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Episode 39 – Google+, Github for Mac (and Zed)
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They did an awesome job on UX
Google+
Well Google+ is upon us, and at the time of our taping we were just getting our invites. We've had a chance to test drive it a bit since then and it does look like a serious contender for Facebook and possibly Twitter!
The amount of control you get over "who sees what" is pretty awesome, and they accomplish this through the concept of "circles". So you have a "circle of friends" or "circle of acquaintances" or maybe even a "circle of jerks"? 
The neat thing about Google+ is I can treat part of my social graph like Twitter. That is, people I add to my circles don't necessarily add me to theirs. This is akin to me following @BillGates on Twitter but he doesn't necessarily follow me. I think the trick for Google+ will be to figure out how to get people to be "open" with their status updates and sharing given all the granularity they provide for controlling such things. The other trick of course is, besides the geeks, how are they going to get Joe Public to wander over from Facebook given there is no way to export your social graph to Google+?
The one thing that bugs me a bit (Craig) is the fact that Google also makes a browser and a mobile platform. Will Google+ be "best viewed on Chrome and Android"? So far it is.
Git Hub
As many of you know, kids today don't only have to worry about bullying on the playground. Bullying is now a global activity. Through online gaming and social networks Cyberbullying has become an epidemic, in fact one of my immediate family members is bullied right now online to the point where the Police are involved. And its not just the meek who are bullied, even kick-ass-guitar-playing-martial-arts-knowing coders like Zed Shaw are victims. Sometimes we don't call that bullying but rather trolling or stalking, but it amounts to the same thing. What was happening to Zed was facilitated by the fact that on Git Hub a user could add *anyone* they wanted to their project, the person being added had no choice in the matter. This was akin to the famous Facebook-NAMBLA loophole.
Zed is known for being audacious and a bit outspoken. So for many it was probably tough to feel sorry for him, and it appeared those sentiments were shared by those running Git Hub. So it wasn't until Zed crashed GitHub and made it public that GitHub decided to do something about it.
Other links discussed in this cast:
- dotjs - load Javascript from ~/.js directory based on site in Chrome
- Geohot goes to Facebook
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