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Google Plus: The good, the bad and the ugly
Well, it's been a month since Google Plus was released, making the social giants to shiver, as they're watching their social empires being seriously threatened for the first time. We already showed you all the main features of Google Plus and how to take advantage of them, now we decided to make a complete research with the purpose of detecting the pros and contras regarding this new social network. We hope this analysis can help the Google team make the required adjustments in order to deliver an even better service that can help them place Plus on top of the social services.
The good things
It's really easy to gather a list of positive things about Plus, after all it's not free that they're currently the biggest social sensation nowadays. The developing team at Google took note of all the errors that made Google Wave and Google Buzz turn out being some of the biggest failures on the history of the company, so that's why they have been really careful on the design process of Plus to deliver a quality, fast and attractive product that can help Google make its official entrance into the social media world. Now let's take a look at the main reasons why we consider that Google Plus is such an awesome product.
Clean design that makes the navigation easier
The first thing your eyes will notice when staring at Plus' interface is its cleanliness and simplicity. One of the reasons behind the previous failures of the company could be pointed to the poor design due the complete focus over performance, so this time Google decided to consider design as a relevant aspect and that's why they hired Andy Hertzfeld, an original member of the Macintosh era.
Walking hand in hand with Andy's aid, Google has managed to create a really attractive interface. Plus' design features a simple interface that reminds you of Facebook's, which is a great start because after all, most people that will be joining Plus have spent many years on FB, so by having a similar interface, it will be easy for people to navigate throughout the page. But Google Plus is not just a copycat of Facebook's design, what they did was capturing the most important elements and then give them a modern and cleaner look, so the user will feel like visiting something that is actually innovative and compelling.
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The interface is well designed, with all the elements easy to reach (with some exceptions) and thanks to the abundance of white, people will feel comfortable while visiting Plus. You can definitely sense the influence of Hertzfeld throughout the page, with tons of clean spaces, simple typefaces and very intuitive call to action buttons.
Pixel perfect elements
Along with the simple and sober design, Plus features many beautiful elements made pixel by pixel, which is commonly known as the pixel perfect technique. Some of these pixel elements that you will be interacting the most are right on your status bar, you can see how the designers managed to express camera, video, link and location in really simplistic icons.
Subtle shadows
To continue discussing the design aspects that we like about Plus, we find an excellent shadows' usage in several parts of the interface. These shadows are really subtle elements that in less than 2 pixels are able to give texture and add a certain volume to the different parts of Plus, just like you can see on the next example.
Circles, a great way of organizing your friends
Before Google Plus, all the social networks had a similar method for managing your friends, you needed to create multiple lists and organize your contacts just as if you were using your email account, this method is still effective and helps you keep control over your contacts, but Google realized that there was a better way of doing this, a method that will help people manage their contacts with ease and in less time.
This method is known as Circles (it seems like the guy played by Robert de Niro in Meet the Fockers gave Google the idea for this name hahaha), the biggest sensation among Plus users. What Circles does is keeping your contacts on several subgroups that you can customize at free will, then when you are about to publish something, you just need to choose the circle(s) that will be able to see the post, so you won't ever have to worry about your Mom discovering your pictures with your girlfriend. You can have a person in more than just one circle and create as many circles you want, so the level of privacy that you can achieve is definitely the best thing inside Plus.
Another nice detail regarding design is that when you roll over a contact, the circles where the person is currently included are highlighted, so you can easily know if every person has been properly classified and you have not included your ex-girlfriend in the Family Circle by accident.
Drag and drop events
One of the greatest things that put Google Plus above other social networks is its great interactivity . In the case of circles, you can drag and drop your contacts into the circles you choose, making not only easier but more amusing than using the old system. There might be a problem because most people is not used to drag and drop elements, though we consider that it eventually become one of the best features of Plus.
As you can see on the previous pictures, you can select multiple contacts and drag them into a specific circle, which is definitely a major improvement in the way you manage your friends. It could be a problem at first because people is still acquainted with the old method but in the long term, we think that this drag and drop style will become the next trend.
You can even select multiple pictures from your computer and drag them to the share bar in Plus, the site will automatically detect that you're dragging an element into the search bar and will let you drop them and then share them with your circles.
HTML5 animations
Sure you can have a successful site without having animated elements on it, but when you're competing against real titans the battle can be defined by small details like animated objects. Plus has included many subtle and natty animations that people will definitely love, the best example of this can be found on Circles, where every time you drag a new element into a circle, it expands through a nice elastic animation made with HTML5.
Keep all your +1 links in one tab.
We can't deny the big changes that Facebook's like button brought to social media, it gave people the power to state their position regarding people's posts and web articles without having to leave a comment. Likes became the easiest way of saying that you approve something and therefore people is now able to measure the value of a content based on the amount of links.
The problem came when you decide to save a link you like to check it later or show it to your friends when you arrive home, these 'likes' are not stored in a specific box, so you're unable of retrieving them to check again that Wii review that you enjoyed a couple of weeks ago.
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Google took the same premise behind the Like button and developed +1, a social button that at first was seen by people as a simple imitation of Facebook's Like, then we saw the real power of +1 and how will it affect things like SEO and ranking systems. This +1 button is another way of expressing your pleasantness towards a content that now also works inside the Plus network; until this point, the functionality of +1 looked very similar to Like, but thanks to Google Plus, people will now prefer to give a +1 rather than a Like to new publications, the reason of this is that when you visit your Plus profile, a new tab named +1's is displayed, this tab stores all the +1 that you have made since day one, making possible for you to find all the things that you've liked in the past!.
View Profile As
Everyone knows that an effective way of facing a large brand is finding its weak points and leverage them, which is exactly what Google did for introducing Plus as a real competition for Facebook. One of Facebook's main flaws is definitely privacy that even when it has been improved year after year, it still has many problems to be fixed.
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How many times have you uploaded a picture of your latest binge with your friends and despite of thinking that you adjusted the privacy so no one besides your folks was able to see it, it turns out that your Boss was a mutual friend with one of the guys that attended the party and therefore he ended watching your pictures?. This common problem in Facebook has been solved in several ways in Google Plus and one of these ways is through the 'view profile as' feature.
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Thanks to this feature, you can see how other people are watching your profile (the only way of doing this in Facebook is logging in using another account), you can see how every person outside your circles sees your profile or in case that you're worried about what your Boss can see, then you can type his name and verify that he's not seeing those compromising pictures of last night.
Accessible from the top bar while using any Gmail product
Google has the advantage of having an enormous set of online applications that people utilize everyday on their jobs or free time. You often need to check your email, share a document or check your RSS subscriptions, so having Plus next to these applications was an obvious idea for taking advantage of the wide array of apps that Google has to offer
If you want to check your Plus account while checking Gmail or writing a document in Docs, you just need to click on your +username that appears on the top left corner of your browser.
Interactive Mini Bar
Having Plus on the top bar does not limit to a simple link that can take you back to your Plus account, you know that Google is always trying to take things one step ahead of the rest. If you check your Google top bar you're going to realize on the right side of it a small section with your Plus name, a share bar and a couple more of items, so let's see what this is about.
