As a hint, one way would be importing your twitter, gmail programming contacts to g+.
You would be surprised how many ontopic discussions take place there, Most more prominent python programmers use g+, including ppl from pyramid, pylons, sqlalchemy, BDFL, python commitee etc.
Remember that g+ relationships are asymetric, you need to follow right people for you to find interesting stuff. Ask someone to share their "developers circle" with you.
I have over 600 people in my Hacker News Circle, i see on my 1080 screen right now 1(!) Post in the stream. On HN i see 30 Posts with a transparent voting system, that works really well. Why should i waste my time on G+?
Google+ Pages is something different, maybe i go there on purpose, but how can i explore something in the stream?
Well then, maybe your hackers circle is usless and you should reorganize your circles or something. Thats the only conclusion i can make from your statement :(
I am surprised by how many irrelevant 'hot on google' posts get in the way of me using google plus. They could put an add down the side, sure, but not in the middle of where I am reading, and not completely undistinguishable from my contacts' posts.
You can turn that entirely off (I did as it's way more likely to be some celebrity than anything of interest to me) by going in to the "What's Hot" circle (choose it from the left side list of circles) and then adjusting the slider (at the top of the main pane.
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As a hint, one way would be importing your twitter, gmail programming contacts to g+.
You would be surprised how many ontopic discussions take place there, Most more prominent python programmers use g+, including ppl from pyramid, pylons, sqlalchemy, BDFL, python commitee etc.
Remember that g+ relationships are asymetric, you need to follow right people for you to find interesting stuff. Ask someone to share their "developers circle" with you.
I have over 600 people in my Hacker News Circle, i see on my 1080 screen right now 1(!) Post in the stream. On HN i see 30 Posts with a transparent voting system, that works really well. Why should i waste my time on G+?
Google+ Pages is something different, maybe i go there on purpose, but how can i explore something in the stream?
Well then, maybe your hackers circle is usless and you should reorganize your circles or something. Thats the only conclusion i can make from your statement :(
I am surprised by how many irrelevant 'hot on google' posts get in the way of me using google plus. They could put an add down the side, sure, but not in the middle of where I am reading, and not completely undistinguishable from my contacts' posts.
You can turn that entirely off (I did as it's way more likely to be some celebrity than anything of interest to me) by going in to the "What's Hot" circle (choose it from the left side list of circles) and then adjusting the slider (at the top of the main pane.
http://i41.tinypic.com/10wmype.png