google

A friend asked what I like about google+, and as I started posting a reply , I noticed there were enough to make a blog post. So here goes… Here’s a quick list: 1. Mobile app on android and iphone are awesome! 2. Automatic upload of pics on phone/picasa 3. Non-crappy photos (allows 2400+px, and g+ renders pictures better, since they don’t mess with the image, if it is smaller than the max size)

There are several issues that people have uncovered in the last 2 days that it has existed. For me, of all the features that Buzz lacks, one thing really stands out. There is no way to just see a list of the conversations (without the whole list of comments expanded by default). This is the main reason that I *had* to unfollow Scoble, Michael Arrington, Louis Gray and a bunch of others.

Did anyone else notice that buzz has an RSS feed for everything!! Here’s a conversation that @Thomashawk started Here’s the feed for that entry Here’s the feed for the owner’s entries Theoretically, one could build a service that aggregates only specific conversations (and keep them updated), or only a small group etc… No more reading data from a firehose!! That is very nice. P.S: also this could be a way to aggregate all your webservices into one super feed, that can then be posted elsewhere (comments and all!

Google reader is one of Google’s products, that didn’t you didn’t realize you needed until you started using it. Heck, pretty much every product they do is in that category. It is one app where I spend a lot of time every day. That is how I still manage to read blogs. Even after twitter and facebook and friendfeed, GReader is still the place, where you can truly control the signal vs noise ratio of content that you read.