Obligatory Google Plus Post

Google, they’ve cracked a nut here. With Wave being an experiment, and Buzz being a dead duck from the get go, Google Plus (Google+) is actually a usable, integrated, complete-feeling product released this week, and it’s pretty damn good. I have my suspicions on whether or not it will stick; but I’m leaning more toward “yes” than “no”, unlike Buzz and Wave.

When I used Wave, I could see how neat it was, but it was a terrible implementation of the power of XMPP and was summarized as nothing more than a glorified chat program and playground for developers. From what I remember, Wave wasn’t supposed to be a mainstream platform for the public. It was open to a lot of people, but it’s not like Google created an Android App and integrated it with Gmail or anything (did they?). … continue