Mark Zuckerberg's profile on Google+ • Hacker News Board

Re: Mark Zuckerberg's profile on Google+

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Post by theblueadept111 » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 2:45 PM UTC

iambot wrote: post #5

At the risk of stating the obvious, I don't think its really him, but a nice bit of PR either way - subtle.

No, stating the obvious would be: Of course he wants to see what his competition looks like first hand, and you can't test a social network without networking with people who know who you actually are.

Is he supposed to slink around like a frightened thief? No, he'd join, steal the good ideas, and say "so long and thanks for all the fish"... like a Boss.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg's profile on Google+

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Post by mtkd » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 2:46 PM UTC

nextparadigms wrote: post #2

By the way, what's with the fugly Google+ URL's? Don't you agree they should make the URL's a lot nicer? There is no vanity URL either, which I'm sure quite a lot of people would like. Google has never seemed to get this. You should look at Google Sites url's. It's like 5 words in there before you even see your site's name. I wish they made them a bit more elegant and streamlined.

I hope they do something on the namespacing.

Linkedin appear to be including a country name in the URL now which increases namespacing, but that isn't enough.

This is one of the biggest challenges I see online and in gaming at the moment:

How do you namespace identity in a way that gives everyone an appropriate vanity URL and scales indefinitely?

Currently every system seems to end up like XBL with '{{!! MyNAMEz !!}}'.

If XBL is like this now - what will it be like in 10 years.

I think I saw some planned Google Apps profile URLs somewhere that used the format /yourdomain/name - that could be a start.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg's profile on Google+

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Post by widget » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 2:48 PM UTC

Why would it be surprising to see him on there? Dogfooding is a good idea, but in this case, there's nothing stopping someone from using both Facebook and Google+. He'd be foolish to not be on Google+, how else is he supposed to know where he's winning and where he might lose users.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg's profile on Google+

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Post by pavel_lishin » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 3:25 PM UTC

skarayan wrote: post #19

pavel_lishin wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why?

What would be the benefit? It would be just something else to deal with and cause attention in the press.

Well, for one, how do we know that he doesn't have an anonymous account? And for two, if he only had an anonymous account, it could reflect badly on him as well - recall the Scott Adams sock puppet fiasco from awhile back.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg's profile on Google+

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Post by pavel_lishin » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 3:26 PM UTC

mtkd wrote: post #22

nextparadigms wrote: post #2

By the way, what's with the fugly Google+ URL's? Don't you agree they should make the URL's a lot nicer? There is no vanity URL either, which I'm sure quite a lot of people would like. Google has never seemed to get this. You should look at Google Sites url's. It's like 5 words in there before you even see your site's name. I wish they made them a bit more elegant and streamlined.

I hope they do something on the namespacing. Linkedin appear to be including a country name in the URL now which increases namespacing, but that isn't enough. This is one of the biggest challenges I see online and in gaming at the moment: How do you namespace identity in a way that gives everyone an appropriate vanity URL and scales indefinitely? Currently every system seems to end up like XBL with ' {{!! MyNAMEz !!}…

Perhaps people could specify their own custom namespace.