You can think of this bar as a mini-Plus that goes along with the user while he's utilizing other Google applications. If you make click over your Plus' username or your icon, a small menu will display where you can go check your profile, manage your circles, change your account settings or logout using a different Plus account.
The share bar allows you to share your thoughts, attach photos, videos or links and publish them in your stream without having to return to Plus, so now you will be able to stay in touch with your friends at anytime while using any of the Google apps.
But definitely the best thing about this mini-Plus is that you can check all your notifications as long as you're utilizing one of Google's products. The notifications are classified in comments (red icon) and people that have added you to their circles (green icons).
But you can do more than just checking your notifications, you can click on them and as you can see on the previous picture, add a comment, +1 the post and check all the other notifications, so this is definitely an amazing feature that will keep you connected to Plus while you check your Gmail and add notes into Calendar.
GTalk integration inside Plus
Google has taken advance of having what is probably the most popular mail service worldwide (Gmail) to boost the power of Plus. One of the main features of Gmail is GTalk, the small chat service employed by millions of people around the world, now GTalk has been integrated with Plus, so you won't have to be at Gmail or install the desktop version, just go to your Plus stream and you will find GTalk on the left side of the page.
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Great feedback channel
One of the reasons why Buzz and Wave failed was that Google overlook people's opinion as they considered that the two products were destined to be a major hit, now that we know what happened with those two, we know that Google is not willing to hit a third strike on its look for a piece of the cake in the social networking world.
Although it could be a little more noticeable, the 'send feedback' button can be found through all the windows, you just need to click on it and you will be able to share with your thoughts regarding Plus with the Google team.
Once the feedback window shows up, you can highlight the exact part of the page where the problem appeared, then you can also 'hide' any personal information that you want to preserve from being watched by the support team. This is definitely an excellent feedback service, the only thing missing for review is how fast the Google team replies to your query.
Use your Gmail account directly in Plus
If you have a contact who used his Gmail account for registering in Plus, then you can use your Gmail account to send him a message, so you're not only sending him a private message à la Facebook but actually sending him an email to his Gmail account, another right guess from the Google team.
Send private mentions
But what happens when a person does not have a Gmail account or for some mysterious reasons you're not able of sending him an email via Plus?, well in that case what you can do is send a private mention, which is an evolution of Twitter's mention system that has been so popular during the recent years.
To mention a person, you need to type the @ symbol just like you do in Facebook and Twitter, or you can use the Plus style and type down the + symbol, either method works fine. Once you type down the first letter of the person you want to mention, an autofill box fill will display showing you the possible name(s) that you're looking for.
Now the message that you're sending will only appear on your friend's stream, so no one else will find out about this hidden conversation between you and him (her), this is definitely a nice idea of combining private messages with Twitter's mention system.
If you want to mention the person but you also want to share the publication with your circles, just add them to the share box, that way you will be mentioning the person but also sharing the post with the rest of your friends, just like a Twitter mention.
Filter stream results according to your circles
Some of the things in Facebook that bothers people the most is not being able of filtering their homepage, the only chance you got is removing a person for your stream, but then you will never see again that person's updates, which is something very uncool. Google Plus has implemented a better system that allows you to filter the incoming posts from your contacts without having to remove them.
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When you land on Plus homepage, you will find all your circles on the left sidebar under the Stream section. All you need to do is switch between the different circles to see only the updates coming from the people within that circle, so you can easily check what your college friends have to say without missing the latest post from your favorite blog.
Share your location
Since GPS and Google Earth went mainstream, people began to understand how to take advantage of positioning systems to let others know their location, organize meetings and more, that's why pages like Foursquare have become enormously popular. Now that more and more people are acquiring smartphones and mobile devices, sharing the current location has become something normal and that's something that Google understood.
Plus utilizes the Google Maps service to let you insert your current location in your profile in a precise level, you can add your current location as well as places where you've previously lived.
And to make it even greater, Plus allows you to insert your location at the moment of sharing a post, you just have to click on the red balloon icon and Google will automatically direct your position. Although this is a really cool service, it's important to be careful of the people you share your location with, so don't forget to use your circles wisely.
Interactive photo albums
Implementing a photo album inside a social network is a simple and necessary process, not in vain there are thousands of pictures being uploaded every minute to Facebook, Twitpic, Flickr and more. Until this point, all pages have offered simple photo albums where you can visualize, tag and add comments to pictures, but there was nothing beyond that until now.
When you browse though the different photo albums in Plus, the system displays a nice animation that shows you some of the pictures inside the album, a nice idea for knowing more about what's inside an album without having to open it.
And once you are inside the album, every time you roll over a picture, it pops up instead of using the classic highlight effect, which is definitely another nice touch that Plus has included.
Photo viewer
Another great feature of Plus is its awesome photo viewer. You can explore through the different pictures, add comments, tag people and even check the properties of a picture; the viewer is not a major revolution in front of other sites but it's definitely faster and easier to use.
The interface is clean and organized, it opens in fullscreen (unlike Facebook) to prevent accidental exits by clicking outside the window. This viewer therefore can be considered as an updated version of FB's photo viewer.
Upload pictures directly from your phone
There's no doubt that one of the major battle fields where social networks will have to face each other on the next years is mobile devices, having a good desktop version it's no longer enough as there are more and more people accessing from their smartphones every day. One of the problems that Facebook has not been able to figure out is the upload system via mobile devices, this because the process takes a lot of time and you cannot store them with ease.
The Plus application includes a neat function named 'Instant Uploads', this function lets you upload your photos and have them immediately online in a private album that only you can edit, so the only thing you need to do is upload the photos and then adjust the privacy settings from your computer.
Another advantage is that unlike iCloud, Plus has no limit on the number of pictures that you can store, so you can upload thousands and thousands of photos and as along as Google is still alive, you won't have to worry about your pictures being lost in cyberspace.
You can edit photos directly on Plus
But the photo viewer is not only appealing and functional but it also has been enhanced with a killer feature that makes the ultimate photo viewer. Many people (specially girls) like to add effects and filters to their pictures before uploading them, and the only way of doing this is passing the pictures through photo editors such as Picnic. This process was kind of cumbersome but it was the only way of doing it until now, because fortunately, Plus has included some nice photo effects directly on the viewer.
Of course you can't expect a lite Photoshop or something like that, however you can find 6 different effects that cover all the main processes that people like to apply to their pictures. These effects include Cross Process (the popular vintage look), Black and White, Orton (similar to Photoshop's Diffuse Glow) and more.
Automatically migrate your photos from Blogger
When Google releases a new product, it doesn't mean that older versions or products will be discontinued but on the opposite, they always try to integrate the different Google products to create a single Google network. If you're one of the thousands of people with a Blogger page, Plus can automatically import all your Blogger pictures to your Plus profile, saving you a lot of time while migrating all the pictures manually.
