In­side Google+: Bradley Horowitz talks with Tim O’Reilly

Here’s a new in­ter­view with in­side views on Google+. Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Me­dia. Bradley Horowitz is Vice Pres­i­dent of Prod­uct for Google’s so­cial prod­ucts in­clud­ing Google+.

Mini Reveiw: Tim O’Reilly isa bit more on the tech­ni­cal, ab­stract side, while Bradley Horowitz is more on the prac­ti­cal side, so a few of the ques­tions aren’t re­ally go­ing any­where. Also don’t ex­pect any break­ing news about Google+. But over­all it’s an in­ter­est­ing watch.

It cov­ers top­ics like:

• How’s Google+ dif­fer­ent from other so­cial networks?
• How to keep up with the in­creas­ing speed and vol­ume of the stream?
• Why is it called a field trial?
• How cir­cles elim­i­nate the need for mul­ti­ple accounts.
• How Google works on keep­ing Google+ speedy.
• Is there Spam in Google+?
• How can users con­trol their in­for­ma­tion across dif­fer­ent so­cial sites?
• What about Face­book’s an­nounce­ment this morn­ing? Looks familiar?
• Cre­ative ideas for video hangouts.
• Is a pause but­ton to stop the stream coming?
• Are threaded com­ments coming?
• Im­plicit cir­cles - how com­ment­ing builds new relationships.

Tim O’Reilly had col­lected user ques­tions on Twit­ter and Google+ in ad­vance, these are some of the ques­tions discussed:

• What about the ‘real name vs. pseu­do­nyms’ controversy?
• What about Google+ for busi­nesses and brands?
• How to of­fer Google+ to children?

It also goes into more tech­ni­cal and ab­stract con­cepts be­hind Google+, like:

• Web stacks.
• Data lib­er­a­tion.
• Is this a plat­form de­vel­op­ers can rely on?
• How Google+ wants to pro­tect users from bad apps.
• Is there a fu­ture for open social?

In the end Bradley an­nounces ‘new un­ex­pected fea­tures, that will change how peo­ple think ofthe ser­vice en­tirely.’ Ah, too bad he’s still hush hush about the details.