Beshr Kayali

G+ as a Blog?

So, some people have actually started using Google+ as a blog.
Here’s my analysis on this:
Pros:

• It’s dead simple to share stuff, you can even share stuff directly from your Gmail (or any other Google service for that matter, through the top bar, though I would love to see a Chrome extension that adds that bar everywhere).
• Realtime: One of the greatest thing about G+ is the realtime effect. Once you post something, BOOM, it’s there! You don’t even have to work on promoting your post, it’ll immediately reach everyone who’s following you.
• You can Edit your posts after you post them, which is cool
• It works really great with embedding YouTube videos and Links
• You have total control over your post’s privacy settings, like posting it to a certain group of followers (circles) or disabling comments or reshare features.

Cons:

• You can’t have scheduled posts. I’m sure there’s some kind of a hack around this, but it would still require some work
• You can’t have analytics or any kind of ads on your G+ stream (as far as I know)
• There’s no way to add other social sharing buttons, like a Tweet button or a Facebook Like button (yeah right)
• No threaded comments

Honestly, I wouldn’t think of this, at least in the mean time, specially that Google+ is squeezing really tight on G+ business profiles (or any other profiles without a real first name and last name).