Google+: Tools, Names, and Facebook 194
Several readers submitted stories about Google+ today. CWMike writes in with an article
about the lack of developer APIs from Computerworld
"Currently, external developers don't have any Google+ APIs or tools
to tinker with. A Google spokeswoman said, 'We definitely plan to
involve developers and publishers in the Google+ project, but we don't
have specific details to share just yet. Please
stay tuned.' The spokeswoman declined to say specifically if
Google+ will be compatible with the company's OpenSocial set of common APIs
for social networking applications."
Anita Khanna writes
"Facebook is trying real hard to block users migrating to
google+. Although the recently announced Google+ social platform is
still in private beta, it has generated enough excitement to have
Facebook making some preemptive measures. Shortly after the
announcement, Facebook made a peculiar change to their TOS that
resulted in the ban of popular Chrome extension Facebook Friend Exporter. Over the
weekend, another personal data migration tool, Open-Xchange, has also
been deactivated."
Finally, an anonymous reader notes that Google is requiring
real names for profiles, and may have already suspended some
users for using aliases.
Re:I guess I won't be using it then. (Score:4, Interesting)
I had an invite and put it off trying it out.
until today. created an account and just had a bad feeling about the whole thing. really don't WANT a 'public profile' forced on me. don't want to get too far along and then have something happen to my data.
probably the best thing is a regular old website for a lot of us. social 'networking' is out of control and won't come back to OUR control any day.
google just FEELS wrong, these days. hard to explain, but its the constant watching over me that creeps me out. no, I never joined FB and my 1 day affair with g+ turned me off from the whole thing.
I like it (Score:4, Interesting)