Hackers to follow on G+?
currently following Guido van Rossum: https://plus.google.com/115212051037621986145/posts
Who others are there on G+ ?
Who others are there on G+ ?
I've gone through all the links in this thread (at the time of writing) and included only those where I can see posts (i.e more than just uploading a profile photo). I've simply copy/pasted the links from the original submitters into this post. Hope it's useful. (edit: I also put them all in a spreadsheet which anyone can edit http://bit.ly/nBqc8e)
Guido van Rossum: https://plus.google.com/115212051037621986145/posts
Ian Bicking: https://plus.google.com/104537541227697934010/posts
Michael Foord: https://plus.google.com/u/1/114852031032123777881/posts
Simon Willison: https://plus.google.com/u/1/106366615678321494423/posts
Brett Cannon: https://plus.google.com/u/1/115362263245161504841/posts
Graham Dumpleton: https://plus.google.com/u/1/114657481176404420131/posts
Waldemar Kornewald: https://plus.google.com/u/1/112495598999878465094/posts
Eric Florenzano: https://plus.google.com/u/1/109591387819364984777/posts
Randall Munroe: XKCD. https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts
Matt Cutts: https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts
Brad Fitzpatrick: https://plus.google.com/115863474911002159675/posts
Scott Hanselman: https://plus.google.com/113698589973698283456/posts
Ryan Dahl: https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts
Andy Hertzfeld: https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455/posts
Adrian Holovaty: https://plus.google.com/113607435918549143249/posts
Armin Ronacher: https://plus.google.com/116865269069705863179/posts
Don Stewart: https://plus.google.com/115274377971493973150/posts
Paul Buchheit: https://plus.google.com/111732375221065535359/posts
That's right, they aren't.
Unless you manually add all your followers to a 'followers' circle and share to that (and subsequently pollute your default stream with your followers' posts) there's currently no way on G+ to keep your technical public persona apart from your more personal, private one.
Hopefully, G+ will eventually implement tagging and people can filter out tags they don't like.
And yes, tagging would be nice as well, but I don't think one should have to explain to his/her mother to filter out their #tech and #business posts. That just won't work.
I guess G+ needs a mechanism to allow people to ask to subscribe to a Circle, and the owner can approve or deny it. (Or set an option to auto-allow.)
That keeps the privacy aspect, but also makes it easy for people to follow or be followed.
If that happened, then the circles themselves would become the tags.
Another post here on HN talks about Circles not being Groups. (The Zuckerberg one.)
Reposting my comments from there:
I would definitely like to see Google add groups as pseudo-people... And then you can put that group in a Circle and share to it.
People in the group can see who else is in the group. Groups could be curated (need approval to join) or just open to anyone, and moderated (need approval to post) or not depending on the choices made by the group owner.
I have no drive to create separate accounts for each social network. My personal preference would be to have different façades publicly viewable to different groups. I would treat Facebook very differently if I was given the opportunity to separate these groups and target them individually. I have a belief that Facebook tried to accomplish this with groups but fell short on exactly what I've been waning for.
As an aside, there is a Hacker News group for those of you who may not be aware.
Subjot is a microblogging site where you assign subjects to your status updates. Then instead of following people and EVERYTHING they post, you subscribe to people's subjects and only see their status updates in the subjects you have subscribed to.
I'd love everyone's feedback on the product. I think G+ is only solving the problem of selectively publishing and not of selectively subscribing to updates that might be interesting to you.
See the difference between Facebook fan pages and actual Facebook profiles. Of course, now the problem is that there is no elegant way (currently) to manage 2 G+ accounts...
But while G+ is arguably a better broadcasting system than Twitter, it is still broken. A tech celeb would love to consistently post tech stuffs, but while this activity satisfies his geeky followers, it would annoy his friends and families. And there is no way a tech celeb can manually add his followers into different circles.
I imagine if G+ fixes this problem, it will completely replace Twitter in no time at all.
One solution is to introduce a concept called Channels.
Suppose I follow DHH. The problem is DHH has a lot of interests, ranging from Ruby, entrepreneurship, to Forbes bashing (DHH fans bear it with me here). Now DHH doesn't know who among his followers cares about which of his interests, but he creates some Channels, namely "Ruby", "Entrepreneurship", "Forbes Bashing", etc anyway, so followers can filter themselves.
Now a Rails guy found DHH's G+ page. He would like to follow DHH, but he doesn't care so much about DHH's financial insight. Now that when he adds DHH to his "Follow" Circle, he can choose to pick some among many DHH's Channels and everyone is happy.
Finally, DHH's "public" posts are only visible to those who specifically added him to the "Follow" circle.
Michael Foord (aka voidspace, fuzzyman): https://plus.google.com/u/1/114852031032123777881/posts
Simon Willison: https://plus.google.com/u/1/106366615678321494423/posts
Jannis Leidel: https://plus.google.com/u/1/116135559313623469613/posts
Jesse Noller: https://plus.google.com/u/1/115662513673837016240/posts
Brett Cannon: https://plus.google.com/u/1/115362263245161504841/posts
Graham Dumpleton: https://plus.google.com/u/1/114657481176404420131/posts
Waldemar Kornewald: https://plus.google.com/u/1/112495598999878465094/posts
Brian Rosner: https://plus.google.com/u/1/102458913105606955755/posts
Eric Florenzano: https://plus.google.com/u/1/109591387819364984777/posts
Matt Cutts: head of the webspam team at Google. https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts
Scott Hanselman's profile, Principal Program Manager @ Microsoft. Prolific online presence: https://plus.google.com/113698589973698283456/posts
Armin Ronacher - creator of Flask (Python web framework) https://plus.google.com/116865269069705863179/posts
..although it's not run by Google.
Maybe they'll end up getting gpl.us
I don't get it. Google already has usernames - why not use them?
You can use http://gplus.to to make a shortname though.
Resig - creator of jquery https://plus.google.com/115675748062237570841/posts
Gina Trapani (Lifehacker): https://plus.google.com/113612142759476883204/posts
Merlin Mann (43folders): https://plus.google.com/100537991844787325512/posts
Marco Arment (Instapaper): https://plus.google.com/110386126391315414323/posts
Tim Bray: https://plus.google.com/107606703558161507946/posts
Bob Rudis: https://plus.google.com/106858596733931987499/posts
Graham Cluley: https://plus.google.com/102593062779602837630/posts
Naked security (Sophos): https://plus.google.com/109804632067529299377/posts
Ian Bicking: https://plus.google.com/104537541227697934010/posts
Mark Chu-Carroll: https://plus.google.com/102359124322399475449/posts
Also, just came across this post https://plus.google.com/111379026657101157995/posts/Sirk5KSb... though those recommendations are mostly tech industry and blogger types not really hackers.
David Pollak Creator of Lift https://plus.google.com/105156943245180312120/posts