Google + Project

We know that Google has a lot planned for Google+, adding brand pages and support for new features in the browser and via its mobile apps in the near future. There was talk of games ...

It may only be a week old, but Google+ has certainly stirred up the excitement of the digerati. Even at this early stage, it's clear that Google has something with real potential here. ...

It’s called Google+, and it’s the latest new thing that has the web all a-buzz (pun completely intended). And I’m totally afraid to use it,

I was one of the early adopters of Google Wave, the late, lamented thing that Google created that was supposed to replace email. It didn’t. It just gave users one more thing to deal with other than email. It worked for me, because I was able to use it to communicate across the miles with colleagues on projects and the platform was suited for that. In fact, it was far better suited than email for that. But it didn’t catch on, because only a few of us “got it” — both in terms of having access for most if its tenure and wrapping our heads around it.

When Google dismantled Wave, it bugged me. I’d invested a considerable amount of time on it (although not nearly as much as others like Gina Trapani, who wrote a book on how to use it) and was not relishing in the idea that I’d have to realign how I was handling my communication effort across the miles. After all, humans are generally unreceptive to change, right?

So when Google announced Buzz, I was skeptical. I didn’t see what the benefit was, and filling my inbox with emails would be a drawback for someone trying to live as productively as possible. I was already spending time in Twitter, which did what I needed it to do and was doing it well: drawing people to my content. Facebook did that too, so Buzz really had no appeal for me. Still, I signed up and tried it out. And then I was done with it.

Google's long-rumoured new social project finally arrived this week and there's little doubt that it's off to a good start.

Consisting of Facebook-style sharing and discussion; group ...