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Daily Archives: 4 July 2011

Putting squares into Circles

Posted on 4 July 2011 by Geoff

Plus-phone

I don’t think the Circles feature of Google+ deserves the praise it’s getting. The circles themselves are gimmicky and lack utility. It’s good that Google is making privacy a selling point of G+, but I think that’s where the praise for circles should end.

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