I’d like to add to your argument, I am a fan of blogging myself, yet the problem with blogs is that there is a complete separation between following content and adding new one. There is no that twitter-like interface – you just wrote about – where you can both write new twitter status and follow tweets sent by your friends in the same page.

I was expecting Google Reader to fill this gap, and was wondering if they can add the ability to write new blog posts from within there, yet now, it’s clear that Google+ is the the one who is gonna fill such gap. I’m waiting for more integration between Google+ and Blogspot and may be then blogs will come back to life again.

Still they have a community. I’m on it. My impression of it is more of photo and gif sharing, but not personal photos as much as interesting photos, magazine like photos, that people are posting from somewhere else. To get attention on a Tumblr to post, the photos need to be striking, extremely funny, or otherwise “headline” grabbing.

Like Twitter, not a lot of personal feel to it, but fun, and I like Fred’s attitude that companies don’t kill other companies as much as companies kill themselves.

But my main takeaway from Google+ is not so much the service itself, although it is great, as like you say, it’s integrated with all of Google’s other services. Google may be Germany, but the seem to be the one company of all of these that has all the pieces. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. And that will be a powerful value proposition.

It almost reduces Twitter and Facebook to applications on this vast Cloud OS, rather than platforms itself. And Apple, for all it’s wonder, doesn’t have a Cloud Syncing OS, much less a Social Network. I think Apple should buy Twitter and Facebook should merge with MSFT.

The deep integration of Google+ with Android will be compelling and I don’t see the “app” for the iPhone as being as robust an experience as it will be on Android. This could be a long term threat too Apple as well if they don’t get their Cloud Offerings together.