{"id":2295,"date":"2011-09-02T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2011-09-02T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T19:29:10","slug":"the-most-fundamental-features-are-still-missing-in-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/the-most-fundamental-features-are-still-missing-in-google\/","title":{"rendered":"The most fundamental features still missing in Google+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2 most fundamental features missing in Google+ (and I don&#8217;t know how else to send them feedback about this) that really really grind my gears are <strong>the lack of a +1 button and a &#8220;Share&#8221; link on the picture gallery mode<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-RxhzFwqb26g\/TlFvzPsD3RI\/AAAAAAAA4io\/XMAShExedU8\/s912\/most_ignored_feature_request_in_google_plus.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"><br \/>\n<center><em>(My suggestion of where the button and the share link should be)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I think that this has to be totally on purpose, I cannot believe that all the &#8220;geniuses&#8221; at Google haven&#8217;t felt the frustration of not being able to +1 or share a good picture from that view.<\/p>\n<p>CEOs or Google+ project managers should be more involved in product experience. It&#8217;s cool how they are very data driven, but damn it guys, sit and use the product yourselves, or have you never used a social network before.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just very hypocritical of Google to say that this is a service created to help people share, when sometimes it gets in your way of sharing at the very moment when you feel like sharing something with others.<\/p>\n<p>And you wonder why they still haven&#8217;t opened the gates? It&#8217;s still far from ready to be used by the mainstream user.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What other fundamental features do you think are missing?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2 most fundamental features missing in Google+ (and I don&#8217;t know how else to send them feedback about this) that really really grind my gears are the lack of a +1 button and a &#8220;Share&#8221; link on the picture gallery mode. (My suggestion of where the button and the share link should be) I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear-grinders","category-geeklife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-B1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1722,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/what-people-want-in-google-buzz\/","url_meta":{"origin":2295,"position":0},"title":"What People want in Google Buzz","author":"gubatron","date":"February 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I decided to start a conversation on Buzz about the features that people needed, here's a few crowd sourced feature requests out of a conversation on which over 50 hard-core Buzz users were involved.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geeklife&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geeklife","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/geeklife\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1822,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/googles-financial-trading-team-might-have-way-too-much-advantage\/","url_meta":{"origin":2295,"position":1},"title":"Google&#8217;s Financial Trading Team might have way too much advantage","author":"gubatron","date":"March 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Someone who commented at Silicon Alley Insider seems to think like me: How do you know the traders are not breaching the trust between Google's customers and Google by using information gleaned from say gmail, google docs, android, google voice, google maps, google's calendar, google buzz, orkut, etc.? http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/03\/19\/google-fud-video\/ Susan:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geeklife&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geeklife","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/geeklife\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2765,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/little-things-that-make-people-stay-with-google-when-they-try-bing\/","url_meta":{"origin":2295,"position":2},"title":"Little things that make people stay with Google when they try Bing","author":"gubatron","date":"September 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"After all these years it's sad to see that Bing still doesn't have these simple yet useful features. 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