The Broadstuff Friendfee...I mean Google+ Review

Had a look at Google+ reviews briefly, reminds me of Friendfeed but as it would be done by guys whose previous successes were Buzz and Wave. Anyway a lot of the A listers seem to be spouting the same shill saying much the same as they did about Friendfeed , so the Broadstuff review is to be honest and to rehash our Friendfeed Review of 2008 and replace Friendfeed with Google +:

Fred Wilson* notes, re Google+ and the new new forum:

But it means I have to log into Google+ every day now and check out what people are saying and weigh in. Which I've been doing in the past couple weeks. And that increases the chances that I'll comment on someone else's posts at Google+.

So now, in addition to this blog, my tumblog, and twitter, I have to pay attention to whats' going on in Google+. So it's gone from being an aggregator of attention to a demander of attention. Good for them. That's the way to play the game on the web.

But I would like to see them get those comments portable in some way. Or I'd like to see someone aggregate those comments.

I love the last line's implications - I need another aggregator to aggregate the stuff this aggregator is aggregating so I don't have to visit yet another website

Fred also quotes Umair Haque**:

Umair, who is so right so often, said:

The real point is: Google+ is a next-gen, open version of Facebook's social feed.

Sorry guys, I'm being a bit slow here - which bit of the "yet-another-proprietary-service-that-I-have-to-have-an-identity-and-a-social-graph-in" is the next-gen, open version here?

Or is it that it pumps out stuff in that hate-object of the Web 2.0 faithful, email?

* Fred didn't say it this time round....but pick any sensible pundit you like.
** Ditto Umair

Anyway, I reckon this review will stand the test of time as well as the Friendfeed one did - with one eddition - Friendfeed never got an iPad app at launch.