I'm still waiting for my google plus invite.
Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that Facebook killed MySpace for one simple reason - tricking people into using their real name made it easy to find real life friends (and classmates, etc). IMO, this is what put it head and shoulders above all the other social networks. Nobody could copy it, because their existing users (the early adopters) had silly names like "wisty". Existing users already have old habits, and existing data that they don…
But they will only add their photos to one, and that one will ultimately pull ahead.
And that is exactly why, at least on Android phones, the out of box Plus configuration is to automatically upload all pictures that are taken on a phone.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that Facebook killed MySpace for one simple reason - tricking people into using their real name made it easy to find real life friends (and classmates, etc). IMO, this is what put it head and shoulders above all the other social networks. Nobody could copy it, because their existing users (the early adopters) had silly names like "wisty". Existing users already have old habits, and existing data that they don…
But they will only add their photos to one, and that one will ultimately pull ahead.
I don't think photos are the main attraction anymore. I know lots of people that only add a couple of photos a year to Facebook but still visit the site every day.
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#104Guaranteed that it'll be easier for Facebook to mimic the successful features of Google+ than it will be fore Google+ to acquire the relationships that are already captured in Facebook.
I've been keeping my Facebook account only to avoid losing out event invitations that some publish only via that channel. I've not really logged in for any purpose in a long while.
Facebook has lost a lot of user trust with their arguably shady practices. I think there are many of us who want to be in on the whole social networking thing, but don't want it on Facebook.
Then there's Google's almost monopolistic leverage using Google's services to give Google+ its much-needed bootstrapping boost.
Whether all of this is enough, or is more or less than the actual relationships already captured in Facebook -- I don't trust anyone to really know.
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#105Facebook lists seem to be equivalent of Circles. Why should I be using Google+ except that it is from Google ?
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#106Leaving the emotion of Google+ being awesome out - what is preventing facebook from copying this? They have a huge number of users who are not going to leave overnight. Facebook we all know can turn on a dime to get products/features out. If these features are really that sought after and good they could just implement them and give it to their users. Why won't that work? Also facebook is a platform as much as a soci…
Facebook has a recent history of bad products. Their last hit was the Like button and how long ago was that now?
http://searchengineland.com/how-to-put-the-facebook-like-but...
May 2010?
and as for your reply downthread about Google Instant being a hit, how much of Google Instant being a hit is due to it being the default behavior of Google now, and would anyone actually miss it if it were gone?
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even more ironic, the guy who did that study was later hired by Facebook. I honestly think Zuck either figured that a) Google was incompetent/unwilling to challenge them or b) Google be damned, Facebook will make much more money with the public-by-default, privacy-optional approach to sharing. Perhaps the blindsiding was the promotion of Page to CEO and subsequent mobilization of Google's developer army?
Zuckerberg is also a kid, he's like a rookie who hit a home run on his first at-bat. It would not be surprising to me if he was blindsided out of a combination of youthful arrogance and inexperience.
Despite my dislike for Zuckerberg, that's a bit disingenuous.
I honestly think that Google+ is a direct result of Page's ascendancy, and this was unexpected to outsiders.
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#108A Google+ extension that tags users mentioned on every page you visit.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jdncfcpdfdhodkdlec...
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#109I do not see a wave of Facebook users moving to G+. It just isn't gonna happen.
> I do not see a wave of Facebook users moving to G+. It just isn't gonna happen.
“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.” [1] - Palm CEO Ed Colligan, 2006
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zuckerberg is also a kid, he's like a rookie who hit a home run on his first at-bat. It would not be surprising to me if he was blindsided out of a combination of youthful arrogance and inexperience.
Despite my dislike for Zuckerberg, that's a bit disingenuous. I honestly think that Google+ is a direct result of Page's ascendancy, and this was unexpected to outsiders.
Except that Page has been CEO for what, a few months now? I recall reading that Google has been working on Plus for a year.