Does Google+ have to be a sucess? Everbody is a user, it just sits there up in the top of your gmail, reader, docs. There is no effort to start using it, so Google can just sit and wait for it to become a natural part of the Google apps exerience.
Google +1 is failing, miserably
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#22I'd guess that the fact that Facebook has hundreds of times more users at the moment has something to do with it as well.
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#23+1 in Google+ is even weirder, because you can't see a list of your +1'd G+ content anywhere. It's just brownie points for the poster.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's trying to say that by stating that a brand new service that is, by most measures, doing fairly well is "failing miserably", you've lost your sense of perspective.
I am not talking about Google+ though. I am talking about +1.
Fair enough. The submission title does say google+ though. Additionally, I think strong statements like 'failing miserably' require strong evidence. This seemed more like (weak) anecdotal evidence and opinion to me.
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#25In my circles which contain 800+ people, Jason Calcanis is the most prolific (and only) poster. It's essentially the Jason Calcanis feed until more people start posting things.
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#26Comparing the Tweet, +1 and Facebook buttons next to each other, I can easily see how people just don't understand what +1 means. The button graphic has a colored ribbon at the top with the label '+1'. Next to it, I see the number of the total clicks. However, there is no explanation what it means. Compare that to the Facebook button. It says "Recommend", and "60 people recommended this". 'Recommend' is a clear call…
Isn't that a little post rational? It took people quit some time to get the whole idea of tweet.
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#27Google doesn't get social... that's all. They demand everyone that applies for a job knows algorithms, but they fail to understand that to nail social, they need to hire people with a different type of intelligence: emotional and psychological. People who know what makes other people tick. We human beings crave attention, impressing others, and thinking we're special. We don't give a damn about placing people in Circ…
If google doesn't get social, who developed Google+? Too clean? I find the page very easy on the eyes and easy to use. Too private? I have put way more info in public (intentionally) on Google+ than Facebook. They make it easy. You are just making general statements and assumptions we have heard all over the internet, meanwhile, Google+ continues to delight its users.
I will say: Google finally gets social. It is called Google+
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#28I +1'd this just to make sure I could: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/221414/tmp/plus_one.png
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#29Comparing the Tweet, +1 and Facebook buttons next to each other, I can easily see how people just don't understand what +1 means. The button graphic has a colored ribbon at the top with the label '+1'. Next to it, I see the number of the total clicks. However, there is no explanation what it means. Compare that to the Facebook button. It says "Recommend", and "60 people recommended this". 'Recommend' is a clear call…
Exactly. I am also surprised that Google hasn't done more testing on the names. Perhaps they have some A/Bs going on this that I haven't seen, but they certainly need it.
Re: Google +1 is failing, miserably
#30Comparing the Tweet, +1 and Facebook buttons next to each other, I can easily see how people just don't understand what +1 means. The button graphic has a colored ribbon at the top with the label '+1'. Next to it, I see the number of the total clicks. However, there is no explanation what it means. Compare that to the Facebook button. It says "Recommend", and "60 people recommended this". 'Recommend' is a clear call…
Isn't that a little post rational? It took people quit some time to get the whole idea of tweet.
I think that's true to some extent, but at least with a tweet the user is also commenting/providing some context for their audience. One of the issues with +1 is that it's not always clear to users how the +1 will be interpreted.