists to publish to or exclude
lol
How did you sign up and just get an invite last night if they have been closed to signups for several days now?