• GigaOm, Tuesday, July 5, 2011 12:27 PM

A week has gone by since Google debuted its "+" social network, but the analysis and conjecture keeps on coming. For instance, while Google isn't exactly synonymous with enterprise software, GigaOm suggests the new network will be a hit in the workplace.

"While Facebook and Twitter have been massively successful in the consumer space, they're not really suited for use in the workplace, as they make it difficult to keep personal and work-related information separate," it writes. "Google, however, has produced an app that's much more suited for use in the workplace by building Google+ around its Circles feature, which enables users to limit the sharing of information to specific groups of people, and by incorporating some very useful built-in collaboration features."

Call us skeptical, but we'd be wary of storing work "circles" next to more personal "circles," for fear of getting them mixed up. Still, "Circles are effectively easy-to-understand privacy control," GigaOm insists. "They can be set up via an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, and there doesn't appear to be any limitations on the number of them you can define."

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