[kurtfunai]

I agree, my initial thoughts were that it reminded me of G+.

I personally love the G+ feed, the issue was lack of content to fill it. I was starting to get pretty tired of looking at the same old cluttered feed on facebook. I always felt that the feed column was surprisingly thin, and that the left column took up a lot of real estate for something I interacted with so rarely.

I think this will be a refreshing change for Facebook.

[joonix]

G+, Android, and the Note II. A beautiful combination. Unfortunately, nobody I know uses G+ so I don't check much.

[netrus]

Look for some Communities in your field of interest. That way, G+ has become a great place to discover interesting content, at least for me.

[curiousfiddler]

I think G+ should start relying more on content, as the network effect is not working out. Something like what Quora has done. If they manage to get people using G+ somehow, the chances of network effect kicking off will be higher. Right now, they gotta think of doing something else.

[wtvanhest]

I'd suggest they build a system for displaying events that allows people without G+ to use it.

It seems counter intuitive, but hear me out: 1) FB events is good bc everyone is on fb, but its bad bc you never know what will be shared. It also is bad because the few people who aren't on facebook can't get the invite.

2) Google+ events is slick, really slick.

3) As a person with G+ I recently created an event and invited my friends knowing that it wouldn't be autoshared with people I don't want invited. The problem was that about 40% of my friends don't use G+.

Since people making events are the people who have most of the social power, it benefits google to cater to them. The way to do it is by allowing them to invite people to RSVP for events even if they are not google plus members.

Eventually people we see it as another reason to use google+. If you have events on there, you will go on there and probably post other stuff.

People with high social value will push the needle much, much faster.

[bishnu]

You can invite non-G+ users to G+ events, I am not sure how smooth that experience for them though.

[wtvanhest]

It seems like they have to create an account. I just think they could definitely grab a user base that way. It wouldn't be the panacea, but they should be attacking parts of facebook now, not the whole thing.

[vanni]

For example my community for and about Internet Startups or the Hacker News one.

Internet Startups: https://plus.google.com/communities/100445483815501942968

Hacker News: https://plus.google.com/communities/104388679763490357266

[cheald]

Try adding the Hacker News circle, and then just filter people out as they post stupid stuff. It's a great "in" to find interesting people/content.

[Semaphor]

> Unfortunately, nobody I know uses G+ so I don't check much.

I'm lucky enough to know quite some people on G+ and I circled quite a group of interesting users. But until they finally implement a public API I wont use it full time. I wonder what is taking them so long.

[oscilloscope]

Google Groups doesn't even have a decent API.

[glesica]

It's called email :-)