{"id":59,"date":"2011-07-08T07:03:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T06:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/?p=59"},"modified":"2011-08-01T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T10:02:45","slug":"google-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/2011\/07\/08\/google-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I personally really like the concept &#8211; and it is more usefull if all my communicationpartners are using it (remember the faith of Google Wave) &#8211; it has, as can be expected from Google, a highly technical cool-factor with an awesome potential; but I do feel there is a human factor called discipline that simply can not be enforced. Compare my Google Contacts, I have about 20% of my 5000+ contacts properly sorted in the broad categories: friends, family, business, employees, strangers (people I did not personally meet) and some interest groups like: libertarian, important (people to consider\/follow), etc. And in this way Google Circles will fail to fully support me simply because I will not have the commitment to work the system to its technical perfection.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m still waiting for artificial intelligence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Besides lacking the first-movers advantage (switching social network providers is still a very big hurdle), there will be the problem of handling the social feedback from those that are not in my circles where they expected to be in &#8211; and thus miss things that their desired peers will receive. (Note: facebook &#8220;solved&#8221; this by giving us just 2 choices: public or private.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I personally really like the concept &#8211; and it is more usefull if all my communicationpartners are using it (remember the faith of Google Wave) &#8211; it has, as can be expected from Google, a highly technical cool-factor with an awesome potential; but I do feel there is a human factor called discipline that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}