Check additional properties of a picture
As we said before, the photo viewer does not only look good but also includes some nice features that make it the best visualizer around, giving you the chance of adding comments, tag people and even adding cool effects!. In case that you're a photographer or have certain affinity with the field, then this next feature will astonish you.
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When you're previewing a picture on Plus' photo viewer, you can display the Actions menu to do different things, including reporting the photo, delete it or rotate it, though the nicest option you have is checking the photo properties, just click on 'Photo Details' and after a nice animation flips the photo, all the main properties regarding the picture will show up.
Most modern cameras have the capacity of storing the main information of a photo, even if it is modified or edited. This information can be visualized just like you can on Flickr, it gives you the photographer's name, date of take, camera model and even the histogram!.
One-click profile editing
Probably we're getting a little too harsh with Facebook (you can scroll down to read some of the bad aspects of Plus) but it's just the best site to compare Plus with. When you want to edit your profile in FB, it takes you to a new window where you edit all your information through multiple options, this system works well but it was kind of slow and tiresome.
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Editing your Plus profile is much easier and user-friendly and you won't even have to open a new window. The one-click editing lets you click on the part of the profile you want to edit and then save the changes, this system is definitely more effective than FB's and represents a new paradigm on how the user will interact with social websites on the feature.
YouTube integration with hangouts
Hangouts is another fascinating feature that Plus has included for all his users. Hangouts allows you to host / attend videoconferences with up to 10 peoples at the same time, you can host a hangout anytime you want and share it with the rest of the world, so they can stop by and say hello whenever they want. This service is already been implemented by some companies as a way to provide customer service to their clients at all time.
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But hangouts is more than just a conference room, you can also activate the regular chat window for those who don't have a microphone or prefer to remain anonymous. But definitely the coolest thing is that you can watch YouTube videos with all the hangout guests at the same time, which is something that had not been done before.
Mute a person inside your hangout
When you're hosting a hangout and someone becomes really annoying (starts yelling, cursing or something like that), you can simply mute that user to restore the harmony among the rest of the brotherhood, though the user can restore the volume after a while.
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Easily share YouTube videos
Although sharing a YouTube video in Twitter or Facebook is simple (just paste the link in your wall or click on the share button while visiting YouTube), Google Plus has made this process even easier and functional, they've definitely took advantage of being the YouTube owners after all.
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If you want to share the video from your stream, just click on the 'Upload Video' button and then select YouTube, of course you can also paste the link directly but we want to show you what happens after you click on that option.
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What happens when you select the 'YouTube' option is that a new window opens, which is practically a mini YouTube directly on Plus. You can search for a video, enter an URL or select from your uploaded videos in case that you have a YouTube account, you can also preview the videos directly on Plus, so it's no longer necessary to open YouTube in order to find that hip hop video you saw the other day.
Fullscreen videos
Now you don't have to open the original link of a shared video in case that you want to see it in fullscreen, Google Plus opens any shared video in a large window that can be expanded to full screen, while preserving all the quality of the video and just like it happens with pictures, you can leave a comment and see additional properties when available.
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Forbid comments on your posts
When you post something in Facebook, there's no way to prevent people from leaving comments on it, so the only way to fix this is deleting each comment manually until people gets bored of trying to leave their thoughts on that Friday's gig video.
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With Plus this problem has been fixed, you just need to click on the upper right button to display the post options and choose 'Disable comments' to make your post immune against undesired comments.
Prevent people from sharing your posts
The second thing that people don't like about Facebook (Twitter solved this problem by creating private profiles) is that anyone can share their posts to their friends, making possible that your friends share your wedding's video and somehow it arrives to your fiancé's wall, that's just not right.
Plus also took care of this by inserting next to 'Disable comments' another useful option dubbed 'Disable reshare'; this option keeps your posts in your stream only, so you won't have to worry about your drunk video becomes viral because someone decided to spread the word.
Edit your posts without having to republish
A while ago, Facebook incorporated a new feature that helps people edit comments without having to delete them, this feature apparently works during a certain span because when we've tried to edit old comments, FB simply eliminates them. As we've said, this feature only covers comments, whilst posts are un-editable once you publish them.
Google Plus on the other hand, understands that you may want to change a publication even after weeks of being published, so that's why they've included an 'Edit this post' option that lets you edit a post, insert links and even check the current privacy settings.
Animated profile pictures
If you had the chance of seeing the new version of Facebook a few months ago, then you know that the new FB interface was supposedly going to have interactive profile pictures and sliding photos, unfortunately this never happened and now Google Plus has taken advantage of it by placing animated profile pictures inside Plus.
This is definitely one of the most awesome features in Plus and another negative point for Facebook. Now people can see all your profile pictures without having to explore the entire profile album. This nice animation could be implemented on later versions of Plus to produce an even greater interface.
Contras / things to improve
But even Google has issues, specially when it comes to new social products. Google Plus is definitely the best chance that Google has to finally position a decent social product, its awesome features and functionality have definitely amazed more than one, however, the product is still in a development phase and that's why there are many issues to correct.
Some of these issues are related with design, which is something that can be easily improved, while others have to do with more delicate things such as privacy. Now we're going to review the main problems that we've found after using Plus for over a week.
No Share/Tweet link
Certainly Sparks is one of the most interesting features in Plus, it lets you organize something similar to a RSS (though you follow topics instead of websites) and hence you can check all the latest news from the themes that you're interested about. When you find an interesting article on the internet, you can instantly share it on Facebook or Twitter through the Share/Tweet buttons, but what happens with Plus?.
As you can see on the picture, sharing a post found via Sparks is really simple, just click on the Share button, adjust the privacy settings and you're done. But what happens when you find something outside of Sparks and you want to share it?, the only option in that case is give the article a +1 to save it in your +1's tab and then share it, so one of the things to improve is implement a tweet-like button that allows you to share something directly in your Plus stream.
Mutual Sparks
Many social websites (specially dating pages and similar) have developed a browsing system that allows you to meet new people based on common interests and affinities, this system has been implemented in Twitter through the 'Who to follow' tab, which suggest you several people based on your interest and also lets you check specific topics and then find new people to follow, so far this method has produced excellent results on the Twitter community, which is one of the reason why more people is joining this website every day.
In Google Plus, you can only find people through their email, so if they're not connected to you via Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail, it can be really difficult to find them as the only chance you got is typing down their name on the search bar. Our suggestion to Google is implement a following system that compares mutual Sparks and then provides a list of possible matches to be added in your circles.
Sparks button not so easy to find
Although the general design of Plus is indeed excellent, there are a couple of things that should be assessed for the next version of this promising social product. As we said before, Sparks is one of the nicest features in Plus because it keeps you informed of the latest news while enjoying your Plus experience.
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But how are you supposed to enjoy Sparks if you can't even know where to find them?. As you can notice on the previous picture, the Sparks button is probably one of the latest things you notice because it has been placed between the Stream and Chat windows, making it look as if it was part of one of them. The solution might be highlighting Sparks or utilize a divisor line like the ones you can see on the right sidebar.
