Google Plus Week 10

Steven Jones · Top Commenter
"And circle gets the share."
Reply · 6 · · September 26 at 2:18pm

Tom BigLucky · Top Commenter · University of Calgary
The implications of this feature are huge.
I think/hope we are going to see a big spike in popularity because of this.
Reply · 5 · · September 26 at 2:22pm

Tom BigLucky · Top Commenter · University of Calgary
It does suck that the shares are limited to 250 users... and followers are still capped to 5000.
Reply · 1 · · September 26 at 7:27pm

Max Woolf · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University
Share your Circles, or else you'll be a Square!
Reply · 4 · · September 26 at 2:12pm

Nick Fleker Felker · Top Commenter
Don't act so obtuse!
Reply · 3 · · September 26 at 2:29pm

Max Woolf · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University
Nope, now you're being acute. >
Reply · 1 · · September 26 at 2:39pm

Nick Fleker Felker · Top Commenter
Max Woolf You're right.
Reply · · September 26 at 2:41pm

Skip Garcia · Top Commenter
"in case any of you are still using google+".
between you and siegler, I swear..snark sandwiches all day long..

it seems that as of today google+ is up to 50 million users..time to get there? 88 days. I know you say 'i kid', but you know the saying..'there's a little bit of truth to everything you say'.

details of google+ membership surge after the jump: http://bit.ly/nTIrqm.
Reply · 1 · · September 26 at 4:53pm

Todd Bloom · Top Commenter
I highly doubt all those 50 million users are active users, you know. Half of them probably just created an account to see the buzz and never did anything with it again.
Reply · 1 · · September 27 at 8:01am

Todd Bloom · Top Commenter
If Facebook did this, all the commentors would probably be trashing it and talking about all the privacy implications but, because Google does it, it's suddenly an amazing thing. Got to love the the hypocrisy of Techcrunch and their commenters.
Reply · 1 · · September 27 at 7:59am

Siva Shankar
The sharing is not going to be done to everyone and the names of the circle is not going to be shared. What is going to be shared is a list of people. What is wrong with that?
Reply · · September 27 at 2:29pm

Moe James · Top Commenter
Has everyone seen the Google Plus Girl video? hahahahaha! Hilarious and Brilliant! http://www.mediafileshare.com/video/2087
Reply · · September 29 at 3:04am

Dushyant Vaghela · Top Commenter · Founder at Feelings2share.com
What's the need of those Circle where intersection is less.
Reply · · Saturday at 7:34am

Michael Dickard · Ohio
Sweet, this is the kind of feature I wanted to have, so that I could more easily integrate g+ into a class setting...however, there still isn't a simple way to filter out posts that aren't directed at a circle (say I'm using this for a class or learning community: everyone's public posts are going to be shared with that circle as well, which can drown out the relevant posts w/ other noise).
Reply · · September 26 at 3:08pm

Dvir Azulay · Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Sorry, maybe it's just me, but I never felt the need to share (comparing to the Facebook equivalent) a custom list of my friends with someone. If this is in any way a tool to suggest new people to a new person on Google Plus, then well, seems like there are far more important features that are missing in Google Plus right now.
Reply · · September 26 at 4:23pm

Paul Heintzelman · Top Commenter · Software Engineer at Alarm.com
As much as I generally like Google they clearly don't understand the social space. This feature is complex and useless. What is the point of sharing a circle if it can't be co-edited? I suspect this is a just a step towards joint owned circles. Still I'd rather they wait till a feature is useful before they launch it.
Reply · · September 26 at 3:02pm

Stb Hernandez
Sry but when it comes down to socialization? Google+ destroy facebook in its eintirety, the fact that most people ain't there yet do lack over Google but that comes with time, doesn;t it?...

Else this is for those wanting to share a circle or an amount of person with their friends for a first time, I believe that is the only way I going to use this feature, to welcome new friends with interesting people to circle.
Reply · 2 · · September 26 at 3:06pm

Stb Hernandez
And don't forget Google groups?
Reply · · September 26 at 3:08pm

Niket Desai · Berkeley
It's possible they are trying to also see how people use this type of feature (or hopefully yell about how they'd like to use this feature) and optimize it accordingly. I think you'd expect an iterative approach especially if Google doesn't "understand the social space," right?
Reply · · September 26 at 3:10pm
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Fotis Siafarikas · IOS Developer at Self Employed and Loving It!
Looking at the screenshot, I have to say that Google keeps ignoring web design... and having used Google+, the ui/ux is how any not-very-creative person would have built it. Google-- for me and no more time wasted on that thing...
Reply · · September 26 at 9:24pm

James Devonport Wood · Top Commenter · CEO/Founder at PageHub
Seems odd that is only shares a snapshot and doesn't update when you change the circle. It would be good to give people the option to have public circles on their profile for interesting people you follow etc.
Reply · · September 26 at 4:32pm

Renise Black · Top Commenter · Owner at Metaph4r Digital
An awesome idea because there are many photography lists that can be converted to a circle that is easily shared. It will definitely save me time and effort.
Reply · · September 26 at 3:22pm

Barry M. Goodknight · Top Commenter · Naples, Florida
Cool, I guess. Too bad + is dead and has been for a while now. The only people left are spammers and super tech types. Just pull the plug on it already.
Reply · · September 26 at 5:37pm

Chris Huge · Works at Fgwar
nice. well done G+. keep improving at a regular pace. vote for your side now fGwar.com.
Reply · · September 26 at 8:02pm

Lucky Choudhary · Marketing Manager at B24 e Solutions
It's really cool features will give some benefit to Google+ over Facebook.
Reply · · September 26 at 9:48pm

Nick Fleker Felker · Top Commenter
This is a great feature. There are so many ways that this can be used.
Reply · · September 26 at 2:30pm

Mari Smith
heheee -- love the turquoise lava lamp! :)
Reply · · September 26 at 5:28pm

Alex Jammer
Cool feature.
Reply · · September 26 at 3:31pm