Dave, I share your thoughts on google +. What surprises me about google wave, google buz, google cloud connect and now google + is the lack of professionalism on the developers’ part. For example, they set wave up and then forgot about it. They set up google cloud connect and got a lot of students who are writing APA style angry because GCC took over and added all kinds of annoying markings on MS word docs that were hidden to the GCC users and therefore could not be removed. I got a lot of complaints from students for encouraging them to work collaboratively with their mentors and editors. But, maybe things will change quickly enough so people do not get angry and give up.

Right now, google + is beginning to look like facebook. Now, if they allowed me to view my email account/calendar/documents/reader and other applications on the same page instead of sending me off to another tab, I would be quite thrilled.