'More Actions' button is unnecessary
Even when a good practice in web design is trying to reduce the amount of categories displayed on a menu by merging them into main sections, this practice should not be overused. When you have at least 3 or 4 elements that can be merged into a single menu, then you can proceed and reduce the amount of items, but when you only have one or two items, merging them is kind of unnecessary.
When you're at the Circles tab, one of the options you find is 'More actions', this title makes you think that there's a lot of things to do with your contact, but the truth is that it only displays the 'Select All' option and 'Block' in case that you have chosen a contact, so in this case we consider that it was unnecessary merging these two options inside a menu.
Interconnecting Circles
Circles are definitely a great way of organizing your contacts while enjoying a compelling animation (our favorite one occurs when you eliminate a circle), you can easily manage your privacy settings and keep your contacts in order, however, this idea could be taken to a higher level and become something really innovative.
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A great idea might be developing an animated flowchart that showcases the relation between your different contacts (who knows who and who doesn't), this could be an awesome idea to help you build a community or identify market targets, though there might be some privacy settings that should be parsed before developing these flowcharts.
Implement a hashtag-like system
Once you dominate Twitter, you know that it can become a real-time browser thanks to hashtags. These 'special' words are utilized to make a tweet to show up on the results page when a person looks for it. Of course there's a lot of people that overuse them but still, hashtags are some of the best things inside Twitter to help you find new and quality contents.
Because Google Plus is growing rapidly, it may be a nice idea to implement a hashtag-like system that along with Sparks aids people browse their interests and meet new people in the process. Maybe the best way of doing this will be integrating the people search bar with the Sparks search section.
Security policies
One of the aspects where Facebook has always been more closer to its users is security and privacy. Facebook understands that people not always like to share their real names and often prefer to work using their company's name or some fictitious character that they love, that's why Facebook (and Twitter) don't seem to have a problem with this and given the case that a person is using a fake profile to share malicious data, then the person is invited to quit those suspicious activities and if the person ignores the recommendation, then the company bans his account.
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Unlike Facebook and Twitter, Plus (and Google in general) has some really strict privacy and security policies that sometimes go beyond all reason. We were victims of this a couple of weeks ago when we created our Google Plus account using our company's name, we got banned after a couple of days just for using that name instead of a person's last and first name.
Many people have been victim of these irrational privacy policies (even Star Trek's William Shatner got expelled from the network) and this could end up giving back some lost terrain to other social networks. Plus features a pretty cool section inside the 'About' tab known as nicknames where you can add your company's name and artistic pseudonym without getting banned, the problem is that the option is overlooked by many people at the moment of filling their profiles. Google should soften a little bit these policies or figure out a way in which people can choose several names to display according to the person that's visiting his profile.
Drag events should be easier to discover
We have already talked about the amazing drag and drop events that Plus has incorporated throughout its site, specially on the Circles section. These events were specially made for mobile devices when dragging elements is one of the most common things to do, however, there seems to be a problem that Google did not consider at the time of making these drag and drop animations.
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Due the fact that we have many web designers in our company, it was easy to discover all the fascinating animations and drag & drop events included in Plus, but for a regular user, this might seem a little tricky. When a person wants to remove a contact from a circle, he would expect to find an X symbol next to the contact, but because will not find that button, the next solution will be making right click, which will take him to the picture you see above, from that window he will be able to remove a contact and save the changes, but the easiest way of removing a contact did not cross his mind during the process, so why did this happen?
The reason is that unless you are an avid mobile user, people is not acquainted to drag and drop events for interacting in a website, so there should be some sort of message to indicate to the user that he can simply drag the contact outside the circle, this can be achieved by simply placing a tooltip that shows up when the user passes the cursor over the contact, that way he will know what to do.
Circles + GTalk
Circles are great to organize contacts and handle your privacy, while GTalk helps you stay connected with your business partners and be available at all time. If we take these two features and blend them, then Google will obtain an even more powerful chat service that boosts GTalk with the power and awesomeness of Circles.
What you currently see on Plus' sidebar is your Circles on top of the Stream section and your GTalk below, it would be an awesome improvement if you can classify your GTalk contacts in Circles, so you can see only the ones you need to talk about and even remain hidden for the rest, then it could be even greater if you add some hangout qualities to it.
Collapsing threads
This is something that must definitely be checked asap. Yesterday, we were checking one of the latest posts from Mashable and we noticed that there were plenty of comments on it, so we decided to expand the thread to see what people were saying about that publication, then once we read the comments, we wanted to collapse the thread back but surprisingly there was no way of doing this.
This is how the post looked before we expand the 48 older comments inside the thread, nothing weird so far, but now let's see what happened once we decided to expand these comments.
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Then we expanded the thread and the post practically covered almost the whole site due the large amount of comments, which was not a problem as we actually wanted to read the comments, the problem showed up when we finished reading and we decided to collapse the thread, there was no way of doing it!, we tried reloading the page, switching tabs and nothing, the thread remained expanded, so we had no other choice but shutting down the browser.
Cannot browse contacts from multiple Gmail accounts
When you want to add new contacts to your Circles, Google gives you a list with people that have added you and another one where you can Find and Invite, this last section displays all your current Gmail contacts and also lets you browse inside your Yahoo and Hotmail accounts.
The problem is that while you can explore your Yahoo and Hotmail accounts, there's no way of migrating multiple Gmail accounts with ease, so the only solution you have is exporting your contacts from all your Gmail accounts and then import them through the 'Upload address book'. Plus should definitely include the chance of browsing multiple Gmail accounts because many people have more than one account, usually created for managing personal contacts in one account and professionals on the other.
Fan and business pages
We cannot criticize the fact that Google has not released these services yet because after all, the main goal is to persuade a wide sector of the population to join Plus, however, it's important to remember Google about this and share some great tools that might be incorporated once that fan and business pages are released.
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The previous image shows how business and fan pages would probably look once they're published, you can notice that Circles for companies will include fans, employees and brand managers, which is something really great for building a community's identity. Google has announced that some of the possible services that will be included on fan/business pages are Google Meetings (hangouts for companies), Google Screencast (nice tool that allows you to share your computer's screen with others), Google Whiteboard (A Notepad-like application that appears while attending a meeting to help people take notes throughout the conference). Now we'll have to way until these pages are released to see what they're all about.
Hiding people inside Circles' suggestions
This problem can be probably solved with ease but yet we decided to mention it in case that someone has not noticed it yet. As you can see on the next image, there's a tiny dashed line between the current circles and the suggestions, this line helps Plus organize its contents while conserving simplicity at its best.
But this element does more than just providing a certain balance between Circles and suggestions, you can hold click over the line and drag it to reduce the amount of contacts that are displayed on the suggestions section. The problem is that this line does not always follow the dragging actions (we tried this on different browsers and not even Chrome does it right) and therefore most people don't like it.
Does not suggest the best size for your profile picture
When you upload a new profile picture, it seems OK from the upload window, but once you save the changes, the image suffers a serious decrement in terms of quality, resulting in pixellated, low quality pictures. This happens because Plus automatically resizes the picture to an unspecified value.
