There's a certain irony here about a Techcrunch Community Director warning Google about the dangers of cross posting inherent in opening up a Write API for G+

So what is this post? A share is OK then, but not a cross-posted copy of the same thing! How about the link on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/drewolanoff/posts/294616453981067 or the like on facebook, http://www.facebook.com/drewolanoff/activity/10151140431388509 Then there's the cross post to Twitter https://twitter.com/TechCrunch/status/256862337720537088 

Cute, huh? And yet, there is clearly a need to make it easy to write once and flow at least a link and preferably a summary to other social networks to get the widest possible visibility and engagement with your intended audience. G+ could make this considerably easier if they produced an Atom/RSS feed of one's public G+ posts since there's already plenty of tools to import these into other platforms. It's such an obvious and pain free extension of the API that it's really quite extraordinary that it hasn't been done yet. Meanwhile, there's always drlvr.it 

Then there's the incompletely fulfilled promise of Friendfeed. There is a genuine need to automatically aggregate all the public posts from anywhere from single person in one place. We just don't want to see this in the main streams. Google is right to be very careful about if and how this might be implemented. It's tempting to suggest a sub-tab off the profile page but there's bound to be unintended consequences of even that.?

ps. Part of the reason for re-posting this is that it's apparently impossible to get engagement on the original post, or on any of the cross posts. The comment streams are now history that nobody is watching. I'm finding this more and more. Just as nobody seems interested in long form articles, It's becoming impossible to have long form discussion. Once the thread is a day or two old, it's gone. I think a big part of the reason for this is not actually about attention span but about the lack of tools to aggregate comments threads you contribute to so you can see in one place if new discussions or replies have been added.  

Drew Olanoff originally shared this post:
dear +Vic Gundotra, please please take your time on that Google+ API. cross posting is an epidemic and a network-killer. 


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