A less interesting title would have been "Gmail is (and always was) larger than LinkedIn."
Google+ grows 43% in June
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Re: Google+ grows 43% in June
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use Facebook to share and chat about photos. I use LinkedIn for recruiting. I use neither as "publicly facing email accounts". At some level, any application can be described as "forms with some text inputs and some submit buttons".
"I use Facebook to share and chat about photos." Which I'm sure you used to do in email. Smaller circle, same user task. "I use LinkedIn for recruiting." I still use email sometimes for that. Smaller circle, same user tasks (attaching resumes, getting contact info for screenings, planning meet and greets). Actually, it was Monster.com + email, so yeah, I guess LinkedIn replaced those.
You can easily do HN via email too; it's called a mailing list.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tumblr and pinterest are adding a lot fewer users than I thought. Both of them are terrible on mobile.
Pinterest is totally not transferable to small screen mobile devices. Its main point is to offer many images at a glance, which is impossible on small screen.
I encourage you to check out DRIFT[1]. You can browse the latest images for inspiration (á la Pinterest), and its responsive design scales from large-screen TVs to the smallest handheld devices.
[1] http://drift.io
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. According to one of Google's own services, google+ is pretty much dead: http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=google+plus&graph=wee... compare with fb: http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=facebook&graph=weekly... edit: thank you downvoters for illustrating the bias on HN. A fake stats piece promoting google as #1 on the frontpage? This place is turning into /. but with more google employees. I'm out.
Ugh. You can't divine traffic numbers from search volume and news mentions. If that were the case, Mitt Romney should start a social network because he's crushing Facebook: http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=romney&graph=weekly_i...
lol, romney doesn't even register when compared to fb:
http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=romney,+facebook&grap...
red=fb, blue= romney
The reason this is relevant in the discussion is that when you type in the url in chrome (arguably the top browser) the word in the domain and subdomain count as search words that show up in trends. So when you type "plus" for the g+ url it's added to trends. You can check that little fact by looking at the trends for "plus".
Re: Google+ grows 43% in June
#65Yes, but I know dozens of people on LinkedIn. I know one active Google+ user and he's a bit of a Google fanboy to begin with. None of the non-techie people I know use Google+ or even mention it at all.
Yes, but I know dozens of people on LinkedIn. I know one active Google+ user and he's a bit of a Google fanboy to begin with. Why is there the need to respond to data with anecdotes? If I give a Google+ growth anecdote, does that invalidate yours? I have no idea why Google+ is being compared to LinkedIn. They have very little overlap. Even among Facebook and Google+ the overlap is limited. Nonetheless Google keeps it…
> Which is important because the tech field is what generally leads the growth curve.
No it doesn't.
You only have to look at Digg and Reddit to see that just because you have tech users does not mean you will see widespread growth outside that demographic.
And sites like Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram even Facebook grew because of non tech users.
Re: Google+ grows 43% in June
#66A likely cause for this that I haven't seen noted yet is that they are slyly directing people to G+ without the user even knowing. If you click on a Google Maps result to get the full information page, it's no longer a Google Maps page, it's a G+ page. These traffic numbers clearly include lots of people who got to G+ in this manner.
Yep, first noticed this a week ago. Lots of services redirecting into G+. Definitely going to skew the numbers WRT the concept of active vs passive growth.
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#67Somewhat off-topic, but this has been bugging me for years: for countries that use , instead of . in decimal numbers, how do they pronounce it? ie For the number 12.3 million, I could say "twelve point three million" or "twelve dot three million." For 12,3 million, do you say "twelve comma three million"?
Here in Brazil we do say "twelve comma three million", even tho our word for "comma" is much harder to say than our word for "dot". But since everyone says it, it just sounds natural anyway.
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#68Sigh. We're drawing conclusions from Compete again? I've said this before and I'll say it again; using Compete for quantitative traffic comparisons is flawed, particularly with social sites that utilize embeddable content. Their data has been proven wrong countless times. Until recently, Compete claimed Reddit ( http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/ ) had less traffic than Digg ( http://siteanalytics.compete.c…
According to compete Digg is bigger that Reddit and growing.
No, it's not bigger nor growing:
Re: Google+ grows 43% in June
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tumblr and pinterest are adding a lot fewer users than I thought. Both of them are terrible on mobile.
Pinterest is totally not transferable to small screen mobile devices. Its main point is to offer many images at a glance, which is impossible on small screen.
Wow, and I always thought Pinterest was a smartphone app like Instagram. (Not interested in it so I never bothered checking)
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#70those numbers seem really really low for Facebook and Youtube.
They are US only