As you can see, the profile picture looks perfect in the upload window, you can rotate it or crop it and then save the changes. At this point you should receive a hint on which one is the best format, the best size and measures to avoid pixellation effects from showing up.
It seems like Plus resizes all profile pictures to make them fix inside a specific canvas, that's why the profile picture that looked so neat on the upload window now seems pixelated and unpleasant. We consider that Plus should specify a determined size for profile pictures in order to prevent things like these from happening.
The Bragging Rights
We know that when a new social product is launched, it tries to implement new features to help them stand aside from similar websites. On the case of Google Plus, they have incorporated awesome things such as Google Maps for letting know your current location and Nicknames to help people find you with ease, but what about the 'Bragging rights'?.
We've read many people's opinions saying that the bragging rights are awesome because now they can share with the world all their accomplishments and stuff, but if there's already an Occupation section plus Employment and Introduction, you can easily insert your bragging rights within one of them, so we think that though the idea was kind of cool, it does not have a real application whatsoever.
Remember chosen Circles
We include this item because we were personally affected by it. When you make a post and you want to share it with certain people, you just need to choose the proper circles and individually insert the contacts that are currently outside those circles but you would like to share the post with them.
Google thought that remembering the latest circles used by a person in a post was a nice feature, however, it turns out to be a problem because sometimes you might forget to adjust this and end up sharing the content with someone you didn't want to. So we consider that Plus should not insert the latest Circles automatically but instead collocate an option dubbed 'use my latest circles' or something like that.
Confirmation dialog
When you want to remove a contact from your circles, there is no X symbol to click on, which is something we talked about previously, while in the contacts suggestions, this X symbol does show up. The problem we saw is that though it's useful to have the X button to remove a contact with ease, people might accidentally click on it and hide the contact by accident.
What happens is that when you make click on the X button, the selected contact is automatically removed from the list, even if you did not have the intention of doing that, so it's definitely necessary to insert a confirmation dialog that shows up before the contact gets actually removed.
Misunderstanding the mail icon
In general terms, Plus' design is definitely amazing thanks to its simplicity and navigability, you can easily find the different options and organize your stream, though we have detected a small problem that in the end could be leveraged for Plus' benefit.
This problem is regarding the small mail icons that appear next to the contacts that are not currently in Google Plus. This icon represents that the person is not in Plus and you can only share your updates with him via email, the problem is that people may think that clicking on the icon will automatically take them to Gmail, so what Google could do is allow people to send an email to that person by simply clicking on that mail icon.
Update your status from the profile
Although you can update your status at any time using the top bar, it should be an status bar on top of your profile section, so you can easily update your status while checking your previous updates, though this is not indispensable and the only reason of this is that people is already used to update their status right from their Facebook profile page.
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Although inserting the stream bar on the place we're pointing might result in a saturated profile, this should be considered for an initial phase while people gets acquainted with the whole Plus functionality and starts letting go the old Facebook habits.
Animated pictures in Firefox and IE
On the first section of this article we talked about the awesome animated profile pictures, a slick idea that will allow people to check all your profile pictures without having to check the profile album itself. However, when we decided to check how these animations were displayed on other browsers we were surprised when we saw that Firefox 5 and IE7 cannot display them.
According to our developing experts, the reason of this problem might be explained by the fact that Google developed Plus considering Firefox 4 capacities, so when Firefox 5 was released, there was no support for it, which may be the same problem regarding IE. We hope that the Google crew will fix this issue soon as there are many Firefox users (including us) out there.
Sort post based on date
It seems like Plus has not only harnessed the best aspects of Twitter and Facebook but has also paid attention to other important sites such as Digg and Reddit, which might be good in terms of finding relevant information and using Google Plus as a news feed, but this could also generate some problems such as the one we found whilst we were trying to visualize our oldest publications.
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Google Plus organizes the incoming posts based on popularity and relevance, which means that an article released a week ago might appear on top of an article that was published an hour ago. This method works great in case that you want to find quality content only, but if you want to know the latest updates from your friends, whether if they're important or not, Plus becomes a problem because it does not let you sort posts according to the publishing date.
Threaded comments
Currently there's no problem if you want leave a comment in a post, just type down the comment and send it, but in case that you want to respond a comment left by another person, Plus does not leave you that choice, giving you the opportunity of simply +1 the comment.
As you can see on the previous picture, you can't leave a comment as a response to another, so people might not realize that you're actually replying to their message. This system should be improved based on other social networks such as Digg or Reddit, that way you can easily browse throughout different threads and see how things are going inside a post.
+1's inside Google Plus
One of the advantages that the +1 button has in front of FB's Like is that all the links that you have voted using the +1 button get stored inside your Plus account, you just need to check the +1's tab and you get instant access to all your +1's links.
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But what about the posts and comments inside Plus that you +1?. These +1 votes are not stored inside the +1's tab and apparently they cannot be retrieved from a single place, so maybe Plus needs to incorporate a history tab where all the movements you make inside Plus are stored, including comments, shares and of course +1 votes.
Spam mentions inside Plus
This final aspect is probably the major security breach inside Google Plus. While we were testing the site prior we start writing this article, we saw that you can mention a person using the @ o + symbols, which until that point seemed normal, we mentioned some friends and they mentioned us back just to see how mentions work inside Plus, but then we came up with the idea of asking a friend to remove us from all his circles and we did the same, then we checked if it was still possible to send a mention to that person despite of not being connected at all inside Plus.
After removing this contact from all our circles, we prepared this message that was specifically directed to him, who had also removed us from his circles by this point.
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And even after having eliminated us, our friend received the notification of the mention we made, would you imagine a major personality being bombarded by hundreds of these spammy mentions?, we browsed through all the configuration options and we did not find a way of preventing these mentions from reaching our Stream, so this is definitely a major issue that Google needs to resolve asap.
Final thoughts
So that's all for this roundup, we have evaluated all the good and bad aspects of Plus, we know that the product is still on a primal phase and there are many things yet to be improved, however we consider that the site is definitely the best chance that Google has had so far to finally find his way inside the social media world, hopefully the arrival of Plus can motivate Twitter and Facebook to deliver even better products that at the end of the day will be helpful for all of us the users.
What are your thoughts about Plus?, would you be willing to give at try and even say goodbye to your old Facebook account?, the debate is open and you can join it by checking our comments section. Don't forget that if you haven't received a Plus invitation yet, you can leave us a comment in our Free Google Invitations article and we'll be more than glad of sending you one.
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74 Responses to "Google Plus: The good, the bad and the ugly"
ya the Google Plus design is amazing may be they are just testing… :D
it is the good product you can enjoy it
Great article.
I keep reading about Google+. This is a great guide to explain it in depth (the screen shots were particularly informative).
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Thank you Simon, hopefully Plus will continue to evolve until it becomes a truly powerful sharing network.
August 17thGreat read. I think I am going to share it G+. :)
Hey that's awesome, thanks Bon and don't forget to check all our updates in our Plus channel…
Great review thanks for the post. keep up to good works.
