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by radarsat1 5455 days ago
> "do you know how often people still email documents / photos / spreadsheets?"

Great, so G+ is yet another attempt to get people to stop using common communications standards like email and instead break the internet up into a set of distinct one-provider-oriented services that can't talk to each other?
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s00pcan 5455 days ago
No, the goal is to make it not matter what service you're using.
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a3_nm 5455 days ago
In which way? Could you elaborate?
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fttechfounder 5455 days ago
Apple has the game center where all your scores form your iPhone are automatically loaded into a public database with your friends scores. It's the same for Zynga and Facebook.

The problem is that your social graph on Facebook is probably everyone you've ever met. Google+, on the other hand, feels much more like using email. Circles are kind of like mailing lists which we use to keep in touch with real friends and colleagues. Incidentally, these are also the people we email photos, documents and presentations to.

Circles is at the heart of Google+ because it makes everything they own better. More and more apps are going to move into the cloud and I'm betting that Google+ is going let developers take advantage of this.

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s00pcan 5455 days ago
There was a post on here about it recent enough, but I don't think I saved the link. It basically suggested that it shouldn't matter what social network your friends are using - you should be able to seamlessly connect with someone who is using facebook from google plus.

I would expect that idea to apply to apps and the sharing of documents as well. If your friend is not using google plus, the document could be sent to their email instead, but the though process would be "I need to send them this document" instead of "I need to email this document to them" or even "I need to send them this document using google docs".

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icebraining 5455 days ago
But how does Google+ help accomplish that goal? It's a closed platform just like every other has been; for that you need federation APIs (like those of Appleseed & StatusNet) to enable cross-server communication.
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