» Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:00 pm 
I've been enjoying it so far, but it is certainly still in active testing. There are plenty of rough edges, and things are changing every day. I like how so far most users are geeks, CEOs of various social media companies, and tech journalists. E.g. you can fairly easily join a video conference with Vic Gundotra, Google's VP of social/engineering, or Tom Anderson, founder of MySpace. The prominence of Circles might keep this feel for a while, I think.It might not even be about how good Google+ is, but at this point I think people are ready to adapt to anything that's an alternative to Facebook. Twitter unfortunately does not fill that category.
One aspect of G+ I personally enjoy is that you can use it as both Twitter and Facebook, since relationships are asymmetric; i.e. people you have in your circles don't need to have you in their circles - anything public that they post will still be in your stream.
...my Chrome browser. A nice little notification button at the top, even. I've had something like that for my GMail, and wish I had an icon showing me Facebook notifications so I didn't have to keep checking the actual website every few hours or so.
There are Chrome extensions for both Facebook and Google+ notifications. I don't see much of a need for G+, though, since the top bar shared on most Google products shows notifications, and I'm usually logged into at least one Google product (GMail, mostly).
Also, they should get a chat client that can be used when not on the page itself. I like to use Facebook chat to communicate to all of my friends, but it svcks when it requires both of you to keep Facebook open.
Both Facebook and GChat use the XMPP protocol, so any client that supports it (e.g. Pidgin) can connect to both networks without ever needing to have a browser open.
Anyway, those of you who have gotten in already, feel free to https://profiles.google.com/max99x to a BGSF circle. Those who haven't gotten in, keep trying.
