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I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

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#21

Post by ardit33 »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #18
jsherry wrote: post #12

Personal fave: "How many people did you work with on Google+? We're a surprisingly small team (esp. by Google's standards), but we try to make up for it with passion and speed." To which I ask, how many people did you work with on Google+?

Heh, since Google is famous (infamous?) for saying most products are small teams, just 3 or 4 people. It sounds like they are working all by themselves :-) That being said, given all the products that had to co-operate somewhat for this to be released I doubt they were 'small'.

that's just propaganda. Their Chrome team alone is over 300 engineers.

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Post by danielrhodes »

"I think everyone feels the need to share different things with different people--and the desire to be able to hear from certain circles without losing them in the overall stream."

Personally I'm interested in the real numbers behind this. Have people actually split up their social network into circles? To what degree? Are people actually using the feature the way it was intended? How many posts are public or effectively public? How do people who only know a few people on G+ (essentially everybody outside the tech scene) use the service and Circles.

To me, G+ feels like a better content sharing network rather than a social network. For example, you can't even privately message somebody.

Now that I think about it, I wish the analytics lead on the team would do an IAMA as well. :-)

Re: I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

#23

Post by aneth »

I submitted a question, but there was no confirmation screen, just a screen asking for a new question. Hopefully it got submitted because it's important:

"Like many, I spend my days logged in to a G Apps for Domains account and all my primary emails are there. How can I use Google+ and how can people share things with me?"

Re: I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

#25

Post by aymeric »

mirkules wrote: post #10

Seems like most of the questions are watered down, and the answers are typical PR-speak. One of the tell-tale signs is the lack of any negative learning experiences, for example how explosive growth forced them to consider other architectural designs. "There's a ton of stuff to do" is neither informative nor all that forthcoming, IMO.

Agreed. I stopped reading after: "How many people did you work with on Google+?"

"We're a surprisingly small team"

Useless.

Re: I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

#26

Post by jasonkostempski »

aymeric wrote: post #25
mirkules wrote: post #10

Seems like most of the questions are watered down, and the answers are typical PR-speak. One of the tell-tale signs is the lack of any negative learning experiences, for example how explosive growth forced them to consider other architectural designs. "There's a ton of stuff to do" is neither informative nor all that forthcoming, IMO.

Agreed. I stopped reading after: "How many people did you work with on Google+?" "We're a surprisingly small team" Useless.

I stopped reading after realizing they didn't use reddit for an IAmA.

EDIT: Directly.

Re: I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

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Post by nostrademons »

ardit33 wrote: post #21
ChuckMcM wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh, since Google is famous (infamous?) for saying most products are small teams, just 3 or 4 people. It sounds like they are working all by themselves :-) That being said, given all the products that had to co-operate somewhat for this to be released I doubt they were 'small'.

that's just propaganda. Their Chrome team alone is over 300 engineers.

It depends what you consider a team. The "Chrome" team is big, but the team that works on the HTML5 parser within Chrome is pretty tiny, as is the team responsible for V8, as are many of the other teams.

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#29

Post by aymeric »

jasonkostempski wrote: post #26
aymeric wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. I stopped reading after: "How many people did you work with on Google+?" "We're a surprisingly small team" Useless.

I stopped reading after realizing they didn't use reddit for an IAmA. EDIT: Directly.

Why do you think the fact they don't use reddit matters?

On a side note: I think they managed to come up with a good UI targeted at the use case of asking questions to one person.

Re: I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

#30

Post by megablast »

run4yourlives wrote: post #14
choice wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey everyone, let's all completely stop talking about G+ until run4yourlives gets an account.

Too late, somebody invited me as a result of that comment. :-) Point still stands though. I'd prefer that we not turn this site into a "look what I have that you don't" PR session. It's so much more than that. Especially since you can provide a wonderful amount of feedback to the team by, ironically, using Google+ itself.

Cool, can I bags this line on the next google+ article?
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