Google+ works! (but still in beta testing)

I have a Google+ account.  I was actually invited to the "field test" by my best friend.  I want to use it for its great group interaction tools: group chat and (the coolest thing on Google+) GROUP VIDEO chat.  As soon as I saw the intro to Google+ I saw the implications on school group projects and presentations; (in fact, you mix this with a Prezi presentation and its real time group editing tool and you have got one hot potato) I even saw the great business implications that Google is working to get mainstream.  Plus, the site is still in a beta version.  So when the site rolls out to anyone and everyone it is sure to be a hit.  Now whether that hit is a winner up the line, a extraordinarily played drop shot, a backwards-between-the-legs winner, or simply a return to the other court will depend on the masses.

I read an article today from techrepublic.com titled Why Google Plus is about to change the Web as we know it.  Of course the article talks about the competing sites of twitter, facebook, and google+. The author highlights the privacy of updates in google+ because of friend "circles" and the ease of adding new friends to circles.  The overall out come of the article is summed up well by the author, "Google+ is going to be less of a destination and more like the connective social tissue of the Web."  No boundaries....

My take on it... I like it.  Google has integrated a lot of its other software right into it.  Picsa, chatting, video conferencing... its all there.  Google+ won't replace facebook, facebook is just to far to catch right now.  But Google+ does add some competition to the social juggernaut.  It would be nice to see another clash of an unstoppable force colliding with an immovable object.


If still interested in the craze, check out this other article about 10 features missing from Google+.