The 5,000 Limitation On Google Plus: A Good Thing

Anil Dash

If you want to interact with a million people, that is what Twitter is for. I am glad Google Plus has that limitation. So people are more careful in terms of who they add to their circles.

Facebook also has that limitation. Facebook perhaps is the inspiration to that Google number. If you want to interact with more than 5,000 people, well, there are Facebook Pages you can create.

I think a limitless number of people can follow you on Google Buzz. That would be the Google version of Facebook Pages. I think there is no limit to how many followers you can have on Google Buzz. But I don't know for sure.

Google Needs To Reinvent Gmail

Image via CrunchBaseI have heard this over and over again over months from many, many people. Gmail has slowed down to a trickle. Email continues to be a massively popular program. Google might have tackled the web over a decade ago, but no one has been able to tackle the inbox. The inbox is ripe territory.

TechCrunch: Hey Gmail, 1994 Called, It Wants Its Dial-Up Level Performance Back

TechCrunch is a blog that mostly talks about which startup got funded. But today it has been talking about the slowness of Gmail. Fast is a good reason to be in news, not slow. Slow is no good.

Slow Gmail: Short Term Help

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• Disable all Gmail Labs features.
  
• Disable Buzz.
  
• Don't use add on features provided by outside parties, however attractive.
  
• Stay within 10% of the free space Gmail gives you. There is no such thing as free lunch.
• Learn to use keyboard shortcuts.
  
• c compose
  
• r reply
  
• a reply all
  
• f forward
  
• ctrl s save draft
  
• v move to
  
• tab enter = send
  
• g i = to inbox
  
• ? all shortcut keys in one place

Slow Gmail

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