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Inte­gra­tion
I under­stand you want to focus your atten­tion. I under­stand that after pulling all the resources off of Google Reader to work on Google+ you can no longer main­tain it properly.

But why not inte­grate it into Google+? Instead of fol­low­ing a per­son, or a brand, allow peo­ple to fol­low web­sites. Allow the read­ers to com­ment on the arti­cles, so web­sites could build some kind of com­mu­nity around their con­tent (you may want to make this optional). Even bet­ter, pro­vide a sim­ple API for web­sites to pull these com­ments into the website!

You could build such a great replace­ment, and at the same time fur­ther pro­mote Google+. But instead you just ax the whole thing with­out any replacement.

#Keep­GoogleRead­er­Alive

Even more inte­gra­tion
While on the sub­ject of inte­gra­tion, you have two other assets that are just beg­ging to be inte­grated into Google+: Blog­ger and Google Groups.

With all the white­space here on Google+, you have been pro­mot­ing long-form posts from the start. Unfor­tu­nately, these posts tend to get lost after a while. Why not assim­i­late Blog­ger, add a “Cir­cle” for it, and cre­ate a “Blog” out of all the posts shared to that circle.

And finally Google Groups. You claim to have an archive of over 20 years, more than 700 mil­lion Usenet post­ing. Fur­ther­more, there are count­less active mail­ing lists on Google Groups. Now that you’ve intro­duced Com­mu­ni­ties on Google+, why not inte­grate them with this mas­sive archive and vibrant user-base.

Posted from Bei­jing, Bei­jing, China.