Thanks, sure we will continue delivering the best web design and social articles…
August 18thI did not have a chance to read all of this, as I am about to head to work, but you are absolutely wrong on the view profile as section of this article. You say the only way Facebook allows for that is to log in to another account. I say you are completely wrong. You can view how others see your profile through your privacy settings. Get facts straight before posting articles, it is common knowledge.
Hi Josh, as you can see in Robert's comment, he said the same thing. We are not too much into Facebook and hence we have much knowledge about the site, after all this is a clear evidence of how much we dig Plus. Anyhow you're right about talking without knowing all the facts.
August 18thYou write …. "Thanks to this feature, you can see how other people are watching your profile (the only way of doing this in Facebook is logging in using another account)".
BUT Facebook actually DOES have this feature in Choose your privacy settings/Customise settings.
The fact that you were not aware just highlights how much better Google+ has implemented it.
Hey Robert, thanks for the insights. We've never been truly Facebook lovers, so that's probably why we did not realize that. Definitely Google Plus has made a much greater work in terms of interface.
August 18thThey actually just made some big changes to the comments section of posts. They scroll live and you can expand/collapse them really easily. It handles it really really well now.
Oh that's awesome Eddie!, at the time of writing this article that feature had not been applied yet…
August 18thThere is no need for a confirmation dialog when clicking on the x symbol because Google provides a undo function after every action. At the top of the page it says you just removed 18 people from circle X do you wish to undo? This is the confirmation dialogue, it's already included but it removes the extra step for the user. The confirmation is only useful if you've made a mistake, and assuming the user is making a mistake every time they make an action is rude and annoying to the end user. Assume that what they've done is intentional and let them undo it if it wasn't. Google has this right, and there's no need for the confirmation.
Mmm you're probably right Kevin, we know that the confirmation dialog shows up before you finish an action, however we consider that many average user may not know this and therefore it can be a little troublesome.
Very nice article!
Let's see in the future if Google+ can become a real Facebook competitor…-
You're right Alessandro, though they will probably be able to coexist after all :P…
Google plus would take social networking to a new level and has succeeded in doing so till now. There are many features that we wish that they are available in G+ but it would take time and I am sure G+ is going to have the best features that a social networking site should have. By the way, I have bookmarked this blog as I liked it a lot and I want to study it in more detail for future references. Thanks.
Thank you Linette, we truly appreciate your comments and support :D…
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August 19thYou haven't researched enough, like blocking connections (not just removing them), etc.
While reading your contras, I so so so wanted to simply send this page to Mr. Page, but I won't do that yet. I don't want to appear naive…
Wow, what a great analysis about Google+! I'm impressed.Even if there are some weaknesses, it seems this is the best existing social network so far.
Unfortunately I haven't got an invitation yet and would be happy about one!
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August 23rdYou can still get free invites at http://www.free-google-plus.com It's the only site I know that works since Google stopped allowing the public.
Ho fine one
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August 29thThe information included is excellent. I am new to Google + and hope to start using it soon. As I read the commentary I became aware of some errors in the text. At first they seemed to be typos but as I noticed more errors it became apparent that the person who wrote the text, although competent in English, was not a native speaker of English. The errors are grammatical and problems with usage. It was also apparent that whoever proofread the text, if it was proofread by another reader, did not correct the errors. The errors do not interfere with understanding the text but they are a distraction. I apologize for being picky in this respect but the errors cause me to question the professional aspect of this site. Sorry
Very truly yours,
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Really great article and an unexpectantly through look. I think theyve done really well with + but the new gmail look leaves a lot to be desired. The contrast levels are just not enough to make out anything.
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Great blog and info on google plus merits and demerits
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Elaborated post on google plus and how to use it. One must read this in order to understand about google plus.
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You're a real deep thinker. Thanks for sahring.
I think you are right, Google plus will be hurting to the Facebook. Google came out this to compete with facebook and social business. google have given bonus to their employee based on social engagement.
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i precum a lot when i´m edging for hours. and i mean alot!! i just love precum on a guy, love lickin it, fingering his dick under his foreskin n suckin it together... great!
but i also have LOTS of postcum (if there is such a word) up to an hour after cumming i keep on oozing like crazy, always leaving a big nice stain in my undies. and that makes me even more horny and i have to jerk off again... this is great on a day off or on weekends when i can stay in an just jerk off over and over! (yeah i know, i have no life! haha)
^^ Hey, that sounds like my perfect home alone day too - edging for hours and hours - oozing pre-cum - loads of spunk when I do cum smeared all around chest, arse and balls - stinking shorts and jeans - then more edging - and so on .........
mmm wish i had a bunch of friends to spend such a day with! just sharing and enjoying all our filth together!
no probs! i´m not shy...!
When I am really horny and haven't ejaculated in a couple of days, I can create a ton of precum. And if I am masturbating it is an additional lubricant - nice especially since I am cut.
I precum puddles all the time, once I get the feeling of getting horny my underwear gets wicked wet and then I can pull my cock and produce way to much...anyone wanna watch email me or chat me on yahoo. I am handsomestudh...seriously
i only precum when i'm horny and not fully hard. if i start getting horny, it will soak my dick. i love to pull it out and look at it glistening lol. then, i'll rub some on my hands and onto my chest and into my mouth, it's so fucking hot!
I make tonnes when im horny, i dont even have to be hard and it just starts flowing. Its handy when fucking as i dont need lube
I also make lots of pre-cum, and don't have to bother with lube.
i've always precummed for as long as I can remember. And in huge amounts. Mostly when I'm still soft however it continues while geting hard. I love when I'm really hard te fact that I can controlably force it out in streams. Drives my bf crazy...in a good way! The only downside I guess is being in public an getting so soaked that it soaks my pants with a huge wetspot. I have a huge undie fetish and while shopping for underwear I'll get totaly soaked everytime. Also love rubbing my dick while wet in a pair nylon/spandex breifs....sweet!!
Me too...i pre cum so much.
The longer i stay hard the more comes out...guys always ask if i just came ...i am always like "uuuuuuh no. "
i can pump it out in streams too after a while.
sometimes i don't like it because i like to masturbate dry...but when i am with a guy i think it lets him know how really excited i am.
anyone know how to enhance the amount of precum? my bf can put out a little....but wish he could do more.
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Some guys on the penis enlargement forum have been experimenting with some supplements. Some guys report successfully producing precum when they never had before. The guys who are dying to make some or make more should give it a shot.
I pre cum a lot, but i dont like it, its just annoying and makes a sticky mess before the actualy mess arrives haha.
I ooze lots of precum!
I can be quite a oozer
I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it.
I leak a ton of pre 2....but i've gotten used to it and actually find it to be turn on to some ppl...hated it when i was a kid...had 2 wear 2 pairs of tighty-whiteys to school cuz of those "random, awkward boners!"
I love precum. Maybe it's because I don't produce it myself. Seeing it ooze off a nice cock is so hot, just knowing he's that turned on to be oozing. I like to swirl it around a cock head and lick it off. Sooo tasty.
