Why the Share Box is wrong and +1s shouldn't bring it up

I +1 something because it's cool.  That's enough.  If I want to write a paragraph about it, or tell people why it's cool, then I'll push the "share" button and be excited by the chance to set which circles this post goes to, etc.  But for now, why not keep +1 more like "like" (that is who you're copying, afterall) and just make it a quick and passive share (then better integrate them into the social feed of G+, you know, like actually having them there in the first place.  What's the point of a profile?  Profiles, timelines?  These are the past.  It's stream stream stream and it's gotta be new and different.  Why not put the +1's in and then help people to +1 more things by making it less annoying?)

Blogger - annoying share box is back, now endlessly circling

This is old and pathetic thinking, Google.  If I wanted to share, just give me an option to auto share and get out of the way.  You bring up this box everytime I make a new post or edit a post.  That's too much. I only want to "share" the best posts.  I want to passively share the rest.  Make it passive with a setting and stop popping up so many boxes.  You can do better, Google.  I know you can.

G+ needs to videogameify if it wants to beat Facebook

G+ is a boring ghost town.  But so is facebook sometimes.  Why?  Because they still show me static lists of posts I've already seen instead of knowing that I've already seen it and loading new content (new being different, not just timely).  Facebook and G+ need to be more like video games and less like static lists of posts.  Farmville (though I don't play) doesn't need to be it's own game, it needs to be integrated into the "facebook dashboard" so that watering your crops is done simultaeenously while liking a friends post.  We all need to be drawn into a Second Life/World of Warcraft/Facebook.  True interactivity.  More like a video game and less like a static list of posts.  More like a digital summer camp counsler who's thrilled and excited to show me all the new stuff that's been happening.  (especially when I'm bored and constantly pushing refresh)

Blogger G+ Update: auto share annoyance seems to be gone. Now if they could just remove it from the +1 and get out of the way. No more Share Box!

Blogger - Be less selfish and let me tweet and facebook these posts. (eat Tumblr's lunch)

G+ - maybe people don't hang here because you're lazy google. Eliminate the "comment" part of "post comment". Can't it just be "post" and who is "cancel"? Facebook's "shift-enter" may be slightly annoying but it's starting to look a lot more elegant.

G+ - Comments don't have the little preview for links that FB has. Why not match that and beat it (multiple previews for multiple links)

if G+ is really better, why can't I use bolds and italics in comments? (features facebook doesn't have)

Gmail - new annoying bar hides my mailboxes

Again, this obsession with minimalism almost bordering on secrecy.  I still need to use the program, Google.  I still have things in my other mailboxes that I filter there.  Hiding them only makes it impossible for me to see them and makes Gmail harder to use.  You can't just hide all the settings because your graphic designer is into minimalism.

The real question is, now that I've dragged down the annoying hide your mailboxes bar (using it's invisible controls that only appeared because I hovered over it), will it come back?  So far it's sticking on this computer across multiple tabs.  We'll see what happens on my other computers.  Maybe I have to set it once per machine or perhaps it remembers across the board.  Either way, another annoying attempt to hide useful settings and program controls.  Not sure what you're doing Google.  The more features you hide from your audience, the less features they will use and the less impressed they will be with your already excellent software.

iGoogle settings has a Contacts tab and I don't know why

real puzzler.  Don't even know why this tab is here or why Contacts is connected in anyway to iGoogle (a my yahoo like homepage that I enjoy, but could use more configuration options and a way to hide all the stuff.  Super iGoogle for Greasemonkey is a nice solution, but I'd like to see Google themsevles give up this one size fits all approach and allow for more customization options (to everything)).  Just confused.  Don't even know why this option is there.  This is a rare first for the Google.

Youtube - lacks the google bar. Everything should be the same.

Google Chrome - removing the + makes adding new tabs confusing

Without the "+" it's harder for new users to understand how to add new tabs.  It's design over function.

This is not really easier.  I can see how it's "cleaner" from a design perspective, but if I was going to explain how to use Chrome now, I would say, to create a "new tab" press that small grey parallelogram next to the tab to create a new tab.  Whereas before I would say press the "plus" button next to the new tab to create a new tab.  But I guess this really comes down to Google's semantic attempt to own the word plus and +1 etcetera.  So choices are now being made that make Google harder to use.  This reminds me of when they tried to get rid of the top bar that I have been using to select "images/maps/news" to refine my search and tried to rap it all in an drop down menu called "The Google Button".  It made Search, the thing I use Google for, harder to use.  Surprisingly they recently reversed their decision.  No word on getting the second search box back at the bottom of search results, causing people who need to refine their results to forever page back up to the top of the page...


Update: Looking at it now, a few days later, it still looks wrong.  It looks like a program where the bitmap hasn't properly loaded.  Like part of the program is missing.  Bring back the + button for adding new tabs, Google.  It's okay to make mistakes and overly embrass minimalism, as long as you come back when you know you've gone too far.  (and remove the blog reader from Blogger!  Blogger is a publishing tool.  Google Reader is a blog reader.  Seperate them!)

Google Chrome - never remembers that I don't print Headers and Footers

have turned off headers and footers five thousand times now.  Why won't it remember?  They're ugly and uglify everything I print.  Why must I always say NO?!?!?

Youtube Uploader

Has anybody -- even once -- wanted ".mov" on the end of their Movie title?

I mean seriously.  That's insightful and well worth a dollar.  May I have a job?