[manuel_w]

> My idea is a social app where your profile has different categories, so for example "Relationship", "Travel", etc. In these categories you can upload content based on what the content is about. So if you're traveling, you would post it and have it under your "Traveling" album. The goal would be to allow you to create as many categories as you want and give you the ability to use whichever medium you want to use as your form of expression (video, text, photo, audio).

The social network from Google (forgot its name) worked like that. You could group your friends into Circles, and have them be in several Circles in the same time. You'd share your posts with those Circles instead on a generic Wall.

[zamnos]

It was named Google Plus, stylized as Google+, then later renamed Google Currents. Categorization is a good idea, but imo it's part of why it failed. Having separate circles means the place as a whole felt emptier, driving away users.

[sph]

Debatable. It probably failed like any other Google project that is not creating billions in revenue on day one.

[__d]

Google's social network was called Google+. I thought its Circles were useful too.

[ggm]

There was no boolean logic. It was impossible to say "my circle of friends except bob" which means you can't exclude Bob which means you can't use it to give bob a surprise party or harrass bob by exclusion. So, like a lot of powerful concepts sets and groups need boolean operators, or they are tedious and limited and "safe"

Of all the smart companies you'd think Google would understand this, but no.