micro Business Two Zero

As Forbes.com contributor Paul Tassi wrote last month within a column doubling as a eulogy for the service, "The fact is, very few people have room to manage many multiple social networks ... since there is only so much time in the day to waste on the Internet. Add in Google+, effectively a duplicate of Facebook, and there just isn't space for it."

I am writing to second Tassi's declaration: Google+ is dead. At worst, in the coming months, it will literally fade away to nothing or exist as Internet plankton. At best, it will be to social networking what Microsoft's Bing is to online search: perfectly adequate; fun to stumble onto once in awhile; and completely irrelevant to the mainstream web.

I've been on Google+ from the start, can definitely see the potential but I haven't managed to make it part of my regular workflow yet - so I'm contributing to the "ghost town" effect. I post on Twitter (usually via Osfoora on the iPad) every day, cross post to Facebook but don't hang out much there. I really need to start experimenting properly.