I always precum, if I'm really horny it's like turning on a faucet I just produce insane amounts. I've always enjoyed it, I rarely need to use lube since I make my own.
Im wanking on bed now and covered with my sheets and theyre wet with precum lol
I pre cum a lot, and I my cock is wet now, I love the tase. I can pre cum even if I am soft, so I often find my pants stained with pre cum . Also get turned on by seeing pre cum coming out of a guys cock.
Pre cumm is my favorite part of sucking cock, I pre cumm when I am getting fucked, and if my bf doesn't I'll lick it off of my fingers. I am pre cumming right now writing this.
I find it annoying because I too precum a lot. It's fine when I'm with a guy, but the leaking when I'm only semi-turgid and just mildly turned on is a bother.


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SCHENECTADY -- A fire on Lower Broadway tore through a building serving as a temporary home for the homeless.
Authorities say luckily, no one was hurt in the fire, but now the people living there are once again without a place to live. A CDTA bus was on the scene to provide the residents with a place to keep warm while fire crews battled the blaze.
Officials say about 25 people lived in the building. Investigators are still working to determine the cause.


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I have the shade, Deep Rose, which I bought at Ulta for about $3.00. This gloss is very moisturizing and is not sticky or runny. It doesn't have a strong smell or taste. It is fairly sheer and on my lips it shows up as mid pink. Although it looks shimmery in the tube, but no shimmer shows when I apply it to my lips. This gloss is fairly long lasting (about 3-4 hours even with drinking). I find that this is very suitable for the office for a neutral look or on the weekends for a casual, easy look.
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Near opaque colour, doe foot applicator, slightly heavier and sticky to make the gloss stay on better. Good price, too c:
I really love this! It smells AMAZING and works like a charm! It's nicely pigmented, stays on an okay-amount of time and the brush is just AWESOME. More lip-glosses should have this brush, they fit the lips well and allow good control. Definitely in my top three lip-glosses! :)
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I have collected all the shades and really like them so far. They're really pigmented but are a little bit sticky and transfer a little onto my teeth. I love the hourglass applicator and it's awesome for the price. Unfortunately I think they're getting discontinued in Australia :(
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These are an average lipgloss to me. They're really inexpensive, like all essence products. I don't find them sticky. The colours I have are nice but they don't last any longer than any other lipgloss I've tried.
Really excited to spot this product line at ULTA as the makeup is super cheap in price!! I fell in love with this gloss, particularly this color "candy bar". These glosses were only $2.50 and they come is super fun shades and really pop on your lips. They have high shine and great staying power for a gloss. I specifically love the applicator as the tip is shaped very different and it applies perfectly!! A+++ for me and I cant wait to buy more!!
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I have this lipgloss in the shade "my favorite milkshake" it's a very pretty pale peachy color. I have very pigmented lips so I have to put 2 layer on the see some color but I love to put this over my fave Rimmel long lasting Kate collection #14 (warm brown pink color) the results just perfection! Since I layer this on top of lipstick it seems to last longer on me than just putting on the lipgloss over bare lips. I like the texture,it's not sticky and I also like the hourglass shaped applicator. I will repurchase and will try other shades.
I find the staying power of this lip gloss not great, definitely does not live up to its name. They are quite pigmented which is nice, but I was expecting more.


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We've seen acoustic iDevice docks before, but Japanese manufacturer Pleiades has gone a little nuts with the horn. The Trumstand, as it's called, features an acoustic amplifier made of brass, with the sound channel elongated into an "S" because it apparently increases the bass. (Tough to tell from the wonky translation I'm going through here.) One version is gold-plated, another plated in sterling silver.
There's no doubt that it's beautiful, but I have mixed feelings about this product: Does it make sense to make something labor-intensive—well, CNC-intensive, anyway—out of fine metal when the object it supports will likely be obsolete in a year or two? Still, I've gotta admit, I am dying to hear how this thing sounds.


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History of Clone House
Clone house, which was first built in the 1600s, was burned down during the Rebellion of 1798 and rebuilt around 1805.
The areas of Moneyteigue, Clone and Coolahullen were once part of a very large estate owned by the landlord who resided in Clone House.
It is believed that the O'Byrnes originally built the house, which has great character.
In living memory it is the Patten family name that is the oldest associated with Clone House and Estate.
Pattens originally came from England and lived in Clone for many generations as landlords with many tenant farmers and workers.
Over a period of time the Clone Estate was broken up and Pattens were left with an estate of about 500 acres around the residence.
In 1929 Jim Hill bought Clone House and Estate. The Hill family ran a guesthouse and farmed the land. For more information about Clone House accommodations, visit our Bedrooms Page
Landscaped gardens and a tennis court were created around the house. People recall the local hunt gathering in front of the house making a beautiful picture.
Once again in the 1950s Clone Estate was for sale.
The Davies family bought it and later the land and house were sold separately. A few other families owned the house during the following three decades.
The present proprietors since mid 2010 are Áine agus Liam Ó Lorcáin who have carried out extensive refurbishments and continue to do so and are endeavouring to re-install the charm and graciousness that has always been an integral part of the house.


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Avirt SOHO multiple buffer overflows
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Avirt SOHO is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows. A remote attacker can connect to TCP port 1080 and send a long string or connect to port 8080 and send a GET request followed by a long string of multiple percent characters (%) to cause the program to crash.
Denial of Service
No remedy available as of September 1, 2014.
- Avirt Web site: Avirt - Internet Connection Sharing/Proxy Server, Mail Server, Firewall, and H.323 Software.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Mon Feb 23 2004 - 03:08:51 CST : Multiple Remote Buffer Overflow in Avirt Soho 4.3.
- BID-9722: Avirt Soho Server HTTP GET Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
- BID-9723: Avirt Soho Web Service HTTP GET Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
- CVE-2004-0316: Buffer overflow in Avirt Soho 4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) a large GET request to port 1080 or (2) a large GET request of % characters to port 8080.
- OSVDB ID: 6806: Avirt Soho Port 8080 Long Crafted GET Request DoS
Platforms Affected:
- Inari Avirt SOHO 4.3
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Jeanette Manning is NAGTRI program counsel. In that capacity, she is responsible for initiating, coordinating, and conducting NAGTRI trainings on an array of topics, developing relationships with key stakeholders to achieve the objectives of NAGTRI and attorneys general offices, conducting research, and writing and editing various publications. Additionally, Jeanette currently serves as the NAGTRI liaison to the Energy and the Environment Project and Committee and the NAAG Midwest Region.
