Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+

Wow, what is up with those share buttons at the end of each post? Just in case nobody else is seeing this, they start off cramped together and when moused over they break apart in a very fluid animation.<p>Yes it looks nice, but it moves the button from under the cursor! And then just as bad, the cursor doesn't change to a hand to show it's an interact-able object.<p>Is this just me? Am I alone in seeing this or thinking that this is bad UX?

Not sure if it's part of these changes but I'm glad that everyone you've ever emailed no longer gets added to your contacts list. That was a pain whenever I synced with my Android phone, all of a sudden my phonebook was full of useless email addresses that I'd emailed once off. So glad that's fixed!

Anyone have a good idea of how many people are using Google Contacts?<p>I've looked at the API before and considered some mashup ideas, but never pursued because I don't know anyone relying on it.

So I click "Edit Profile" but don't see any phone number fields.<p>Even if I did I'd be scared it's going to get published to the universe since Google seems to repeatedly emphasise that my profile is public and there is nothing I can do about it.<p>Does anyone know how to use this? Is it still rolling out?<p>Edit: never mind, phone number is hidden under Places Lived / Home, which seems extremely weird to me.

Every time an announcement like this is made I get a bunch of angry messages from friends I've convinced to use Google Apps for their personal email who will have to wait an unspecified amount of time for the new features.

Nice. CRM for your mom.

As seen on HN... :)<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3290007" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3290007</a>

Did they buy Rapportive?

Now all of my Google+ contacts show up in the gmail chat (that appears next to gmail window). How often do we chat with our contacts in google+? I don't like this since it crowds out my legitimate contacts from gmail chat.

The headline says "Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+", but actually most of these features are about making your Google+ experience better, not your gmail experience better. In other words, this smells more of corporate policy than product improvement.

Every one of these features would be great if it were the Facebook equivalent, instead of G+. It's unfortunate that Google's insistence on never acknowledging Facebook's existence limits their long term relevance and success.