{"id":37930,"date":"2013-06-28T06:19:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T12:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/happy-birthday-google.html"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:18:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:18:52","slug":"happy-birthday-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/happy-birthday-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Google+"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wow, two years old. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Looking at the introductory video below, I find it interesting that the big feature G+ touted, Circles, is one I use the least. \u00a0While I have all my contacts dutifully linked that way, G+ is not my primary communication mode with everyone (yet). 99% of the stuff I do is Public.<\/p>\n

That said, G+ has provided a tool to link me up with may buckets of people that I would otherwise never had met or associated with or chatted with or exchanged comments with. \u00a0I find more meaningful conversations here than, say, on Facebook, and more opportunity to explore ideas rather than "So, here's what I did this weekend." \u00a0Though there's room for that, too, ahem.<\/p>\n

I still maintain my regular blog (and feed it from G+ with the Google+Blog plugin), and will for the foreseeable future. But for all that I (still) miss the sadly pithed social aspects of Google Reader, I'm very pleased with that Google Plus has added to my online life.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Vic Gundotra<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Two years ago this evening I didn't sleep at all. Neither did so many of my good friends and colleagues on the Google+ team. <\/p>\n

My how far we have come. <\/p>\n

Yet we have promises to keep. And miles to go before we sleep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web<\/a>
\n Update: For our international readers, this post is also available in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. – Ed. Among the most basic of human needs is the need to connect with others. With a sm…\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, two years old. \u00a0 Looking at the introductory video below, I find it interesting that the big feature G+ touted, Circles, is one I use the least. \u00a0While I have all my contacts dutifully linked that way, G+ is not my primary communication mode with everyone (yet). 99% of the stuff I do is … Continue reading “Happy Birthday, Google+”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27868,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/minusing-plus.html","url_meta":{"origin":37930,"position":0},"title":"Minusing Plus","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-May-12 11:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There seems to be a cottage industry in some quarters about dismissing Google Plus as a failure, calling it a ghost town, labeling it the new Buzz, or otherwise kicking sand in its face. 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