Prior to joining NAAG, Jeanette served in the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia for eight years, both as an assistant attorney general in the Family and Public Safety Divisions. For over the last five years, she served as chief of the Neighborhood and Victim Services Section, where she supervised attorneys, paralegals, and victim witness specialists, surrounding an array of issues involving urban blight and decay to include nuisance abatement, brothel closures, and drug and firearm nuisances. As chief, she received the Peter J. Nickles Hammer and the Metropolitan Police Department's Chief of Police Medal of Merit awards for her efforts to address challenging public safety issues in the District of Columbia. Jeanette also served as a member and the co-chair of the Training Committee with the District of Columbia Human Trafficking Task Force and has conducted human trafficking trainings to the public and law enforcement officials. During her tenure at the Office of the Attorney General Jeanette also prosecuted abuse and neglect cases in the Child Protection Section. Previously, Jeanette worked as an associate with Cozen O'Connor, where she worked on corporate insurance matters, and she clerked for the Honorable Judith E. Retchin in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia. Jeanette also worked as a probation officer prior to enrolling in law school.
Jeanette was born and raised in Connecticut and graduated from Western Connecticut State University with a degree in Justice and Law Administration. She obtained her Juris Doctor degree from the American University, Washington College of Law. She is a member of the Pennsylvania and District of Columbia bars. In her spare time, Jeanette enjoys traveling, reading, mentoring and high school students to prepare for college and improve their public speaking skills in moot court competitions, and visiting museums.


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I love Chinese teas. While I won't turn down a full-bodied British cuppa or Indian Assam, China is where I fell in love with tea, and it's Chinese teas that keep me coming back for more. The world of tea is at least as complex as the world of wine, but like wine, the most important part is that you enjoy what you're drinking! While there are "best practices" for brewing certain flavors, Chinese tea culture emphasizes that the same tea leaves can be prepared different ways and multiple times to create different taste experiences. With so much to choose from, tea drinking really becomes a very personal experience, and tea drinking in China is all about this kind of casual enjoyment among family and friends. (more…)
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Housing scandal awaits resolution as probe drags on
Posted 5/06/2008 03:18:00 PM
Days after he took office in January 2007, Attorney General Gary King told me, through a spokesman, that an investigation of the scandal that toppled most of the state's affordable housing system in 2006 would be a top priority.
Sixteen months later, some are beginning to wonder.
It's not that nothing has happened. The AG has successfully obtained court orders to boot three tenants from homes owned by the Albuquerque-based Region III Housing Authority because they didn't qualify for affordable housing. Two were employees of the authority and one was a board member.
In addition, Bernalillo County Metro Court Judge Theresa Gomez was disciplined by the state Supreme Court because she lived, rent-free, for 20 months in a home owned by Region III while making a salary that probably should have disqualified her from receiving low-income housing. Meanwhile, she was dismissing traffic citations and cancelling an arrest warrant for then-Region III Director Vincent "Smiley" Gallegos.
And on Friday, the State Investment Council filed a lawsuit against Gallegos and Robert Strumor, a politically connected bond attorney who worked for Region III. The investment council is attempting to recover taxpayer money that was lost when Region III defaulted in 2006 on $5 million in bonds it owed the state. The lawsuit alleges that Strumor misrepresented to the state how Region III would spend the money. It accuses Gallegos of providing false information and misspending the money. You can read about that from the Albuquerque Journal.
That's all nice, but the allegations surrounding Gallegos and others deserve a thorough criminal investigation, and we can only hope that's what's happening.
The AG's criminal investigation began almost two years ago when the investment council asked then-AG Patricia
Perhaps the most intriguing misuse of money revealed in the investment council report was a $300,000 loan the housing authority made to a private company owned by Gallegos under the guise of purchasing more than 30 lots in
Gallegos repaid the loan, with interest, on July 31 of 2006, the day before he resigned.
The whistleblower who brought the problems to light, former Region VII board member Frances Williams, has urged prosecution, saying "millions of dollars have been stolen from funding intended for affordable housing because there has been no oversight, no structure and no ethics laws which could have avoided what we experienced with housing funding. … These bonds proved to be a piggy bank for unscrupulous individuals who plundered it at will, with no one looking over their shoulder."
A complex investigation, sans documentation
There is a possible, simple explanation for why the investigation is taking so long: It's complicated, and much of the documentation that might help prove wrongdoing doesn't exist. The state Judicial Standards Commission ran into that problem last year when it was investigating Gomez.
Commission Director Jim Noel wrote in a filing with the high court that there was an "absence of substantial documentary evidence" to bolster his case against the judge. Lawrence Rael, who was brought in after Gallegos resigned to stabilize Region III, wrote in a sworn affidavit provided to the court in the case against Gomez that documents related to the judge's dealings with the housing authority "were destroyed or were taken from the housing authority, along with records of other transactions, prior to my appointment. I have no evidence or information about who may have destroyed or taken these records."
Destroying public records is a fourth-degree felony, but proving the destruction of public records is difficult when the records don't exist. So is proving financial crimes.
There's another possibility that has to be considered in our ethically challenged state when investigations drag on. Gallegos has been an ally of Speaker of the House Ben Lujan for some time. All we can do is hope there's no political pressure on the AG to back off or, if there is, that King will do the right thing anyway.
There's reason, based on the statements made during the commission's investigation of Gomez, to believe the AG probe is taking so long because it's complicated and there is a lack of documentation. The state auditor completed an inventory of the regional housing authorities' assets last year and is conducting a full audit this year. The AG might be awaiting that report, which could aide his criminal investigation.
Still, some are understandably getting impatient. Senate Minority Whip Leonard Lee Rawson of
So we wait.


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Smart shippers are already preparing and making changes to their supply chain operations to ensure they will be in compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act from day one.
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The logistics of shipping alcoholic beverages is complex and fraught with challenges. Strategic thinking and supply chain flexibility are keys to success.
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Hospitals can cut costs by improving supply chain operations, inventory control, and transportation management.
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Transporting and storing oil and gas products represents a complex challenge and big opportunity.
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Technology tools help hazardous materials shippers manage hazmat compliance and maintain efficient shipping operations.
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Shippers and logistics providers take extra precautions to protect high-value products from cargo theft.
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New Jersey's salty tale misplaces blame on the Jones Act; UPS unveils new hazmat shipping protocol; Automakers collaborate to map the auto supply chain
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New books on supply chain, logistics, and transportation help logistics professionals stay sharp.
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George Calvert of Amway explains how the company's supply chain strategy supports its business model.
Energy companies have responded to the escalating cost of doing business by looking for savings in the indirect material supply chain. As a result, many are struggling to optimize maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) functions.
Event logistics planners coordinate details to ensure precise requirements and deadlines are met.
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U.S. furniture manufacturers rely on specialized furniture carriers and white-glove delivery companies.
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The emergence of domestically sourced natural gas heralds significant changes in the North America energy market.
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Larry Montreuil, director of supply chain management at JetBlue Airways, negotiates sourcing and purchasing deals that let the airline soar.
Sporting goods manufacturers and retailers must manage seasonal peaks to avoid stockouts and meet online customers' demand for prompt delivery. Supply chain technology helps provide visibility and track items during product recalls.
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A look at the logistics challenges faced by companies shipping alcoholic beverages, and some practices for dealing with those challenges.
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A&R Logistics' Morris, Ill., dry bulk intermodal facility specializes in hauling plastics. Inbound Logistics Senior Writer Joseph O'Reilly tours the operation.
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