Google Goes Social.

It is now evident that Google is striving for total digital domination. 

With a simple and elegant interface created by a former Apple designer, Google+ builds off another Google service, Profiles, and adds in all of the social features (friending, posting, liking) that you find on Facebook with the ability to follow people like you can on Twitter. Circles is the Google+ way of creating groups of friends that you can selectively share content with and control how they can connect back to you. Hangouts is a quick way to set up a video conference with up to 10 people while Sparks is an integration of Google’s email alerts honed down to its essence: letting you know about stuff you are interested in. (source)

So, are there problems? Of course there are. For one, the limited number of users creates for some interesting and frustrating social circles, or really more like an "un-social circle." Second, there is complete and total lack of Google App support. What gives?

I know plenty of Google users that are constantly using Google Apps to manage a myriad of things. Personal and work emails, RSS Feeds and Chat, just to name a few. Right now, in order to continue to use these functionalities as well as Google+, one must log back into their plain ol' ad-filled Gmail account. 

Although Google has more than a few changes up their sleeve, such as:

• Rebranding Picasa and Blogger into Google properties
• Adding a black bar across the top of all the Google services (including the search page)
• Upping the number to 10 accounts that Multiple Sign-In supports

I have a feeling that other problems will soon arise. 


Isn't that the case for any revolution, even a digital one?