Howboring

How come Tumblr’s PhotoSet app doesnt have an option to post or link to Tumblr?

The new iPhone Tumblr client has a great new interface. Much easier to figure out. Works great for multiple blogs.

Posted from my iPhone.

After a couple of days of letting it Google+ sink in it’s clear to me that Google+ is awesome!

I am really liking the fresh new interface language that Google has learned. The update to gmail is very exciting, to me anyway. I live inside gmail.

Can Google get traction with Google+? Will people migrate over, will they adopt it?

I think they might, it’s so good. The obvious question: Can Google compete with the existing social media players?

Facebook. For some reason I dont like Facebook. It’s hard to say what it is I dont like about it, but I just dont. However I use it as all my old school friends jumped onto it. My extended family jumped onto it. So I check it every day to see if there’s any exciting news; there never is.

Twitter. Well, the Twitter is cooler. Many people seem to use it to get news. But honestly, I cant following people who post a cryptic comment and a link to an article. I’ve had to un-follow a few industry mavens that I particularly admire.  People with an audience get into the bad habbit of spamming their twitter with a stream of comments that would be better formed into a coherent blog post. As for friends on Twitter, well a few of my geekier friends and family are there. My brothers are on Twitter, their wives and girlfriends are on Facebook. 

Then there’s Tumblr. The darling Blogging service of the day. You have to wonder once again how Google totally lost the edge with blogger.com.

I also use Instagram to cross pollinate my Facebook and Tumblr accounts.

So there’s the thing - can Google+ integrate and seed all my other social media streams in a way that allows me to not totally abandon all the connections I have there whilst letting me enjoy the new and shiny Google+?

Once upon a time I quit the Twitter. I was addicted. Constantly tweeting. So I removed everyone I follow and all my followers and didnt use Twitter for a year. I’m back on it in more limited way now; I dont tweet every last thing I do. I was the same with FourSquare; I checked in to everyplace I went. I got addicted to it.

It’s harder to quit Facebook. To reconnect with people on Facebook you have to ask them to be friends again. Which is a bit like storming out of party whilst proclaiming how much it sucks and then meekly knocking on the front-door asking to be let back in because every other party sucked harder.

Google+ can win if it provides a better experience than Facebook with the cool of Twitter. Threaded comments and conversations on Twitter are a problem. You @ reply someone but there isnt any context to that reply. Your followers have no idea what you are twittering on about. Facebook and Google+ solve that problem by giving your comments context even if it’s through someone they arnt following. 

Monetizing is a problem Facebook and Twitter have. Google doesnt have that problem. Everytime Twitter try to inject advertising into the feed the users complain bitterly. Well, the Tech Journalists make like the users are complaining. Facebook is probably making money, but we dont really know how much until they go public.

So can Google+ win where Buzz and Orkut have failed? I think it can. I hope it can.