Thursday, July 14, 2011

Circles is a Winner, Reviewer Says

"At first, Google looks like a shameless Facebook duplicate," says David Pogue at the New York Times. "There’s a place for you to make posts (your thoughts and news, like Facebook’s Wall); there’s a stream (an endless scrolling page of your friends’ posts, like Facebook’s News Feed); and even a little "1" button (a clone of Facebook’s Like button)."

"But there’s one towering, brilliant difference: Circles." Virtually every review I've seen has said Circles is the big innovation, as it deals with some "privacy" issues Facebook has not been designed to address. Some of us might say the better term is "relevance" problem. Some items, posts, pictures and recommendations are not relevant for all of one's Facebook Followers.

If you are my children, many of them should absolutely not be shared. Circles solves that basic problem.

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